Four Northwestern College men’s track and field athletes took first and qualified for nationals in their respective event at the Dennis Young Invite held today in Storm Lake, Iowa.
Competing in his first multi-event of the season, Calvin Korver of Orange City, qualified for nationals in the heptathlon with 4,658 points, fourth best in the NAIA and second best in the GPAC. Korver won the event by over 600 points and posted the top score in four of the seven events (60m, 1000m, High Jump and Shot Put). He finished second in the other three events (60m hurdles, pole vault and long jump).
Aaron Lemon met the provisional mark and won the 600m with a time of 1:22.06, just .06 off the auto mark.
Tim Rose won the mile and met the auto mark once again with a time of 4:18, best in the GPAC and fourth fastest in the NAIA. The senior has also qualified in the 1000m where he is ranked sixth in the NAIA and first in the conference.
Cody Bauman of Inwood, met the provisional mark once again and won the shot put with a toss of 15.25m, nearly one full meter better than the second place athlete. Bauman, who also met the mark last week at SDSU, is currently ranked seventh in the GPAC.
Northwestern finished third out of 13 teams with 93 points and turned in 12 top five finishes.
