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Jun. 25—YANKTON, S.D. — A pair of athletes from Emery led the Mount Marty University athlete awards at the end of the 2025-26 academic year.
Basketball standout Sutton Arend was named the Lancers' male athlete of the year, and volleyball leader Julia Weber was named the school's female athlete of the year.
A 6-foot-4 guard/forward who is a rising senior, Arend was the Lancers' leading scorer with 17.7 points and 5 rebounds per game, which ranked eighth in the GPAC. He started all 27 games for Mount Marty, shooting 58% from the field and nearly 80% on free throws, becoming the Lancers' third all-time GPAC first-team selection.
Arend was also selected as MMU's nominee for the NAIA's Emil Liston Scholarship Award, which honors a junior basketball standout who has shown high athletic and academic achievement.
Weber, a 5-foot-7 outside hitter, closed her career with the Lancers in 2025 with 193 kills, 774 assists, 56 total blocks and 303 digs in a first-team all-GPAC season.
Weber finished her career as the school record holder for kills in a match with 27. She also ranks sixth in Lancer history with 1,042 career kills and 11th with 1,229 career assists, while also tallying 955 digs.
CRETE, Neb. — Doane University freshman Paige Bull picked up an All-America discus performance at the NAIA outdoor track and field national championships on May 20-22 in Asheville, North Carolina.
Bull, a native of Burke, placed seventh nationally with a throw of 45.78 meters (150 feet, 2 inches) to score two team points for the Tigers. The national championship was won by Indiana Kokomo junior Sydney Duncan with a winning throw of 156 feet, 3 inches.
Doane, the women's GPAC team points champion, finished 12th as a team at the national meet with 22 points scored.
Bull finished the season with the sixth-best discus throw in the NAIA with a top heave of 157 feet and 10 inches, a mark she set at the Loper Twilight meet on May 9 in Kearney, Nebraska. That throw also ranks sixth-best in Doane women's discus history and is within 8 feet of the school record.
MADISON, S.D. — Parkston native and Dakota State University middle distance runner Lindsey Roth participated in the NAIA national outdoor track and field meet May 20-22 in Asheville, North Carolina.
Roth, a member of the Trojans' 4x800-meter relay alongside teammates Anna Schneider, Valerija Curikova and Caitlin Dyer, ran the third leg of the relay during the season. She was part of the Trojans' school record time of 9:11.29 in the relay, set on May 8 at the Concordia Twilight meet. At the Frontier Conference meet on May 2-3 in Dickinson, N.D., the Trojans' 4x800 relay was second in a time of 9:40.39 seconds.
At the national meet, DSU ran in the 4x800 relay semifinals and finished in a time of 9:16.38, which put the Trojans in 19th place in the event.
Nevertheless, Dakota State produced outdoor track and field national meet school records for highest NAIA place finish with 16th place and most points scored with 19 points.
Roth also ended her DSU career with the Trojans' third-best 6,000-meter cross-country time, as well, running 22:57.30 in October.
Also on the Trojans' women's track roster was Burke native Bridget Bartling, who ran the third leg of the DSU 4x100-meter relay, which was third at the Frontier Conference meet and earned all-league honors (49.17 seconds).
The Trojans won the women's Frontier Conference meet title with 167 points, earning their first conference women's outdoor track and field team conference title since 1997 in the former South Dakota-Iowa Conference.
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Basketball standout Sutton Arend was named the Lancers' male athlete of the year, and volleyball leader Julia Weber was named the school's female athlete of the year.
A 6-foot-4 guard/forward who is a rising senior, Arend was the Lancers' leading scorer with 17.7 points and 5 rebounds per game, which ranked eighth in the GPAC. He started all 27 games for Mount Marty, shooting 58% from the field and nearly 80% on free throws, becoming the Lancers' third all-time GPAC first-team selection.
Arend was also selected as MMU's nominee for the NAIA's Emil Liston Scholarship Award, which honors a junior basketball standout who has shown high athletic and academic achievement.
Weber, a 5-foot-7 outside hitter, closed her career with the Lancers in 2025 with 193 kills, 774 assists, 56 total blocks and 303 digs in a first-team all-GPAC season.
Weber finished her career as the school record holder for kills in a match with 27. She also ranks sixth in Lancer history with 1,042 career kills and 11th with 1,229 career assists, while also tallying 955 digs.
CRETE, Neb. — Doane University freshman Paige Bull picked up an All-America discus performance at the NAIA outdoor track and field national championships on May 20-22 in Asheville, North Carolina.
Bull, a native of Burke, placed seventh nationally with a throw of 45.78 meters (150 feet, 2 inches) to score two team points for the Tigers. The national championship was won by Indiana Kokomo junior Sydney Duncan with a winning throw of 156 feet, 3 inches.
Doane, the women's GPAC team points champion, finished 12th as a team at the national meet with 22 points scored.
Bull finished the season with the sixth-best discus throw in the NAIA with a top heave of 157 feet and 10 inches, a mark she set at the Loper Twilight meet on May 9 in Kearney, Nebraska. That throw also ranks sixth-best in Doane women's discus history and is within 8 feet of the school record.
MADISON, S.D. — Parkston native and Dakota State University middle distance runner Lindsey Roth participated in the NAIA national outdoor track and field meet May 20-22 in Asheville, North Carolina.
Roth, a member of the Trojans' 4x800-meter relay alongside teammates Anna Schneider, Valerija Curikova and Caitlin Dyer, ran the third leg of the relay during the season. She was part of the Trojans' school record time of 9:11.29 in the relay, set on May 8 at the Concordia Twilight meet. At the Frontier Conference meet on May 2-3 in Dickinson, N.D., the Trojans' 4x800 relay was second in a time of 9:40.39 seconds.
At the national meet, DSU ran in the 4x800 relay semifinals and finished in a time of 9:16.38, which put the Trojans in 19th place in the event.
Nevertheless, Dakota State produced outdoor track and field national meet school records for highest NAIA place finish with 16th place and most points scored with 19 points.
Roth also ended her DSU career with the Trojans' third-best 6,000-meter cross-country time, as well, running 22:57.30 in October.
Also on the Trojans' women's track roster was Burke native Bridget Bartling, who ran the third leg of the DSU 4x100-meter relay, which was third at the Frontier Conference meet and earned all-league honors (49.17 seconds).
The Trojans won the women's Frontier Conference meet title with 167 points, earning their first conference women's outdoor track and field team conference title since 1997 in the former South Dakota-Iowa Conference.
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