By: By Hunter McKay
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KENNESAW, Ga. -- Kennesaw State Director of Track and Field and Cross Country
Andy Eggerth along with
Jordan Gray and
Joshua Mulder will represent Team USA and KSU in the 2017 IAAF Capital Cup Combined Events Championship to be held July 4-5 in Ottawa, Canada.
The event is a fixture on the IAAF World Combined Events Challenge Series and brings together the best heptathletes and decathletes in the western hemisphere.
Eggerth will coach Mulder and four others in the decathlon. Gray will be competing in the heptathlon.
Since coming to KSU in 2010, Eggerth has coached 17 All-Americans, and his teams have won 15 ASUN Conference Track and Field Championships and one Cross Country title.
Gray was accepted for the Combined Events Championship after winning the heptathlon at the ASUN Championships scoring an ASUN Outdoor Championship meet and KSU school record 5641 points. Her point total was 16th-best in the United States and 14th-best in the NCAA this season. The sophomore won all seven events in the heptathlon at the ASUN Championships. She set the heptathlon school record and ASUN Outdoor Championships heptathlon records in the shot put 12.94m (42'2.5) and javelin throw 39.02m (128'0). The Ball Ground, Georgia native set a school heptathlon record in the long jump with a leap of 6.11m (20'0.5). She has competed in five heptathlons this season and has won two and finished second, seventh and 13th in the other two. She earned a seventh-place finish in the heptathlon final at the NCAA Championships in Eugene, Oregon where she scored 5621 points on June 10-11. She broke her own heptathlon javelin school record with a toss of 39.97m (131'2). She finished 13
th in the heptathlon at the USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships on June 24-25 after scoring 5460 points.
Mulder was accepted for the Combined Events Championship after scoring 7320 points in the decathlon at the Virginia Challenge. At the Virginia Challenge, Mulder finished in the top 10 in nine of the 10 decathlon events while winning two events. He won the 100m hurdles with a season-best time of 14.43 seconds and the 400m with a season-best time of 48.39 seconds. Mulder won the gold medal in the decathlon at the ASUN Championships scoring 7012 points and winning six of the 10 events. The senior set an ASUN decathlon and school decathlon record with a clearance of 5.00m (16'4.75) in the pole vault.
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