Decathlon
A total of six men scored more than 8000 points, which is the most at a single collegiate meet. Johannes Hock of Texas and Maicel Uibo of Georgia both posted their second 8000+ efforts of the season.
Texas freshman Johannes Hock won a back-and-forth event with 8,267 points, the ninth-best total in collegiate history. He became just the second freshman to win the event at the national meet (Tito Steiner of BYU, 1977), according to records supplied by Track and Field News.
Washington’s Jeremy Taiwo’s runner-up score of 8,239 makes him the eighth-best performer (not the eighth-best score) in NCAA history, and yet just second on the Washington top-10 list, as the No. 4 performer in NCAA history is Mike Ramos, who scored 8,322 points in 1986 and won the NCAA title that year. Taiwo’s runner-up finish is the second-best ever for a Husky aside from Ramos’ win. Taiwo’s total is also the seventh-best score in NCAA meet history, and the 12th-best decathlon score in NCAA history at any meet. And all that work over two days gives the Husky men’s team eight points at nationals. more
