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May 14, 2008 Indianapolis, IN – The NCAA Division II Men’s Track and Field Committee has announced the participants for the 2008 NCAA Division II Men’s and Women’s Outdoor Track and Field Championships and Saint Martin’s Sam Washington is one of the qualifiers. Washington will compete in the men’s shot put and is currently ranked 12th overall of the 17 competitors. This is only the second time that Saint Martin's has had a field event competitor at the outdoor national championships. Julie Mattson represented the Saints in 2000 in the women’s javelin finishing ninth. Washington earned his first win of the season at the Joe Peyton Invitational with a school record throw of 48’4 ¾”. He has since broken the school record six more times and picked up four more wins including the GNAC Championship with a throw of 54’6 ½”, second longest in GNAC history. The championships will be held May 22-24 at the Hilmer Lodge Stadium on the campus of Mount San Antonio College in Walnut, CA. Washington was one of three Saints to take part in the Ken Foreman Invitational at UW last Saturday. He won the shot event with a throw of 52’11.5”. John Riak and Bryan Gerry also competed at the meet. Riak ran the 5k in 15:09.44 while Gerry posted a time on 51.27 in the 400m.
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