Indoor Track Athlete-of-the-Week: Connor Ensign, Bismarck State (N.D.)
Ensign, a freshman from Bismarck, N.D. was selected to Track Athlete-of-the-Week.
He was part of the distance medley relay team that set a new Bismarck State (N.D.) school record and qualified for the NAIA nationals with ‘B’ provisional qualifying mark. They won the relay title with a time of 10 minutes, 14.62 seconds at the NCAA Division I North Dakota State Bison Open. The converted time is 10 minutes, 6.39 seconds, which ranks fourth in the NAIA.
Ensign ran in the 1-mile run the following day where he set a new school record of 4:18.42, finishing fifth. He is third in the Frontier Conference’s 1-mile run with a converted time of 4:14.18.
This is Ensign’s first career Erck Hotels/Frontier Conference Men’s Indoor Track Athlete-of-the-Week honor.