Alyx Treasure leapt to a personal best 1.86 metres en route to a silver medal at the NCAA Div. 1 outdoor track and field championships Saturday.
The Prince George high jumper, a 22-year-old junior competing at Kansas State, went five-for-five in the first five rounds of the event at the University of Oregon in Eugene, before dropping out at 1.89m in three attempts.
Treasure tied for second with East Carolina's Tynita Butts, finishing behind only Georgia's Leontia Kallenou - also the only three jumpers to have the minimum of three missed attempts.
In the process, Treasure earned First-Team All-America honours.
"It's bittersweet, but I'm ecstatic I got second," Treasure said on the Kansas State Wildcats website. "The height isn't where I wanted to be yet, but I felt like I jumped really well up to [1.89m]. Then I kind of let things get into my head and rushed it a bit. I felt I should have had it, but considering everything else I jumped well at every other bar."
It's been quite the season for Treasure.
She won silver at the Big 12 Outdoors, tied for first place at the NCAA
regional championships in Fayetteville, Ark. with a leap of 1.77 metres.
Treasure became the first Kansas State Wildcat women's high jumper to appear on the outdoor national stage since Kaylene Wagner in 2007.
She became K-State women's first runner-up performance nationally since Gwen Wentland tied for second in 1995.
The first team honours are the first of her career and she is now a three-time All-American counting her indoor accomplishments. Treasure is also the first Wildcat women's high jumper since Wagner in 2007 to earn first team honours nationally outdoors.
