Kamile Udrenaite, a sophomore at D-III Concordia University Chicago, was named the Northern Athletics Conference Women’s Field Event Athlete of the Meet last weekend after the league’s outdoor track and field championships.

Udrenaite, a Crystal Lake South grad, won both the shot put (39 feet, 9 ¾ inches) and hammer throw (142-8) at the NAC meet. She finished second in the discus (129-2) to scored 28 team points for Concordia, the highest total for any individual field athlete.

Udrenaite set school records at the April 26 Benedictine University Twilight Invitational in the hammer throw (145-9) and the shot put (40-5). The effort at Benedictine earned Udrenaite the NAC’s Women’s Track and Field Athlete of the Week honor. 

Barry Bottino writes a weekly column and a blog about local college athletes for the Northwest Herald. Write to him at BarryOnCampus@hotmail.com and check out his On Campus column every Saturday in the Northwest Herald sports section and follow @BarryOnCampus on Twitter.

Crystal Lake Central grad Mitch Osborne, a senior at Wisconsin-Whitewater, has earned a bid to play in the NCAA Division III men’s tennis nationals beginning Thursday in Kalamazoo, Mich.

Osborne is one half of the Warhawks’ No. 1 doubles team, which has a 15-8 record, including an eight-match winning streak with partner Ben Shkylar. The duo has a 9-1 record in its last 10 matches and are one of only 16 doubles entrants in the tournament.

Osborne, who is playing at nationals in doubles for the second year in a row, also will be part of the Whitewater squad in the team competition beginning Monday in Kalamazoo. The Warhawks are making their seventh consecutive trip to nationals as a team.

Crystal Lake South grad Cam Laktash, a Whitewater sophomore, is 10-1 this season at No. 3 doubles and 6-4 playing at various singles spots in the lineup.

Barry Bottino writes a weekly column and a blog about local college athletes for the Northwest Herald. Write to him at BarryOnCampus@hotmail.com and check out his On Campus column every Saturday in the Northwest Herald sports section and follow @BarryOnCampus on Twitter.

Max Kittle (Dundee-Crown) won a pair of individual titles last weekend at the Heartland Collegiate Athletics Conference men’s outdoor track and field championships in North Manchester, Ind.

Kittle, a sophomore at D-III Anderson (Ind.) University, won the 110- and 400-meter hurdles events in 14.99 seconds and 53.44, respectively. His 400 hurdle time ranks fifth in school history and 10th in the nation this season.

Kittle also anchored Anderson’s 1,600 relay team, which placed fourth.

Barry Bottino writes a weekly column and a blog about local college athletes for the Northwest Herald. Write to him at BarryOnCampus@hotmail.com and check out his On Campus column every Saturday in the Northwest Herald sports section and follow @BarryOnCampus on Twitter.

Prairie Ridge grad Chad Ljunggren is batting .311 this season with 23 RBIs for D-III St. Norbert College’s baseball team.

Ljunggren, a junior infielder, has started every game this season for the Green Knights (22-10) while helping the team clinch its 11th trip to the Midwest Conference postseason tournament in the past 12 years. St. Norbert has won 10 of its past 14 games.

Barry Bottino writes a weekly column and a blog about local college athletes for the Northwest Herald. Write to him at BarryOnCampus@hotmail.com and check out his On Campus column every Saturday in the Northwest Herald sports section and follow @BarryOnCampus on Twitter.

Junior Mike Olszewski of D-III Monmouth College was named the Midwest Conference Men’s Golf Performer of the Week after winning the individual title by one stroke at the recent Illinois College Blueboy Invitational.

A Cary-Grove grad, Olszewski posted a season-low round of 73 on the tournament’s opening day. He followed that with a second-round 79 for a season-best 36-hole effort of 152. Monmouth won the team title by seven shots.

Barry Bottino writes a weekly column and a blog about local college athletes for the Northwest Herald. Write to him at BarryOnCampus@hotmail.com and check out his On Campus column every Saturday in the Northwest Herald sports section and follow @BarryOnCampus on Twitter.