Results
COLLEGE STATION, Texas -- Wichita State Heptathlete
Hunter Veith earned Second Team All-American honors with a ninth-place finish at the 2017 NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championship today, the final day of the two-day competition.
On Friday,
Nikki Larch-Miller and
Breanne Borman also earned Second Team All-American honors in the Pentathlon.
Veith opened Saturday's competition in ninth after the first day of the Heptathlon, nd finished with 5,760 points.
In today's first event, the fifth of the competition, he ran the 60 meter hurdles in a personal best 8.15. Next, he pole vaulted 4.96/16-3.25, and in the day's final event, ran the 1,000 meters in 2:56.44.
Larch-Miller finished
11th with 4,088 points in the Pentathlon while
Borman was
16th with 3,705 points in the five events after competition Friday.
The top eight finishers in the multi-events are first team All-Americans and the second eight are named second-team All-Americans.
Veith was in ninth-place after four events of the
Heptathlon Friday with 3,218 points. He opened the day with an eighth-place finish in the 60 meters in a time of 7.00. His long jump mark of 7.55m/24-9.25 was good enough for fourth while his shot put (12.41m/40-8.75 was
13th in the competition. The final event of the day was the high jump (1.95m/6-4.75) where he finished ninth. He also competed in the open long jump on Friday, and fouled his first attempt before foregoing his final two jumps.
On Friday, Larch-Miller's day opened with a fourth-place finish in the 60 meter hurdles (8.26). She then was
12th in the high jump (1.63m/5-4.25),
13th in the shot put (11.90m/39-0.5) and
14th in the long jump (5.64m/18-6). In the day's final event, she was seventh in the 800 meters in a time of 2:17.93.
Borman was
15th in the 60 meter hurdles (8.78),
13th in the high jump (1.60m/5-3), fourth in the shot put (12.72m/41-8.75) and
16th in the long jump (5.33m/17-6). She finished her last Pentathlon event on Friday with a
15th-place in the 800 meters (2:33.25).
Borman, who also earned All-American honors a year ago at the 2016 NCAA Championship with a
12th-place finish in the Pentathlon, won the event at the 2017 MVC Indoor Championship in Cedar Falls, Iowa.
Nikki Larch-Miller earned All-American honors at the 2015 NCAA Outdoor Championship with an eighth-place finish in the Outdoor
Heptathlon.
Veith was making his first NCAA Championship appearance, and won the MVC
Heptathlon at the 2017 Indoor Championship.