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Last weekend was conference title time (again) and several representatives from Iowa colleges came home with the top hardware. A Wartburg College runner set an all-time American Rivers Conference record, as well as a meet record. Another Wartburg runner set a record while winning two ARC titles. An Iowa native won two more conference titles for Loras College. A former Valley High prep corralled a Summit League championship. An Iowa State runner continued the university's dominance in a distance event. And two Drake University runners thrilled the home crowd by bringing home Missouri Valley Conference titles at home at Drake Stadium.

So let's jump into the WEEKEND UPDATE of the best performances by Iowa-based collegiate and postcollegiate distance runners and triathletes last weekend.

American Rivers Conference men

It starts with not one but two record-breaking performances by Wartburg College junior Christopher Collet. The sophomore from Verona, Ill., set an all-time American Rivers Conference record in the 1,500-meter final Saturday at the Rock Bowl in Dubuque. Collet's time of 3 minutes, 46.56 seconds topped the previous mark of 3:46.89 by Wartburg alum Andy Hodge from 2008. Hodge's effort came when the league was known as the Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference. Collet also topped the championship mark of 3:51.27 by Wartburg's Matt Heinzman from a year ago. He also set a facility record, which had been 3:50.22 and held by Loras College's Ryan Harvey from early this season.

Loras sophomore Mike Jasa led three Duhawks who also ran under the facility record in the final. The former Cedar Rapids Prairie prep took runner-up honors in 3:47.78, .98 of a second ahead of Harvey, a freshman. The final Loras runner was junior Wyatt Kelly, a former Hudson High runner who was timed in 3:49.11. Loras freshman Carlo Dannenfelser, a former Cedar Rapids Prairie runner, was fifth in 3:52.35, and Simpson College freshman James Murray came in sixth in 3:52.43. The final scorers were Central College sophomore Will DeHaan, a former Central DeWitt prep, in seventh in 3:55.70 and Luther College junior Ian Kelly in eighth in 3:56.73.

Collet the previous day set the championship record in the 3,000 steeplechase with a 9:09.51 effort. Collet's time eclipsed late Wartburg legend Dan Huston's 9:12.94 effort from 1985. Collet, however, was off the all-time conference mark of 8:57.39 by Central's Mark Fairley in 2018.

He finished exactly two seconds ahead of Wartburg teammate and sophomore Connor Lancial, who captured runner-up honors in 9:11.51. Lancial is a former Council Bluffs Lewis Central runner.

University of Dubuque junior Tyler Cernohous finished in the top four of a pair of events to help the Spartans claim their first men's outdoor championship in 61 years. Cernohous took third in the steeplechase final in 9:15.64 for six important points that helped the Spartans score 194 points, 13 better than Wartburg. Central freshman Thatcher Krob, a freshman from Lisbon, and junior teammate Caleb Silver, a former BCLUW of Conrad prep, were fifth and sixth in 9:19.48 and 9:23.71.

Runner-up Wartburg picked up two other championship records in the distance events over the weekend. The Knights' 4x800 relay of junior Wyatt Schmidt, junior Dalton Martin, Heinzman, a senior, and senior Frosty Lorimer ran 7:33.43 to top Loras' 7:35.62 mark from a season ago. Schmidt is a former Northeast of Preston runner while Lorimer is a senior from Springville.

Central set a school record while taking runner-up honors. The quartet of freshman Adam Sylvia, freshman Jack Sagan, freshman Noah Jorgenson and DeHaan were clocked in 7:36.91. Jorgenson is a former Sidney Community Schools runner.

Loras, with freshman Chris Guise, freshman Joe Franke, freshman Elliot Frideres and junior Carter Oborfoell running, were fourth in 7:38.36. Guise is a former Davenport Assumption runner, while Frideres is a former Nevada athlete. Oberfoell is a fomer Dubuque Wahlert prep.

Wartburg senior Joe Freiburger ended the night Thursday by setting the championship record of 30:20.66 in the 10,000 final. The former Western Dubuque prep from Holy Cross was under the previous record owned by Central's Cole Decker from 2016 by less than five seconds. Junior teammate Jay Mixdorf, a former Ankeny High prep, was runner-up in 30:39.82, with Simpson sophomore Spencer Moon in third in 30:45.29. Wartburg junior Morgan Shirley-Fairbairn also broke 31 minutes by taking fourth in 30:49.02.

Moon gained revenge on Freiburger in the third-to-final event, the 5,000 final, on a hot and humid Saturday. The former South Central athlete from Lake City captured the 5,000 title in 14:53.00. Moon became the Storm's first ARC champion since 2018 and the first Simpson runner to take a distance title in the league since 2012.

Freiburger settled for second in 14:58.03 in his final ARC appearance. Luther senior Colin Beck took third in 14:58.26, with Cernohous grabbing fourth and five valuable points in 15:02.58. Wartburg freshman Sam Schmitz rounded out the top five in 15:05.52. Beck is a former Denver prep while Schmitz is an ex-Johnston High prep.

Loras' Oberfoell took runner-up honors in the 800-meter final Saturday in 1:51.40. Harvey, also of Loras, was third in 1:52.17, with Wartburg's Schmidt in fourth in 1:52.67. Loras' Kelly was fifth in 1:53.17. The winner was Nebraska Wesleyan's Garrett Lenners in 1:51.24.

Dubuque won its 12th conference championship and first under head coach Chad Gunnelson, in his 11th year with the program. Dubuque's coaches were collectively named the ARC Staff of the Year.

American Rivers Conference women

Wartburg sophomore Aubrie Fisher helped propel the seventh-ranked (by the U.S. Track and Field & Cross Country Coaches Association) Knights to the team title by winning the 3,000 steeplechase in record time, the 1,500 final and taking runner-up in the 5,000 final. The former AGWSR of Ackley prep broke the facility record of 10:50.47 set in 2004 by running 10:41.70 and beating Wartburg freshman Ellie Meyer by nearly three seconds. Meyer, a former Iowa Falls-Alden prep, was second in 10:44.63. Central's Caroline McMartin recovered from a late fall to place third in 11:00.29, which is a new personal-best time by nearly 10 seconds. McMartin is a freshman from Pella.

Fisher also repeated as 1,500-meter champion by topping Loras star Kassie Parker Saturday. Fisher crossed the finish line in 4:37.26 to top Parker, who ran 4:39.11. Wartburg's Meyer was third in 4:46.56, with junior teammates Lexi Brown (4:49.18) and Moriah Morter (4:50.76) taking fourth and fifth, respectively. Brown is from New London while Morter ran for Muscatine High.

Parker added two more conference titles to her impressive resume. The school-record holder in every track and field distance event, Parker started the weekend by cruising to victory in the 10,000 final Thursday. Parker ran 38:47.48, well off her personal-best time, to top Wartburg senior Riley Mayer (39:05.28). Mayer is a former Fort Dodge St. Edmond runner. Wartburg freshman Shaelyn Hostager, who ran for Dubuque Hempstead, rounded out the podium in third in 39:05.55.

Parker got the better of Fisher in the final distance race of the meet, the 5,000, on Saturday. The former Clayton Ridge of Guttenberg athlete ran 17:31.42 to easily top Fisher, who ran 18:01.49 for runner-up honors. Mayer was third in 18:10.84, with Hostager in fourth in 18:12.65. Loras juior Brianna Renner was fifth in 18:13.33, with Wartburg junior Natalie Paulson sixth in 18:20.80. Paulson, who was fourth in the 10,000 final, is a former Dallas Center-Grimes prep.

Wartburg also picked up eight key points of their 231 by placing second in the 4x800. Freshman Rachel Nagel, junior Carson McSorley, freshman Jenna Morey and Meyer ran 9:30.17 to finish behind only Nebraska Wesleyan's 9:28.45. Nagel is a former Cedar Rapids Jefferson runner while McSorley is from New London. Morey ran for Spencer.

The Knights topped Loras by .33 of a second. Senior Kaylee Osterberger, junior Marianne Gleason, junior Alexis Riesberg and freshman Frankie Chaidez ran on the relay for the second-ranked Duhawks, who tallied 224 points. Osterberger is a former Dubuque Wahlert athlete while Riesberg is a former Dowling Catholic athlete from Grimes.

Buena Vista senior Jadyn Forbes, a former Indianola High prep, took runner-up honors in the 800 final in 2:16.94. Osterberger was third in 2:19.94. Wesleyan standout Reagan Janzen set a Rock Bowl record by running 2:11.32.

The Wartburg track and field staff were named ARC Coaching Staff of the Year.

Big 12 Conference

Iowa State junior Dana Feyen led the Cyclones' efforts during the three-day meet in hot Lubbock, Texas. The native of Galesville, Wis., captured the 5,000-meter title on the final day of the outdoor championships at Fuller Track, keeping a tradition alive for Iowa State. Feyen steadily moved up to second after 2,000 meters before waging a battle with Isabel Hebner of Texas for the win. Feyen took control on the final lap to secure the win in 16:27.62.

Feyen, in gaining her first career Big 12 title, made it three wins in a row in the event for Iowa State, with current senior Cailie Logue taking the past two titles.

Cyclone senior Winrose Chesang completed a big weekend by placing fourth in 16:43.78. Chesang, a spring graduate, is a transfer from Iowa Central Community College. Teammmate Madelynn Hill was fifth in a new personal-best 16:59.13 time. Riley Beach (ninth, 17:16.37) and Sarah Murrow (10th, 17:18.97) narrowly missed scoring points for Iowa State.

Feyen two days earlier secured a silver medal in the 10,000 final, battling with Oklahoma State's Gabby Hentemann the entire race. The Oklahoma State sophomore held off Feyen to grab the victory in 34:18.58, 1.22 seconds ahead of Feyen.

Chesang kept with Feyen and Hentemann for all but the final 1,000 meters. She improved her 10,000 time by 21 seconds in placing third in the final in 34:44.44.

Iowa State also received points from Brenna Cohoon in sixth in 35:50.95 and Ashley Tutt in seventh in 35:52.10.

Feyen helped the Iowa State women finish fifth in the team race with 73 points, which was their highest finish since taking fourth in 2013. The Cyclones scored their most points since 2014, when they scored 83 in Lubbock.

Iowa State also scored significant points in the 3,000 steeplechase late Saturday when Janette Schraft, a former Glenwood prep, finished third in 10:30.85. Hill and freshman Kiki Connell, both competing in the steeplechase for the first time this season, were sixth and seventh in 10:46.83 and 10:54.46. Connell is a former Charles City prep who transferred from Northern Iowa. The winner was WEst Virginia's Ceili McCabe in 10:12.87.

Ryan Ford led the Iowa State men's seventh-place performance with 67 points by taking runner-up honors in the 10,000 meters on Friday. The senior transfer from UT-Martin battled with teammate and fellow senior Thomas Pollard and eventual champion Haftu Knight for the final 2,000 meters. Knight made the decisive move with two laps to go, with Ford pulling away from Pollard on the final lap in 29:22.99. Pollard, a former Gilbert High prep, was third in 29:28.11. Ford earned his first all-conference track honor while for Pollard it was his seventh top-three Big 12 finish. Knight was clocked in 29:21.90.

Iowa State also gained big points in the 800 final Sunday when true freshman Darius Kipyego gained the silver medal for second in 1:48.83. Teammate Peter Smith nearly got Kipyego at the finish line, settling for third place in 1:48.85. Cebastian Gentil was sixth in 1:58.38 in a race won by Texas' Yusuf Bizimana in 1:48.55.

In the 5,000 final also Sunday, Iowa State's Chad Johnson made a surge over the final two laps to finish third in 14:08.62. Ford added a fourth-place finish in 14:11.44. Teammate Ezekiel Rop was fifth, his first all-Big 12 honor, in 14:13.95.

Iowa State's Nehemia Too added a fourth-place finish in the 1,500 final in 3:46.10 in a race won by Fouad Messaoudi of Oklahoma State in 3:42.00.

The Cyclones' Gable Sieperda and Kelvin Bungei placed fourth and fifth in the 3,000 steeplechase late Saturday. Sieperda, a former Central Lyon/GLR prep, was clocked in 9:01.06, with Bungei, a former Iowa Central runner, timed in 9:09.34. Nate Mueller, a former ADM of Adel prep making his Big 12 outdoors debut, was seventh in 9:19.68. Texas won both the men's and women's team titles with 161 and 172.5 points, respectively.

Baylor's Ellie Friesen, a junior, ran 4:36.62 in the 1,500 prelims to finish 15th overall. Friesen is a former Crestwood of Cresco prep.

Missouri Valley Conference

Drake celebrated a pair of championships from their men in distance races over two days. Freshman Aziz Jdai fought off Bradley junior Charlie Parrish to hold on for victory in the 3,000 steeplechase final on a muggy Saturday. Jdai ran 8:51.20 to hold off Parrish by .15 of a second in a two-man battle for the title. Jdai, from Tunisia, becomes Drake's first MVC champion in the event since Rob McCann was victorious in 8:43.00 in 2016. Jdai shared the MVC Outdoor Track & Field Freshman of the Year award.

Northern Iowa's Brady Griebel narrowly missed scoring after placing ninth in 9:39.97. The freshman is a former Bellevue prep.

Fellow Bulldog Brooke Mullins, a sophomore, finished fifth in the women's 3,000 steeplechase in 10:44.36. Northern Iowa junior Mia Rampton, a former Dubuque senior runner, was seventh in 10:55.42.

On the final day Sunday, Drake junior Isaac Basten, the heavy prerace favorite, came through with a title in the men's 1,500 final. Basten did it the hard way, getting boxed in going into the final back straight before he swung out wide and surged past the other contenders for good in 3:54.21. The 2021 All-American outdoors in this event became a repeat winner for Drake, following teammate Adam Fogg. Fogg couldn't compete after having an emergency appendectomy the week before.

"I used a 100 percent sprint in the back straightaway," Basten said on the ESPN3 telecast. "I was trying to hang on for the last 200 (meters) and luckily I did. Adam is my training partner and one of my best friends. It's tough to see him go down like that. I know he wanted me to get the 1500-meter title for him, myself and Drake."

Northern Iowa got a seventh place from freshman Craig Becker in 3:54.16. Becker is from Atlantic.

The Northern Iowa men finished third in the team race, 11.5 points behind champion Indiana State, and were buoyed by a runner-up finish from former Southeast Polk prep Drake Hanson in the 800 final. The sophomore ran 1:53.46 to top everyone except Illinois State's Riley Wells, who ran 1:53.05. Senior teammate Seb Gearhart, a former Cedar Falls prep, was sixth in 1:54.05.

The Panthers' Sophia Jungling finished fifth in the 800 final in 2:11.57. Jungling, a freshman, is a former Aplington-Parkersburg prep.

Former Drake runner Elizabeth Aho, now a senior at Loyola, finished third in the women's 10,000 in 36:32.82. The winner was Ailey Mitchell of Illinois State in 36:09.89.

Summit League Championships

In her final Summit League outdoors in Tulsa, Okla., former Des Moines Christian prep Oksana Johnson of South Dakota State broke her own record in the 800 meters, running 2:05.48 in the final. Johnson already broke the meet record when she ran 2:07.61 in the prelims. Johnson is a graduate student from Ankeny.

Johnson was nearly two seconds ahead of Oral Roberts' Adrena Mazzei. South Dakota junior Madison Jochum, a former Sioux City Heelan prep, was fifth in 2:12.40.

South Dakota's Helen Gould picked up her first career Summit League championships by outkicking Jadyn Keeler of North Dakota coming off the final barrier of the 3,000 steeplechase final Friday. The third-year sophomore and former Valley High standout ran 10:45.11 to top Keeler by .34 of a second. That time is just .02 off Gould's season best. Gould improved on a second-place finish in this event from a season ago and helped the Coyotes to the team championship.

Fourth-year Coyote junior Merga Gemeda grabbed a pair of all-conference finishes. The former Sioux City North runner placed fifth in the 10,000 meters in 31:50.53 and then became the first Coyote since 2015 to earn all-league recognition in the 5,000. Gemeda took second place with a time of 14:55.49. South Dakota's Jacob Waymire narrowly missed the points after placing 10th in 15:26.49. Waymire, a sophomore, is a former Dallas Center-Grimes prep.

Another Iowan, former North Union prep star Riley Bauer, finished runner-up in the men's 800 meters in 1:50.36. Bauer also runs for South Dakota State. Ackeen Colley of Western Illinois was the winner in 1:49.19.

Big Ten Conference

The Iowa men, competing in Minneapolis, finished runner-up to Ohio State and got a boost in the distance events from former Woodbury Central prep Alec Still. Still, a junior, took fifth in the 800 final in 1:52.66. Freshman teammate Antonio Abrego grabbed eighth in 1:52.95.

Iowa also scored in the women's 800 final when true freshman Alli Bookin-Nosbisch was sixth in 2:08.72 and sophomore teammate Clare Pitcher was seventh in 2:09.00. Bookin-Nosbisch is a former Ottumwa High standout.

Former Pleasant Valley star Max Murphy was 15th for the Hawkeyes in the 10,000 meters in 29:57.75. Murphy is a former Pleasant Valley runner from Bettendorf. Iowa sophomore and former Sioux City Heelan prep Amber Aesoph ran 4:31.23 in the 1,500 prelims to finish 19th overall.

Former Ballard prep star Abby Kohut-Jackson, making her season debut after several tendon injuries, finished 11th in the 3,000 steeplechase for Minnesota in 10:36.08. Kohut-Jackson is a graduate student.

Mountain West Championships

Former Iowa Central star Adva Cohen cruised to victory in the 3,000 steeplechase for New Mexico in Clovis, Calif., on Friday. Cohen, a senior, ran 9:49.32 to earn a top-15 spot nationally in her steeplechase season debut. Cohen won by more than 20 seconds.

Another former Triton, Awet Johannes, took second in the men's 3,000 steeplechase in 8:42.02. That time is a season and personal best for the Lobos runners by more than two seconds. Yohannes is positioned to make the NCAA West prelims in two weeks.

Mid-American Conference

Toledo junior Faith Linga captured the 10,000 championship Thursday in Kalamazoo, Mich. The former Iowa Western star was timed in 33:57.02, winning by just over two seconds over teammate Stephanie Sherman.

Southeastern Conference

Former Pleasant Valley star McKenzie Yanek finished sixth in her one and only SEC meet in Oxford, Miss., on Thursday. The Vanderbilt senior ran 34:52.28. The winning time in the hot conditions was a 33:15.66 by Alabama star Mercy Chelangat.

In the 10,000 Thursday, former Linn-Mar prep Ryan Murphy finished 13th in 31:36.55. Murphy, an Arkansas junior, helped set up teammates Patrick Kip and Myles Richter by taking on pacing duties at the front of the field.

Atlantic Sun Conference

Former Mid-Prairie star Anna Hostetler finished fourth in the 10,000 final Thursday after running 36:15.88 in Jacksonville, Fla. Hostetler came back two days later to take sixth in the 5,000 final in 17:25.35. Hostetler is a junior at Liberty University.

Hostetler's sophomore sister, Marie, placed ninth in the 1,500 final. Marie Hostetler just missed scoring a point while running 4:36.08.

Atlantic Coast Conference

Notre Dame junior Matthew Carmody, the reigning ACC indoor 5,000 champion, placed 12th in that event at the ACC event in Durham, N.C. Carmody ran 13:51.03 in a race won by teammate Dylan Jacobs in a meet record 13:23.45.

Nonconference meets

Former Marion prep Maddie Bach of Nebraska-Kearney captured a victory in the Concordia Twilight meet Friday in Seward, Neb. The senior ran 4:37.73 for 1,500.

Two Dordt University men's runners qualified for NAIA nationals at Seward. Peter Shippy ran the third-best time in school history to claim second in the 3,000 steeplechase in 9:22.47. Shippy knocked 17 seconds off his previous best time. Shippy is a junior from Sioux Center. Also, Thaniel Schroeder took third in the event in 9:31.2 to meet the provisional time. Schroeder's time is fifth best in school history. The winner was St. Mary's (Kan.) Luke Skinner in 9:13.95.

Former Iowa Central standout Noah Bundrock won the 3,000 steeplechase at the WT Last Chance meet in Canyon, Texas, on Sunday. Bundrock was timed in 9:33.65.

Diamond League

At the 2022 opener in Doha Saturday, former Iowa State star Hillary Bor finished fourth in the men's 3,000 steeplechase in 8:17.82. Bor was in a pack with three other contenders until the final lap in a race won by Soufiane El Bakkali of Morocco in 8:09.66.

Road racing

Former Iowa State runner Tyler Jermann finished sixth in the USATF 25K Championships in Grand Rapids, Mich., on Saturday. The Minnesota Distance Elite athlete ran 1:18:08 in a race won by Leonard Korir in 1:15:53. Former Iowa State and Ventura High runner Andrea Toppin finished 14th among all women in 1:37:44.

At Sunday's Denver Colfax Half Marathon in Colorado, former Interstate 35 runner and 2018 Central College grad Holly McKinney finished third overall among the women in 1:23:28. The winner was Atsede Baysa in 1:14:51.

Running Wild's Morgan Meseke won the women's title at the YWCA Race Against Racism on Saturday in Davenport. Meseke ran 19:44.

Trail running

At the Sunderbruch B&B Trail races in Davenport on Saturday, Running Wild Elite's Devin Allbaugh, 32, broke his own course record in the 10-kilometer race. The former Pleasant Valley prep from Bettendorf ran 42:21 at Sunderbruch Park to win by 3:26 over Ross Salinas, 41, of Iowa City. Running Wild's Elliott Klauer, 25, of Bettendorf was third in 48:40.

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This article originally appeared on Des Moines Register: Mile posts: Items on Christopher Collet, Aubrie Fisher, Kassie Parker, Dana Feyen, Isaac Basten, Oksana Johnson, Helen Gould, Adva Cohen