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(VCSU)- Valley City State University track and field athletes\u00a0Megan Johnson\u00a0and\u00a0Kyle Odegard\u00a0have both been honored with North Star Athletic Association Track and Field Athlete of the Week awards, the conference office announced Tuesday. Johnson (long jump) and Odegard (javelin) both met the NAIA \u201cA\u201d standard on Friday to qualify for nationals in their respective events.<\/p>\n
North Star Athletic Association Women\u2019s Outdoor Field Athlete of the Week<\/u><\/strong> North Star Athletic Association Men\u2019s Outdoor Field Athlete of the Week<\/u><\/strong> (VCSU)- Valley City State University track and field athletes\u00a0Megan Johnson\u00a0and\u00a0Kyle Odegard\u00a0have both been honored with North Star Athletic Association Track and Field Athlete of the Week awards, the conference office announced Tuesday. Johnson (long jump) and Odegard (javelin) both met the NAIA \u201cA\u201d standard on Friday to qualify for nationals […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":143665,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143664","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=143664"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143740,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143664\/revisions\/143740"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/143665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=143664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=143664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=143664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nMegan Johnson\u00a0\u2013 Valley City State (N.D.) \u2013 Senior \u2013 Enderlin, N.D.<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Johnson hit the NAIA \u2018A\u2019 standard in women\u2019s long jump at Blue Hawk Games for Valley City State (N.D.).\u00a0 She won the long jump with a mark of 5.80 meters (19 feet, .5 inches).\u00a0 She broke her own school record of 5.57 meters set last year, and she now ranks 12th in the nation and leads the North Star in long jump.\u00a0 Johnson also placed third in the high jump after clearing the height measurement of 1.55 meters (5 feet, 1 inch).<\/p>\n
\nKyle Odegard\u00a0\u2013 Valley City State (N.D.) \u2013 Freshman \u2013 Lisbon, N.D.<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Odegard became the No. 7-ranked javelin thrower in the NAIA as he qualified for the NAIA Nationals with an \u2018A\u2019 standard of 59.73 meters (195 feet, 11 inches) for Valley City State (N.D.).\u00a0 His toss won the Northern State (S.D.) Twilight meet by more than four meters and is the second farthest throw in school history.\u00a0 Odegard now ranks first in the NSAA by more than four meters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"