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LARSON TAKES APRIL PEAK PERFORMER
Story Links SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — South Dakota State’s Cody Larson wins Kwik Star Peak Male Performer of April as announced by the Summit League Thursday afternoon. Larson takes this honor after posting three record-breaking performances during April. The junior opened his season at the Stanford Invitational (4/4), where he posted a […]
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — South Dakota State’s Cody Larson wins Kwik Star Peak Male Performer of April as announced by the Summit League Thursday afternoon.
Larson takes this honor after posting three record-breaking performances during April. The junior opened his season at the Stanford Invitational (4/4), where he posted a 5000-meter program record. Larson finished at 13:34.46 to win the event. Two weeks later, the Warner, S.D. native shattered Craig Cassen’s 3000-meter steeplechase program record of 8:43.02, set in 1991, to finish seventh in the event at the Bryan Clay Invitational (4/17). Larson crossed the line at 8:30.96, blowing the SDSU record away by 13 seconds and landing him the 11th-best time in the nation so far this season.
Larson rounded out the month with a distance medley relay program record. The squad consisted of of Brandon Kampsen, James Pierce, Sam Castle and Larson on the last leg. Larson’s performance was memorable as he held off track powerhouse Iowa State University and in-state rival University of South Dakota in the final 150-meters of the race to take home the gold during the final day of the Drake Relays (4/26). Larson crossed the line at 9:37.05, breaking a 50-year old Jackrabbit record which stood at 9:47.4 (1973).
Along with the Summit League Kwik Star Peak Male Performer of April, Larson also took South Dakota State’s Delta Dental Student-Athlete of the Month.
UP NEXT
The Jackrabbits will head to Vermillion for the USD Twilight, while a few distance runners will head to Iowa State for the Cyclone Twilight. Both meets are slated to start tomorrow evening around 3:00 p.m.
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