Friday, May 8 | Wartburg Final Qualifier
Walston-Hoover Stadium | Waverly, Iowa | Wartburg College
Meet Information | Live Stream | Live Results

Friday, May 8 | Uncaged Eagle Open
Veterans Memorial Field Sports Complex | La Crosse, Wisconsin | University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
Meet Information | Live Results 

The Knights are set to compete on May 8 (Fri) at the Wartburg Qualifier in Waverly and the Uncaged Eagle Open in La Crosse.

PARTICIPATING TEAMS (Wartburg Qualifier)
Central
Concordia-Wisconsin
Elmhurst
Gustavus Adolphus
Loras
Luther
Simpson
Trine
UW-Platteville
Valley City State 
Wabash
Wartburg 
Wisconsin Lutheran 

NATIONAL RANKINGS
The United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) released its week six national polls on Tuesday, May 5 with the men's team No. 7 and the women's team ranked No. 10.

The men's team has 168.48 total points and the women's team has 152.22 total points.

USTFCCCA Men's Top 10 - Checkpoint #6
1) UW La-Crosse
2) Rowan
3) UW-Oshkosh
4) SUNY Geneseo
5) UW-Eau Claire
6) Central (Iowa)
7) Wartburg
8) Lynchburg
9) Claremont-Mudd-Scripps
10) Bethel (Minn.)

USTFCCCA Women's Top 10 - Checkpoint #6
1) UW La-Crosse
2) Johns Hopkins
3) Washington (Mo.)
4) UW-Eau Claire
5) Williams
6) Tufts
7) Claremont-Mudd-Scripps
8) Calvin
9) Centre
10) Wartburg

LAST TIME OUT
The Knights No. 10 ranked men's track and field team won their 14th Outdoor American Rivers Conference Championship (dating back to 1998) with 208 points and the Knights No. 11 ranked women's track and field team won their 26^th Outdoor American Rivers Conference Championship (dating back to 1998) with 268 points. Head Coach Marcus Newsom and the Wartburg staff took home coaching staff of the year honors for the 22^nd time on the women's side and 12^th on the men's – 34 total.
 
AJ Wright won the most valuable track performer for the first time in his career, JoJo Tyynismaa won the most valuable track performer for the first time in her outdoor career, and Abby Veld won the most valuable field performer for the first time in her career.
 
In addition, the Knights have completed the season sweep by winning every conference title this season. The Knights last won the women's indoor, women's outdoor, men's indoor, and men's outdoor title in 2014.

Lance Sobaski (3000m steeplechase), Caitlin Benesh (heptathlon), Ema Roberts (high jump), Olivia Tollari (long jump), Abby Veld (shot put), and Morgan Engel (10000m) were named conference champions on Friday
 
Additionally, JoJo Tyynismaa put together a historic performance in the prelims of the 100m dash by breaking the program record.

Trent Polley (javelin throw), Hutton Edney (800m), AJ Wright (200m, 100m), the 4x400m relay team (Jeffrey Oestreicher, Cade Olson, Alex Kerr, Hutton Edney), and the men's 4x100m relay team (AJ Wright, Jordan Cleaves, Noah Schmidgall, Alex Kerr) were named conference champions today on the men's side on Saturday.
 
Grace Braden (400m hurdles), JoJo Tyynismaa (200m, 100m hurdles, 100m), the women's 4x400m relay team (Olivia Tollari, Natalie Bork, Haley Meyer, JoJo Tyynismaa) and the women's 4x100m relay team (Aly Stahle, Grace Braden, Olivia Tollari, JoJo Tyynismaa) were named conference champions today on the women's side on Saturday
 
AJ Wright broke the program record in the 200m dash and JoJo Tyynismaa broke her second program record of the weekend in the 100m hurdles.

Wartburg College senior JoJo Tyynismaa, sophomore Abby Veld, and sophomore AJ Wright have earned A-R-C weekly honors, the league announced Monday.

This is Tyynismaa's seventh career A-R-C weekly honor, Veld's third career A-R-C weekly honor, and Wright's second career A-R-C weekly honor.

2026 OUTDOOR SEASON MEET RECAPS
UCM Invite (Mar 20)
WashU Distance Carnival Day One (Mar 26)
WashU Distance Carnival Day Two/Wash U Invite Day One (Mar 27)
WashU Invite Day Two (Mar 28)
UW-Platteville Invite/Mount Mercy Open Day One (Apr 10)
Mount Mercy Open Day Two (Apr 11)
UW-La Crosse Phil Esten Challenge/Dutch WeatherSaver Invitational 2.0/ESU Relays (Apr 16)
Augustana Meet of Champions Day One (Apr 17)
Augustana Meet of Champions Day Two (Apr 18)
Wartburg Traingular (Apr 21)
Drake Relays Day Two (Apr 23)
Drake Relays Day Three/Kip Janvrin Open Day One (Apr 24)
Drake Relays Day Four/Kip Janvrin Open Day Two (Apr 25)
A-R-C Outdoor Track & Field Championships Day One (Apr 30)
A-R-C Outdoor Track & Field Championships Day Two (May 1)
A-R-C Outdoor Track & Field Championships Day Three (May 2)