Bertelsen, a senior, was named the Most Valuable Performer at the 2009 Iowa Conference Indoor Track & Field Championships. He won five of the six events in which he was entered, setting Iowa Conference records in three. Bertelsen won the long jump with an IIAC-record and NCAA-automatic-qualifying leap of 25 feet, 2 ¾ inches, the 55-meter dash with an IIAC-record and NCAA-automatic-qualifying time of 6.36 seconds, the 200 with an IIAC-record time of 21.82 seconds, the 400 in 49.83, and ran on BVU’s winning 4x200 relay. He also ran on Buena Vista’s seventh-place 4x400 relay (3:33.43).
