Brown defends pole vault title
The final day of the 2011 NCAA Division II Outdoor Track & Field Championships proved to be one of the best in the history of Western Washington University.
The Vikings had two national champions Saturday - Ryan Brown in the men's pole vault and Monica Gruszecki in the women's javelin - and a second-place finish in the women's 5,000 by Sarah Porter, who won the 10,000 on Thursday.
It was the fourth national championship for Brown, who also won back-to-back indoor pole vault titles in 2010 and 2011, and the second for Gruszecki, who won the javelin as a freshman in 2007. They are the first Vikings to win multiple individual national championships.