Official Results

Schedule of Events


BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – It had to be a surreal feeling for Division II’s best to be competing once again at the pinnacle of their sport as the first day of the 2021 NCAA Indoor Track & Field Championships went in the books on Thursday at the Crossplex.
 
The Great Midwest Athletic Conference has 30 different individual national qualifiers ready to make their mark in respective events over the next few days.
 
Day 1 was off to a blazing start as the women’s multis took center stage and Tiffin senior Jazilee Williams, recent Great Midwest Field Athlete of the Meet, showed her best in the 60m hurdles, high jump, shot put, long jump and 800-meter run.
 
Williams was second in the shot put, fourth in the long jump and fifth in the 60-meter hurdles on her way to accumulating 3,657 points. Williams set a PR in the multis and her performance ranks third all-time in conference history only behind a pair of 2017 outings from Ursuline’s Janelle Perry.

She finished ninth and secured NCAA All-American status for her efforts. Williams is also going to compete in the long jump event as well.
 
Findlay’s national dominance in the weight throw competition came to full circle as junior Sterling Mungro delivered the Oilers’ fifth NCAA title in seven years. Two of those championship performances were courtesy of Austin Combs in 2018 and 2019, the first two years of conference membership for UF.
 
But prior, it was former standout Justin Welch who took his place at the top of the national podium with back-to-back championships in 2014-15. They do say records are meant to be broken, but Mungro earned his place in Division II history ranking as No. 5 among individuals with the longest throw.
 
Mungro showed us a picture of the home screen on his cell phone at the conference indoor championships at Cedarville. It was a performance list of the season in Division II, symbolic of the lofty goals he set for himself in 2020-21. He was admittedly disappointed his previous performances at conference championships but had his eye set on the ultimate prize.
 
That mission is accomplished. Mungro went into the meet as the No. 2 seed only behind Northern State’s Tanner Berg. He capped off his national championship with a 22.45m (73’ 8”) preliminary attempt.
 
Mungro set a PR and crushed his own conference record on his third attempt in the throws cage. He not only beat out Berg, who would end up third, but toppled runner-up Decio Andrade from Angelo State (21.77m).
 
Three other qualifiers in the weight throw were from Ashland, who adds to the conference’s already formidable depth in the sport of track and field. Brent Fairbanks would finish fourth and Noah Koch and Cody Patterson were also in the field of 13. Likewise in women’s weight throw, AU’s Carrol Pauley was fifth and Gianna Dipippo was ninth.