Fabre, Myers named BSU Athletes to Watch in NSIC Outdoor Track & Field Poll

Bemidji State University outdoor track & field was selected to finish 12th overall as the 2022 Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference Preseason Coaches’ Poll was released Thursday. Senior jumper Analise Fabre was named the team’s Field Athlete to Watch while sophomore sprinter Rachel Myers was selected as the team’s Track Athlete to Watch by Head Coach Kevin Kean.

The Beavers received 68 points in the preseason coaches’ poll, placing just behind St. Cloud State University in 10th with 78 points and Minnesota State University Moorhead in 11th with 72 points. Minnesota State University, Mankato was selected to finish first with 196 points and 14 first-place votes, followed by Augustana University with 176 points and one first-place vote and the University of Mary with 176 points for a tie in second.

Concordia University-St. Paul jumper Arika Robinson was named the NSIC Field Athlete of the Year while Winona State University distance runner Lindsay Cunningham was selected as the Track Athlete of the Year.

Bemidji State Track & Field comes off its second straight top-eight finish at the 2021 NSIC Outdoor Championships while beginning its 2022 season April 2 at the Hamline Invitational. The Beavers return student-athletes from four point-scoring events from the 2021 conference meet, including senior Aneesa Tucker in the heptathlon, sophomore Emily Curtice in the javelin, the 4x400m relay team of Janice Cole, Ryne Prigge, Tucker and Maryse Mbenoun, and BSU’s Field Athlete to Watch senior Analise Fabre in the triple jump. Fabre set a personal record in the event at the conference outdoor meet with a sixth-place leap of 11.45m. BSU’s Track Athlete to Watch, sophomore sprinter Rachel Myers, enters her first season outdoors with the Beavers after helping BSU’s indoor 4x400m relay team set a program record with a fourth-place time of 3:57.09 at the 2022 NSIC Indoor Track & Field Championships. Myers holds personal records of 12.91 in the 100m dash, 25.38 in the 200m dash and 57.75 in the 400m dash, set with Dixie State University.

Head Coach Kevin Kean, entering his seventh season leading Bemidji State, helped the team earn 14 2021 Spring NSIC All-Academic Team selections, including eight on the All-Academic Team of Excellence. The program saw seven records broken last season, including marks set by BSU’s 4x400m relay and sprint medley relays, Prigge in the 800m and 1,500m runs, and sophomore Mary Goodwin in the steeplechase.

BSU opens its 2022 outdoor season Saturday, April 2 at the USD Early Bird in Vermillion, SD.