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MONMOUTH, Ore. -- McKayla Fricker walked off the track, looked at her mom, and handed her a box with a plaque in it.
 
"Here's another one," Fricker said, cutting loose with a big smile.
 
This wasn't just any plaque, though. It was a championship plaque -- the second one of the day for the Seattle Pacific senior.
 
And this wasn't just any championship. This was for Fricker's third straight victory in the 800 meters at the Great Northwest Athletic Conference track and field meet.
 
"Especially from freshman year (when she battled injuries and didn't even make the finals), just to be able to come back as a sophomore and win, and win for the third time in the 8 is surreal. It's unbelievable," Fricker said.





Fricker made the top step of the awards podium three times on Saturday at Western Oregon University's McArthur Field. She started her day by coming from behind on the last lap to win the 1,500 meters in a personal-best 4:28.19, then ran the anchor leg on the meet-ending 4x400 relay, with Kishia Mitchell, BryAnne Wochnick and Tasia Baldwin carrying the baton ahead of her on the way to a winning time of 3:50.05.
 
With fellow senior Mitchell's 400-meter victory factored in, Seattle Pacific finished with 121 points, good for fourth place in what became an extremely tight team race. Alaska Anchorage pulled out the title with 137, just four more than Western Washington and Northwest Nazarene, who deadlocked for second with 133.
 
"I'm really proud and excited for our seniors who came through real strong today, with Kishia winning a title, McKayla winning two, and BryAnne running the best meet of her college career," head coach Karl Lerum said.
 Of Fricker's three titles in the 800, Saturday's was her most dramatic.
 
Trailing by three seconds, sitting in fourth place after the first of two laps – and battling rain in her eyes – Fricker surged up the backstretch. She passed Alaska Anchorage's Susan Bick, passed Northwest Nazarene's Natalie Evans, passed Simon Fraser's Sarah Sawatzky coming around the curve, then outsprinted Sawatzky to the finish line.
 
Fricker's time of 2 minutes, 9.15 seconds was a scant 11 hundredths of a second ahead of Sawatzky (2:09.26), who won the GNAC indoor 800 ahead of Fricker in February.
 
"I don't know how I did that, honestly," Fricker said. "I definitely came out too slow in the first 400. I had had the wind and rain hitting me on the backstretch, and I could hardly see for a little bit.
 
"I finally opened my eyes and I was like, 'Hey, they're right there, let's go, let's go.'"
 
Fricker, ranked No. 3 nationally in the 800 with the NCAA Division II meet coming up on May 24-26 in Allendale, Mich., is the first Falcon in history to win three straight conference crowns in a single event and only the second to win three straight in anything. Ali Worthen went back-to-back-to-back in the heptathlon in 2011, 2012, and 2013.
 
"McKayla is without a doubt one of the finest athletes, not only in the country and in our conference, but by far one of the finest athletes I've ever been around," Falcons head coach Karl Lerum said. "I was getting a little anxious (during the 1,500 and 800), but she is just running so strong and so confident right now, I did believe she could pull them out."
 


 While Fricker was a regular in the 800, Mitchell (Puyallup, Wash. / Rogers HS) was a first-timer in the 400, having focused on the 100 and 200 during her first three seasons. Mitchell made the most of it. She took the lead up the back, saw Simon Fraser sophomore Chantel Desch pull even going around the turn, surged back in front at the top of the homestretch, and hit the wire seven-hundredths of a second in front, 56.54-56.61.
 
"I was like, 'I'm going to get out hard and just run,'" Mitchell said. "I didn't know how close the Simon Fraser woman was to me. I thought, 'Oh, snaps, I better get going. I can't lose for the team.' So that's what I did."
 
Mitchell's time was a personal best, beating her previous one of 56.67 set on April 18 in Azusa, Calif. It was just one highlight of a busy day for her, as she was third in the 200, ran the second leg on the second-place 4x100 team, then led off the victorious 4x400.
 
Wochnick was just as busy with four events. She took third in the 400, her time of 57.61 giving her a PR for the second day in a row. Wochnick also finished fifth in the 200.
 

NCAA WOMEN'S TRACK & FIELD
GNAC Championships
Friday, May 9, 2014
McArthur Field / Monmouth, Ore.
         
Team scores – 1, Alaska Anchorage 137; 2, (tie) Northwest Nazarene and Western Washington 133; 4, Seattle Pacific 121; 5, Central Washington 92; 6, Simon Fraser 77; 7, Western Oregon 63; 8, Saint Martin's 47; 9, Montana State Billings 16.
 
SATURDAY FINALS
100 – 1, Jamie Ashcroft (UAA) 11.99. SPU placer – 7, Tasia Baldwin 12.64.
200 – 1, Jamie Ashcroft (UAA) 24.62. SPU placers – 3, Kishia Mitchell 24.94; 5, BryAnne Wochnick 25.59; 8, Kyra Brannan 25.96.
400 – 1, Kishia Mitchell (SPU) 56.54. Other SPU placers – 3, BryAnne Wochnick 57.61; 6, Jasmine Johnson 58.88.
800 – 1, McKayla Fricker (SPU) 2:09.15#. Other SPU placer – 5, Lynelle Decker 2:14.21.
1500 – 1, McKayla Fricker (SPU) 4:28.19#. Other SPU placer – 8, Lynelle Decker 4:38.95.
5000 – 1, Katelyn Steen (WWU) 17:03.91. SPU placers – 4, Anna Patti 17:33.16; 14, Claire Rachwitz 18:20.83; 18, Sarah Macdonald 18:43.19.
4x100 relay – 1, Alaska Anchorage 46.68. SPU placer – 2, Seattle Pacific (BryAnne Wochnick, Kishia Mitchell, Kyra Brannan, Tasia Baldwin) 47.31.
4x400 relay – 1, Seattle Pacific (Kishia Mitchell, BryAnne Wochnick, Tasia Baldwin, McKayla Fricker) 3:50.05.
100 hurdles – 1, Tanya Bjornsson (WWU) 14.21. No SPU competitors.
400 hurdles – 1, Irene Moore (StM) 1:02.01. SPU placer – 6, Maddi Hommes 1:05.11.
High jump – 1, Tayler Fettig (CWU) 5-8 ½ / 1.74m. SPU placers – 7, Maddi Hommes 4-11 ¾ / 1.52m; 8, Ali Sowers 4-11 ¾ / 1.52m.
Triple jump – 1, Rebecca Laible (WOU) 37-10 / 11.53m. No SPU competitors.
Hammer – 1, Lindsay Wells (WWU) 173-7 ¾ / 52.92m. No SPU competitors.
Javelin – 1, Katie Reichert (WWU) 156-4 ¼ / 47.65m. SPU placers – 7, Michaela Farner 126-0 ¾ / 38.42m; 8, Maddi Hommes 123-10 ½ / 37.75m; 9, Sammi Markham 117-3 ¾ / 35.75m.
 
FRIDAY FINALS
3000 steeplechase – 1, Katelyn Steen (WWU) 10:34.40. No SPU competitors.
10,000 – 1, Joyce Kichumba (UAA) 35:43.38. SPU placers – 3, Anna Patti 36:44.61; 8, Claire Rachwitz 38:54.15.
Pole vault – 1, Alison Silva (NNU) 11-0 ¼ / 3.36m. SPU placers – T3, Madi Webster and Michaella Kahns 10-0 ½ / 3.06m.
Long jump – 1, Tanya Bjornsson (WWU) 18-11 ¾ / 5.78m. SPU placers – 4, Kyra Brannan 18-4 ½ / 5.60m; 8, Tasia Baldwin 16-10 ½ / 5.14m.
Shot put – 1, Vessie Umu (NNU) 44-3 ½ / 13.50m. SPU placer – 14, Sammi Markham 35-11 ½ / 10.96m.
Discus – 1, Corrie  Holm (MSUB) 143-4 ¾ / 43.70m. No SPU competitors.
 
 
NCAA MEN'S TRACK & FIELD
GNAC Championships
Friday, May 9, 2014
McArthur Field / Monmouth, Ore.
 
Team scores – 1, Western Washington 186; 2, Alaska Anchorage 158; 3, Western Oregon 113; 4, Northwest Nazarene 109; 5, Central Washington 90; 6, Simon Fraser 77; 7, Montana State Billings 42; 8, Saint Martin's 36; 9, Seattle Pacific 6.
                                                                             
SATURDAY FINALS
100 – 1, Rimar Christie (NNU) 10.64. No SPU competitors.
200 – 1, Tyrell Williams (WOU) 21.31. No SPU competitors.
400 – 1, Ethan Hewitt (UAA) 47.94. No SPU competitors.
800 – 1, Scott Commandeur (UAA) 1:52.97. No SPU competitors.
1500 – 1, Chase Robinson (MSUB) 3:54.35. SPU placer – 11, Adam Avischious 3:59.85.
5000 – 1, Dylan Anthony (UAA) 14:34.46. SPU placer – 7, Turner Wiley 14:59.18.
4x100 relay – 1, Northwest Nazarene 41.74. No SPU team.
4x400 relay – 1, Western Washington 3:15.48. No SPU team.
110 hurdles – 1, Logan Myers (WWU) 14.70. No SPU competitors.
400 hurdles – T1, Elliott Bauer (UAA) and Bobo Camara (UAA) 53.20. No SPU competitors.
Pole vault – 1, Brandon Roddewig (CWU) 15-3 ½ / 4.66m. No SPU competitors.
Triple jump – 1, Luke Plummer (CWU) 46-8 ¼ / 14.23m. No SPU competitors.
Hammer – 1, Kevin Stanley (CWU) 179-8 ½ / 54.77m. No SPU competitors.
Javelin – 1, Franz Burghagen (UAA) 218-7 ½ / 66.63m. No SPU competitors.
 
 
FRIDAY FINALS
3000 steeplechase – 1, Oliver Jorgensen (SFU) 9:17.20. No SPU competitors.
10,000 – 1, Victor Samoei (UAA) 31:14.59. SPU placer – 5, Turner Wiley 31:25.34
High jump – 1, Brett Watson (WWU) 6-8 ¼ / 2.04m. No SPU competitors.
Long jump – 1, Kevin Yates (WWU) 23-1 ¼ / 7.04m. SPU placer – 11, Ben Smith 20-6 ½ / 6.26m.
Shot put – 1, Frank Catelli (WWU) 59-7 / 18.16m (meet record, breaks old record of 55-8 ¼ / 16.97m set by Cameron Neel (CWU) in 2005; overall GNAC record, breaks old record of 58-7 ½ / 17.87m set by Catelli in 2014). No SPU competitors.
Discus – 1, Ryan Macdonald (WWU) 159-11 ¼ / 48.74m. No SPU competitors.