2008 MIAC Championship Meet Preview

Courtesy of GoCobbers.com, Release: March 4, 2008

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MOORHEAD, Minn. (3/04/08)-- The 2007-08 Concordia women’s indoor track and field team will try and put a pinch of this and tablespoon of that and come up with another top three finish at the MIAC Championship Meet. The Cobbers will have to rely on some sprinters, some middle distance, some distance and some field athletes if they want to continue the success they have shown in recent years.

Leading the track and field gumbo for Concordia will be a tandem of field athletes. Sophomore Leah Kay (Dassel, Minn./Dassel-Cokato HS) has posted the most savory marks of the year and has a chance to record points in several different events at the championship meet. She has the second-best score in the pentathlon (3,102 pts.) and sits second in the high jump with a national provisional qualifying height of 5-5.00. That is also the second best jump in school history. Besides the pentathlon and high jump, Kay is also in the top ten in the conference in the long jump and triple jump.

The other CC athlete to have provisionally qualified for the national meet is junior Diane Moliva (Jr., Yaounde, Cameroon/F. de Coulanges HS). Moliva has posted a pair of national provisional marks in the weight throw this season. Her season best came at Bison Classic on Feb. 16 when she PR’ed with a toss of 49-8.25. That distance is the fourth best in the MIAC and the third top mark in school history. Moliva backed up her toss in mid February by heaving the weight over 49 feet in the final meet of February at the St. Olaf Open.

Katlin Anderson is another top Concordia multi-event athlete that could be a significant point grabber at the MIAC meet. She is ranked fourth in the pentathlon and high jump this year.

One of the top Cobber track athletes at the conference meet will be freshman Hailey Brenden (Rothsay, Minn.). Brenden has been slowly improving since the start of the season and will be hoping to duplicate her success from the fall when she earned All-Region honors in cross country. She should score team points in the mile and 3000-meter run. Brenden is currently ranked seventh in the mile with a time of 5:14.69 and eighth in the 3000 meters (10:40.50).

Marv Roeske’s crew will also have several other athletes that could come up big at the conference meet. They have track competitors and field athletes that are sitting on the fringe of the top ten in the league and if they are able to peak at the right time, they could push Concordia over the top and into the top three for one more season.