Hallock earns second-team All-American honors

Saturday, June 10

Eugene, Ore.

11:30 AM

Oregon State

NCAA Championships

Kara Hallock ran a PR of 2:20.77 in the 800, the final event of the heptathlon.

Photo by: Scobel Wiggins/Oregon State Athletics

June 10, 2017 | Women's Track & Field

Heptathlon final results Final 2017 performance list All-time records 2017 final performance list

By: Athletic Communications

EUGENE, Ore. – Oregon State's Kara Hallock took 10^th place in the heptathlon and earned second-team All-American honors on Saturday at the NCAA Track & Field National Championships at Hayward Field in Eugene.

A senior from Lebanon, Ore., Hallock scored 5,444 points in the two-day, seven-event competition, the third-highest total in school history and her No. 2 all-time mark. She became OSU's third All-American in that event, joining three-time Olympian Cindy Greiner (1981) and Sonya Crowther (1982).

On Saturday, Hallock scored 819 points in the long jump (19-4.25); 700 points in the javelin (136-10), and 813 points in the 800 meters (2:20.77) in the final three events on Saturday. Her 800 time was a PR by more than a second.

She placed sixth in the javelin and ninth in the long jump and 800. She was ranked 22^nd entering the NCAAs and bettered her seeding by 12 places.

She totaled 3,112 points on Friday in the first four events of the seven-event competition. She scored 942 points in the 100-meter hurdles (14.26); 701 points in the high jump (5-1.75); 660 points in the shot put (39-3.75), and 809 points in the 200 (25.86).

Her shot put mark was a PR and surpassed her former best of 38-5, set at the Pacific-12 Conference heptathlon, by nearly a foot.

She was the first Beaver to compete at the NCAA Championships since Laura Carlyle in 2012. Carlyle earned honorable-mention All-American honors in the 5,000 meters in 2011 and in the 1,500 meters in 2012.

Hallock qualified for the 24-woman final by taking second place at the Pac-12 heptathlon championships on May 6-7. Her 5,551-point performance was a PR by 172 points and was the No. 2 all-time score in OSU history.

The school record is 5,592 points, set by Sonya Harrigfeld Crowther at Walnut, Calif., on April 22-23, 1982.

A scorer in two events at the 2017 Pac-12 championships, Hallock will graduate next week. One of OSU's most-decorated performers since the program was revived in 2005 after a lengthy hiatus, she came to OSU in 2014 after a standout career at Lebanon High School and Lane Community College.

She ranks ninth all-time in the 200 meters (25.20); second all-time in the 100 hurdles (13.87) and in the long jump (19-10.75) and eighth all-time in the javelin (139-1). She also ran a leg on the No. 7 all-time 1,600-meter relay team.

Indoors, she is seventh in the 200 meters (26.21); fourth in the 60 hurdles (8.63), and second in the long jump (18-11.75), pentathlon (3,914 points) and 1,600-meter relay (3:50.92).

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NCAA Heptathlon

Friday's results
100 HURDLES: 15. Kara Hallock, 14.26, 942 points.
HIGH JUMP: 16. Kara Hallock, 5-1.75, 701 points.
SHOT PUT: 7. Kara Hallock, 39-3.75, 660 points.
200 METERS: 19. Kara Hallock, 25.86, 809 points.

Saturday's results
LONG JUMP: 9. Kara Hallock, 19-4.25, 819 points.
JAVELIN: 6. Kara Hallock, 136-10; 700 points.
800 METERS: 9. Kara Hallock, 2:20.77; 813 points.
FINAL: 10, 5,444 points.

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