Women's Track and Field | 3/20/2026 10:25:00 AM

Emporia State Track & Field 
at Jayhawk Spring Fling 
Rock Chalk Park | Lawrence, Kan.
Saturday, March 21
ESU Field Events start at 10:30 a.m.
ESU Track Events start at 1:30 p.m.
Live Results: Black Squirrel Timing Live Stream: None
Complete Notes in pdf 
Up Next: ESU Spring Open  
Emporia, Kan. | March 27, 2026

LET'S GET IT STARTED  
Emporia State will open the outdoor season with a small group of athletes going to the KU Spring Fling at Rock Chalk Park in Lawrence. The rest of the team will get underway next weekend at the ESU Spring Open on March 27 at Welch Stadium and Witten Track.
  
LAST LAP
Emporia State came away from the NCAA Division II Indoor Track & Field National Championships with four second-team All-Americans.
Isabella Davie had three personal bests in the individual events on her way to the second highest point total in Emporia State history in the women's pentathlon.  She scored 3,704 points to move past Deandra Doubrava (3672 in 1998) for second place in ESU history as she finished ninth in the nation. She started the competition with a personal best of 9.29 in the 60m hurdles and followed it by clearing a PR of 1.62m (5-3.75) in the high jump.  Her final PR was 11.09m (36-4.75) in the shot put.  She went 5.03m (16-6) in the long jump before finishing the competition with a time of 2:18.00 in the 800m.
Connor Deters was the first person to miss the finals in the men's shot put.  He went 17.45m (57-03) to place tenth and earn second-team All-American honors.
Luke Grace scored 5,041 points to finish 12th and earn second-team All-American honors in the men's heptathlon.   He started day two with a time of 8.64 in the 60m hurdles and cleared 3.95m (12-11.50) in the pole vault.  He finished the day with a time of 2:56.77 to place 12th overall.
The Hornets also got a second-team All-American honor on Friday with Stella Agbokpah running 23.88 to place ninth in the 200m.

MIAA PRESEASON POLLS
The Emporia State men are picked for seventh and the women eighth in the MIAA Outdoor Track & Field Preseason Coaches Poll. The Pittsburg State men and women are the conference preseason favorites in both polls.
 
THE COACH
Seth Mischke is in his third year as the head coach for the Emporia State track and field programs. The Hornets have produced six MIAA individual champions and seven First-Team All-Americans under his leadership. Before coming to Emporia State he spent one year at Chadron State. Eagle throwers earned five All-America awards and four RMAC Championships. Prior to Chadron State, Mischke spent 11 seasons as the head track and field coach at Black Hills State University. The Yellow Jackets produced two individual national champions, 18 All-America earners, 18 conference champions, and more than 100 All-RMAC honorees under his guidance. Mischke was the head coach at St. Cloud State for 12 years. During his tenure at SCSU, the Huskies had 44 All-Americans and one national champion.

HOW TOUGH IS IT?
The MIAA had five women's teams and four men's teams finish in the top 25 at the 2026 NCAA Division II Indoor Track and Field National Championships, hosted March 13-14 in Virginia Beach, Va. Seventeen MIAA track and field programs (nine women's, eight men's) combined for 100 individual event entries and seven relay team entries MIAA men and women combined for 49 individual All-America honors, seven All-American relay teams, five individual national champions, one national champion relay team, and two indoor team titles.

RETURNING HORNET OUTDOOR QUALIFIERS
Emporia State had 16 men and three women hit provisional qualifying marks outdoors last year.  Even with three graduates and two suffering injuries the Hornets are set to return 11 men and all three women qualifiers from last season.

UP NEXT
The Hornets will be at home for four regular season meets starting on Friday, March 27 with the ESU Spring Open at the Zola Witten Track in Welch Stadium. Field events are set to begin at 11:00 a.m. with field events scheduled to start at 1:00 p.m.