Courtesy of GoCobbers.com, Release: May 7, 2008

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MOORHEAD, Minn. (5/07/08)-- Youth will be served for the 2008 Concordia outdoor track and field team as they compete at the MIAC Championship Meet. The Cobbers enter the meet with three athletes that have already provisionally qualified for the NCAA Meet and all three are freshmen. Add a fourth freshman who is the top distance runner on the squad and you have the makings for a top-five conference contender for years to come.

Head Coach Marv Roeske will bring the field trio of Katherine Brott (Fr., Deer Lodge, Mont./Powell County HS), Emily Davis (Fr., Litchfield, Minn.) and Valerie Glynn (Fr., Fullerton, N.D./Ellendale HS) who have already provisionally qualified for national and own some of the best marks in the MIAC this season. Brott put up a career-best throw of 136-10 in the javelin and has the second best distance in the conference. Davis provisionally qualified for nationals in the discus with a mark of 141-06 and is currently ranked third in the MIAC. Glynn made her statement in the triple jump where she recorded a distance of 36-11 and is currently second in the conference. All three athletes posted their top marks at the Cobber Twilight Meet on Apr. 15.

Distance runner Hailey Brenden (Fr., Rothsay, Minn.) will be the top track athlete at the conference championship meet. She continues to show her mettle throughout her first collegiate season. She was an All-Region performer in cross country and claimed the 3,000-meter title at the MIAC Indoor Track and Field Meet. Brenden has excelled in the 5,000 and 10,000 meters during the outdoor season and currently holds top seven times in both events in the conference. She has the fastest time in the 10,000 meters in the conference and her season-best time of 38:14.68 at the Kansas Relays is less than 35 seconds off the national provisional qualifying time.

Besides the quartet of freshmen, Concordia will most likely be strong in the field events and several sprint events. In addition to the three freshmen who provisionally qualified for nationals in the field events, Leah Kay (So., Dassel, Minn./Dassell-Cokato HS), Kristen Warren (Fr., Oakes, N.D.), Sarah Sorvaag (Sr., Argusville, N.D./Northern Cass HS) and Amanda Bakken (So., Crookston, Minn.) all have a chance to post top seven finishes for the Cobbers. Kay provisionally qualified for nationals in the high jump in the very first outdoor meet of the season. Her height of 5-05.25 is the second-best mark in the conference this year. She participated in the 2008 NCAA Indoor Track and Field Meet in the high jump and placed third in the event at the MIAC Indoor Championship Meet. Like Brott, Warren has excelled in the javelin in her first collegiate outdoor season. She owns the third best distance in the (126-4) and is a part of a group of seven Cobber athletes that own seven of the top eight distances in the conference this year in the event. Warren also has a top ten mark in the shot put. Sorvaag has done well in the hammer throw and the discus this year. She has top five MIAC marks in each event. She is currently third in the hammer with a mark of 142-10 and fifth in the discus with a distance of 132-11. Bakken is the top CC long jumper this season. She recorded a distance of 16-07 at the Cobber Twilight and is currently ranked seventh in the league.

Kristin Slette (So., Moorhead, Minn.) and Alexa Kleingartner (Fr., West Fargo, N.D.) will join Brenden as the top Concordia track athletes. Slette owns top times in the 200 and 400 meters. She has the second-fastest time in the 400 meters (59.24) and the fourth-best 200 time (26.65). Kleingartner has made her mark in the hurdles. She ran a 15.73 in the 100-meter hurdles at the Northern State Open and is currently ranked second in the MIAC.

All the young Cobbers should help make the next few years very memorable and if all goes well, their journey to the top might begin this May.