Contact: Chassidy Holloway, Associate Executive Director, holloway@midwestconference.org
 
GRINNELL, Iowa – The 2023 Midwest Conference (MWC) Indoor Track & Field Championships will take place Friday, February 24, and Saturday, February 25, at King Fieldhouse on the campus of Illinois College. All nine member institutions will be represented by men’s and women’s squads competing for indoor Conference crowns.
 
Leading off with field events on both days, competition starts at 1:00 p.m. on Friday and 10:30 a.m. on Saturday. The full event schedule can be found here.
 
In this year’s preseason coaches’ poll, the Ripon Red Hawks were picked by the league’s head coaches to repeat as MWC Indoor Track & Field Champions. In 2022, the Red Hawks swept both indoor titles, a program first for both the men’s and women’s squads.
 
Fans can follow the 2023 MWC Indoor Track & Field Championship action on the men’s and women’s championship pages.
 
The top-three times for each of the weekend’s events can be found below.
 
2022-23 Top-3 Indoor Track & Field Marks (Defending champions are italicized.)
 
Shot Put
Men
Caleb Toberman, Monmouth – 15.30m
Emiliano Reyes, Beloit – 13.93m
Deon Rodgers, Illinois College – 13.47m
 
Women
Maddie Boley, Monmouth – 12.93m
Kayla Braun, Monmouth – 12.40m
Addi Cox, Monmouth – 12.30m
 
Long Jump
Women
Olivia Miller, Ripon – 5.39m
Alyssa Villareal, Monmouth – 5.27m (2022 Champion – 5.37m)
Peyton Balfour, Knox – 5.16m
 
Men
Cade Gray, Ripon – 7.28m
Dameco Walker, Ripon – 7.23m (2022 Champion – 7.30m)
William Ross, Illinois College – 7.02m
 
Pole Vault
Men
Cade Gray, Ripon – 5.02m
Reed Wilson, Monmouth – 4.71m (2022 Champion – 4.92m)
Isaac San Diego, Ripon – 4.36m
 
Women
Linsey Turner, Monmouth – 3.26m
Paige Nowak, Illinois College – 3.11m
Miranda Hursey, Monmouth – 3.11m
 
High Jump
Men
Ben Fisher, Ripon – 2.06m (2022 Champion – 1.94m)
Cade Gray, Ripon – 1.88m
Gavin Raines, Illinois College – 1.86m
 
Women
Hailey Carolan, Cornell – 1.68m
Kylie Periman, Illinois College – 1.68m
Natalie McAllister, Cornell – 1.60m (2022 Champion – 1.57m)
 
5000 Meters
Women
Keely Miyamoto, Grinnell – 18:10.56
Katie Lammers, Cornell – 18:24.92
Mikayla Flyte, Ripon – 18:31.45
 
Men
Sam Forstner, Ripon – 15:08.33
Brian Goodell, Grinnell – 15:18.68
Matt Seeber, Ripon – 15:23.97
 
Mile
Women
Cristyn Oliver, Lawrence – 5:12.83 (2022 Champion – 5:14.09)
Mikayla Flyte, Ripon – 5:21.25
Natalie Pakosz, Ripon – 5:21.98
 
Men
Rainier Villanueva, Ripon – 4:18.06
Gabe Soda, Cornell – 4:20.12
Thomas Coble, Cornell – 4:21.64
 
4x200m Relay
Women
Illinois College (Periman, Sifuentez-Lewis, Benson, Hilmes) – 1:48.94
Grinnell (Edassery, Taylor, Crowe, Frasca) – 1:48l94
Ripon (Miller, Rahn, Gray, Erickson) – 1:49.17
 
Men
Monmouth (Ditsworth, Bona, Jachimiec, Outlaw) – 1:31.44
Ripon (Cefalu, Fisher, Gray, Walker) – 1:32.11
Beloit (Atou, Joseph, Martin, Joly) – 1:32.24
 
Weight Throw
Women
Addi Cox, Monmouth – 15.82m
Amanda Dybal, Monmouth – 15.82m
Arynn Mathieu, Ripon – 15.64m
 
Men
Caleb Toberman, Monmouth – 18.40m
Shane Anderson, Monmouth – 17.92m
Ian Clawson, Grinnell – 16.33m
 
Triple Jump
Men
William Ross, Illinois College – 14.90m (2022 Champion – 14.31m)
Dameco Walker, Ripon – 14.34m
Cade Gray, Ripon – 13.82m
 
Women
Peyton Balfour, Knox – 10.83m (2022 Champion – 10.52m)
Nyasia Young, Illinois College – 10.48m
Payton Rahn, Ripon – 10.39m
 
Distance Medley Relay
Women
Ripon (Pakosz, Rahn, Cortes, Flyte) – 12:39.39
Grinnell (Charron, Mullen, Klassen, Rabbani) – 14:55.56
Beloit (De Montigny, Mosquera, Loos-Austin, Browne) – 15:12.75
 
Men
Ripon (Kuwaye, Walker, Jumbeck, Villanueva) – 10:20.86
Illinois College (Melin, Dettmer, Detmer, Boggs) – 11:15.16
Grinnell (Nickeson, Saldanha, Heagy, Williams) – 11:38.06
 
60m Hurdles
Women
Olivia Miller, Ripon – 8.98
Natalie McAllister, Cornell – 9.05 (2022 Champion – 9.49)
Kristina Hilmes, Illinois College – 9.82
 
Men
Nate Wosmek, Ripon – 8.81
Oscar Telschow, Ripon – 9.03
Nathaniel Otis, Beloit – 9.03
 
60m Dash
Women
Jordyn McDonald, Beloit – 7.94
Zaria Criswell, Knox – 8.08
AJ Jones, Lake Forest – 8.09
 
Men
Derrick Jackson, Knox – 6.80 (2022 Champion – 6.90)
Jonathan Bailey, Knox – 6.95
Lucas Fadden, Grinnell – 6.97
 
400 Meters
Women
Sidney Brown, Cornell – 1:01.13
Payton Rahn, Ripon – 1:01.34
Sonia Edassery, Grinnell – 1:01.80
 
Men
Tyrell Pierce, Knox – 49.12
Adrian Outlaw, Monmouth – 52.11
Dameco Walker, Ripon – 52.44 (2022 Champion – 51.19)
 
800 Meters
Women
Jenny Cortes, Ripon – 2:23.09
Alyza Koppes, Cornell – 2:25.18
Isabelle Willett, Ripon – 2:26.32
 
Men
Rainier Villanueva, Ripon – 1:56.51
Micah Cantor, Grinnell – 1:57.94
Will Detmer, Illinois College – 1:58.49
 
200 Meters
Women
Jordyn McDonald, Beloit – 26.43
Olivia Miller, Ripon – 26.58
Natalie McAllister, Cornell – 26.79
 
Men
Tyrell Pierce, Knox – 22.05
Lucas Fadden, Grinnell – 22.48
William Ross, Illinois College – 22.59
 
3000 Meters
Women
Cristyn Oliver, Lawrence – 10:36.10
Mikayla Flyte, Ripon – 10:39.47
Natalie Pakosz, Ripon – 10:40.03
 
Men
Sam Forstner, Ripon – 8:35.03
Thomas Coble, Cornell – 8:40.65
Gabe Soda, Cornell – 8:40.68
 
4x400m Relay
Women
Ripon (Engebretson, Rahn, Miller, Finn) – 4:09.59
Grinnell (Edassery, Staker, Crowe, Frasca) – 4:13.40
Cornell (Brown, Koppes, Claussen-Tubbs, Carolan) – 4:16.15
 
Men
Ripon (Fisher, Villanueva, Jumbeck, Walker) – 3:27.99
Monmouth (Bona, Curry, Newton, Outlaw) – 3:29.49
Cornell (Soukup, Coble, Isaacson, Hutchings) – 3:32.64