BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — UTSA's Gary Haasbroek and Danielle Spence each collected second-team All-America honors with their performances Saturday at the NCAA Indoor Track & Field Championships at the Birmingham CrossPlex.
Haasbroek scored 5,601 points to finish 10th in the heptathlon and Spence placed 13th in the triple jump with a mark of 12.80 meters (42-0) on the final day of the national championship meet.
A freshman from Melbourne, Australia, Haasbroek entered the second day of the heptathlon in 12th place with 3,103 points. The UTSA and Australian national record-holder posted a time of 9.13 in the 60-meter hurdles to add 717 points before a pair of strong showings to round out the seven-event competition. He cleared 5.06m (16-7 ¼) for second among the 16-man field in the pole vault, good for 929 points, before crossing first in the 1,000m in 2:41.96 for 852 points to move into 10th.
Haasbroek, the Conference USA heptathlon champion, is UTSA's 17th male to earn All-America accolades and the first to do so indoors since Richard Garrett Jr. garnered first-team honors in the shot put in 2014. His point total is the most scored by a Roadrunner in the NCAA Indoor heptathlon and he is the program's first multi-event indoor All-American since Brandon Buteaux finished seventh in 2006.
Spence became the UTSA women's 12th All-American with her showing in the triple jump Saturday. The sophomore from Kingston, Jamaica, skipped to a measurement of 12.80m (42-0) on her third and final jump after fouling on her first try and touching the sand at a distance of 12.76m (41-10 ½) on her second attempt.
Spence, who shattered a 27-year-old school record and won the C-USA triple jump crown earlier this season, now is UTSA's first female All-American in the indoor triple jump and the second in the discipline overall, joining 1985 eighth-place finisher Starlite Williams. She also is the first Roadrunner to earn an indoor All-America certificate on the women's side since Ryanne Dupree placed fourth in the pentathlon in 2006.
