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EUGENE, Ore. --   Seniors Breanne Borman and Gavyn Yetter earned second-team All-America honors with 11th- and 12th-place finishes in the Heptathlon at the NCAA Division I Men's and Women's Outdoor Track and Field Championships at Hayward Field.

Senior Nikki Larch-Miller did not finish the competition after fouling her first long jump attempt on Saturday. An injured ankle forced her to finish with a point total of 3,308 which was the 20th-best in the field.

Borman improved her point total to 5,405 total points with a long jump of 18-2.5, a javelin throw of 147-1/44.85m and a 800 meter time of 2:23.21.

Yetter improved her point total to 5,348 total points with a long jump of 18-4.25/5.59m, a javelin throw of 115-10/35.31m and an 800 meter time of 2:16.03.

Kendell Williams of Georgia won the Heptathlon competition with 6,265 points.

Larch-Miller, Gavyn Yetter and Breanne Borman were ninth, 14th, and 15th, respectively, after the first day of competition in the Heptathlon. Larch-Miller (3,308 points) ran a 13.69 in the 100 hurdles, high jumped 5-4.25 and threw the shot 37-11.75/11.56m before running the 200 in 25.05. Yetter (3,166 points) opened her meet with a 14.60 in the 100 hurdles, and high jumped 5-3/1.60m before throwing the shot 40-8.5/12.41m and running the 200 meters in 25.44. Borman's (3,149 points) 100 hurdles time of 14.51 opened her competition before she high jumped 5-4.25/1.63m, threw the shot 38-4.75/11.70m and ran the 200 meters in 25.63.

On Thursday, junior Hunter Veith (Cheney, Kan.) finished sixth in the Decathlon with a school record 7,866 points to earn First-Team All-American honors. He also broke former Shocker All-American Austin Bahner's pervious school-record 7,847 points which the Wichita native set in 2013.

Veith, who came into the Championship with the 15th-best Decathlon point total in the NCAA, led-off a quartet of Shockers at the Championship as Breanne Borman, Gavyn Yetter, Nikki Larch-Miller will compete in the Heptathlon beginning Friday after a top 24 multis point total during the season.

Veith was in sixth place in the Decathlon with 4,242 points after the first five events, and on Thursday held steady at sixth with a time of 14.40 in the 110 hurdles, a throw of 120-5/36.70m in the discus, a height of 15-9.25/4.81m in the pole vault, a distance of 183-6/55.95m in the javelin and a time of 4:57.64 in the 1,500 meters.

Four of the five placers in front of Veith were seniors, including champion Lindon Victor of Texas A&M, who won the competition with 8,390 points - 524 points in front of Veith. The only junior in front of Veith was Scott Filip of Rice, who scored one point better at 7,867.

Veith opened day one with a personal best 10.66 in the 100 meters to finish fifth. After a long jump of 25-4.5/7.71m he moved up to third overall in the Decathlon competition with 1,925 points. A 41-8.75/12.72m mark in the shot put then dropped his overall point total to fifth, just 115 points out of first.

A fifth-place mark of 6-7/2.01m in the high jump moved his overall point total to 3,388 which moved him back up to fourth overall. In the final event on Wednesday, the 400 meters, he ran a 49.16 to drop him to sixth overall with a first-day best total of 4,242 points.

For the women, Borman was ranked 15th heading into the championship with 5,640 points in the Heptathlon which she scored at the MVC Championship.  Borman, a two-time NCAA Indoor second-team All-American, was 12th in the Pentathlon at the 2016 NCAA Indoor Championship and 16th at the 2017 NCAA Indoor Championship. Her career-best point total, 5,640, ranks No. 3 all-time at WSU.

Yetter was second at the 2017 MVC Championship to Borman, and scored a career-best 5,553 points to qualify with the 21st-best point total in the NCAA.  Her 5,553 points also ranks fourth-best all-time at WSU.
 
Larch-Miller scored 5,551 points at the 2017 K.T. Woodman and was ranked 22nd in the NCAA.  A three-time NCAA All-American, she was eighth in 2015 in the Heptathlon at the NCAA Championship. She holds the second-best Heptathlon total at WSU with 5,812 points which she scored in the 2015 Mt. Sac Multis. Her other All-American honors came at the 2017 NCAA Indoor Championship where she was 11th in the Pentathlon and at the 2015 NCAA Outdoor Championship where she helped the 4x100 meter relay to a 16th-place finish.

Tanya Friesen holds WSU's Heptathlon record with 5,899 points, which she scored in 2013.

Veith came into the championship with a best of 7,610 points, which ranked No. 15 on the list of the Decathletes in the NCAA Championship. Veith was a second-team All-American earlier this year after a ninth-place finish in the 2017 NCAA Indoor Heptathlon.

Veith scored a then-personal best 7,610 points at the Sam Adams Multis in Santa Barbara, Calif., in early April which at the time moved him into second on the all-time Top 10 list at WSU behind Austin Bahner's 7,847 points in 2013.