ROLLA, Mo. – With the 2019-20 athletic season completed, we want to take a look back at the past decade and determine the all-decade teams for the Miner squads during the course of the 2010s.  Today's installment in this series will look at the top men's track & field performers over the last decade.

Individuals listed are placed at one individual event, listing five runners, two hurdlers, four horizontal jumpers, two high jumpers, three pole vaulters, five throwers and three multi-event competitors. 
 

	Runner: Joe Bindner (2015-18) -- The school record holder in the outdoor 3,000-meters, Bindner recorded five top-five finishes at the GLVC Championships during his career.  At the 2018 Great Lakes Valley Conference outdoor meet that was won by the Miners, he finished second in the 1,500-meters and third in the 3,000-meter steeplechase and also earned All-GLVC honors in cross country in 2016.
	Runner: Brad Chronister (2014) -- Despite competing in the Miner program for just one season, Chronister made his mark in that year as he earned All-GLVC honors in cross country and followed it up with a strong track season in the distance events.  After posting two scoring performances at the GLVC's indoor meet, he went on to finish fourth in the 10,000-meters outdoors.  He is the school record holder in the 5,000-meters both indoors and outdoors and owns two of the four fastest times in program history in the 10,000-meters.
	Runner: JR Frisella (2015-18) -- Frisella stood out for the Miners in the outdoor 400-meters, where he set the school record in the process of winning the GLVC championship in 2018 with a time of 47.76 seconds.  After he posted that mark, he helped the Miners wrap up the team championship as the anchor of the 4x400-meter relay that also took first.  Frisella also holds the S&T school record in the indoor 400-meters of 48.49 seconds.
	Runner: Adriel Hawkins (2011-14) – Hawkins is one of the most decorated performers in program history, as he was named three times as the GLVC's Track Athlete of the Year during the decade in the process of capturing seven conference championships and two All-America awards.  He was named as the conference's top performer for the 2012 and 2014 outdoor meets as well as the 2014 indoor championships.  Hawkins' first GLVC title came at the 2011 Indoor Championships, where he won the triple jump and then won the outdoor 100-meters a couple of months later.  He would earn All-America honors that season as part of S&T's 4x100-meter relay team and would land a second All-America award as a senior in the indoor 200-meters; he holds both of S&T's 200-meter marks as well as the 60-meter dash record.
	Runner: Bryan Kluge (2010-11) – In his final two seasons at S&T that spanned over parts of two decades, Kluge captured GLVC titles in the outdoor 400-meters in 2010 and swept the 800-meters races in 2011, as well as winning another GLVC title as part of the outdoor 4x400-meter relay team in 2010.  Kluge closed his career by earning All-America honors as the result of his seventh place effort at the 2011 NCAA Division II Outdoor Championships.
	Hurdler: Jusean Archibald (2010-14) -- Archibald was one of two Miner hurdlers in the decade to earn All-America honors, doing so in the 2014 season when he finished sixth in the 110-meter hurdles at the NCAA Division II Championships.  This came after he captured the GLVC outdoor championship in that event for the second consecutive season.  Archibald holds four of the five fastest times in school history in the 110-hurdles.
	Hurdler: Terry Robinson (2010-12) – One of the most prolific hurdlers in program history, Robinson landed All-America honors in both the indoor and outdoor seasons during his career that also saw him win eight GLVC championships.  He was a two-time All-America recipient in the 400-meter hurdles during the 2010 and 2012 outdoor seasons and also won indoor All-America honors in the 60-meter hurdles in 2010.  Robinson, the 2010 GLVC Track Athlete of the Year, won two indoor and two outdoor titles in the hurdles as well as the 400-meter championship in 2010.  He holds the school records in the indoor 60-meter hurdles and outdoor 400-meter hurdles, setting both at NCAA Division II championship events.
	Jumper: Luke Allen (Jefferson City, MO/Calvary Lutheran) (2018-19) – Allen, the 2019 GLVC outdoor long jump champion, has been a consistent scorer at the conference meets in the horizontal jumps since joining the Miner program.  Besides his conference title last spring, he also finished fourth in the triple jump during the outdoor season and had a fourth in the long jump at the conference's outdoor meet during his freshman season.
	Jumper: Joe Smith (2010-11) – Smith won three GLVC championships in the triple jump early in his career, winning the indoor event in 2010 with a mark of 46-2 and then took back-to-back titles in the outdoor triple jump in 2010 and 2011.  He won the first of his two outdoor titles with a leap of 47-3¾.
	Jumper: Elijah Thomas (2010-12) – Thomas captured the GLVC outdoor long jump title in 2011 with a mark of 23-7 1/2 and earned a berth to the NCAA Division II Outdoor Championships that season.  In addition, Thomas recorded second place finishes at the 2011 GLVC Indoor Championships in both the long and triple jump events and thirds in the outdoor triple jump in 2011 and outdoor long jump a year later.  He had three additional top-five finishes in the horizontal jumps during his S&T career which also saw him compete in the high jump, where he scored at the 2010 GLVC Indoor Championships.
	Jumper: Jaren Underwood (2013-17) – Underwood, the school record holder in the outdoor triple jump, swept the GLVC titles in that event during the 2015 season.  He had three additional top-four finishes in the triple jump during his career, taking second at the 2016 and 2017 GLVC Outdoor Championships and placing fourth indoors in 2016.
	High Jump: Bailey Crone (Collinsville, IL/Collinsville) (2017-19) -- Crone scored in five of the six conference meets he competed in during the decade, led by a third place finish at the 2018 GLVC Outdoor Championships won by S&T.  Crone also had a fourth at the outdoor conference meet the previous season.
	High Jump: Luke Moehlenbrock (2014-17) -- Moehlenbrock had five top-three finishes in the high jump for the Miners at the GLVC championship meets during his career, finishing second three times in the outdoor season and once indoors.  He took second at each of his first three GLVC outdoor meets and then took third as a senior, while also placing fourth twice during the indoor season.  His clearance of 6-8¾ at the 2016 GLVC Outdoor Championships is tied for the third-best in school history.
	Pole Vault: Jared Anders (2010) – Anders captured the GLVC indoor championship in the pole vault in 2010 – his final season in his Miner career – with a clearance of 15-9¼, helping him earn GLVC Field Athlete of the Year honors following that meet.  He would go on to compete at the NCAA Division II Indoor Championships, where he would bring home All-America honors with an eighth place performance.
	Pole Vault: Dan Hellwig (2010-12) – A three-time All-America performer in the event, Hellwig captured the GLVC outdoor pole vault championship in 2010 and won a second conference title indoors in 2012 to go along with an indoor title he captured in 2009.  He won indoor All-America honors in 2010, then did so in both the indoor and outdoor seasons in 2012.  Hellwig holds the school record in the indoor pole vault with a mark of 17-0.
	Pole Vault: Ryan McGuire (2012-16) – McGuire won five conference championships during his S&T career, including three indoor titles won in 2013, 2014 and 2016.  McGuire also captured back-to-back outdoor titles in the event in 2013 and 2014 and closed his career with a fifth place finish in the pole vault at the 2016 NCAA Division II Indoor Championships.  He is the most recent men's competitor from S&T to earn All-America honors.
	Throws: Jarett Johnson (Webb City, MO/Webb City) (2018-19) – Johnson won the GLVC outdoor championship in the javelin throw – one of two Miners to win a conference title in that event during the decade – with his mark of 192-2¼ at the 2019 GLVC Outdoor Championships.  Earlier in that season, Johnson had his first career throw of over 60 meters during the Dewey Allgood Invitational.  As a freshman, he finished fifth in the event at the conference meet.
	Throws: John Karsten (2015-18) – The 2018 GLVC hammer throw champion, Karsten set the school standards in some of the throwing events.  His mark of 63-8¾ in the weight throw stands as the school record in that event, as does his performance of performance of 168-6 in the discus during the outdoor season.  He owns the five best throws in Miner history in the weight throw and has the second-best ever in the indoor shot put and outdoor hammer throw.
	Throws: Peter Simpson (2015-17) -- The Miners' other GLVC champion in the javelin throw, Simpson won the event at his first conference meet in 2015 with a mark of 184-11 which was the best winning performance in the GLVC in five seasons.  He would add a second place performance at the 2016 GLVC Outdoor Championships.
	Throws: Nathan Swadley (Willard, MO/Willard) (2019) – Named as the GLVC's Outdoor Freshman of Year following the 2019 season after posting top-five finishes in three events, Swadley has already established new school records in the shot put with marks of 56-9¼ indoors and 56-10 ¾ outdoors.  He earned a berth to the NCAA Division II Outdoor Championships as a freshman and already holds the four best marks in the outdoor shot put and four of the top five performances indoors in school history.  He was the GLVC runner-up in the shot put during the 2019 outdoor campaign.
	Throws: Joe Vellella (2012-15) – Vellella, who also earned a berth to the NCAA Division II Championships during his career (he competed in 2014 in the hammer throw), continues to hold the S&T record in the hammer with a mark of 202-1 that led to his championship in the event at the 2014 GLVC Outdoor Championships.  Vellella was named as the Outdoor Field Athlete of the Year for the 2014 outdoor season as he also added a third place showing in the discus throw.  He owns three of the top five marks in school history in that event.
	Multi-Event: Ezekiel Buck (Elburn, IL/Geneva) (2017-19) – Buck has won two multi-event titles during his career, one of which came in 2018 when he captured the decathlon championship at the GLVC's outdoor meet; his other title came in the indoor heptathlon in 2020.  Buck established the school record in the heptathlon in 2018 with 5,077 points, a few months after shattering the decathlon record in the process of the winning the GLVC title with 6,839 points.  Buck has the three best point marks in the heptathlon in Miner history.
	Multi-Event: Piotr Gal (2012-16) – Selected as the GLVC's Indoor Freshman of Year in 2012, Gal went on to break the school record in the decathlon with 6,784 points (Ezekiel Buck (Elburn, IL/Geneva) broke the record two seasons later) as he finished in the top four in the multi-events on six occasions.  Gal posted third place finishes in the indoor heptathlon in 2012 and in the outdoor decathlon in 2013 and 2016.
	Multi-Event: Trevor King (2013-17) – King was a four-time multi-event champion in the GLVC, winning three outdoor titles between 2014 and 2017 (he did not compete in the 2016 GLVC Outdoor Championships) to go along with an indoor heptathlon championship in 2015.  He established a GLVC record with 6,542 points (record has since been broken) in completing the sweep of the 2015 multi-event competitions; that mark is currently the third-best in school history.  King also holds two of the top five all-time S&T marks in the heptathlon.