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SPORTS NEWS Junior goalkeeper Miranda Halling (Rochester, Minn.) recorded a season-high 15 saves in SMU’s season-finale against Macalester on Nov. 2. … Halling owned a teamhigh 89 saves and has recorded 10 or more saves in a game 12 times in her threeyear collegiate career. … The Cardinals’ three-goal effort against No. 16 Loras on Oct. 9 was their highest offensive output of the season.
CROSS COUNTRY
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MIAC FINISH: Men 9th, Women 11th NCAA CENTRAL REGIONAL FINISH: Men 15th, Women 19th BRIEFLY: The Cardinals had a pair of All-MIAC and AllCentral Region performers in 2013, as juniors Aaron Haley
(Plainview, Minn.) and Katie Stolz (Forest Lake, Minn.) each earned conference and regional post-season honors. … Stoltz toured the sixkilometer women's course in a school-record time of 23:23 to finish 11th overall at the MIAC Championships on Nov. 2, then followed that up with another school-record effort of 23:14 to finish 23rd overall at the NCAA Central Regional on Nov. 16. … Stolz also earned the MIAC’s prestigious Elite 22 honor — honoring the individual who has reached the pinnacle of competition at the conference championship level, while also achieving the highest academic standard among her peers. … Stolz broke the school’s 6K record three times in 2013. … Haley
also enjoyed a memorable junior year, repeating as an All-MIAC selection with a school-record 8K time of 25:59 to place 13th overall, then adding a 35th-place showing at the NCAA Central Regional with a time of 26:09. … Haley posted the SMU men’s top time in all six of the events he competed in this season. … Sophomore Allie Thiel (Burr Ridge, Ill.) was the second Cardinal woman across the finish line in both the MIAC and Central Regional meets.
GOLF MIAC FINISH: Men 10th, Women 11th BRIEFLY: Sophomores Blake Westerberg (Red Wing, Minn.) and Tim Wolford (continued on page 50)
Stolz earns Elite 22 Award Katie Stolz ’15 enjoyed a memorable 2013 Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Championship on Nov. 5, as the Saint Mary’s University junior broke the school record — for the second time this year — and earned all-conference honors en route to an 11th-place individual finish. That performance became even more memorable when the Cardinal junior received the MIAC’s prestigious Elite 22 Award for women’s cross country. The MIAC Elite 22 Award recognizes the true essence of the student-athlete by honoring the individual who has reached the pinnacle of competition at the conference championship level in his or her sport, while also achieving the highest academic standard among his or her peers. Modeled after the NCAA Elite 89 Award, the MIAC Elite 22 Award is presented to the student-athlete with the highest grade point average (GPA) in each sport, who also meets similarly high, sport-specific athletic requirements. At the MIAC Women's Cross Country Championship, the Cardinals’ leading runner completed the six-kilometer course in a school-record 23:23.9. Thanks to her top-15 finish, Stolz received MIAC All-Conference honors for the first time in her three-year collegiate career. As good as the Saint Mary’s junior is on the trails, she’s been perfect in the classroom thus far, as the biology major boasts a 4.0 GPA. Stolz was also named to the MIAC Academic All-Conference team as a sophomore in cross country and outdoor track and field. She is a Forest Lake, Minn., native and a graduate of Hill-Murray High School.≠
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