EUGENE, Oregon — Bowling Green’s Brooke Pleger finished third in the hammer throw Wednesday at the NCAA
track and field championships.
The redshirt junior’s best throw went 211-6. Princeton sophomore Julia Ratcliffe won with a throw of
219-5, while Colorado senior Emily Hunsucker finished second at 212-8.
Pleger, who finished seventh in the same event at nationals last season, was the No. 2 seed.
She threw 216-2 at the East Regional to finish behind only Ratcliffe, who had a mark of 221-6. Hunsucker
won the West Regional with a throw of 210-2.