GENEVA, Ohio (csssaints.com) – St. Scholastica senior Hannah Russert (Caledonia, Minn./Caledonia HS ) wound up 13^th in the Heptathlon at the NCAA Division III Outdoor Track & Field Championships on Friday at the SPIRE Institute.
 
The Action
Russert entered competition on Friday in 11^th place. The first event of the day was the long jump and Russert was 11^th with a personal-best leap of 17'2.75" (5.25m). She followed that with another personal-best mark in the javelin throw at 102'1" (31.13m) to place 13^th in the event.
 
The final event was the 800m run and Russert just missed another personal-best with a finishing time of 2:32.63 and was 14^th in the event.
 
Russert finished with 4,432 points, just 45 points off her program-record performance last week. Three of Russert's seven events were personal-best performances. She becomes the first St. Scholastica women's track & field athlete to complete a Heptathlon or Pentathlon at a NCAA Championship.
 
Kylee Bartlett of the University of Rochester won with a total of 5,020 points.
 
End of Year
With the completion of action on Friday, not only does Russert see her career come to an end, but the St. Scholastica track & field season and CSS Athletics year comes to a close.

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