Warrior Runners Compete at Grinnell

Grinnell, IA -- Indian Hills Community College cross country coach Jim Streeby has four of his athletes running in track meets this spring for what the coach calls “fun and a little speed work.”
Streeby says the focus is on running only distance events, from the 3000 meters up to 10,000 meters, and everyone showed improvement at this past weekend’s Dick Young Invitational in Grinnell.
Jon Gerling led three IHCC runners in the 1500 meters, finishing in 25th place in a time of 4:24.45. Teammate Brennen Wears knocked two seconds off his 1500-meter time from the previous meet at Central College, finishing 26th in a time of 4:25.01. Steele Fiscus was 33rd with a time of 4:31.31.
In the women’s 5000 meters, Sarah Lindemulder took 14 seconds off her time from the Central meet (21:17.21).
Two of the IHCC men’s runners also ran in the 5000. Gerling was 7th out of 28 runners. His time of 16:24.60 was 1:37 faster than the previous meet.
And Fiscus ran the 5000 in 17:14.36, a time that was 38 seconds faster than his twin brother, Gage, who was running for Iowa Central CC, garnering Steele family bragging rights.
All four of the IHCC runners are freshmen.
There were a number of four-year schools from Iowa, Nebraska and Colorado in the Grinnell meet.