COLLEGEVILLE, Minn. – The St. Olaf College men's track and field team completed a runner-up finish – its best placement since 2017 – at the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (MIAC) Indoor Track & Field Championships with four all-conference performances on the final day of the meet on Saturday at The Donald McNeely Spectrum.

Senior Sean Hartney, junior Lance Nemecek, junior Kevin Turlington, and St. Olaf's 4x400-meter relay posted top-three performances to help St. Olaf finish with 115 points over the three-day meet. The Oles edged host Saint John's University by six points for the second spot in the 11-team standings. Bethel University won the team title with 169 points.

After winning the one-mile run the day before, Hartney was the conference runner-up in the 1,000-meter run in 2:29.37, bettering his own No. 6 time on St. Olaf's all-time list in the process. The senior was one of three Oles to score in the event, as junior Cullen Moore (6th, 2:31.95) and sophomore Christian Fells (7th, 2:32.15), with Moore picking up honorable-mention honors.

Nemecek shot up to second on St. Olaf's all-time list in the 600-meter run and snagged All-MIAC honors with a third-place finish in 1:21.96. The junior's third-place performance was a six-spot improvement on his ninth-place result a year ago.

Turlington and senior Andrew Skemp both finished in the top five in the 3,000-meter run, with Turlington in third (8:24.75) and Skemp in fifth (8:33.00). Turlington's third-place finish was good for All-MIAC honors, as he bettered his No. 7 time in program history, while Skemp was an honorable-mention honoree in fifth.

Nemecek, first year Jackson Bullock, first year Austin McInturff, and Moore placed third in the 4x400-meter relay to seal the second-place team result in the final men's event of the meet with a time of 3:26.03. First year Cristian Escobar Pearson, senior Tyler Gunderson, first year Luke Jones, and first year Gavin Vogel grabbed an honorable-mention spot in sixth in the 4x200-meter relay (1:32.76).

First year Kale Kardonsky and sophomore Max Albertson added top-six finishes in field events for the Oles, with Kardonsky taking fourth in the shot put (15.05m, 49' 4 ½") and Albertson taking sixth in the triple jump (13.41m, 44' 0"). Albertson's performance was his second top-six showing of the meet after he won the long jump on Friday.

The Oles will send a group to the Wartburg Last Chance Meet on Friday and Saturday, March 7-8 in Waverly, Iowa in a final attempt to qualify for the NCAA Division III Indoor Track & Field Championships.