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Wade Ekstrom
Wade Ekstrom during his first-place 1500m run last month at the Mac Twilight Meet. (Christopher Mitchell / Sport Shot Photo)

Men's Track & Field

Ekstrom runs 3:50.98 at La Crosse in bid for national qualification

Complete Last Chance Meet results

Wade Ekstrom (Jr., La Crescent, Minn.) gave himself an excellent chance at making next week's NCAA Division III championships when he ran he ran to a school-record 3:50.98 time in the 1500 meters at the Wisconsin-La Crosse Last Chance Meet Thursday night. He easily made the provisional-qualifying 3:55.00 mark and came up just short of the automatic qualifying time of 3:50.60.

If he gets in, as is anticipated, Ekstrom will race in the 1500 at the May 21-23 NCAA Division III championships at Marietta College in Marietta, Ohio.

Ekstrom is the Macalester Junior Male Athlete of the Year as well as the Junior Male Scholar-Athlete of the Year.

The old Macalester school mark in the 1500 was 3:54.36, established by David Augustson in 2006.

Andrew Yokom (Sr., Arden Hills, Minn. / Mounds View) closed out his Mac career with a fifth-place 55.53 mark in the 400-meter high hurdles. Macalester throws coach Bryan Tolcser, competing as an unattached athlete, dominated the hammer throw with a toss 215-10 (65.79m) – registering the 24th-best throw by an American athlete in 2009.
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