INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. – Missouri S&T's men's track & field team got two individual conference championships and two school records on Sunday and held the lead in the standings at a couple of different points in time, but ended up finishing third at the Great Lakes Valley Conference Indoor Track & Field Championships.  Missouri S&T's women ended up posting an eighth place finish at the meet.

Nathan Swadley (Willard, MO/Willard) broke both school and conference records in his winning shot put performance on Sunday, as he recorded a throw of 58-6¾ to edge Quincy's Paden Lewis, who was just one-quarter of an inch behind him in the event.  The other win came from Mitch Fairless (St. Charles, MO/Duchesne) as he captured the high jump with a clearance of 6-7, leading three Miners in the top five in that event.  Nick Janke (Rolla, MO/Rolla) came in second as he went over the bar at 6-5 and Daniel McMurran (St. Louis, MO/St. Louis University HS) was fifth with his clearance of 6-1¼.

Besides Swadley's school record performance, Hayes Pateidl (Overland Park, KS/Blue Valley West) also put his name in the record book again as he recorded a time of 8:33.54 in the 3,000-meters to earn a sixth place finish in that race.  It was the second record Pateidl had a hand in this weekend, as he also part of the Miners' distance medley relay team that set a new standard and NCAA provisional qualifying time on Saturday.

The Miners had three of the top six finishers in the heptathlon, with Caleb Craft (Jackson, MO/Jackson) leading that group with his third place finish with 4,418 points.  Nick Janke (Rolla, MO/Rolla) came in fifth overall with 4,382 and Otto Knittel (Spring Hill, KS/Spring Hill) finished sixth with 4,362.  That trio of scorers moved S&T into the lead in the team standings as the events began to ramp up on Sunday.

Aaron Jones (Kansas City, MO/Ruskin) finished third in the triple jump as he posted a leap of 47-1½, while Kyle Burke (Plainfield, IL/Plainfield) came in fifth in the 60-meter hurdles with a time of 8.38 seconds as did Aaron Toben (Wildwood, MO/Lafayette) in the 400-meters in 50.38 seconds.  Lucas Rackers (Florissant, MO/St. Louis University HS) was sixth in the mile with his time of 4:16.92, Sam Schmidt (Washington, MO/St. Francis Borgia) finished seventh in the 60-meters in 7.15 seconds along with Toben in the 200-meters in 23.57 seconds and Luke Allen (Jefferson City, MO/Calvary Lutheran) was eighth in the triple jump with a mark of 45-0¼ as was Michael Pate (Wildwood, MO/Lafayette) in the 400-meters in 50.92 seconds.

S&T also had a seventh place finish in the 4x400-meter relay as the team of Toben, Dakota Doupe (Jones, OK/Jones), Knittel and Pate finishing in 3:32.75.

The Miners finished the meet with 101.5 points to finish 20 points in back of Lindenwood and 10.5 behind Lewis; S&T finished well ahead of fourth place Southern Indiana.

S&T's women picked up a second place finish Sunday from Annmarie Tyson in the high jump as she cleared 5-4½. She stayed alive in the competition by clearing that height on her third attempt, but was unable to clear the next height of 5-6½, which was done successfully by Southwest Baptist's Lily Simmons to take the title.

The Miners also had two scorers in the shot put as Paige Lambright finished sixth with a mark of 39-8½ and Jessica Rhoads was right behind her with her throw of 38-11.

Kassandra Hayes had an eighth place showing in the high jump as she cleared 5-0½, as did Sydney Gratz in the pole vault as she cleared 10-7½ and Maya Washington in the 60-meter dash with a time of 7.90 seconds.

The Miners finished with 21 points in the team standings to end up in eighth place in a meet won by Lewis by a 12-point margin over Indianapolis.