Day 1 Results NSIC Women's Outdoor Track and Field Championships

            Mckenzie Scheil won the hammer throw for the third straight year at the Northern Sun Conference Outdoor Track and Field Championships Friday in St. Paul, Minnesota, helping the Wildcats to a second-place team standing after the first day of the 2023 NSIC Championships.
            Minnesota State has scored 100.4 points with WSC second at 39.  Augustana (29), Concordia-St. Paul (26) and Winona State (20) close out the top five teams.  UMary (18.2), Northern State (16.5), St. Cloud State (15), Bemidji State (14) and MSU Moorhead (10.2) round out the top 10.
            Scheil led a Wildcat quartet that had four of the top six finishes in the event and six of the top 10, posting a first-place finish with a winning throw of 192' 4".  Senior Brooklynn Chipps was second at 184' 4", Veronica Guenther took fifth with a mark of 164' 0" and senior Kendra Paasch came in sixth at 163' 11".
            The Wildcats also had three medal winners in the shot put, led by Chipps taking fifth with a top throw of 44' 4".  Paasch followed in sixth at 44' 3 ¼" and Scheil placed seventh at 44' 2 ¾". 
            Other points scored by the Wildcats Friday came from Lindsey Stuckey in the 10,000-meter run, placing seventh in a time of 38:58.97, and freshman Anna Coffee collected a sixth-place finish in the heptathlon scoring 4,440 points.
            The final day of the NSIC Outdoor Track and Field Championships in St. Paul, Minnesota will resume Saturday with field events starting at 11 a.m. and finals in all running events beginning at 1 p.m.