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closeWALNUT, Calif. — Western Washington University had three outstanding final-day performances as sophomore Monika Gruszecki placed second in the women’s javelin, Heidi Dimmitt finished fourth in the women’s 400-meter hurdles and Keith Lemay was sixth in the men’s 800 on Saturday at the NCAA Division II Outdoor Track and Field National Championships.
“These are the days you dream about,” said Western coach Pee Wee Halsell. “I’m still walking on a cloud … I’ve been nervous all day.”
Gruszecki, the defending national champion, posted a mark of 152 feet, 3 inches on her first throw, her best of the competition. That bettered her personal record of 146-10 accomplished as a freshman by over five inches.
“She came here to win and she gave it her all,” Halsell said. “She is a national competitor, I’ll tell you that.”
The 5-foot-4 Gruszecki entered the competition with the nation’s seventh-best mark of 146-2. Her winning toss in 2007 was 145-8.
The competition was probably Gruszecki’s last for Western. Next fall, she plans to attend school at Phillips University in Marburg, Germany.
Dimmitt, who also was making her second straight trip to nationals, had a personal-best time of 1:00.52, the second fastest in school history, as she placed fourth in the 400 hurdles.
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