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South Dakota State University Athletics
SDSU ALUMNI TO COMPETE AT OLYMPIC TRIALS
1/31/2024 1:30:00 PM | Men's Cross Country, Men's Track and Field
ORLANDO, FL - South Dakota State alumni Joel Reichow '17 and Ben Olson '23 will run in the United States Olympic Marathon Team Trials in Orlando, FL on Saturday at 9 a.m. CST. The event will stream live on Peacock and will follow with delayed broadcast coverage at 11 a.m. CST on NBC, NBCSports.com and the NBC Sports App.  Â
The course in Orlando will start and finish downtown, but the majority of the race will run on an eight mile loop in the Milk District that the athletes will cover three times. Â
Reichow, who will represent Minnesota Distance Elite, qualified with a time 2:10:37 at last fall's US Bank Chicago Marathon. Joel had a decorated SDSU career highlighted by two Division I All-American honors in cross country. He also nabbed four individual Summit League titles on the track and set three school records. Going into the trials, he has the 16th fastest qualifying time among the 227 qualified athletes.  He also competed in the 2020 Olympic Marathon Trials in Atlanta where he finished 56th.
Olson, who works full time as a process development engineer, ran 2:16:04 at the Cal International Marathon in Sacramento in December in his second marathon. Ben graduated last spring after helping the Jackrabbits to multiple Summit League Cross Country championships and a Summit League Indoor Track and Field crown in 2022. He was named the 2022 Summit League Indoor Track Athlete of the Year and was the 2022 Summit League Cross Country Athlete of the Year. In all, he claimed six individual Summit League titles between cross country and track. He is currently the school record holder in the indoor 3000 meter run. Â Â
SDSU track and cross country alumni have been qualifiers for most of the US Olympic Marathon Trials races since 1980, with exceptions to 2012 and 2016.
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The course in Orlando will start and finish downtown, but the majority of the race will run on an eight mile loop in the Milk District that the athletes will cover three times. Â
Reichow, who will represent Minnesota Distance Elite, qualified with a time 2:10:37 at last fall's US Bank Chicago Marathon. Joel had a decorated SDSU career highlighted by two Division I All-American honors in cross country. He also nabbed four individual Summit League titles on the track and set three school records. Going into the trials, he has the 16th fastest qualifying time among the 227 qualified athletes.  He also competed in the 2020 Olympic Marathon Trials in Atlanta where he finished 56th.
Olson, who works full time as a process development engineer, ran 2:16:04 at the Cal International Marathon in Sacramento in December in his second marathon. Ben graduated last spring after helping the Jackrabbits to multiple Summit League Cross Country championships and a Summit League Indoor Track and Field crown in 2022. He was named the 2022 Summit League Indoor Track Athlete of the Year and was the 2022 Summit League Cross Country Athlete of the Year. In all, he claimed six individual Summit League titles between cross country and track. He is currently the school record holder in the indoor 3000 meter run. Â Â
SDSU track and cross country alumni have been qualifiers for most of the US Olympic Marathon Trials races since 1980, with exceptions to 2012 and 2016.
-GoJacks.com-Â Â Â
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