Mile posts: Items on Cailie Logue, Spencer Moon, Christopher Collet, Mike Jasa, Aubrie Fisher, Isaac Basten, Max Murphy, Betsy Saina

Many great distance runners have come through the Iowa State track and field/cross country program. No one has as many conference titles now as Cailie Logue.

The graduate student racked up her 12th and 13th career Big 12 Conference championships, the most of any Cyclone, at the Big 12 outdoor track and field event in Norman, Okla., last weekend. Logue, leading off this WEEKEND UPDATE of the best performances by Iowa-based collegiate and postcollegiate distance runners and triathletes, started her historic double with a victory in the 10,000 meters on Friday. Logue broke away from junior teammate Dana Feyen and Oklahoma State sophomore Molly Born with a 68-second final lap to capture the victory in 34:28.86. Logue grabbed her third career 10K outdoor title. Feyen held off Born to take second and her second career runner-up Big 12 finish. Feyen ran 34:35.65. Junior Madelynn Hill ran 35:12.65 for fourth, her highlight finish at a Big 12 championship event. Junior Brenna Cohoon just missed scoring for the Cyclones after placing ninth in 35:54.42.

Two days later, the native of Erie, Kan., won her 13th Big 12 title in emphatic fashion, setting a new record at the John Jacobs Track and Field Complex after running 15:54.60. Logue again broke away from a competitor, this time Baylor's Annamaria Kostarellis, on the final lap. Logue covered that lap in 71 seconds to win by more than eight seconds over Kostarellis. Feyen notched a second all-conference honor by placing fourth in 16:24.41. Hill was the final scorer in eighth in 16:37.03. Cohoon also ran 16:53.06 for 10th.

Logue's two victories helped buoy the Cyclone women to their highest Big 12 Conference finish ever. Iowa State claimed third with 107.5 points, also its highest point total. Texas won the team title with 197 points, with the host Sooners in second with 127.

Will return to the Big 12 championships in a bit, but turning the focus on the American Rivers Conference outdoor championships, where Wartburg College junior Christopher Collet and Simpson College junior Spencer Moon appropriately shared conference track MVP awards after they each captured two distance titles at Luther College in Decorah. Moon, a former South Central Calhoun prep, started his run by capturing the 10,000 title on Friday night in a meet and facility record of 30:49.91. Moon broke away from Wartburg's Jacob Green with about 2,000 meters to go for his fourth career ARC title.

Green, a sophomore and former Cedar Rapids Kennedy prep, ran 31:01.27 for second ahead of run of Knights across the finish line. Sophomore Ian Berry was third in 31:09.05, with senior Morgan Shirley-Fairbairn fourth in 31:23.99. Freshman Eli Larson was the final Wartburg scorer after running fifth in 31:24.81. Larson is a former Center Point-Urbana prep.

The following day, Moon was unmatched in the 5,000 final. He was never challenged after the first mile and ran 14:23.63 to establish his second ARC and Luther facility record. Moon now has 11 all-conference awards.

Central College sophommore Caleb Silver, a former BCLUW of Conrad prep, came in second in 14:55.82. Collet grabbed third place in 15:00.60 to lead a 3-4-5 finish for the Knights. Green was next in 15:00.63, followed by sophomore Sam Schmitz in 15:07.81. Schmitz is a former Johnston prep.

Collet helped spur Wartburg to its 12th conference title, with 241 points, by grabbing victories in the 3,000 steeplechase on Friday and the 1,500 on Saturday. Collet defended his ARC title in the steeplechase after setting a conference and facility record of 8:59.24. Silver notched the first of his two runner-up efforts by also finishing under the championship record in a strong 9:02.28 effort. Wartburg sophomore Connor Lancial, a former Council Bluffs Lewis Central prep, was third in 9:11.21. Loras sophomore Julian Watson ran 9:13.02 for fourth. All were under the Carlson Stadium record.

Collet fought off Loras sophomore Ryan Harvey by .36 of a second to capture the 1,500 final Saturday. Collet's 3:48.87 time broke the stadium record. Harvey ran 3:49.23. Senior teammate Wyatt Kelly scored six points for the Duhawks by finishing third in 3:49.73. Luther senior Ian Kelly was fourth in 3:50.11. All were under the stadium record. Central's Noah Jorgenson, a former Southwest (Sidney) prep, was fifth in 3:51.31, leading senior teammate Adam Sylvia (3:51.92) over the line. Wartburg earned men's coaching staff of the year honors

Loras College senior Mike Jasa did his best to spark fourth-ranked Duhawks' runner-up finish and 177 total. The former Cedar Rapids Prairie prep was a part of three of Loras' six titles over the three days in Decorah. Jasa ran the third leg Friday on a winning 4x800 relay that ran 7:34.18, which is the second-best time in program history. Senior Shane McBride, senior Carter Oberfoell and Harvey ran the other legs. Oberfoell is a former Dubuque Wahlert prep. Luther senior Lane Schwarz, junior Leo Duffy, junior Adam Koller and Kelly ran a competitive 7:37.04 time to grab runner-up honors.

Jasa, who easily qualified for the 800 final with the second-best time, 1:51.53, in the prelims, then returned Saturday to dominate the final. The reigning NCAA Division III 800 outdoor and indoor champion rolled to a 1:48.01 time to set an ARC and stadium record. Jasa won by .68 of a second. Oberfoell, who ran the best time in prelims of 1:50.63, settled for third in a career-best 1:48.79 time. Wartburg junior Wyatt Schmidt, a former Northeast of Preston athlete, ran 1:50.57 for fourth. Buena Vista sophomore Kyle Miller was fifth in 1:50.85. Miller is a former Carlisle runner. Dubuque's Andrew Hutchinson took sixth in 1:51.09.

Jasa and Oberfoell then closed out the meet late Saturday by running on the winning 4x400 relay in 3:10.80.

The second-ranked Loras women returned to the top of the ARC roost by scoring 243 points, topping No. 12 Wartburg by 25 points. Leading the charge for the distance events was graduate student Kassie Parker. The former Clayton Ridge (Guttenberg) prep saved enough energy to win the 10,000 Friday in 37:30.57 to become a three-time ARC champion in the event. Parker, who owns the Division III record for the distance, finished almost six seconds ahead of Wartburg sophomore Shaelyn Hostager, who ran 37:26.40. Hostager is a former Dubuque Hempstead prep. Simpson's Teghan Booth led a 3-4 finish for the Storm. The former Valley runner clocked 38:08.45 for the third-best time in program history. Sophomore Lara Kallem, a former Dallas Center-Grimes product, ran the fourth-best time in school history, 38:15.56, for fourth. Kallem's former DC-G teammate, Wartburg junior Natalie Paulson, took fifth in 38:40.65.

Parker returned Saturday to claim victory in the 1,500 in 4:26.59. That time set a Carlson Stadium record for Parker, who usually runs a 10K-5K double. Central College's Caroline McMartin picked up the third of three runner-up finishes after crossing the line in 4:33.23. McMartin is a former Pella High star. Former New London product Lexi Brown of Wartburg grabbed a third-place finish in 4:33.80. Brown is a junior who placed fourth nationally in the indoor mile in March. Loras graduate student Ellie Osterberger was fourth in 4:37.42. Osterberer is a former Dubuque Wahlert prep. Wartburg's Aubrie Fisher, in her second event of the weekend, was fifth in 4:39.33 for her third all-conference honor in Decorah. She is a former AGWSR of Ackley prep and a junior.

Fisher could not be denied in two other finals, however. Fisher won the 3,000 steeplechase for the third consecutive season Friday in 10:30.87, which is an ARC and stadium record. McMartin started her stretch of close runner-up finishes by running 10:32.58, also under the championship record. Sophomore teammate Megan Johnson ran 10:38.03 for third place. Johnson is a former Aplington-Parkersburg runner. Osterberger grabbed fourth in 10:49.05, followed by former Iowa Falls-Alden athlete Ellie Meyer in fifth in 10:50.00. Loras senior Brianna Renner was the last runner under 11 minutes in sixth in 10:52.29.

Fisher grabbed her second victory in the second-to-last event, the 5,000. Fisher ran 17:51.82, under the Carlson Stadium mark, to win the event for the second time. McMartin concluded her excellent weekend by running 17:52.26. Johnson, her teammate, was third in 17:53.05. Brown rounded out the finishers under 18 minutes in fourth in 17:55.34.

Wartburg also had a champion in former Waukee High prep Lily Campbell. The sophomore ran 2:12.89 in the 800 final Saturday to top Loras' Elly Burds by 1.01 seconds. Campbell had run the best time in prelims, 2:12.01. Burds is a former Western Dubuque prep.

Moving back to the Division I ranks, where Drake University junior Isaac Basten repeated as champion of the 1,500 at the Missouri Valley Conference Outdoor Championships on Sunday in Normal, Ill. The NCAA indoor runner-up in the mile in March bided his time in the final before passing Bradley's Jack Crull and Max Dieterich in the final l00 meters to win in a modest 3:55.51. Basten, a native of Buffalo, Minn., won by .32 of a second over Crull and was named MVC Men's Track Most Outstanding Performer.

Taking the MVC Most Outstanding Performer on the track for women was Drake junior Brooke Mullins. The native Australian became the first Bulldog female to win the MVC steeplechase title on Saturday. Mullins ran a new school and Redbird Track & Field Complex record of 10:08.10. Former Southeast Polk prep Mattison Plummer of Illinois State was fourth in 10:19.46. Plummer is a sophomore. Northern Iowa sophomore Emma Hoins ran 10:26.91 for fifth. Hoins is a former Waverly-Shell Rock and Hawkeye Community College athlete. Both were under the stadium record.

Mullins couldn't complete the double Saturday, settling for third place in the 5,000 in 16:43.36. Hoins was seventh in 17:11.03. That is a 36-second drop in time for Hoins. The winner was Bradley's Peyton Schieppe in 16:23.66.

The Bulldogs also piled up runner-up honors from Carmen Krawczynski Gonzalez and Enzo Marie in the 10,000 on Friday. Krawczynski Gonzalez, a freshman, ran 36:01.44. The winner was Kaitlyn Vanderkolk of Belmont in a new Valley record of 34:41.92. Marie, a sophomore, ran 30:45.25 in the men's race. Bradley's Alec Danner held him off to win in 30:41.94.

Northern Iowa's Chase Knoche recorded his highest MVC finish of his career with a runner-up finish in the 800 final Sunday. The former Calamus-Wheatland prep ran 1:51.40 in the final to trail only Riley Wells of Illinois State (1:50.57). Freshman teammate Jayden Dickson, a former Earlham runner, was seventh in 1:52.92, with Panther teammate and junior Drake Hanson eighth in 1:54.46. Hanson is a former Southeast Polk prep. Knoche had qualified with the best time, 1:51.31, in the prelims.

Shifting to the Big Ten Outdoor Championships, where Iowa sophomore Max Murphy made some history. The former Pleasant Valley prep from Bettendorf became the Hawkeyes' highest finisher in the 10,000 at the conference meet Friday since Micah VanDenend won the title in 2007. Murphy placed second in 29:18.05 after steadily moving up through the field from 14th to seventh and then joining a pack of athletes in the top four. Murphy overcame the warm conditions on the campus of Indiana University to pull away from everyone except champion Tom Brady of Michigan (29:01.25).

"Really proud of Max Murphy," Iowa distance and associate head coach Randy Hasenbank said in a university press release. "He has been on the verge of getting to the podium a couple of times. He is really talented and think a lot of people got to see that tonight. He is so dedicated to his sport and has put in a tremendous amount of work to get to this point. He deserves it, most of all, he earned it."

Murphy was not done. In the 5,000 final Sunday, Murphy pulled away from Brady and Wisconsin's Bob Liking in the final lap to produce another runner-up finish, 13:54.94. Murphy was topped only by Minnesota senior Matthew Wilkinson's 13:51.31. Murphy's 16 points helped the Hawkeyes finish third in the team race with 120 points, trailing only Nebraska (151) and Minnesota (122).

Boosting the Gophers' cause was former Ames High runner Noah Kohut-Jackson. The sophomore and Iowa State transfer ran 8:59.43 in the 3,000 steeplechase Saturday to take fifth place. Iowa sophomore Yohanna Yual wasn't far out of scoring, placing 10th in 9:07.74. Yual attended Johnston High and is from Des Moines. Wilkinson was the steeplechase winner as well in 8:38.40.

The Hawkeye women were boosted by former Ottumwa High product Alli Bookin-Nosbisch. The sophomore ran 2:07.65 to place sixth in the 800 final. Bookin-Nosbisch had qualified with the seventh-best time in the first round, 2:06.81.

Shifting back to the Big 12 outdoors, where five Cyclones finished on the podium in the 3,000 steeplechase on Saturday. Former Central Lyon-GLR prep and junior Gable Sieperda picked up his highest Big 12 finish after taking runner-up honors in 8:44.64. Sophomore teammate Quinton Orr, a former Humboldt prep, also got his highest Big 12 finish with a fourth-place effort in 8:55.83. Former Iowa Central runner Kelvin Bungei, a Cyclone junior, was fifth in 9:03.77 to complete the Cyclones' 17-point haul. Oklahoma State senior Victor Shitsama was the winner in a new track record 8:33.59.

Cyclone junior Janette Schraft matched her best for the steeplechase at a Big 12 event by placing third in 10:21.92. Schraft is a former Glenwood prep. Sophomore teammate Kiki Connell, a former Charles City prep and Northern Iowa transfer, ran 10:29.97 for a new Big 12 best of fifth place. The champion was West Virginia's Ceili McCabe in 10:12.79.

Sunday's action for the Cyclone men also saw a strong collection of points as they ended up fifth in the team race with 85 points. Junior Ezekiel Rop earned his first career silver medal by covering the 1,500 final in 3:37.03. Rop and Oklahoma State's Fouad Messauodi battled for the final over the final lap, with Messauodi taking the win in 3:36.59. Rop had qualified with the fifth-best time, 3:45.52, in the first round Saturday. Teammate Emanuel Galdino had run a new best of 3:44.62 that was good for 10th, the last non-qualifying spot.

Sophomore Darius Kipyego led a 4-5-8 finish for the Cyclones in the 800 final Sunday. Kipyego ran a season-best 1:47.41. Junior Peter Smith was next for Iowa State in a new personal-best time of 1:47.49 that lands him in a tie for 10th in school history. Senior Jason Gomez came in eighth in 1:48.73. Gomez had led the pack in qualifying with the fifth-best time, 1:47.73. The champion was Texas' Yusuf Bizimana in 1:45.82.

Iowa State freshman Makayla Clark signaled a future of things to come with a third-place finish in the women's 800 final. Clark ran a new best of 2:05.56 that lands the Lee's Summit, Mo., native to ninth on the school's all-time list. Clark had run 2:07.16, fourth best, in the prelims Saturday. Freshman Kinsey Christianson ran 2:09.60 for the 11th-best time.

Sieperda came back Sunday to take his second all-conference honor of the weekend, placing fourth in the 5,000 in 14:13.06. Freshman teammate Rodgers Rotich was seventh in 14:22.42. Senior and Southern Indiana transfer Titus Winders also earned all-conference with an eighth-place finish in 14:22.65. The winner was Kansas' Chandler Gibbens in 13:48.39.

In the 10,000 Friday, the Iowa State men also picked up strong points. Former Ankeny High prep Timothy Sindt earned his highest finish in a Big 12 race with a fourth in 30:08.65. Winders was next across the line in 30:17.91, which his best Big 12 finish. Gibbens of Kansas won again in 29:40.92.

Moving to the roads, where former Iowa State NCAA cross country champion Betsy Saina prevailed as champion of the USATF 25K Championships in Grand Rapids, Mich. Saina earned her first USATF title as the race, part of the Amway River Bank Run.

Saina, Minnesota Distance Elite's Dakota Lindwurm and Keira D’Amato were battling for the lead at 15K. D'Amato eventually surged to drop Lindwurm, with Saina joining her. Saina then pulled away from D'Amato with about a mile and a half to go. Saina nearly missed the final turn, but ultimately lost just a few seconds before finishing in 1:24:32. Saina is an Asics runner. Former Grand View NAIA champion and Johnston High prep Obsie Birru, now based in Phoenix, ran 1:34:13 for 16th among all women.

In the men's race, former Spirit Lake and Northwestern College standout Will Norris finished ninth overall in 1:19:20.6. The men's winner was Leonard Korir in 1:14:44.

At the Quad Cities Distance Classic on Sunday in Rock Island, Ill., Jonathan Smith, 31, of Moline won a thrilling duel to the finish line of the half marathon in 1:14:00. Smith topped teammate and Running Wild Elite men's coordinator Devin Allbaugh by one second. Allbaugh, 33, is a former Pleasant Valley prep. Teammate and former Davenport Assumption and St. Ambrose student Steve Froeschle was third in 1:14:42. The women's winner was former Davenport Assumption and Northern Iowa runner Becca Mallon in 1:27:15. Mallon ran a new best by 30 seconds and was fifth overall.

Shifting back to NCAA Division I track and the Summit League Championships in Fargo, N.D., where former Valley High prep Helen Gould made a successful defense of her 3,000 steeplechase crown. The South Dakota senior ran 10:45.30 to grab victory in the event Friday at the Terrence Dahl and Donna Beres Track Complex. Gould topped Cornelia Wohlfahrt of North Dakota by almost three seconds.

Nearly notching a victory himself was fifth-year South Dakota senior Merga Gemeda in his final Summit appearance. The former Sioux City North prep dueled with South Dakota State rival and fellow senior Joseph Minor-Williams all the way to the finish line Thursday, with Minor-Williams edging Gemeda by .17 of a second to win in 31:13.38. Gemeda still earned all-Summit honors for the first time in the event.

Former Sioux City Heelan prep Madison Yochum ran to a fourth-place finish in the 800 final in 2:11.68 and then the fourth-year South Dakota junior ran second on the Coyotes' Summit League-setting 4x400 relay that ran 3:40.25. Yochum had qualified for the 800 final in 2:11.50.

In the men's 3,000 steeplechase Friday, former Iowa Central runner Hunter Klimek of North Dakota State took fifth in 9:08.57 and followed with a sixth-place effort in the 5,000 Saturday in 14:33.90. Gemeda took seventh in that race in 14:40.73 and St. Thomas' Morey Smith, a former Valley runner, was 12th in 14:57.23. Minor-Williams set a conference record in 14:21.01.

Also Saturday, Gemeda was eighth in the 1,500 final in 3:52.07 and Smith of St. Thomas was 10th in 3:54.76 in a race won by Ben Olson of South Dakota State in 3:47.48.

Another former Valley prep, Kamryn Ensley of Omaha, was seventh in the women's 5,000 in 17:13.15 Saturday. That time by the freshman is the third-best in Mavericks history and drops almost 20 seconds off her previous best time.

South Dakota ended up second in the women's team race with 240.5 points, topped by North Dakota State's 253.83. North Dakota State also won the men's title with 239 points.

Former Iowa Western star Hilda Olemomoi of Alabama took third place in the Southeastern Conference 5,000 race Sunday in Baton Rouge, La. The Alabama sophomore ran under the facility record after clocking a 15:28.12 time. Ahead of her were champion Parker Valby of Florida (15:25.03) and former NCAA champion Mercy Chelangat of Alabama (15:25.07).

Two former Iowa preps didn't advance to the 800 final. Former Dowling Catholic prep Kelsey Schweizer, a Missouri junior, ran 2:07.19 for 13th overall in the prelims. Arkansas freshman Ainsley Erzen ran a new best of 2:08.09 for 14th. Erzen is a former Carlisle star.

Taking third place as well in the ACC event at Raleigh, N.C., was former Iowa State runner Amanda Vestri. The Syracuse senior saw winner Katelyn Tuohy of North Carolina State pull away late for the title, but Vestri ran a strong third in 33:16.46.

Returning to the Missouri Valley championships, where Drake also had fourth-place finishes Sunday from sophomore Emilie Meyer in the 800 meters (2:08.93) and graduate student Nate Osterstock in the 5,000 (14:33.77). Osterstock is a former Southern Utah runner. Drake's Marie was eighth in the 5,000 in 14:33.77.

Plummer, the Illinois State sophomore, and Paige Holub, a Northern Iowa senior, finished fifth and sixth in the 1,500 final Sunday. Plummer ran 4:34.81, with Holub running 4:36.04. Holub is a former Monticello athlete. The Bulldogs' Hannah Behunin, another graduate student, was seventh in 4:36.47. Behunin transferred from Northern Arizona. Freshman Juan Trasobares was eighth in the 1,500 final after running 3:58.92.

Northern Iowa sophomore Kate Crawford, a former Guthrie Center runner, was sixth in the 10,000 final in 37:19.27.

Two former Iowa preps didn't advance to the 800 final. Former Dowling Catholic prep Kelsey Schweizer, a Missouri junior, ran 2:07.19 for 13th overall in the prelims. Arkansas freshman Ainsley Erzen ran a new best of 2:08.09 for 14th. Erzen is a former Carlisle star.

Taking third place as well in the ACC event at Raleigh, N.C., was former Iowa State runner Amanda Vestri. The Syracuse senior saw winner Katelyn Tuohy of North Carolina State pull away late for the title, but Vestri ran a strong third in 33:16.46.

The Liberty University teams closed out their time in the Atlantic Sun Conference by claiming the men's and women's team titles Saturday. Helping the Flames' cause was former Mid-Prairie prep star Anna Hostetler. The senior made a late charge to move up to fifth in the 3,000 steeplechase in 11:05.28 in a race won by teammate Calli Doan in 10:12.31.

At the Mountain West event Saturday, former Iowa Central standout Awet Johannes took fifth for New Mexico in the 5,000 Saturday after running 14:04.20. Yonas Mogos, a former rival at Iowa Western and now at Utah State, was 17th in that race for Utah State in 14:45.15. The winner was Air Force's Sam Gilman in 13:58.00.

Moving back to the NCAA Division III ranks, where Grinnell junior Brian Goodell pulled off a trio of Midwest Conference championships on his home track while leading the Pioneers to their best team finish since 1999. Goodell took first in the 10,000 Friday in 32:08.12, a time that ranks 10th in program history. Teammate Bradley Ramsey was second in 32:15.68.

Goodell returned the next day to win the 3,000 steeplechase in 9:38.08 and then the 5,000 in 15:19.95 to become Grinnell's first triple conference champion since 2000. In that 5,000, junior Ramsey was second in 15:29.62. In the steeplchase, Cornell freshman Thomas Coble was third in 9:57.07. Grinnell also grabbed a runner-up honor from freshman Luke Robinson in the 1,500 (3:57.77).

Cornell sophomore Katie Lammers, a former Sioux City East prep, took the 1,500 title Saturday in a new personal-best time of 4:46.98. Lammers won by nearly five seconds.

The Grinnell women were fourth in the team race, paced by freshman Keely Miyamoto's victory in the 5,000 in 18:19.73. Miyamoto had finished third in the 10,000 on a hot day Friday.

At the Loper Twilight in Kearney, Neb., on Saturday, former Iowa Western runner Samuel Hydro ran 1:52.86 to take runner-up honors in the 800. Hydro is a sophomore at Missouri Western.

Two current Iowa Western runners qualified for NJCAA nationals in their last shot. Sophomore Kylan Willis ran 4:01.84 in the 1,500 to place sixth. In the women's 800, Daniela Deer ran 2:18.95 to take eighth and also earn a spot at nationals.

GOING BACK: Ankeny native and former Iowa Western runner Jalen Elwell of Western Carolina placed eighth in the Southern Conference Outdoor Championship on Tuesday, May 9 at the Catamount Athletic Complext in Cullowhee, N.C. Elwell ran 3:58.48 to help the Catamounts place second as a team. He is a sophomore.

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