Hall of Fame
2010, Women's Indoor Track & Field Team
Women's Indoor Track & Field Team 2010
- Induction:
- 2020
Oregon won two events and had runner-up finishes in three others to win its first NCAA Women’s Indoor Track and Field national title in 2010 in Fayetteville, Ark. The Ducks won with 61 points, 25 better than second-place Tennessee (36 points). Brianne Theisen earned Oregon’s first victory of the meet by winning the pentathlon with a school-record 4,396 points. The 4x400 meter relay team of Jamesha Youngblood, Keshia Baker, Michele Williams and Amber Purvis held off LSU to win in a school-record 3:32.97. It marked the Ducks’ first-ever national title in the 4x400 meter relay. Backing up those wins were a trio of record-setting second-place finishes. Baker took second in the 400 meters in a school-record 51.63. Melissa Gergel set the school record in the pole vault with a clearance at 14-7.25 to finish second. And the distance medley relay team of Anne Kesselring, Williams, Zoe Buckman and Jordan Hasay secured a runner-up finish to Tennessee in a school-record 10:58.96. Oregon also had Purvis fourth in the 200-meter final in a school-record 23.21. Hasay and Kesselring both scored in the mile, with Hasay running fourth and Kesselring sixth. Nicole Blood capped the individual scoring with a fifth-place showing in the 3,000 meters in a season-best 9:11.23. The 2010 title was the first national championship for a University of Oregon women’s team since cross country won the NCAA crown in 1987. Beginning with the win in 2010, the Women of Oregon won five NCAA Indoor titles in a row and seven of the next eight.
Duck Insider 9-9-25
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Dillon Thieneman: "Keep grinding day in and day out."
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