NORTHFIELD, Minn. – On the final day of the MIAC Indoor Championships, the Carleton College men's track & field program finished in seventh place with a score of 51 points.
The Knights' roster was hit hard by illness and injury recently, resulting in the smallest number of competing athletes that Carleton has sent to the MIAC Championships in a long, long time.
Carleton entered Day 3 of the conference meet in eighth place, one point behind Macalester and two behind Concordia-Moorhead.
Ethan Cline-Cole scored the sole point in the field events for Carleton with a PR of 12.93 meters (42' 5.25") in the triple jump.
Ethan Ash and
Alistair Pattison added to Carleton's point total by finishing fifth and seventh, respectively, in the 600-meter dash. Ash received all-conference honorable mention and crossed the line at a personal-best 1:22.58, the No. 5 mark in recorded Carleton history. Pattison covered the distance in 1:22.97, establishing a new PR that ranks him No. 8 all-time for the Knights.
Indy Lyness won his heat of the 1000-meter, beating the 2023 MIAC champ and placing sixth overall to earn all-conference honorable mention. His new PR time of 2:32.01 was the 11th-fastest in program history.
In the 3000-meter race,
Roy Llewellyn finished in third place with a personal-best time of 8:32.49, earning All-MIAC recognition.
Gabe Nichols came in on his teammates' heels, clocking a time of 8:32.93 for fourth place and all-conference honorable mention. The two sophomores added 11 points to Carleton's team total. Llewellyn's time ranks No. 12 all-time in program history, while Nichols sits fifth on that last for his performance during the 2023 campaign.
Carleton had moved into seventh place heading into the final event of the weekend, the 4x400-meter relay. The Knights were seeded 11th of 11 entries.
Asher Nathan, Lyness, Pattison, and Ash combined to run an incredible 19 seconds faster than their seed time and won their heat by 15 seconds with a time of 3:25.59. That ended up being the third-fastest time of the meet, earning the quartet All-MIAC status and allowing them to hold off Macalester to take seventh place.
