RESULTS

WAVERLY, Iowa – Junior Brandy Smith of the Ithaca College women's track & field team won her second consecutive NCAA Division III National Championship in the discus on Thursday afternoon at Walston-Hoover Stadium on the campus of Wartburg College.

Smith becomes the seventh student-athlete at Ithaca College to record multiple national championships, and the first to do so since Emma Dewart '12 won back-to-back pentathlons in 2010 and 2011. It is also the fifth individual national title in track & field program history.

She bested the field on her final throw of the championship with a mark of 51.48 meters (168 feet, 10.75 inches). Smith fouled on her first two attempts before recording her first mark of 46.44 meters, and then followed with a toss of 44.98 meters. She once again fouled on the fifth try before bouncing back with the clinching heave, which was 1.44 meters (4' 9") farther than the runner-up from Wisconsin-Stevens Point. Smith entered the championship field seeded second overall at 51.92 meters.

Last spring, Smith blew away the field with a throw of 53.00 meters (173' 11") to notch the second-best performance in championship history, while her mark this afternoon is the fourth farthest all-time dating back to 1982.

It is the 33rd individual national championship in Ithaca College history.

Smith will look to add another championship to her credit tomorrow in the shot put at 1 p.m.