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VCSU senior\u00a0Lenzel Koskela\u00a0and fresh man\u00a0Kyle Odegard are named NSAA Track & Field Athletes of the Week after strong performances Saturday at the Yellow Jacket Spring Open.<\/p>\nVCSU senior\u00a0Lenzel Koskela\u00a0and fresh man\u00a0Kyle Odegard are named NSAA Track & Field Athletes of the Week after strong performances Saturday at the Yellow Jacket Spring Open.<\/p>\n
Odegard earned the Field Athlete of the Week award after winning the javelin, and Koskela was named Track Athlete of the Week after running a career-best time in the 400 meters.<\/p>\n
North Star Athletic Association Men\u2019s Outdoor Field Athlete of the Week<\/u><\/strong> North Star Athletic Association Men\u2019s Outdoor Track Athlete of the Week<\/u><\/strong> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" VCSU senior\u00a0Lenzel Koskela\u00a0and fresh man\u00a0Kyle Odegard are named NSAA Track & Field Athletes of the Week after strong performances Saturday at the Yellow Jacket Spring Open. Odegard earned the Field Athlete of the Week award after winning the javelin, and Koskela was named Track Athlete of the Week after running […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":141648,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=141645"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":141829,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141645\/revisions\/141829"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/141648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=141645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=141645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=141645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nKyle Odegard\u00a0\u2013 Valley City State (N.D.) \u2013 Freshman \u2013 Lisbon, N.D.<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Odegard placed first in men\u2019s javelin throw in his first collegiate meet at Black Hills State (S.D.) Yellow Jacket Spring Open for Valley City State (N.D.).\u00a0 He threw a measurement of 54.66 meters (179 feet, 4 inches), the farthest throw at VCSU since 1989 and ranks him second in school history.\u00a0 Odegard\u2019s mark was just 0.34 meters off for the national qualifying measurement.\u00a0 He currently ranks first in the North Star conference by around seven feet.<\/p>\n
\nLenzel Koskela\u00a0\u2013 Valley City State (N.D.) \u2013 Senior \u2013 Plymouth, Minn.<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Koskela ran a career-best time in the 400-meter dash for Valley City State (N.D.) at NCAA Division II Black Hills State (S.D.) Yellow Jacket Spring Open.\u00a0 He placed third in the race with a time of 49.88 seconds, the fastest time at VCSU since 1989 and ranks him fourth in school history.\u00a0 Koskela ranks first in the North Star conference by more than one second.<\/p>\n