The Lindenwood track and field teams both finished ninth over the weekend at the MIAA Outdoor Championships. Three members of each team earned all-conference honors for finishing in the top-three in an event.
 
The men's team finished with 43 points, just one shy of eighth-place and five short of seventh. The women's team had 37 points, coming 7.5 points behind the eighth-place team. Lincoln and Central Missouri shared the men's title with 135 points, and Pittsburg State won the women's crown with 212 points.
 
Omar Es Salmouny was the top athlete on the week, winning one MIAA Individual Championship and having one runner-up finish. He was the favorite in the 3,000m steeplechase entering the conference meet and lived up to that billing. Es Salmouny finished in 9:05.84, winning by nearly seven seconds. He was runner-up in the 5,000m with a time of 14:52, nearly 20 seconds better than his seeding time.
 
Also on the men's side, Xavier Boland was all-conference in the pole vault and Akintunde Akinyemi finished third in the high jump. Boland had a mark of 5.05 in the pole vault, and Akinyemi's mark in the high jump was 2.07m.
 
All-conference members on the women's side were Kendra Smith, Michelle Kyle and Anna Tyan. Smith and Tyan both scoring in two jumping events. Smith was second in the triple jump with a mark of 12.55m, and fourth in the long jump with a 5.92m mark. Tyan was third in the high jump by clearing 1.67m, and she scored in the triple jump with a seventh-place mark of 11.57m. Kyle was the MIAA runner-up in the hammer with a throw of 53.37m.
 
The men's team scored in both relay events. The 4x100 team of Boland, Hunter Drew, Bumnene Ndebele, and Michael Mlambo came in eighth. The 4x400 squad of Drew, Mlambo, Ero Doce, and Zach McKinley finished seventh.
 
Mlambo also scored in the long jump with a sixth-place finish, the same place that Ndebele finished in the triple jump. Doce came in eighth in the 800m, and Ryan Hermann was eighth in the hammer event.
 
Other scorers on the women's side were Erin Hodge finishing fifth in the 100m hurdles, Anna-Lena Theisen was seventh in the 1,500m, and Regina Huesca-Barrales finished seventh in the 400m hurdles.