GENEVA – Senior Daysia Hargrave finished off her College of Wooster career at The NCAA Division III Outdoor Track & Field Championships at the SPIRE Academy in Geneva on Friday, finishing 21st in the 100-meter hurdles.
Hargrave, a two-time All-American in the hurdles, entered seeded 11th with a time of 14.11 seconds, which stands as the program record. The top qualifying time on Friday ran a time of 13.75 seconds. The top nine qualified for Saturday's finals.
Hargrave ran in the second of three heats on Friday. Hargrave looked solid out of the start but midway through clipped a hurdle and tumbled to the ground. However, she got up and was able to finish.
The third person to win the 100-meter event at the in the North Coast Athletic Conference three consecutive times, Hargrave was joined by conference foes Liberty Scott (DePauw) and Katherine Dortmund (Ohio Wesleyan).
Scott (11th, 14.24) and Dortmund (13th, 14.26) ran well enough to earn second team All-American.
This was the third time competing on the national stage for Hargrave and the second in the outdoor season. A season-ending injury kept her from being a qualifier during the 2022 outdoor and 2023 indoor seasons.
She earned a pair of second-team All-American certificates as a junior. In the outdoor meet, she did so with an 11th place showing in the 100-meter hurdles and in the indoor meet placed 16th in the 60-meter hurdles to earn her first.
"She's a success story for the program, coming back from so much adversity," head coach Dennis Rice said. "She did everything and everything we asked her to do, and she's accomplished great things to have an amazing career."