Complete decathlon results
        Complete heptathlon results

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – Nate Johnson posted his best-ever total in the decathlon, finishing in ninth place with 6,537 points on Tuesday at the Sam Adams Multi-Events meet.

The total for Falcons junior Johnson (Boise, Idaho) at Westmont College was high enough to get him onto the provisional qualifying list for the NCAA Division II championships

It also was 164 points better than his previous career high of 6,373 with which he won last year's Great Northwest Athletic Conference championship. His current total ranks No. 9 nationally.

Former SPU star Chris Randolph, now with California-based Team Skechers, won with 7,840. Sharon Day of Team Asics took the heptathlon with 6,337.

Seattle Pacific senior Ali Worthen (Coos Bay, Ore.) became an NCAA automatic qualifier in the women's heptathlon with a career-best 5,071 points -- two more than the minimum needed for a guaranteed ticket. She finished in fifth place. Falcons junior Katy Gross (Everett, Wash./Cascade HS) became a provisional qualifier with 4,513 points. She wound up eighth.

Nationals are set for May 24-26 in Pueblo, Colo.

Johnson's best finishes of the meet came in the final there events. He tied for sixth in the pole vault by clearing 14-1¼, a season best by six inches, was a mere two inches shy of his career high, and was good for automatic qualification to the GNAC meet.

He followed that with sixth place in the javelin at 172-8, then obliterated his career best in the 1,500 with a time of 4:38.57. It was an improvement of 13-plus seconds from his old mark of 4:51.79 in last year's GNAC multi-event championships.

Decathletes need 6,976 points for a guaranteed spot at nationals. Johnson will get one more shot at it April 30 and May 1 at the Great Northwest Athletic Conference Multi-Event Championships at Central Washington University in Ellensburg.

Last year, Worthen (Coos Bay, Ore.) made it as a provisional qualifier and wound up with an All-American sixth-place finish, totaling a then-career high of 5,044.
 
Her total from Monday and Tuesday's competition puts her fifth in the current D-2 national heptathlon standings.
 
Worthen has had several NCAA provisional qualifying marks in numerous events, both indoors and outdoors, during her SPU career. This was her second automatic mark. Her first was in the indoor high jump as a freshman in 2009, and she wound up fourth at NCAAs.
 
She got off to a solid start on Tuesday by going 18 feet, 11 ½ inches in the long jump. That in itself was an NCAA provisional qual distance and tied for second place overall in that event. That left her needing 754 points in the 800, and a time of 2:25.25 or faster.
 
Worthen made it by 17 hundredths of a second.
 
The javelin was the top event of the day for Gross. Her toss of 129-6 was just one inch shy of her personal best and gave her fourth place.

Gross made it to NCAAs in the hep last year as a provisional qualifier and finished 13th.
 
Worthen, Gross and Johnson will  join the rest of their Seattle Pacific teammates in Spokane on Saturday for War V, a meet that feature teams from Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Montana. The first event at Spokane Community College is at 9 a.m.
 
 
NCAA OUTDOOR TRACK & FIELD
Sam Adams Multi-Events
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
Westmont College / Santa Barbara, Calif.
 
MEN'S DECATHLON
Final standings – 1, Chris Randolph (Team Skechers) 7,840. SPU placer – 9, Nate Johnson 6,537#!.
 
DAY 1
100-meter dash – 1, Ashton Eaton (OTC Elite) 10.45 (987 points). SPU placer – 10, Johnson 11.45 (763 points).
Long jump – Dakotah Keys (Oregon) 23-11¾ / 7.31m (888 points). SPU placer – 12, Johnson 20-6¼ / 6.25m* (641 points).
Shot put – 1, Eaton (OTC Elite) 47-1 ¾ / 14.62m (766 points). SPU placer – 16, Johnson 39-2 / 10.72m (529 points).
High jump – 1, Nick Trubachick (Unattached) 6-6¼ / 1.99m (794 points). SPU placer – T13, Johnson 6-1½ / 1.87m* (687 points).
400 – 1, Eaton (OTC Elite) 45.68 (1,025 points). SPU placer – 14, Johnson 53.09 (678 points).
 
DAY 2
110 hurdles – 1, Keys (Oregon) 14.87 (865 points). SPU placer – 12, Johnson 16.35* (694 points).
Discus – 1, Randolph (Skechers) 142-2 / 43.34m (733 points). SPU placer – T13, Johnson 108-8 ½ / 33.13m (526 points).
Pole vault – 1, Corbin Duer (Unattached) 16-4 ¾ / 5.00m (910 points). SPU placer – T6, Johnson 14-1 ¼ / 4.30m! (702 points).
Javelin – 1, Randolph (Skechers) 211-0 / 64.32m (803 points). SPU placer – 6, Johnson 17-28 / 52.64m * (628 points).
1500 – 1, Devin Bennett (Cal Poly SLO) 4:26.66 (767 points). SPU placer – 6, Johnson 4:38.57 (689 points).


WOMEN'S HEPTATHLON
Final standings – 1, Sharon Day (Team Asics) 6,337. SPU placers – 5, Ali Worthen 5,071+!; 8, Katy Gross 4,513#!.

DAY 1
100-meter hurdles – 1, Brianne Theisen (Oregon) 13.48 (1,053 points). SPU placers – 5, Worthen 14.78* (871 points); 9, Gross 15.43 (786).
High jump – 1, (tie) Day (Asics) and Barbara Nwaba (UC Santa Barbara) 6-0 ½ / 1.84m (1,029 points). SPU placers – 5, Worthen 5-7¾ / 1.72m#! (879 points); 7, Gross 5-3 / 1.60m* (736).
Shot put – 1, Day (Asics) 47-3 / 14.40m (821 points). SPU placers – 7, Gross 34-6¼ / 10.52m (564 points); T8, Worthen 32-3 / 9.83m (518).
200 – 1, Day (Asics) 24.27 (955 points). SPU placers – 6, Worthen 26.01* (796 points); 11, Gross 28.01 (630).

DAY 2
Long jump – 1, Day (Asics) 19-10 ½ / 6.06m (866 points). SPU placers – T2, Worthen 18-11 ½ / 5.78m#! (783 points); 8, Gross 17-4 ½ / 5.30m* (643).
Javelin – 1, Annett Fleming (Germany) 149-4 / 45.52m (774 points). SPU placers – 4, Gross 129-6 / 39.48m* (657 points); 9, Worthen 96-11 ½ / 29.55m (468).
800 – 1, Day (Asics) 2:12.63 (926 points). SPU placers – 4, Worthen 2:25.08 (756 points); 10, Gross 2:46.84 (497).


+ NCAA automatic qualifyiing
# NCAA provisional qualifying
! GNAC automatic qualifying
* GNAC provisional qualifying