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BLOOMINGTON, Minn. – NCAA Championship competitors continued over the weekend for Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (MIAC) student-athletes.
INDOOR TRACK & FIELD
The 2026 NCAA Division III Indoor Track & Field Championships happened March 13-14 on the Birmingham Crossplex in Birmingham, Alabama, and included 16 males’s individuals and eleven girls’s opponents from the MIAC.
MIAC athletes totaled eight First Team All-America performances, together with a pair of nationwide runner-up outcomes, and eleven Second Team All-America finishes. First-Team All-America standing is awarded to finishers first by means of eighth (particular person occasions and relays) in every occasion on the NCAA Division III Indoor Track & Field Championships. Second-Team All-America standing is awarded to finishers ninth by means of sixteenth (particular person occasions) and ninth by means of twelfth (relays) in every occasion on the championships.
Complete outcomes may be discovered here.
MIAC Men’s Indoor Track & Field First Team All-America
Landen Liu | Sr. | Bethel | 60 Meter Dash (4th, 6.76)
Grant Nelson | Sr. | Bethel | 400 Meter Dash (2nd, 47.20)
Cooper Folkestad | Sr. | Concordia | Shot Put (third, 17.90m)
Isaiah Watson | So. | Hamline | Triple Jump (fifth, 14.84m)
Cole Stencel | So. | Saint John’s | Mile Run (eighth, 4:16.00)
Trent Beseth | Sr. | St. Scholastica | Shot Put (2nd, 18.42m)
MIAC Women’s Indoor Track & Field First Team All-America
Shalom Sulungaine | Jr. | Bethel | 400 Meter Dash (sixth, 55.76)
Ariella Rogahn-Press | So. | Macalester | 400 Meter Dash (third, 54.50)
MIAC Men’s Indoor Track & Field Second Team All-America
Pryce Ferrin | So. | Bethel | 60 Meter Hurdles (sixteenth, 8.23)
John Ihrke | So. | Macalester | 800 Meter Run (ninth, 1:52.31)
Cullen Moore | Sr. | St. Olaf | 800 Meter Run (twelfth, 1:53.28)
Lance Nemecek | Sr. | St. Olaf | 800 Meter Run (thirteenth, 1:53.47)
Christian Fells | Jr. | St. Olaf | 800 Meter Run (14th, 1:53.97)
Paxon Myers | Fy. | St. Olaf | 800 Meter Run (sixteenth, 1:54.78)
MIAC Women’s Indoor Track & Field Second Team All-America
Anna Speratos | Sr. | Bethel | Weight Throw (sixteenth, 16.29m)
Hannah Preisser | Sr. | Carleton | 5000 Meter Run (fifteenth, 17:10.49)
Lauren Pearson | Fy. | Concordia | Pentathlon (14th, 3,470)
Josie Brown | Fy. | Concordia | 4×400 Meter Relay (twelfth, 3:52.92)
Kyla Nygaard | Jr. | Concordia | 4×400 Meter Relay (twelfth, 3:52.92)
Lauren Pearson | Fy. | Concordia | 4×400 Meter Relay (twelfth, 3:52.92)
Emily Rengo | Sr. | Concordia | 4×400 Meter Relay (twelfth, 3:52.92)
Ariella Rogahn-Press | So. | Macalester | 200 Meter Dash (eleventh, 24.68)
NCAA Division III Indoor Track & Field Championship Results WOMEN’S HOCKEY
Three girls’s hockey groups from the MIAC competed within the opening spherical of the 13-team NCAA Division III Women’s Hockey Tournament on Saturday. One MIAC workforce is headed to the spherical of eight, as Hamline (21-5-1) superior on to the nationwide quarterfinals with a 3-0 win over Endicott. MIAC Women’s Hockey Rookie of the Year Nina Thorson scored the game-winner halfway by means of the second interval earlier than Ashlyn Abrahamson put the sport away with a pair of third-period targets. The Pipers will tackle No. 2-ranked Norwich (25-2-0) in Northfield, Vermont, at 2:00 p.m. Central time on Saturday, March 21.
MIAC regular-season champion Augsburg (24-4-1) got here up on the mistaken finish of a 3-1 choice towards Elmira (19-5-2) over the weekend, whereas MIAC playoff champion Saint Benedict (16-7-4) took Amherst (19-2-6) to extra time earlier than falling, 2-1, to the reigning nationwide runners-up.
The MIAC despatched three girls’s hockey groups to the nationwide event this 12 months, essentially the most ever for the convention.
NCAA Division III Women’s Hockey Tournament Bracket MEN’S HOCKEY
No. 4-ranked Aurora pulled away within the third interval to defeat MIAC champion Saint John’s (17-7-4) on Saturday afternoon within the first spherical of the NCAA Division III Men’s Hockey Tournament. The Spartans led, 2-1, after two durations earlier than scoring 4 targets within the closing body to finish the Johnnies’ season. SJU ahead Jordan Newpower scored his eighth purpose of the season on an influence play early within the second interval to chop Aurora’s lead in half.
NCAA Division III Men’s Hockey Tournament Bracket WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
The 2025-26 girls’s basketball season got here to an finish for the MIAC’s final two remaining groups within the NCAA Division III Women’s Basketball Tournament over the weekend. MIAC regular-season champion Concordia (26-5) defeated Johns Hopkins, 64-59, on Friday evening to advance to the Elite Eight for the primary time since 1993 earlier than developing quick towards No. 2-ranked Scranton within the nationwide quarterfinals on Saturday, 67-42.
Competing within the Sweet 16 for the primary time since 1996, MIAC playoff champion Bethel (24-7) was defeated by undefeated Washington and Lee (31-0) by a 75-67 margin on Friday.
The MIAC despatched 4 girls’s basketball groups to the nationwide event this 12 months, one shy of the convention report of 5, set in 1995.
NCAA Division III Women’s Basketball Tournament Bracket MEN’S BASKETBALL
MIAC champion Gustavus (27-3) got here up one basket quick in a 93-92 loss to UChicago within the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Division III Men’s Basketball Tournament on Saturday evening. The Gusties bought the ball again with 20 seconds left in regulation, however couldn’t convert on the would-be game-winning shot. MIAC Men’s Basketball Defensive Player of the Year Myles Barnette starred on the offensive finish of the court docket, pouring in a career-high 40 factors.
This was the Gusties’ first Sweet 16 recreation since 2003, and the farthest a MIAC males’s basketball workforce had gone within the NCAA Tournament since 2020, when Saint John’s and St. Thomas had been slated to sq. off within the Sweet 16 earlier than the rest of the Tournament was canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
NCAA Division III Men’s Basketball Tournament Bracket SWIMMING & DIVING
The MIAC had three swimmers and three divers chosen to compete on the 2026 NCAA Division III Swimming & Diving Championships. The 2026 NCAA Division III Swimming & Diving Championships shall be held March 18-21 on the IU Natatorium in Indianapolis, Indiana. Franklin College, the Indiana Sports Corporation, and the IU Natatorium will function hosts.
MIAC Women’s Swimming & Diving Qualifiers
Ainsley Kashatus | Fy. | Macalester | 1-Meter, 3-Meter Diving
Nina Schwab | So. | Carleton | 1-Meter, 3-Meter Diving
Haley Zelen | Jr. | Saint Benedict | 50-Yard Freestyle (23.07)
Haley Zelen | Jr. | Saint Benedict | 100-Yard Freestyle (50.79)
Haley Zelen | Jr. | Saint Benedict | 100-Yard Butterfly (54.10)
MIAC Men’s Swimming & Diving Qualifiers
Hans Anderson | Sr. | Carleton | 1-Meter, 3-Meter Diving
Braden Ripken | So. | Gustavus | 100-Yard Breaststroke (53.76)
Brayden Slavik | Jr. | Saint John’s | 1650-Yard Freestyle (15:32.16)
NCAA Division III Swimming & Diving Championship Psych Sheet
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