Championship Site
All-Conferences Performers

MANKATO, Minn. – For the third consecutive season and fifth time in program history, Minnesota State women's track and field claimed the NSIC Outdoor Championship, which concluded on Saturday at Mark Schuck Outdoor Track & Field Complex.
 
The NCAA Division II three day event, hosted on MSU campus featured NSIC record performances, facility record times and Olympic qualifiers. The Mavericks topped the chart with 252 points in a 14-team field. UMary (125), Sioux Falls (98.5), Augustana (85) and Minnesota Duluth (43) followed in the top five.
 
After impressing in prelims Friday, senior sprinter Denisha Cartwright (Nassau, Bahamas) turned in another record setting afternoon. She earned NSIC High Point Performer with 32.5 points after three event wins, plus a relay win.  

In 100 meter hurdles, Cartwright charged across the line with a blistering personal best time and NSIC record of 12.60 (+1.6). The mark broke the NSIC record, facility record and MSU program record. She also reached the Olympic A Standard and set the NCAA Division II all-time Record. Cartwright continued in the 200 meter finals, where she placed first with a season best and facility record time of 23.07, good for second in Division II this spring. Teammate Le'Nehja Norwood (24.07) crossed fourth and Tijuanique Morton (24.43) was fifth. The 100 meter dash was won by Cartwright with a facility record time of 11.30. Brewster was also fourth in 11.62 (24^th in Division II).
 
MSU's Ghada Hamdani set the NSIC record in women's triple jump with a first place line in the sand at 12.86 meters (42-2.25), third best in Division II this season.  MSU's Paige Hickson posted a pole vault mark of 4.21 meters (13-9.75) for first place and a NSIC record. 
1. Minnesota State - 252
2. U-Mary - 125
3. Sioux Falls - 98.5
4. Augustana - 85
5. Minnesota Duluth - 43
6. Concordia-St. Paul - 40.5
7. Northern State - 38
8. Bemidji State - 37
9. Winona State - 36
10. Wayne State - 28.5
11. MSU Moorhead - 11
12. Minot State - 10
13. St. Cloud State - 8
14. SMSU - 6.5 

The NCAA Division II Outdoor Championships are set for May 23-25 at Emporia, Kansas with entries announced next week.