PICTURED: North Central junior Dylan Kuipers.
NAPERVILLE, Ill. – North Central’s 4x400-meter relay team, along with
Dylan Kuipers were named the College Conference of Illinois & Wisconsin (CCIW) Men’s Outdoor Track & Field Athletes of the Week on Tuesday.
The Cardinal 4x400 relay team of
Maceo Findlay (Shorewood, Ill./Minooka/Physics),
Zach Kirby (St. Charles, Ill./North/Accounting & Finance major),
Ben Nordman (Belvidere, Ill./North/Sport Management) and
Peyton Piron (Batavia, Ill./H.S./Actuarial Science) won with a time of 3:15.50 at the Benedictine Eagle Relays on Saturday. Their time is currently ranked first in the CCIW and first on the NCAA Division III national list compiled by TFRRS.org.
Kuipers, a junior from Elburn, Illinois and Kaneland High School (Athletic Training major), finished second in the pole vault at the Benedictine Relays. He finished with a vault of 16-4 ¾ (5.00 meters), which ranks second in the CCIW and seventh on the Division III national list.
2017 CCIW Men’s Outdoor Track & Field Athletes of the Week
Track
4x400 Relay – North Central (4/18/17)
Clayton Sommers – Augustana (4/11/17)
Tanner Osing – Augustana (4/4/17)
Josh Yamamoto – Augustana (3/28/17)
Field
Dylan Kuipers – North Central (4/18/17)
Jacob Segrest – Millikin (4/11/17)
Marckus Simmons – Augustana (4/4/17)
Ethan Ehlers – Augustana (3/28/17)
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The College Conference of Illinois & Wisconsin (CCIW) was founded in 1946 and currently services nine member institutions including Augustana College (Rock Island, IL), Carroll University (Waukesha, WI), Carthage College (Kenosha, WI), Elmhurst College (Elmhurst, IL), Illinois Wesleyan University (Bloomington, IL), Millikin University (Decatur, IL), North Central College (Naperville, IL), North Park University (Chicago, IL) and Wheaton College (Wheaton, IL). During the 2015-16 academic year, the CCIW honored over 1,600 academic all-conference recipients, 14 CoSIDA Academic All-Americans, 36 CoSIDA Academic All-District recipients and over 100 all-Americans.