ALL-AMERICAN! Braga Wraps Up Decathlon with an Eighth Place Finish at NCAA’s

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Merrimack College men's track & field graduate student John Braga entered the final two events of the 2018 Division II NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships decathlon sitting in 11^th place. He saved the best for his final two events in the javelin throw and 1500m race to finish the decathlon in eighth place and earn All-American status.

The Basics
Date: Thursday & Friday, May 24-25, 2018
Event: 2018 NCAA Division II Outdoor Track & Field Championships
Location: Charlotte, North Carolina | Johnson C. Smith University | Irwin Belk Complex

Day Two Decathlon

• Braga had his highest finish in the javelin event, coming in third place. He had a distance of 50.40m, scoring 595 points.
• In the final event of the day, the 1500m race, Braga came in seventh event with a time of 4:38.11. He was less than three seconds behind the fifth place finisher, Kodiak Landis, from Central Washington University.
• Braga opened up the second day with the 110m hurdles. He finished in 12^th place with a time of 15.98 seconds. He was within three one hundredths of a second behind the 11^th place finisher Spencer Jahr from Colorado Mesa.
• He finished was 11^th in the pole vault event. Braga reached a mark of 4.15m, scoring 659 points.