This Week on Sports Page: UCM Track & Field

Three for one special this week on Sports Page! We're talking Mules and Jennies track & field with co-head coach Kip Janvrin and redshirt seniors Madi Wulfekotter and Trey Miller.  

The University of Central Missouri track and field teams have enjoyed great success throughout the years with 443 All-Americans, 53 national champions, 44 combined men's and women's indoor and outdoor MIAA titles, and a pair of national championships (women's indoor and outdoor in 2015).

It's not every athlete who gets to compete for a former Olympian, but that is just what UCM track and field athletes have in Kip Janvrin.  He is in his 27th season as co-head coach (along with Kirk Pedersen, who we'll have on the show during the outdoor season).  Janvrin works primarily with the Mules' and Jennies' sprinters, hurdlers, pole vaulters and multi-event athletes.

Wulfekotter is a pole vaulter from Odessa, Mo.  She holds the school record in the indoor pole vault at 13-11.75 and in the outdoor pole vault at 13-11.25.  She is a two-time All-American and an elementary education major.

Miller is a multi-event athlete from Clinton, Mo. competing in the indoor heptathlon and outdoor decathlon.  He is a three-time All-American who placed second in the heptathlon at the NCAA-II Indoor Championships last year. He is working toward an undergraduate certificate in emergency management.

As always, we'll also share where a couple UCM alumni are now, we'll hit some of the highlights from UCM athletics history, and we'll take a look at the week ahead.

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And the answer to this week's trivia question:  In 1984 the Mules and Jennies won the men's and women's national basketball championships on the same date and in the same location.  One other college has seen both its men's and women's teams win the national title in the same year.  Who was it and in what year? And for bonus points, which schools did they defeat and what was the score of each game?

The University of Connecticut actually did it twice.  UConn won the men's and women's national titles in 2004 and again in 2014.  In 2004, the Huskies defeated Georgia Tech 82-73 and the Lady Huskies defeated Tennessee 70-61.  In 2014, the UConn men defeated Kentucky 60-54 and the women defeated Notre Dame 79-58.