College running: Fink, Sertich sign with NSIC schools

091620.s.dnt.PrepNewmaker5.jpg — Duluth Denfeld senior Isaac Fink should be one of the top boys runners at the Section 7AA cross country championships Thursday at Princeton (Minn.) Golf Course. He is pictured here running to a first-place finish at Lester Park Golf Course during a meet last month. (Jed Carlson / jcarlson@superiortelegram.com)

By News Tribune

November 16, 2020 at 9:54 AM

A pair of local running stalwarts signed national letters of intent to run NSIC cross country and track, as Duluth Denfeld senior Isaac Fink will attend Augustana University in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, next year and Lauren Sertich will attend St. Cloud State.

Fink qualified for three straight Minnesota Class AA CC state meets and this year won six straight races before finishing ninth at the Section 7AA meet.

Sertich, meanwhile, has consistently been one of the top runners on one of the Northland’s best teams. She led the Lumberjacks with a 34th-place finish at the Section 7AA meet. She is the granddaughter of former Minnesota Duluth men’s hockey coach Mike Sertich.

111420.S.DNT.Localrunners_Sertich.jpg — Cloquet's Lauren Sertich splashes her way through the course during the 2019 Swain Invitational at Enger Park Golf Course in Duluth. (File / Pine Journal)

This story was updated at 10:54 a.m. Nov. 16 with a photo of Lauren Sertich. It was originally posted at 9 p.m. Nov. 13.

College running: Fink, Sertich sign with NSIC schools

Fink off to Augstana; Sertich to St. Cloud State.