HELENA -- Nine Montana Tech men's track & field athletes garnered All-Frontier Conference honors following the league's first-ever indoor championships, the Frontier office announced Tuesday afternoon.
The top three finishers in all conference-championship events earn the honors.
Four Orediggers — Jaxon Allery, Nicoló Lancini, Morgan McClernan, and Matthew Moreni — collected all-conference accolades in multiple events.
Allery, a freshman from Missoula, was all-conference in both the 60-meter and 200m dashes.
Lancini, a junior from Adro, Brescia, Italy, won the conference title in the triple jump and was the runner-up in the long jump.
McClernan, a senior from Butte, claimed the conference crown in the 60m hurdles and was part of Montana Tech's runner-up 4x400m relay team.
Moreni, a sophomore from Helena, took gold in the 200m dash and also raced on the 4x400m relay.
Five more Tech athletes — Konnor Gregerson (600m), Carter Henke (4x400m), Adam Schrader (4x400m), Cade VanVleet (shot put), and Ricky Williams (high jump) — were all-conference in one event. VanVleet was the conference's shot put champion, posting the NAIA's best throw of the season at a school-record 17.78m.
Bismarck State's Cayden Kraft won the most valuable athlete and track athlete of the meet awards, while Tysen Grinde of Dakota State and Ty Leischner of Dickinson State shared the field athlete of the meet honors. Dickinson State's Shayne Wittkopp won the Pepsi coach of the year award.
The all-conference honors come on the heels of the first-ever top-25 rating in the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association Track & Field Ratings Index, which was announced Tuesday morning. The Orediggers were ranked No. 24.
Montana Tech now awaits the announcement of the NAIA indoor championships field on Wednesday. The Orediggers will head to Gainesville, Fla., for the championship meet March 5-7.
2026 All-Frontier Conference Men's Indoor Track & Field
Co-Frontier Conference Men's Indoor Field Athlete-of-the-Meet: Tysen Grinde – Dakota State (S.D.) and Ty Leischner – Dickinson State (N.D.)
Frontier Conference Men's Indoor Track Athlete-of-the-Meet: Cayden Kraft – Bismarck State (N.D.)
Frontier Conference Men's Indoor Track & Field Most Valuable Athlete: Cayden Kraft – Bismarck State (N.D.)
Frontier Conference Men's Indoor Track & Field Pepsi Coach of the Year: Shayne Wittkopp – Dickinson State (N.D.)
60-meter dash
Daniel Oduse – Bismarck State (N.D.)
Jaxon Allery – Montana Tech
Mustafa Taylor – Dickinson State (N.D.)
200-meter dash
Matthew Moreni – Montana Tech
Mustafa Taylor – Dickinson State (N.D.)
Jaxon Allery – Montana Tech
400-meter dash
Cayden Kraft – Bismarck State (N.D.)
Nathan Mathern – Bismarck State (N.D.)
Carson Krack – Carroll (Mont.)
600-meter run
Cayden Kraft – Bismarck State (N.D.)
Mohamed Muse – Dakota State (S.D.)
Konnor Gregerson – Montana Tech
800-meter run
Jack Jensen – Carroll (Mont.)
Xavier Bell – Bismarck State (N.D.)
Franklin John – Dakota State (S.D.)
1-mile run
Caleb Sarsland – Dickinson State (N.D.)
Connor Ensign – Bismarck State (N.D.)
Jakson Ensign – Bismarck State (N.D.)
3000-meter run
John Spinti – Rocky Mountain (Mont.)
Caleb Sarsland – Dickinson State (N.D.)
Zach Zwiesler – Rocky Mountain (Mont.)
5000-meter run
John Spinti – Rocky Mountain (Mont.)
Justin Glass – Rocky Mountain (Mont.)
Zach Gacnik – Carroll (Mont.)
60-meter hurdles
Morgan McClernan – Montana Tech
Carson Krack – Carroll (Mont.)
Jace Lovely – Bismarck State (N.D.)
4x400-meter relay
Keaton Saastad, Timol Walters, Xavier Bell, Cayden Kraft – Bismarck State (N.D.)
Carter Henke, Morgan McClernan, Adam Schrader, Matt Moreni – Montana Tech
Logan Borden, Kyler Holinde, Hudson Atkinson, Kohbe Smith – Dickinson State (N.D.)
4x800-meter relay
Micah Stoudt, Xavier Bell, Jakson Ensign, Connor Ensign – Bismarck State (N.D.)
Franklin Johns, Logan Recoy, Tyler Nicke, Mohamed Muse – Dakota State (S.D.)
Wyatt Ehredt, Oren Arthun, Peter Rehberger, Jack Jensen – Carroll (Mont.)
High Jump
Tysen Grinde – Dakota State (S.D.)
Ricky Williams – Montana Tech
Ty Leischner – Dickinson State (N.D.)
Pole Vault
Ty Leischner – Dickinson State (N.D.)
Keenan Morris – Rocky Mountain (Mont.)
Adrien Calderon – Dickinson State (N.D.)
Long Jump
Kohbe Smith – Dickinson State (N.D.)
Nicoló Lancini – Montana Tech
Jordan Mount – Valley City State (N.D.)
Triple Jump
Nicoló Lancini – Montana Tech
Kohbe Smith – Dickinson State (N.D.)
Ethan Schiller – Dickinson State (N.D.)
Shot Put
Cade VanVleet – Montana Tech
Oliver Tordsen – Dakota State (S.D.)
Dylan Dahlgren – Dickinson State (N.D.)
Weight Throw
Dylan Dahlgren – Dickinson State (N.D.)
Zachary Haugen – Dakota State (S.D.)
Tarin Bingham – Dakota State (S.D.)
Pentathlon
Carson Krack – Carroll (Mont.)
Tysen Grinde – Dakota State (S.D.)
Tucker Monaco – Carroll (Mont.)
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