It was a big weekend for the Wisconsin Badgers track and field program, as Georgia Ellenwood and Oliver Hoare claimed NCAA national championships at Hayward Field in Eugene, Ore.
According to a Wisconsin release, it is “the first time the Badgers have had a men’s and women’s individual track and field champion at the same meet since the 1997 NCAA Outdoor Championships.”
On Saturday, Ellenwood claimed the NCAA women’s heptathlon title—the first in Wisconsin history to do so. A senior from Langley, British Columbia, she earned 6,146 points overall to hold off Georgia’s Louisa Grauvogel for the national championship.