CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. - Southeast Missouri Track and Field are ready for the 2025 season as they begin Friday, December 13th. 

The New Schedule
The Redhawks will host two indoor meets and one outdoor meet this upcoming season.

SEMO will commence its indoor season, Friday, Dec. 13 at the Indiana Early Bird.

The Redhawks will compete in eight total indoor regular season meets this season including two home meets at the SEMO Recreation Center. Southeast Missouri will host the Redhawks Invite on Jan. 11 and then the Redhawks Open on Feb. 21 right before the 2025 OVC Indoor Track & Field Championship.

SEMO will also trek to Missouri (Jan. 17, Jan. 31-Feb. 1), Indianapolis (Jan. 24-25), Nebraska (Feb. 7-8), and Southern Illinois (Feb. 15).

The 2025 OVC Indoor Championship will kick off Feb. 25-26 in Indianapolis, Indiana, followed by the 2025 NCAA Indoor Championship March 14-15 in Virginia Beach,Virginia.

Following the indoor season SEMO will compete in nine regular-season outdoor meets, including one home meet.

The Redhawks begin the season March 14-15 at the Rhodes Invite in Memphis, Tenn. Then the following weekend the Redhawks will compete in the Ole Miss Classic March 21-22.

Southeast Missouri will host their annual Joey Haines Invitational home meet April 3-5 at the Abe Stuber Track & Field Complex.

During the Season SEMO will also travel to Indiana State (March 29), Alabama (April 11-12), Georgia Tech (April 18-19), Louisville (April 25-26), and Memphis (May 2-3).

SEMO wraps up the regular season at the Billy Hayes Invite and the Arkansas Twilight May 9.

The 2025 OVC Outdoor Track & Field Championship will then be held May 15-16 on the campus of Tennessee State in Nashville, Tenn.

The 2025 NCAA West Preliminary will be held May 28-30 in College Station, Texas, with the 2025 NCAA Outdoor Championship to follow June 11-14 in Eugene, Oregon.

Men's Team
The Men's team is made up of nine graduates, six seniors, ten juniors, five sophomores, and ten freshmen, consisting of 16 distance runners, six sprinters, three pole vaulters, ten jumpers, four throwers, and one javelin athlete.

Eight athletes will be making their debut in a Redhawks uniform this season.

The Southeast natives include Sophomore Cole Bruenderman (jumps), and Freshmen John Hartmann (jumps) and Jackson Witvoet (Sprints). Bruenderman hails from Cape Girardeau and Hartmann and Witvoet come from Jackson.

Graduate Jake Casey and senior Kenyon Johnson transfered to the Redhawks from Lindenwood and Tennessee St. Both plan to compete in the jumping events.

Freshmen Dominic Revels will compete in the sprinting events and Luis Schadlich plans on competing in the jumping events. Schadlich comes to the Redhawks by way of Düsseldorf, Germany.

Women's Team
Four graduates, seven seniors, ten juniors, six sophomores, and seven freshmen make up this year's women's squad. This squad features seven sprinters, 13 distance runners, three pole vaulters, five throwers, five jumpers, and one javelin athlete.

The Redhawk women have five athletes joining the team for the first time this season. Junior, Baylee Beard (throws) transfers into the Redhawk program from Central Methodist University.

Freshmen Kennedy Zyganor and Andreese Ortiz both plan to compete in the throwing events. Ortiz comes to Southeast all the way across the country from Homeland, California.

Missouri natives Krysta Miller (jumps) and Ava Dumke (Javelin) join the Redhawks from Festus and Maryville.  Dumke is the younger sister of Redhawk senior Garrett Dumke.

Looking Back
Last season the women's team won their ninth Ohio Valley Conference Indoor championship and 12th Outdoor Championship.

Throughout the year the team broke multiple records and Freshman Brianna Dixon won indoor and outdoor Female Freshman of the Year as well as Outdoor Female Field Athlete of the year.

Breanna Miles won indoor and outdoor Female Track Athlete of Year. Both Miles and Dixon are back in Redhawk uniforms this year.

The men's team placed third in both the outdoor and indoor seasons. Graduate Student Parker Feuerborn claimed Indoor Male Field Athlete of the Year honors and notched First team All-American honors in the weight throw and hammer throw.

Paden Lewis claimed Outdoor Male Field Athlete of the Year and Male Field Athlete of the Championship. Lewis is back for another year with the Redhawks.

Head Coach Eric Crumpecker won his fifth women's indoor and sixth women's outdoor Coach of the Year.

Coaches
Head Coach Eric Crumpecker is in his 17th season at the helm of the Southeast Missouri men's and women's track and field teams and 34th year overall at Southeast.

Associate Head Coach Ryan Lane enters his 16th season at Southeast. Lane specializes in distance running at SEMO.

The 2025 season marks the fifth season for Eric Fox as an assistant coach with the Southeast Missouri track & field program. Fox is in charge of the Redhawks multi, pole vault, hurdle and jump events.

Theresa Scott begins her fifth year as an assistant coach at Southeast Missouri. Scott coaches the Redhawk sprint and relay teams, and assists with hurdles.