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UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA ATHLETIC COMMUNICATIONS Upper NW UNI-Dome • Cedar Falls, Iowa • 50614-0314 • http://www.unipanthers.com Colin McDonough (319-273-5456) • Kara Moran (319-273-5455) • Laurie Wild (319-273-3642) • Wes Offerman (319-273-3783) UNI PANTHERS Fax (319-273-3602) 2011 UNI TRACK & FIELD THIS WEEK IN PANTHER TRACK & FIELD Jan. 26, 2011 — Release #3 Jan. 28-29 Jack Jennett Invitational 2011 SCHEDULE UNI-Dome Indoor Jan. 15 Panther Open UNI-Dome The University of Northern Iowa men’s and women’s track and field teams return home to the UNI- Jan. 21-22 Jack Johnson Minnesota Classic Minneapolis, Minn. Jan. 28-29 Jack Jennett Invitational UNI-Dome Dome to host the Jack Jennett Invitational on Jan. 28-29. Multi-event competition will begin with Feb. 4-5 Husker Invitational Lincoln, Neb. the pentathlon at 1:30 p.m. and the heptathlon at 3:30 p.m. on Friday. The heptathlon will resume at Feb. 11-12 Iowa State Classic Ames, Iowa 10:30 Saturday morning, with running events to follow at 1 p.m. Feb. 18 UNI-Dome Open UNI-Dome Feb. 26-27 MVC Indoor Championships UNI-Dome Mar. 5-6 NCAA Last Chance TBA OUT OF THE BLOCKS Mar. 11-12 NCAA Indoor Championships College Station, Texas The Man Behind the Meet Jack Jennett served as the head track & field coach at UNI from Outdoor Apr. 2 Wichita State Triangular Wichita, Kan. 1962-76, coaching student-athletes to 20 All-American honors Apr. 8-9 Tom Botts Invitational Columbia, Mo. in track and six in cross country. In his 14-year tenure with Apr. 15-16 Jim Duncan Invitational Des Moines, Iowa Apr. 23 Musco Twilight Iowa City, Iowa the Panthers, he won 11 North Central Conference track titles, Apr. 27-30 Drake Relays Des Moines, Iowa including six outdoor and five indoor titles. His most successful May 6 Messersmith Invitational Cedar Falls, Iowa cross country team was the 1964 NCC championship squad that May 13-15 MVC Outdoor Championships Cedar Falls, Iowa Hochstedler May 26-28 NCAA West Preliminary Rounds Eugene, Ore. went on to place third at the NCAA national meet. Jennett also June 8-11 NCAA Outdoor Championships Des Moines, Iowa coached shot-putter Mike McCready, UNI’s first-ever national champion in track & field in 1971, and UNI Hall of Famers Dennis Schultz, Bill Bergan, Wayne Carpenter and Larry McCready. In 1998, Jennett was inducted into the UNI QUICK FACTS Athletics Hall of Fame. Jennett, 80, still resides in Cedar Falls with his wife, Myrna, THE UNIVERSITY and is a regular at UNI home meets. Location Cedar Falls, Iowa Founded 1876 Enrollment 13,201 Topping the Charts Nickname Panthers Senior Holli Hosch once again shattered the UNI school record in the 600-meter run Colors Purple and Old Gold Affiliation NCAA Division I at the Jack Johnson Classic hosted by the University of Minnesota. Hosch crossed the Conference Missouri Valley line in 1:29.71, obliterating the school record that she had set only seven days prior President Dr. Benjamin Allen by more than two seconds. Hosch has now cut nearly four seconds off the previous Athletics Director Troy Dannen Senior Woman Administrator Jean Berger school-record time of 1:33.52 set by Nikki Nelson in 2000. TRACK PROGRAM Head Coach Dan Steele (Eastern Illinois, ‘92) Gooris Gets Going 2nd Season Junior Daniel Gooris posted a score of 5,344 points in the heptathlon at the Jack Associate Head Coach Shelli Sayers (Roanoke, ‘00) Assistant Coach (Throws) Dan O’Mara (Kansas State, ‘90) Johnson Classic (1/21-22). In taking second place at the meet, Gooris is now atop the Assistant Coach (Mid-Distance/Distance) Dave Paulsen (UNI, ‘04) MVC performance list and ranked No. 6 in the nation in the heptathlon. He won the Assistant Coach (Sprints/Hurdles) Danny Harris (Iowa State) Indoor Facility UNI-Dome shot put and pole vault portions of the heptathlon at Minnesota and took second in Outdoor Facility Mark Messersmith T&F Complex the high jump and 1000m. 2010 Men’s Conference Finish (In/Out) 3rd/3rd 2010 Women’s Conference Finish (In/Out) 7th/5th Madsen Nationally Ranked UNI ATHLETIC COMMUNICATIONS UNI sophomore Josh Madsen shot to the top of the Missouri Valley Conference Athletic Communications Graduate Assistant (T&F Contact) Wes Offerman performance list in the 400m dash by posting a personal-best time of 47.81 at the E-mail [email protected] Jack Johnson Classic at the University of Minnesota. Madsen took third in the event Office Phone 319-273-3783 Cell Phone 641-330-9743 behind two runners ranked in the top-15 in the nation. In addition to being ranked Office Fax 319-273-3602 No. 1 in the Valley, Madsen is now 25th among all NCAA Division I athletes in the Web site www.unipanthers.com 400m. Quick Start Sophomore Carlos Anderson improved his 60m dash time to 6.77 seconds at the Jack 1 • UNI TRACK & FIELD HEAD COACH DAN STEELE Johnson Classic, one week after he pulled away to win the event at the Panther Open 2ND SEASON in a time of 6.78 seconds. Only one Missouri Valley Conference athlete – Jeramie Gray Head coach Dan Steele is in his second year of Indiana State (6.74 seconds in 2008) – has posted a faster 60m time in the past at the helm of the UNI track & field and cross five seasons. Anderson’s most recent performance also put him in fifth place all-time country programs. Following seven seasons at the University of Oregon, Steele became UNI’s at UNI in the event. The Panther Open was Anderson’s collegiate track debut. head coach on October 1, 2009. Despite the late start and coaching transitions, Pentathlon Opener the Panther track and field athletes enjoyed an impressive 2010 campaign. Steele wasted UNI junior Johanna Smith led the Panthers’ multi-event efforts at the Jack Johnson no time with his goal to build the women’s Classic. Smith placed fifth in the pentathlon with a total of 2,952 points, winning the program into a dominant conference and national-class team. The women established shot put and 800m portions and taking second in the high jump. Freshman Emily an impressive four new UNI records in 2010 (indoor pole vault, outdoor 800m, outdoor pole vault and sprint medley) and the Wandling made her pentathlon debut, finishing in sixth place with 2,939 points. men and women combined for a total six individual Missouri Valley Conference titles. Into the Top 50 “I am so excited about the future of this combined UNI program. We have world- class facilities and one of the best coaching staffs in the country. When you also Three more Panthers jumped into the Top 50 on the NCAA Division I Performance List consider the high standard of academics, I believe UNI is one of the best-kept with their marks at the Jack Johnson Classic. Junior pole vaulter Sam Kranz cleared secrets in track and field. There is an unmistakable family atmosphere, not only on this beautiful campus, but also in the Cedar Falls community. It’s the kind of place 16-07.25 (5.06m) to become No. 31 in the nation. Sophomore Sam Cameron is now I would want to send my son or daughter to college.” 35th in the country in the women’s 400m after clocking in at 55.62 in Minnesota. Prior to Northern Iowa, Steele, a native of Sherrard, Ill., was instrumental Junior Brady Fritz moved to 40th in the nation in the mile with his personal-best time in leading the University of Oregon combined men’s and women’s teams to unprecedented success in 2009, where the Duck men won the NCAA Indoor title, of 4:10.15. the Pac-10 Conference title and finished second at the NCAA Outdoor National Championships. Not to be outdone, the Duck women won the 2009 Pac-10 Conference title and finished second at the NCAA Outdoor meet. Steele made Another Meet, Another Record history at the 2009 NCAA Outdoor Championships by coaching Ashton Eaton to his second Decathlon title and Brianne Theisen to her first Heptathlon title. It was the Senior Holli Hosch broke the UNI school record in the 600-meter run on her way to first time in NCAA history both multi-event winners came from the same school. first place at the Panther Open, finishing in a time of 1:31.94 to break Nikki Nelson’s For his efforts, Steele was voted the 2009 Indoor NCAA Coach of the Year. previous record from 2000 by 1.58 seconds. Hosch is coming off a 2010 season in “My extraordinary experience at Oregon has prepared me well to take over the which she set the school’s outdoor 800m record and qualified for the NCAA Outdoor program at the University of Northern Iowa,” Steele said. “I had the great pleasure of working for and learning from two of the most brilliant head coaches in the Championships. business, Vin Lananna and Martin Smith. In that time, I also enjoyed coaching some of the finest track and field athletes in America.” Consistent 7-Footer As the Associate Director of Track and Field at Oregon, Steele was responsible for running the daily operations of the men’s and women’s track and field teams. For the third-consecutive season, junior high jumper Travis Leuer topped the 7-foot Overseeing the sprinters, hurdlers, pole vaulters, decathletes and heptathletes, Steele has coached eight NCAA champions, 13 Pac-10 champions, 30 All- mark in his first competition of the year.