Dutch punter doubles pleasure Kurtis Brondyke is following up his standout football season at Central with a stellar track season as well. The freshman, who was a D3football.com second-team All-Region punter, won the high jump competition at the Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference championships, with a best of 6 feet, 6-1/4 inches, and was second in the long jump, at 23 feet, 2-3/4 inches. He has previously provisionally qualified for the national meet (May 22-24 at Oshkosh, Wis.) in both events. He's not the only Dutch football player lighting up the track for coach Kevin Sanger, himself a former Central star on the gridiron. Guy Dierikx won the conference 400-meter title for the third straight year in 47.92 seconds, a season-best effort and well under the NCAA provisional-qualifying mark. Dierikx, a third-team All-American cornerback, is just the fourth Central athlete to win three consecutive men's league titles in the same event. Dierikx also anchored Central's first-place 4x400-meter relay team. Central finished second to Wartburg at the meet. | ||
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