By: Ryan Klinkner, SJU Athletic Media Relations Director & Frank Rajkowski, SJU Writer/Video Producer

Six Saint John’s University track and field student-athletes will compete in six events, including the four-man 4×100-meter relay, at the 2025 NCAA Division III Outdoor Championships May 22-24 at the SPIRE Institute in Geneva, Ohio. – Live Results | Live Video

THE SCHEDULE: The Johnnies are scheduled to compete at the following times this week/weekend.

Thursday (all times CT)

-10:30 a.m.: Decathlon (Day 1): 100-meter dash, long jump (~11:15 a.m.), shot put (~12:25 p.m.), high jump (~1:45 p.m.) and 400-meter dash (3:40 p.m.)

    *Lelwica

-1:30 p.m.: Long Jump

    *Reis

-4:15 p.m.: 4×100-Meter Relay (Prelims)

-5:40 p.m.: 200-Meter Dash (Prelims)

     *Arthur

Friday (all times CT)

-9 a.m.: Decathlon (Day 2): 110-meter hurdles, discus (9:45 a.m.), pole vault (~11 a.m.), javelin (1:45 p.m.) and 1,500 meters (~3:30 p.m.)

    *Lelwica

-1 p.m.: High Jump

    *McDowell

-2:30 p.m.: 100-Meter Dash (Prelims)

    *Arthur and Reis

Saturday (all times CT)

-12:05 p.m.: 4×100-Meter Relay (Final)

-1:30 p.m.: 100-Meter Dash (Final)

-2:40 p.m.: 200-Meter Dash (Final)

TO ADVANCE IN THE SPRINTS: The winner from each of the three heats plus the next best six times qualify for Saturday’s finals, 1:30 p.m. CT for the 100 and 2:40 p.m. CT for the 200.

THE QUALIFIERS: The Johnnies competing individually are:

 

-Senior Kevin Arthur (Champlin, Minn./Champlin Park) in the 100- and 200-meter dashes;

-Senior Max Lelwica (Brainerd, Minn.) in the decathlon;

-Senior Jackson McDowell (Centennial, Colo./Arapahoe) in the high jump;

-Freshman Max Reis (West Fargo, N.D./Spectrum) in the long jump and 100-meter dash.

The top 22 marks/times in each individual event, and the top 16 teams in each relay event, advanced to the national meet.

4×100-meter relay 

The 4×100-meter relay (Morey, Arthur, Murnan, Reis) ended the season eighth in Division III – fourth in the region – with the program-record time of 40.28 seconds it recorded April 26 at the Drake Relays. The time was the 17th-fastest (10th-fastest program) in NCAA Division III history and shattered the previous school record of 40.65, set in 2022, by .37 of a second. 

The event’s prelims, scheduled for 4:15 p.m. CT Thursday, will consist of two heats of eight teams. The top two from each prelim plus the next best five times, after tie breaking, qualify for Saturday’s final at 12:05 p.m. CT. Four Johnnies – sophomore Matt Hansen (Longmont, Colo./Niwot), junior Aidan Morey (Omaha, Neb./Creighton Prep), sophomore Kieran Murnan (Lakeville, Minn./Holy Angels) and senior Emanual Popoca (Minneapolis, Minn./Bloomington Kennedy) – are vying for the relay’s two additional spots.

 

Arthur

An unprecedented four-time (2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025) MIAC Outdoor Track Athlete of the Year, Arthur swept the 100- and 200-meter dashes for the fourth-consecutive season as SJU finished second – 207-206.5 – at the 2025 MIAC Championships last weekend (May 9-10) at Macalester. He broke SJU’s program record to win the 100-meter dash in 10.19 seconds and returned to the track to take the 200-meter sprint with a season-best time of 20.81 seconds. The Johnnies’ previous 100-meter record was 10.22 set by Ryan Miller in 2019.

He also served as the second leg on SJU’s champion 4×100-meter relay (Hansen, Arthur, Morey, Reis), which claimed its fifth title in the last seven seasons with a meet-record time of 40.29 seconds.

Arthur was named the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) Division III Men’s National Athlete of the Week May 12 for his performance at the conference meet and ended the regular season second (10.19) in NCAA Division III in the 100-meter dash (second in the region) and third (20.81) in the 200 (second in the region). 

This week’s trip to the national meet is the fifth-straight for Arthur, who earned All-America honors with a fifth-place finish in the 100-meter dash last season. He has qualified in the 100-meter dash all five seasons and his appearance in the 200-meter dash will be his fourth-straight. His appearance on the 4×100-meter relay team will be his third, qualifying in 2022 (14th) and earning his first All-America distinction as a member of SJU’s fourth-place relay team in 2021. He is now a 12-time All-Region honoree (one indoors and 11 outdoors).

Lelwica

Lelwica qualified for nationals in the decathlon with 6,905 points – the fourth-best point total in Division III – that he registered to win the MIAC title three weeks ago (May 1-2). He is the fifth Johnnie and seventh overall to win the MIAC decathlon. His 6,905 points were the second-highest total in both the region and program history, just 27 points from the record of 6,932 that Maguire Petersen ’22 registered for fifth place and All-America honors at the 2022 NCAA Division III Championships.

 

He is the sixth Johnnie to qualify for nationals in the decathlon and will be the ninth appearance overall: Dan Besemann ’96 in 1994 and 1995 (seventh), Steve Kimble ’99 in 1998 and 1999 (sixth), Phil Barry ’00 in 2000, Brayden Wagner ’09 in 2009 (sixth) and Maguire Petersen ’22 in 2022 (fifth). Lelwica finished 19th out of 22 participants at last year’s NCAA Championships with 6,225 points. 

 

McDowell 

McDowell won his second-consecutive MIAC outdoor title in the high jump on May 10 with a season-best height of 2.07 meters. The mark ranked eighth in Division III and second in the region.

 

He is the third Johnnie to qualify for the NCAA Championships in the outdoor high jump and the fifth overall, joining Mike Cihlar ’95 in 1992 and Petersen in 2021 (t-eighth) and 2022. McDowell earned his first All-America honor with an eighth place finish at last year’s event (2.08 meters) and was the national runner-up at this season’s NCAA Indoor Championships with a program-record height of 2.14 meters. 

Reis

Reis won the long jump with a program-record mark of 7.33 meters (24 feet, 3/4 inches), the 14th-best mark in NCAA Division III and the fifth-best in the region this spring. He is the first Johnnie since Erik Diley ’08 to qualify in the long jump outdoors, both in 2007 and 2008. Reis broke Diley’s program record of 7.30 meters to win the title. 

Reis also qualified with Arthur for the 100-meter dash, where he tied for 21st nationally with a time of 10.46 seconds. He qualified for the 60-meter dash at the NCAA Indoor Championships in March and finished 17th with a time of 6.84 seconds, 0.002 of a second from 16th place and second-team All-America honors.

ALL-REGION: Arthur (in both sprints), Lelwica, McDowell, Reis (long jump), the 4×100-meter relay (Matt Hansen, Arthur, Kieran Murnan, Reis) and junior Mitchell Degen (Brainerd, Minn.) were named 2025 U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) All-North Region in their respective events. Degen’s javelin throw of 60.15 meters recorded on March 28 at the CSB/SJU Optimistic Invitational was good for second in the region and 29th nationally.

FEATURE STORY: When the 2025 NCAA Division III outdoor track and field championships get underway this week in Geneva, Ohio, Saint John’s University senior Kevin Arthur will be making his seventh appearance (indoor and outdoor) at a national meet.

Teammate Max Reis will be making just his second – the first coming at the Division III indoor championships earlier this year.

So Reis has been eager to soak in any tips or advice Arthur can provide.

“It’s nice to have someone whose been through this before and can push you,” said Reis, a three-time Minnesota state high school champion who had been away from track and field since competing at Indian Hills (Iowa) Community College in the spring of 2023.

“Before I went to indoor nationals, he and I worked on block starts together and that helped a lot. The biggest thing he told me before that meet was that the timing of your warm-up is different. They get you into a loading zone before you run, which doesn’t happen at a normal meet. So you have to adjust your warm-up accordingly. Knowing that in advance made a big difference.”

This year’s outdoor national meet begins Thursday and runs through Saturday at the SPIRE Academy track and field complex. Reis has qualified to compete in the long jump, where he is seeded 14th, and the 100-meter dash, where he is seeded 21st.

Both Reis and Arthur are part of the Johnnies’ 4×100 relay team, which enters the competition seeded eighth overall. Arthur, meanwhile, enters the meet ranked second in the 100 and third in the 200 – making him a contender for a national title in both those events.

“Any given meet, anything can happen,” he said. “The forecast (in Geneva) this week is supposed to be chillier than usual, which means no one is going to have a perfect day. It’s going to come down to who shows up when it matters. We’re used to running in 45-to-50-degree weather, so maybe that gives us a bit of an advantage.”

Arthur has previously cited Reis as a big reason why he chose to return to use a final season of outdoor eligibility this spring.

“I knew what an impressive athlete he was, and I played a role in recruiting him to come here,” Arthur said.

 

“I knew having him here meant we’d have the chance to do some pretty special things in the 4×100 relay. That made it a pretty easy sell.”

Reis, too, said the chance to run with Arthur helped convince him to transfer to SJU.

“Being part of the 4×100 with him was one of the main reasons I wanted to run here,” he said. “I knew we could be pretty good.”

Beyond the 4×100, Arthur and Reis are hoping to lead SJU to a high finish in the team scores. In that, they will be aided by senior Max Lelwica, who qualified fourth overall in the decathlon, and classmate Jackson McDowell, who is seeded eighth in the high jump. 

The top eight finishers in each event earn All-American honors. The program record for All-American performances at a single national meet is five in 2007 and ’08 – an achievement the seedings suggest could be equaled or surpassed this week.

“That’s the goal,” SJU head coach Jeremy Karger-Gatzow said. “We have a lot of guys seeded pretty high. We just need to go out there and perform to the best of our abilities. Then we’ll see what happens.”

Both Lelwica and McDowell are making their third trip to nationals (indoor or outdoor).

“The level of intensity is a lot higher when you get to this point,” Lelwica said. “You’re competing against so many great athletes. It takes a bit to get used to the atmosphere. But having been through it a couple of times, I feel a lot more comfortable now.”

McDowell, who played baseball his first two seasons at SJU and did not come out for track until last year, would have track eligibility remaining if he chooses to use it. But, no matter what, this will be his last time competing alongside Lelwica – one of his several roommates on the track and field team.

“It’s kind of a surreal feeling and it hasn’t hit me yet,” said McDowell, who like Lelwica took part in commencement exercises last Saturday. “I don’t think it will until after the competition. I’ve been trying to push back all those kinds of thoughts for now. I want to go there and take it all in. But I also don’t want to be too down when it’s over.”

 

In a five-set match against Freedom High, the Horizon Hawks boys volleyball team won the Class 6A, Region 2 Championship, 3-2, to claim the program’s first regional title. 

This historic championship win was a breakthrough for the Hawks; Horizon reached the regional championship game in both 2023 and 2024. 

Leading the way for the Hawks in the title-game win were junior outside hitters James Caleo and Pietro Franco, who both recorded 16 kills each, and senior setter Ian Oliveira, who dished out 54 assists. Sophomore libero Jonathan Nogueira led the team with 22 digs. Caleo added 20 digs as well. 

Horizon went on to fall in the state semifinals to Central Florida powerhouse Winter Park High, 3-0, and finished the historic season with a 19-11 record.

A new Netflix documentary about a shirtless supplement salesman who claimed to be “natural” and was exposed as a fraud might seem like a punchline.

But Untold: The Liver King is more than just a character study of a well-known fitness influencer; it’s a case study of performative masculinity in the world of social media.

Brian Johnson, better known as the Liver King, built a brand on extreme workouts, eating raw organ meat, and evangelizing about masculinity. He preached “ancestral living” and radical self-control, all while secretly using steroids.

And his rapid rise to popularity reveals how social media rewards the spectacle of hypermasculinity—especially when it leans into extreme behaviors.

Extreme self-discipline, extreme exercise, extreme eating and extreme “wellness” have all become forms of public performance on social media.

From influencers pushing steroids or “wellness” lifestyles, to the growing popularity of ultramarathons, a new model of masculinity is going viral: control your body, grit through pain, work out hard, and make sure everyone hears about it.

The rise of ‘discipline content’

Social media apps and websites such as TikTok, YouTube, and Instagram, are flooded with content that frames pain and extreme physical effort as markers of masculine worth.

One analysis of male fitness YouTubers found they established authority and discipline through a mix of visible physical strength and affiliations with commercial fitness brands. In some cases, the influencers explicitly listed their personal records or showcased their physique post-training as proof of their “masculinity” and discipline.

Influencers also often frame extreme leanness and muscularity as indicators of moral virtue and discipline, even when achieving it has taken a negative physical or mental toll on them. The look of discipline has become more valuable than the outcome of it.

Posts are often wrapped in the language of “resilience,” “discipline” and militaristic rhetoric. Men are told to “go to war” in the gym, to “stay hard,” and to generally treat life like a battlefield.

What’s being sold isn’t stoicism: it’s pseudo-stoicism—a term researchers have coined to describe emotional suppression masquerading as strength and discipline.

Pain is the point

Strava’s 2023 Year in Sport report found Gen Z athletes are 31% less likely to exercise for health reasons compared to older generations. Instead, they are more likely to train with a focus on athletic performance—that is, to push their physical limits, improve metrics such as speed or distance, and outperform others.

The same report shows a surge in extreme endurance activity. Compared to 2023 data, uploads (activities shared with others) of gravel bike rides grew 55%, trail runs grew 16%, and ultramarathon-style workouts grew by 9%.

Take Nedd Brockmann, who ran across Australia in 2022, and last year ran 1,600 kilometers in ten days to raise money for charity—all while sharing his self-imposed physical torture.

Or take the countless fitness content creators pushing themselves through punishing routines for the camera.

These cases reflect a deeper shift of fitness being turned into spectacle, wherein suffering becomes a sign of legitimacy, and pain is “proof” that you’re serious.

Such extreme content, which is often visually striking, can also be pushed by social media algorithms. Research shows how social media platforms systematically boost content that is intense, emotionally charged, and morally loaded.

In other words, posts that provoke a reaction are more likely to get promoted. And content relating to “wellness” extremism is designed to provoke, as it is visceral, performative, and packed with motivational and self-help anecdotes.

Why this matters

This is a potential public health issue.

Social media platforms amplify and monetize these performances, often pushing the most extreme content to the top. And influencers make money, above the money made directly from these platforms, from selling supplements, gear and coaching plans. At the same time, they act in more and more extreme ways to get further amplified by algorithms.

The risks of this dynamic, for both the viewers and creators, are very real. They range from hormone damage, to mental and physical decline, to injury, and even death.

But there is also a deeper ideological harm, as young men are fed a narrow and punishing idea of what it means to be a man. They are taught pain equals purpose, and that if you’re not suffering, you’re not trying.

Where to from here?

Public health agencies need to reckon with this form of digital hypermasculinity.

Extreme fitness influencers aren’t just poor role models; they’re the product of a system that profits from insecurity and spectacle. The goal shouldn’t be to ban or censor this content. But we do need to challenge its dominance, and offer alternatives.

That means engaging young men in offline spaces, such as the Tomorrow Man project, where they have an outlet for community and relationship building.

It means creating counter-narratives that don’t mock, but model, healthier versions of ambition and masculinity. For instance, the Movember campaign’s podcast Dad in Progress explores the various challenges and experiences faced by new dads.

It also means holding platforms accountable for the way they amplify extreme content.

In the absence of healthier narratives, self-flagellation is the only thing young men will have to aspire to.

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.

Reno, Nev – Eight Nevada track and field athletes earned All-Mountain West honors across seven events announced the conference Wednesday.

The All-Mountain West selections are compiled of the top-three individual finishers in each event and the top-three relay teams at the Mountain West Championships.

Magdalene George earned her second honors of the year following second place finishes in both the 100m (11.34) and 200m finals (23.12).

Annalies Kalma earned her all-Mountain West honor by placing third in the 400m, following a hard fought race and finish (53.90). 

Lilly Urban won the Javelin competition at last weeks outdoor championships, throwing a school record 56.89m. Urban will look to the NCAA West First Round next week for more success. 

Johanna Haas notched her first all-Mountain West honor with her second-place finish in the Heptathlon where she finished with a personal best and #4 all-time point total of 5473 points. 

Meekness Dogonyaro earned her first all-Mountain West Honor by placing second in the Triple Jump, jumping 13.23m.

Magdalene George, Annalies Kalma, Kylee Parsons, Vivian Groppe and Halyn Senegal all earned their honors through their performances in the 4x100m (45.21) and 4x400m (3:41.73) finals, where the Pack placed third in both. 

The Pack will be back in action next week for the NCAA West First Round in College Station, Texas. 

Nevada 2025 Outdoor Track and Field All-Mountain West Honors

 

Magdalene George

100m

200m 

4x100m 

Annalies Kalma

400m

4x100m 

4x400m

Kylee Parsons

4x100m 

4x400m

Vivian Groppe

4x100m 

4x400m

Halyn Senegal

4x400m

Lilly Urban 

Javelin

Meekness Dogonyaro

Triple Jump

Johanna Haas

Heptathlon

 

TALLAHASSEE – Head volleyball coach Chris Poole announced the signing of Lexie Mason for the 2025 season on Wednesday afternoon. 

 

Mason will enter Tallahassee as a true freshman and was one of the top high school volleyball players in the state of Washington. The 6-2 right side hitter was a 2A First Team All-State selection in 2024 and was named the 2023 Skagit Valley Herald Volleyball Player of the Year. Mason was a first team all-conference performer all four years of high school. Mason ended her career as the school record for kills with over 1,500. She also recorded over 1,000 digs, 200 blocks and 150 aces. 

 

Mason plans on majoring in dietetics at Florida State. She is the daughter of Katie and Ronald Mason and has one sister, Annika, who plays volleyball at Everett Community College. 

 

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