PUEBLO, Colo. – Trace Hanchett earned Second Team All-American honors to cap off his true freshman season, finishing in 12^th place in the javelin with a throw of 65.38 meters (214 feet, 6 inches) at the Division II Outdoor National Championships in Pueblo, Colorado. 

Entering the competition as the No. 15 seed out of 22 competitors, Hanchett placed fourth of 11 in the first of two flights, leading to a nervous wait throughout the second flight to see if Hanchett's mark would be good enough to qualify for the finals. 

Heading into the final attempt of flight two, Hanchett was clinging to the ninth and last finals spot, but three higher-seeded javelin throwers found better marks on their third attempts. Hanchett still hung on to the final All-American place, with Second Team All-America honors going to the ninth through 12^th place finishers in each event at the national meet. 

That makes it a trifecta of Second Team All-Americans for the Chadron State program, as all three Eagle national qualifiers this year finished in that 9-12 window. Previously, Nicquaine Henry placed 11^th in the 400 hurdles on Thursday and Chayton Bynes placed 10^th in the triple jump on Friday.

With three outdoor Second Team All-Americans this season, Chadron State doubles their all-time total in program history (Second Team All-Americans were introduced in 2016). The three All-American selections (of any team) are CSC's most since 2017.

Hanchett's scoring mark came on his first throw of the competition. The mark of 65.38 (214-6) is the third-farthest throw of both Hanchett's season and the history of the Chadron State program. The throw was about five feet shy of Hanchett's PB/school record of 66.93 (219-7), but still far exceeds Deron Dolfi's 1986 mark of 206-8, which had stood as the CSC school record for nearly 40 years prior to Hanchett's emergence this year. 

Hanchett's heave was the sixth-farthest among the 22 competitors on each contestant's first attempt. In the first flight, Hanchett was sitting in second place after his first-round throw.

The Philipsburg, Kansas native threw 60.88 meters (199-9) on his second attempt. Hanchett fouled on his third attempt, but it would not have had the distance to improve his mark had it counted. 

Hanchett finished the event as the top RMAC placer and the second-highest freshman placer. East Stroudsburg freshman Luke Stevenosky finished seventh. 

Pittsburg State's Caleb Calvin, who entered the competition as the No. 1 seed, won the national title. As the last to throw in the finals, Calvin already had the championship locked up before his final attempt, but still improved on his final throw to finish with a mark of 75.94 meters (249-2). The cutoff to get into the finals was 66.49 meters (218-1). 

Pittsburg State won the men's team national title for the fourth consecutive year, ahead of West Texas A&M, Grand Valley State, Wingate and Harding. On the women's side, Grand Valley State edged out RMAC foe Adams State by a single point, with the Grizzlies finishing as runners-up for the second straight year, followed by Pittsburg State and a tie for fourth between West Texas A&M and Fresno Pacific.