Folkestad & Rhonemus Earn 2nd Team All-American Honors
Concordia seniors Cooper Folkestad and Wade Rhonemus capped off their indoor meet careers by earning NCAA Second Team All-American honors at the Division III National Indoor Meet.
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (3/9/24)---Concordia seniors Cooper Folkestad and Wade Rhonemus capped off their indoor meet careers by earning NCAA Second Team All-American honors at the Division III National Indoor Meet.
The Second Team All-American award is a brand new honor that was instituted by the NCAA this year that recognizes individuals who finish from 9th to 16th in an event. Previously, only the Top 8 finishers in an event would earn All-American honors.
Folkestad had to wait until Saturday to get his second NCAA National Indoor Meet experience underway. He competed in the shot put on Saturday morning and finished 12th out of 19 competitors.
Folkestad's top distance of the event came on his second attempt when he posted a mark of 53-11.00. That distance was only one foot away from qualifying Folkestad for the final in the event. His mark at the national meet was 11.25 inches off his season-best distance of 54-10.25.
Rhonemus completed the 7-event heptathlon on Saturday and finished 15th with a total of 4,692 points. He was able to move up four spots on Day 2 in the standings after he was 19th after the first four events.
Rhonemus started Day 2 of the heptathlon by coming through with his top event of the meet. He clocked an 8.85 in the 60-meter hurdles which gave him 779 points. His other 700-plus event was the 60-meter dash which opened the heptathlon on Friday.
Rhonemus recorded over 650 points in the other two events on Saturday. He scored 659 in the pole vault by clearing 13-07.25 and posted 695 points in the 1000 meters with a time of 2:56.93.
NCAA National Indoor Meet Heptathlon Final Results
1. Mitch Stegeman (UW-Eau Claire) – 5,434 pts.
2. Jackson Anderson (Williams) – 5,419 pts.
3. Isaiah Clausen (Wheaton) – 5,173
4. Thomas Rich (Carnegie Mellon ) – 5,114
5. Charlie Nolan (UW-Oshkosh) – 5,052
6. Ezra Schermacher (St. Norbert) – 5,041
7. Max Foland (UW-Eau Claire) – 5,039
8. RJ Bosshart (UW-Oshkosh) – 4,988
9. Ulysses Patterson (Simpson – 4,918
10. Carter Rosewell (Tufts) – 4,875
11. Loucas Xenakis (Wash. U) – 4,802
12. Aeden Angelone (Rochester) – 4,792
13. Demetri Lord (St. Olaf) – 4,722
14. Nick Whitlow (Centre) – 4,704
15. Wade Rhonemus (Concordia-Moorhead) – 4,692
16. Payton White (UW-Oshkosh) – 4,681
17. Aden Sears (UW-Oshkosh) – 4,416
18. Jacob Brown (Denison) – 4,244
19. Cavan Dobberstein (UW-Oshkosh) – 3,663
NCAA National Indoor Meet Shot Put Final Results
1. Yakob Ekoue (UW-Eau Claire) – 61-04.25
2. Joseph White (Carthage) – 60-04.50
3. Keegan Digby (Ohio Northern) – 58-06.00
4. Adam Strouf (UW-Eau Claire) – 58-04.00
5. Gage Stankiewicz (UW-Eau Claire) – 57-05.00
6. Ethan Wilkie (Trinity) – 57-00.25
7. Andrew Mott (York) – 55-05.75
8. Ben Youngworth (UW-La Crosse) – 55-03.50
9. Sam Engebretsen (MIT) -54-11.25
10. Trent Beseth (St. Scholastica) – 54-00.50
11. Holden Murphy (Loras) – 53-11.25
12. Cooper Folkestad (Concordia-Moorhead) – 53-11.00
13. Ethan hart (Dickinson) – 53-11.00
14. Karter Rashke (UW-Stout) – 53-06.00
15. Jacob Edwards (Dubuque) – 53-03.75
16. Colin Wojkiewicz (Neb. Wesleyan) – 52-08.75
17. Isaiah Isom (UW-Oshkosh) – 51-09.75
18. Dre Jackson (Loras) – 51.07.25
19. Nathan Williams (Stevenson) – 51-00.75