2011 MIAC OUTDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS PAGE
MIAC WOMEN'S OUTDOOR PERFORMANCE LIST

Head Coach: Dennis Barker (Iowa State '80, 17th year)

2010 Outdoor Finish: 9th

MINNEAPOLIS -- Coming off of its best finish in five years, the Augsburg College women's track and field team will look to continue its upward move in the conference standings again this season at the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference outdoor track and field championships.

Leading the Augsburg team during this year's championship meet will be the defending MIAC outdoor champion and 2010 NCAA championship-qualifying 400-meter relay team of Kandace Bostick (FY, Minneapolis, Minn./Burnsville HS), Ashley Carney (SO, Lakeville, Minn./Lakeville South HS), Katie Vrieze (SR, Richfield, Minn.), and Shanek Telphia (SO, Chicago, Ill./Gage Park HS). The quartet has already recorded an NCAA championship provisional qualifying time of 48.24 seconds earlier this season, and currently hold the fastest 400-meter relay time among MIAC teams during the 2011 outdoor season. 

Another Augsburg relay team that will be looking to make its mark at this years outdoor championships is the 1600-meter relay team of Vrieze, Telphia, Kacie Bahr (JR, Brainerd, Minn.) and Caroline Senungi (SR, Shoreview, Minn./Mounds View HS). The quartet, which set a new school record and nearly reached a NCAA championship provisional time at last week's Tommie Twilight Meet, enter this year's outdoor championships with the third-fastest time among MIAC teams in the event this season.

In addition to her role in the relays, the Auggies will also look for Telphia to make her mark in the individual events. Already one of the top sprinters in Augsburg school history, Telphia currently holds the top 200- and 400-meter times in the conference this season, and is ranked second in the 100-meter dash. Telphia's times of 25.04 and 57.02 seconds respectively in the 200 and 400, are NCAA Division III outdoor national championship provisional qualifying times, while her distance of 5.26 meters (17-feet-3.25) in the long jump ranks seventh-best in the conference this season. 

Vrieze and Carney will look to add to the Augsburg point total in the sprint events as well. Carney currently owns the seventh-fastest 100-meter time in the conference, while Vrieze is currently ranked 12th in the 400 and seventh in the 200. Carney recorded a fifth-place finish in the 100-meter dash at the 2010 conference meet, while Vrieze recorded a ninth-place finish in the same race.

Augsburg hurdler Caroline Senungi (SR, Shoreview, Minn./Mounds View HS), a fourth-place finisher at the indoor conference meet in March, will look to continue her solid performance again in the 100-meter hurdles. Senungi's season best time of 15.34 seconds ranks as the sixth-fastest time in the conference this season.

In the field events, Augsburg pole vaulter Brittany Tuberg (SO, Apple Valley, Minn.) will enter this year's conference championship meet with the fourth-best mark among competitors in the field. Tuberg, the Augsburg school record holder in the pole vault, recorded a season-best height of 3.35 meters (10-feet-11.75) at the USC Trojan Invite earlier this season.

Augsburg thrower Erin Leyden (SR, Glen Ellyn, Ill./Glenbard South HS) is currently ranked seventh in the hammer throw, having recorded a season-best throw of 43.95 meters (144-feet-2) at the Hamline Twilight Meet earlier this season.