MARSHALL — The Southwest Minnesota State University women’s and men’s track and field teams will travel to Duluth this Thursday, Friday and Saturday competing at the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference Outdoor Championships at Malosky Stadium on the campus of the University of Minnesota Duluth.

This year’s championship will get underway on Thursday with the decathlon and heptathlon starting at 12 p.m. The decathlon and heptathlon resume on Friday at 9 a.m. with the running events starting at 10 a.m. and field events beginning at 10:45 a.m. On Saturday, field events will open at 10 a.m. with the running events starting at 1 p.m.

All-NSIC performers consist of the top three place winners in each event and the members of the top two relay teams from the meet.

For the SMSU women’s team, senior Rebecca Manteuffel enters the meet with the third longest mark this season amongst NSIC competitors in the discus with an NCAA provisional toss of 49.94m. She also has the sixth longest toss in the shot put with an NCAA provisional mark 14.29m.

Sophomore Isatu Shirek ranks seventh in the 100-meter hurdles at 14.52 and ninth in the 400-meter hurdles at 1:03.77.

On the men’s side, senior Connor Wigand enters the championship with the fourth best mark this spring in the shot put at 16.55m and seventh in the discus at 48.07m.

Freshman McKallen Smith is third in the high jump with an NCAA provisional mark of 2.08m, while sophomore Renald Pierre enters the meet with the third fastest time in the 110-meter hurdles 14.58.

Senior Isaiah Nelson is sixth in the triple jump at 14.10m, with freshman Jed Hansen ranking ninth in the pole vault at 4.35m.

A total of 15 schools will compete for the 2021 women’s championship, while the men’s championship field will include 12 teams. At the last championship conducted in 2019, the SMSU women’s team finished 10th, while the men’s team finished 10th.

At the 2019 championship, Manteuffel earned All-NSIC honors winning the discus and placing second in the shot put.

SMSU’s Men’s All-NSIC Outdoor Honorees (NCAA level)

2014 – Alejandro Sanchez, 2nd place, 800 meters

2015 – Alejandro Sanchez, 1st place, 800 meters

2015 – Will Hanson, 3rd place, javelin

2016 – Alex Weis, 1st place, shot put

2017- Alex Weis, 1st place, shot put

2017 – Alex Weis, 2nd place, hammer

2017 – Alex Weis, 3rd place, discus

2017 – 4×100 relay (Dallin Finley, Ben Ryan, Quadri Busari, Gabe Galamue), 2nd place

SMSU’s Women’s All-NSIC Outdoor Honorees (NCAA level)

2016 – Hannah Palmeter, 2nd place, 1,500 meters

2019 – Rebecca Manteuffel, 1st place, discus

2019 – Rebecca Manteuffel, 2nd place, shot put

TICKET POLICY (May 10): General admission tickets will be sold for the 2021 NSIC Outdoor Track & Field Championships. Presale, digital tickets only; Walk up sales are not available. To purchase tickets, visit: umdbulldogs.com/track. Enter the promo code ‘NSICODTF’ to the event.

— Content courtesy of

SMSU Athletic Communications