northern today 9 spring 2014 The Northern indoor track and field squads had a very solid indoor season in 2014. The Wolves had great showings in all of their meets this season, setting multiple personal records throughout the year. Makenzie Hageman set a new school record in the 60-meter dash and ran a time of 7.82 in the preliminaries of the NSIC Indoor Championships. Andrew Johnson set a school record for the men’s squad in the 200-meter dash. Johnson owns the record with a time of 22.17. Distance runner Brandon Krein took home All-NSIC honors at the NSIC Championships with his third-place finish in the 1,000 meters. Krein ran a careerbest time of 2:32.26 in the event. Hannah Treinen hit a provisional NCAA mark in the pentathlon at the NSIC meet as she finished fifth with 3,278 points. The NSU women’s basketball team finished with 24 regular- season wins and captured the NSIC North Division Title. That accomplishment ended a nine-year drought, marking the first NSU conference championship of any kind in any sport since 2005. In addition, the women’s team received an NCAA regional berth and traveled to Harding University in Searcy, Ark., where they competed as the No. 6 seed against a team from Central Missouri. Head Coach Curt Fredrickson also was named the NSIC Coach of the Year for the fourth time in his illustrious career (1991-92, 1996-97 and 2010-11) and has 747 career coaching victories in his 35-year career at Northern. Senior Alison Kusler was named All-NSIC First Team. It was the third all-conference honor for Kusler in her career for the Wolves. Kusler was fourth in the league in scoring with 17.2 points per game during NSIC play. Her 84.4 percent free throw shooting was 13th in the league and she was sixth in the league averaging 34.14 minutes played per contest. Kusler scored in double figures in 23 games this season and had six efforts where she scored 20 points or more. January 4 against Sioux Falls, Kusler scored a game-high 26 points in the win over the Cougars and became the 29th member of the 1,000-point club at NSU. Kusler’s 1,245 career points is 18th all-time at Northern. Rachel Krogman was a second-team selection for the Wolves. Krogman ranked 11th in the league in scoring (15.7 ppg), third in rebounding (10 rpg), 13th in field goal percentage (47.8 percent) and eighth in blocks (1.05 bpg). Krogman recorded nine double-doubles during conference play this season and 12 overall. She also had 15 games this season where she registered 10 or more boards in a game. Megan Mutchler was named to the NSIC All- Defensive Team and Paige Waytashek was named All-Freshman NSIC. The Northern State men finished the season with an 18-11 record and went 13-9 in conference play, finishing fourth in the NSIC North. Sophomore Skye Warwick was named First Team CoSIDA/Capital One Academic All-District for District Seven. The Northern three-point specialist is a Health and Physical Education major, carrying a perfect 4.0 GPA. On the mat, the NSU wrestling team showed great promise as the Wolves were led by freshman 197-pounder Joe Gomez who finished the season with a 24-15 record. Gomez competed at the NCAA Super Regional in Edmond, Okla., and fell just shy of making it to the National Tournament as he placed sixth at the regional match. Seniors Anthony Bruno (125), Gavin Larsen (141), Blake Lundgren (165), Ian Muirhead (141) and Beau Voegeli (149) all wrestled for the Wolves for the final time in 2014. indoor track and field wrestling men’s basketball women’s basketball The Northern State winter sports season was a big success for the Wolves, not only on the basketball court, but also on the wrestling mat and on the track. Alison Kusler, senior, Aberdeen Tydan Storrusten, junior, Pelican Rapids, Minn. Beau Voegeli, graduate student, Oakes, N.D. s por t s
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