(ST NORBERT COMMUNICATIONS) WAUWATOSA – With apologies to 1970s rock band Orleans, the St. Norbert College women’s track and field team is still having fun and still the one at the conference level after another dominating performance at the 2026 Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference Championship at Wisconsin Lutheran College’s Raabe Stadium.
The Green Knights rolled to a whopping 284 1/2 points at the meet, easily outdistancing runner-up Concordia University Wisconsin’s 162 points and third-place Milwaukee School of Engineering’s 108 points.
The conference title is St. Norbert’s tenth-consecutive outdoor crown. The Green Knights won five in a row in the Midwest Conference before a two-year hiatus on a conference-wide outdoor meet due to COVID-19. St. Norbert has won all five outdoor championships it has competed in since its first NACC meet in 2022.
St. Norbert showed off its depth, with 19 podium finishes on the second day alone. On Day 2, the Green Knights posted nine first-place finishes, four second-place showings and six third-place efforts.
Madi Crossman and Kamdan Johnson each won a pair of second-day events. Crossman swept the short sprints with a win in the 100-meter dash in 12.31 seconds and the 200-meter dash in 25.02 seconds. Johnson swept the hurdle events, winning the 100 meters in 15.41 seconds and the 400 meters in 1:07.82.
Alli Clark won the long jump in 17 feet 9 1/2 inches after also winning the triple jump on Day 1. Larissa Huffman won the heptathlon with 3,691 points. Madison Gramblicka claimed the 800-meter run in 2:21.70 and added a second-place finish in the 1,500-meter run in 4:49.39.
St. Norbert swept the relays. The quartet of Gracie Wolfe, Katie Smith, Crossman and Eden Maranell won the 4×100-meter relay in 48.14 seconds. The foursome of Crossman, Gramblicka, Smith and Rachael Allen took the 4×400-meter relay in 4:03.61.
Smith was second in the 100- and 200-meter dashes in 12.46 and 25.10 seconds, respectively. Maranell was the long jump runner-up at 17-5 1/2.
Also reaching the podium in third place was Bijou Phillips in the 5,000-meter run (18:27.53), Gretchen Schwarz in the 100-meter hurdles (16.19 seconds), Gaby Rivas in the 400-meter dash (1:00.74), Amereka McPherson in the long jump (16-3 1/4), Taylor Thiry in the shot put (41-9 3/4) and Ellison Lilyquist in the heptathlon (3,492 points).
Garnering fourth-place finishes were Wolfe in the 100-meter dash (12.61 seconds), Allen in the 400-meter dash (1:00.95) and Larissa Huffman in the 100-meter hurdles (16.70 seconds).
Sarah Kraklow finished fifth in the 800-meter run in 2:24.62, while Huffman added a fifth-place finish in the 400-meter hurdles (1:13.80) and also finished tied for sixth place in the high jump (4-9 3/4). Luisa Arcuri was sixth in the 5,000-meter run in 19:10.08 and Laura Anna Koskinen was sixth in the 400-meter hurdles in 1:14.61.
Kayla Wesaw finished seventh in the 1,500-meter run in 4:58.41, while Mary Weisensel was seventh in the 400-meter hurdles in 1:15.04. Kera Riley finished in eighth place in both the 800- and 1,500-meter runs in 2:29.85 and 5:02.12, respectively. McKenzie Mamayek was eighth in the 100-meter dash in 13.06 seconds, while Laci Hoeksema was eighth in the heptathlon with 2,957 points.
Additionally, head coach Don Augustine and his staff was selected as Coaching Staff of the Year by the league’s coaches at the conclusion of the meet.
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