MONROE — Three former Cheesemakers scored at various collegiate track and field meets Feb. 22-23.
Ethan Moehn, now running for the Arkansas Razorbacks, paired with three teammates to take second place at the SEC Championships in the 4,000-meter Distance Medley Relay (DMR) in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Moehn and his teammates finished with a time of 9 minutes, 48.67 seconds, less than five seconds behind champion Ole Miss.
Moehn ran the first 1,200-meter leg at 3:01.63, the second fastest time on the day. The DMR has legs of 1,200, 400, 800 and 1600 meters.
At the 2019 Big Ten Indoor Championships Feb. 22-23, Monroe alum Jordan Hirsbrunner finished eighth in the women’s individual pentathlon. Hirsbrunner, a redshirt freshman at Wisconsin, scored 3,738 points in the five-event category — tying teammate Phoebe Edwards — and earned a team point for the Badgers.
In the shotput portion, Hirsbrunner was eighth with a throw of 37 feet, 3.75 inches, scoring 619 points. Hirsbrunner’s other events included: 11th in the long jump (17-1.25, 617 points), tied-third in high jump (5-6.00, 830 points), 12th in the 60-meter hurdles (9.01 seconds, 908 points), and fifth in the 800-meter sprint (2:24.45, 764 points).
Hirsbrunner is currently ranked 52nd in the nation of all DI athletes in the pentathlon, according to the US Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association and TFRRS.
At the DIII collegiate level, Cody Faust, a Platteville senior and Monroe graduate, won the men’s heptathlon at the WIAC Indoor Track and Field Championships at UW-Whitewater Feb. 22-23.
Faust scored a cumulative of 5,251 points, 120 more than second-place Dylan Cooper of Wisconsin Eau Claire and earned 10 team points for the Pioneers. There were 20 competitors.
A competition with seven events that takes two days to complete, Faust scored 792 points in the 60-meter sprint (7.26 seconds, second place), 790 points in the long jump (22-7.75, first place), 594 points in the shot put (38-8.25, fourth), 661 points in the high jump (6-0.5, tied for fourth), 891 in the 60-meter hurdles (8.37, tied for first), 796 in the pole vault (15-1.75, first) and 727 in the 1,000-meter sprint (2:53.71, fifth).
