Complete Results

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. - Williams College captured its first national championship in indoor or outdoor track and field Saturday, earning 25 second-day points to finish with a total of 42. Runner-up City College of New York finished with 35. The Ephs were second at the national meet in 2005-2006. This was their sixth top-four finish in the last seven years.

"I'm on cloud nine," Williams head coach Ralph White said. "The kids did a fantastic job. For a rebuilding year, this is pretty special. The kids really stepped up, they all came here and took care of business. Maddie (Outman) and Caroline (Doctor) got it started yesterday and it just snowballed from there - each one seemed to say "hey, I can do this.'"

Williams won the national title despite bringing only eight athletes to the meet. Maddie Outman, earned All-America four times over at the meet. Every event the Ephs were in, they scored.

"We're all obviously thrilled," Outman said, "especially to do it for the first time in Williams history. It was really great to see everyone step up and go after it."

After scoring 17 points in Friday's events (tying for first place after Day 1), the Ephs continued to post outstanding performances on Saturday. Co-captain Doctor, who was fourth in the long jump Friday, earned second place in the triple jump on Saturday with her outstanding 38'9.75" leap. Doctor broke her own school record of 38'7", set earlier this season.

Outman, who took home second place in the long jump yesterday despite qualifying for the event just one week ago, added three more All-American certificates to her collection by taking fifth place in both the 55-meter hurdles (8.29) and the 400-meter dash (57.66) and being a part of the 4x400 relay team which finished eighth.

"It was the best meet of my life," Outman said. "I've been thinking about it for months, so I expected to do well. I wasn't nervous at all, just focused and ready to go."

Alex Phillips '07 stunned the competition by taking an incredible fourth place with a 45'0.5" throw in the shot put, setting a personal record while greatly exceeding her seed of 10th place in the event. Olga Kondratjeva '10 posted a faster time in the mile final today than in yesterday's preliminaries, edging a competitor by a mere 0.02 seconds to take 6th place in 4:57.48.

Williams 4x400 relay of Katie Howard, Outman, Emily Heaslip and Carrie Plitt put the cap on the national title - and an impressive meet - with an eighth-place finish in a time of 3:56.24.

"Going into the meet, I thought we could finish top three," Howard said. "But when you consider who we had lost - Katie Fulton, Caroline Cretti, Kristin Moss - it's still hard to believe. We had some hearty freshmen step in and do well, and of course Maddie (Outman) had a great meet."

To earn All-America status, a participant must finish in the top eight of an event. All eight of the Ephs at the national championships earned All-America status in at least one event.

"A lot of other teams brought more people," White said. "But when we went head to head with them we won. We scored in every single event we were in. We weren't the most talented team, but no one works harder than our kids and our coaches do. My coaching staff deserves a lot of thanks, they did a great job too."