Track & Field has Success in MSC Indoor Championships

LOUSVILLE, Ky. - The Bethel Men's and Women's track teams competed in the Mid-South Indoor Conference Championships on Friday.

In the women's side, Kaeli Sain finished 4th in the 60-meter finals with a personal best of 7.75, missing the national qualifying time by .02 seconds. In the mile Monserrat Serrano finished 9th with a time of 5:45.

On the men's side the Wildcats came out in the first event of the day and won the DMR and also qualified for the national championships. In the process they set the MSC indoor meet record, school record, and became all conference first team members. The team of Stetson Childress, San'Darius Coleman, Owen Crocker, and Joseph Skoog finished with a time of 10:14. Skoog would go on later in the day to win the 3000-meter race by 16 seconds with a time of 8:15. That made him 1st team all-conference in the event. Stetson Childress finished 9th in the 3000 with a time of 9:02. In the 400 Jarrell Jennings finished 11th with a time of 53.18.

In the 5k Braden Wallace finished 9th with a time of 16:11. In the 800 Owen Crocker came in 13th with a 2:07. In the men's shot put Hendrix Calhoun came in 6th with 12.93 mark. Lee Steakley came in 8th with a 12.10 and Hayden Jenkins came in 10th with a 11.49.

The Wildcats will return to action in two weeks for the NAIA national Championships in Brookings, SD. The men's DMR team ranks 25th nationally. Joseph Skoog is qualified in three individual events. He ranks 2nd nationally in the 5k, 4th in the mile, and 6th in the 3000.

Coach Brandon Kilburn said, "First I would like to say how proud I am of Kaeli Sain. She ran back-to-back PRs in the 60 and missed nationals by milliseconds. She is as much of a pleasure to coach as anyone I have ever had and finished her final indoor season in incredible fashion. Our men's DMR team came together on the last day to enter for the meet. We had a group that thought if they all did a certain time, we could make it work. They all did their part and we made it with .4 seconds to spare. I am very proud of them for the effort and look forward to seeing how they perform nationally. Joseph ran very well to earn two first team all-conference medals. He has put himself in a position to pick what he wants to do at the national championship and have a chance to win in any of the events he enters. We will make that decision soon. Overall, it was a very solid indoor season, hopefully we can finish it off with a great national championship performance." 

Men results:

https://www.mid-southconference.org/sports/mtrack-ind/2023-24/releases/20240217exvf6m

Women results:

https://www.mid-southconference.org/sports/wtrack-ind/2023-24/releases/20240217esd0o9