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EUGENE, Ore. --  Hunter Veith is in sixth place in the Decathlon with 4,242 points after the first five events at the NCAA Division I Men's and Women's Outdoor Track and Field Championships at Hayward Field.
 
Veith opened the day 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 of the day, the 400 meters, he ran a 49.16 to drop him to sixth overall with a first-day best total of 4,242 points.

Minnesota's Luca Wieland leads the competition with 4,440 points - 198 points in front of Veith - while Karl Saluri sits in fifth in front of Veith with 4,247 points.

The Decathlon concludes with the final five events (110 hurdles, discus, pole vault, javelin, 1,500m) on Thursday. Competition resumes at 12:30 p.m., Central.

Veith, along with Breanne Borman, Gavyn Yetter, Nikki Larch-Miller were announced March 18 as qualifying for the NCAA Championship after earning one of the top 24 multis point totals in the NCAA during the season.

The Heptathlon begins Friday at 2:30 p.m., Central, for the women's trio with the 100 meter hurdles, and concludes Saturday with the final three events.

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 personal best 7,610 points at the Sam Adams Multis in Santa Barbara, Calif., in early April which also moved him into second in the all-time Top 10 list at WSU behind Austin Bahner's 7,847 points in 2013. Veith's final day included a 14.52 in the 110 meter hurdles, 37.05m in the discus, 4.70m in the pole vault, 55.33m in the javelin and 4:50.02 in the 1,500 meters. Veith also led after the first day's five events, just 23 points ahead of second place. On day one, he ran 11.03 in the 100 meters, jumped 7.22m in the long jump, threw the shot put 12.17m, high jumped 1.98m and ran the 400 meters in 48.83.

For the women, Borman is also 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 K.T. Woodman and is 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.