MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. – Eleven members of the St. Olaf College men's and women's track and field teams began their indoor seasons at the M City Indoor Classic at University Fieldhouse at the University of Minnesota on Friday and Saturday.

Senior Andrew Cogley competed in the heptathlon on Friday and Saturday, while sophomore Alex Bjork, fifth-year senior Anders Cote, senior Andrew Skemp, junior Gael Manzur Strandlund, and junior Jack Deaver ran distance events on Friday night for the St. Olaf men. For the women, sophomore Aubree Klein was in action in the pentathlon, while junior Lauren Walda, senior Cate Gleason, sophomore Shannon Breuer, and sophomore Madelyn Tung-Mabry ran in the 5,000-meter run on Friday evening.

Skemp broke onto St. Olaf's all-time top-10 indoor list in the 5,000-meter run with a winning time of 14:47.49, bettering his previous personal-best time by six seconds in the process. Manzur Strandlund and Deaver were separated by a little more than six seconds in 15:12.12 and 15:18.65, respectively, in second and third in the small field.

As two of the four competitors in the men's one-mile run, Bjork and Cote were the top-two finishers, with Bjork winning the event in a personal-best time of 4:24.30. Cote was less than a second off his PR in 4:24.64, with both Oles finishing ahead of two unattached runners from the University of Minnesota.

Cogley placed fourth in the four-person heptathlon with 4,329 points, highlighted by winning the high jump (1.83m, 6' 0") on Friday and the 1,000-meter run (2:52.32) on Saturday. He was also second in the shot put (11.58m, 38' 0") on day one, which was a PR by nearly three feet.

Walda, Gleason, Tung-Mabry, and Breuer made up four of the five runners in the women's 5,000-meter run and took the top-four spots. Walda led the way in 17:49.08, followed by Gleason (19:52.87), Tuny-Mabry (20:51.75), and Breuer (20:59.73). Klein was 13th of 13 in the pentathlon with 2,035 points after a no-height in the high jump after starting the five-event competition with a personal-best time of 10.53 seconds in the 60-meter hurdles.

After finals and the holiday break, St. Olaf will host an Intrasquad/Alumni Meet on Friday, Jan. 10 at Tostrud Center.