ST. LOUIS, Mo.-- The UW-Stevens Point men's and women's track and field team had 11 distance runners compete in the WashU Distance Carnival on Thursday and Friday; where Judith Meister (Darlington, Wis./Darlington), Zoey Kemmitz (Bruce, Wis./Bruce), Shilo Blake (Marathon, Wis./Marathon), Logan Murphy (Sheboygan Falls, Wis./Sheboygan Falls), Mateo Alvarado Venegas (Sun Prairie, Wis./Sun Prairie) and Dean Montour (Middleton, Wis./Middleton) recorded personal-best times.
 
Results
 
Thursday Evening
 
Natalie Johnson (Sun Prairie, Wis./Sun Prairie) and Makaela Malin (Monticello, Minn./St. Michael, Albertville) opened the meet with the women's steeplechase. Johnson finished 36th with a time of 11:34.96, Malin finished 50th with a time of 12:26.20.
 
Meister led the Pointers women in the 5000-meter run, finishing 91st with a personal-best time of 18:20.20. Kemmitz finished 144th with a personal-best time of 18:46.28. Blake recorded a personal-best time of 19:04.51 to take 161st.
 
Sean Heetland (North Aurora, Ill./West Aurora) led the Pointers men in the 5000-meter run, finishing 60th with a time of 14:52.62. Mason Bieri (Madison, Wis./East) took 183rd with a time of 15:30.57.
 
Friday Evening
 
Murphy led the Pointers men in the 10,000-meter run, placing sixth with a personal-best time, and new school record, of 29:26.25. Alvarado Venegas finished soon after in 19th with a personal-best time of 30:09.12. Montour took 24th with a personal-best time of 30:39.10. Mike Brown (Butternut, Wis./Butternut) finished 37th with a time of 30:53.34.
 
The Pointers track and field teams compete in De Pere tomorrow (Mar. 28) for a dual at St. Norbert, beginning at 11:00 a.m.