Track & Field | 5/12/2012 12:11:00 AM

[Results] [Day 2 heat sheets]

MONMOUTH, Ore. - Amanda Schumaker has been able to call herself an All-American twice in her career, but after Friday she can now call herself a Great Northwest Athletic Conference Champion.

The junior from Gladstone, Ore. (Gladstone HS) threw a 154-1.5 (46.97m) to win the javelin and earn 10 team points for the Western Oregon women. Schumaker, who already has an NCAA auto qualifying standard this season, won the 2012 GNAC championship by nearly 10 feet. She is third on the 2012 NCAA performance list.

Seabre Church gave the Wolves women's team six more points in the javelin by recording a throw of 137-4.75 (41.87m) to place third in the event. Church is 11th on the NCAA performance list.

The men's team got 24 points in the men's long jump as Wolves took first, second, fourth and eighth. Matson Hardie won the event with a career-best mark of 24-1 (7.34m). That NCAA provisional qualifying standard moves him to fifth in school history and to fourth on the GNAC all-time list.

Finishing right behind Hardie with an NCAA standard of his own was Jake Hyde with a leap of 23-10.25 (7.27m). Hyde's second place finish gave the Wolves eight team points and moved him to sixth in conference history and to eighth on the Wolves all-time top 10 list.

However, the most impressive leap might have been turned in by Michael Glover. The senior Glover jumped 22-9 (6.93m) in just his second meet of his career due to injury to take fourth place and bring home five more team points for the Wolves. Kyle Lane capped off the scoring for Western Oregon in the long jump by taking eighth place, and one more team point, with a mark of 22-1.75 (6.75m).

Dan Sprinkle improved upon his NCAA provisional standard in the 3000m steeplechase by nearly 2.5 seconds as he ran a 9:00.94 to place third in the race of the day. Sprinkle stayed right with the leaders Ryan Brockerville of Simon Fraser and Micah Chelimo of Alaska Anchorage until the final 800m when they took off and finished with times of 8:47.26 and 8:47.33, respectively. That time for Sprinkle secured his third place spot on the Wolves all-time top 10 list and placed him fourth in GNAC history. It also moved him one place up the 2012 NCAA performance list into 13th.

With many of the finals of the 2012 GNAC Championships taking place on Saturday many Wolves competed in the prelims tonight.

Western Oregon student-athletes took both heats of the men's 800m run. Chris Olsen won the first heat with a time of 1:52.23. Ryan Hansen then won the second heat with a time of 1:53.67. Finishing right behind Hansen and also earning his place to the 800m finals was Drew Larson with a time of 1:53.94.

Kody Rhodes won the prelims of the men's 110m hurdles with a time of 15.05. He also ran a time of 54.16 in the 400m hurdles to place second in prelims. That time moved him into ninth in Western Oregon history.

Landon Burningham moved to sixth in Western Oregon history by winning his heat with a time of 48.43.

Madison McClung won her heat in the women's 200m dash with a career-best time of 24.96. That mark secured her second-best time in school history in the event and moved her into a tie for fifth place in the GNAC record books. McClung also won her heat in the women's 100m dash with a time of 12.19.

Janna Vander Meulen moved into a tie for fourth place in Western Oregon history with Kaitlyn Reid in the women's 100m hurdles with a time of 14.64.

The GNAC Championships will continue on Saturday starting at 9:30 a.m.