NSIC Preseason Women's Outdoor Track and Field Release
Wayne State was voted ninth out of 15 teams in the Preseason NSIC Women's Outdoor Track and Field Coaches' Poll released Friday morning by the league office in Burnsville, Minnesota. The Wildcats collected 86 points in voting conducted by league coaches. Senior distance runner
Allie Rosener and graduate student thrower
Mckenzie Scheil were selected as Wildcats to Watch this season.
Minnesota State, who just captured the NCAA Division II Indoor National Championship, was a unanimous selection in the preseason coaches' poll receiving 196 points and 14 first-place votes while last year's NSIC outdoor champion University of Mary and Augustana tied for second with 176 points each as the Vikings earned the remaining first place ballot (coaches can not vote for own team).
Winona State was fourth in the poll at 157 points followed by Minnesota Duluth (137), Northern State (119), Sioux Falls (117), Concordia-St. Paul (107), Wayne State with 86 points and St. Cloud State 10
th at 78.
Rounding out the coaches' poll were MSU Moorhead in 11
th with 72 points along with Bemidji State (68), Minot State (41), Southwest Minnesota State (31) and Upper Iowa (14).
Allie Rosener, a senior from Newcastle (Hartington/Newcastle HS), is Wayne State's Track Athlete to Watch this season. She just missed placing in the 3,000-meter steeplechase at last year's NSIC Outdoor Championships taking ninth at 11:36.50.
Mckenzie Scheil, (shy – ul) a graduate student from Fairmont (Fillmore Central HS), was listed as the Wildcat Field Athlete to Watch. She is the reigning NSIC outdoor champion in the hammer throw (195' 6 ½") and was the NCAA national runner up in the event last spring. Scheil also placed sixth in the shot put (48' 11") at last year's NSIC meet.
Wayne State opens the 2022 outdoor track and field season on Friday and Saturday, March 25 and 26, hosting the Wildcat Classic at LeRoy Simpson Track in Wayne.
