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Track and Field athlete J Patrick Smith

J P Smith

  • Award
    Wildcat Athletes of the Week
  • Week Of
    4/7/2014
  • Sport
    Men's Track & Field
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Not even 40-plus mph wind gusts could blow J Patrick Smith off course in his quest for a third consecutive NCAA Division II Decathlon Championship. Smith scored 7,351 points despite sustained winds of 15-20 mph Saturday to win the stacked Sam Adams Multi Event Decathlon at Westmont College in Santa Barbara.
 
The Wildcat of the Week’s season-high point total is far and away the most in Division II this year and the eighth highest by any collegiate athlete. Teammate John Brunk is second in the standings with 7,262.
 
Smith, a senior from Dos Pueblos High School in neighboring Goleta, posted an NCAA Provisional Qualifying mark in the long jump (7.26 meters) as well as season bests in the 100-meters (10.95), 400 meters (50.27) Friday. He hurled the discus a career-best 42.44 meters on Saturday.
 
Smith’s 100 and 400-meter races were especially memorable. Decathlon World Record holder and 2012 Olympic Gold Medalist Adam Eaton competed in those events as well.
 
In doing so, Eaton became one of the few athletes to finish ahead of Smith over the past two-plus seasons.
 
Smith cemented a spot at the NCAA Championships with an Automatic Qualifying mark at the Chico Multi Invitation in February, along with teammates Brunk and Theodore Elsenbaumer, who rank second and third in Division II, respectively. The trio will tangle for the NCAA title May 22-23 in Allendale, Mich.
 


Athlete Awards
Date Athlete Sport
10/17/2017 Donta'e Garcia Men's Soccer
10/10/2017 Brooke Coelho Women's Soccer
10/10/2017 Eddie King Men's Cross Country
10/3/2017 Ryan Caro Men's Soccer
10/3/2017 Alex Burkhart Women's Cross Country
9/26/2017 Pooja Patel Women's Soccer
9/26/2017 Fabian Roman Men's Soccer
9/19/2017 Connor Fisher Men's Cross Country
9/19/2017 Makaela Keeve Volleyball
9/12/2017 Olivia Mediano Volleyball
9/12/2017 Eruvey Arceta Men's Soccer
9/5/2017 Jeremiah Egujie Men's Soccer
9/5/2017 Erin Woods Women's Soccer
5/31/2017 Dotun Olubeko Men's Track & Field
5/31/2017 Sadie Gastelum Women's Track & Field
5/15/2017 McCall Habermehl Women's Track & Field
5/15/2017 Dillon Kelley Baseball
5/9/2017 Kelly McConnell Men's Track & Field
5/9/2017 Jami Duarte Women's Track & Field
5/1/2017 Steven Baker Baseball
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