Boss, Self Top Performers as Western Oregon, Seattle Pacific Repeat

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Andrew Boss of Simon Fraser and Torrie Self of Central Washington were selected the Outstanding Male and Female Performers at the 2011 GNAC Indoor Track and Field championships w at Jackson's Track in Nampa.

Western Oregon and Seattle Pacific, meanwhile, successfully defended their team titles. The Wolves won their fourth straight men's crown out pointing Western Washington 147.83 to 135.

Seattle Pacific claimed its eighth consecutive women's championship with 126 1/2 points, by far the lowest winning point total in meet history. The lowest previous winning total was 154 by the Falcons in 2006.

Boss won the men's 200 meters and 400 meters in times of 21.84 and 49.18. His 200 time was one of three meet records set, all by first-year GNAC member Simon Fraser.

SFU's Helen Crofts won the women's 400 in a GNAC-record time of 55.90, while the Clan on Friday won the men's distance medley relay in a meet-record time of 10:05.81.

Self added the shot put title (45-10) Saturday to the weight throw championship (53-7 1/2) she won Friday.

In addition to Boss and Self, two other athletes - Simon Fraser's Jane Channell and Ali Worthen of Seattle Pacific - were two-event champions.

Channell finished first in both the women's 60 and 200 in times of 7.81 and 25.57, respectively, while Worthen won the high jump (5-5 1/4) Saturday after winning the long jump (18-2 1/2) on Friday.

Worthen's wins were her second in both events as she also finished first in both events in 2009.

Four other athletes were repeat champions including Western Washington pole vaulter Ryan Brown, who won his fourth consecutive title with a vault of 15-9 1/4.

Brown is just the third athlete to win the same event four times joining Latasha Essien of Seattle Pacific, who accomplished that feat in the women's 60 (2007-10) and Krissy Tandle of Central Washington who won four shot put titles (2005-07, 09).

Other repeaters included Jordan Welling and Sarah Porter of Western Washington and Jason Slowey of Western Oregon.

Welling and Porter won the 5,000 meter races Saturday for the second year in a row in times of 15:15.07 and 17:18.68, respectively. Slowey claimed the men's shot title Friday with a put of 52-8.

GNAC Indoor (Feb. 18-19 at Nampa): Men - Western Oregon 147.83, Western Washington 135, Central Washington 104.83, Northwest Nazarene 104.33, Simon Fraser 67, Seattle Pacific 41, MSU Billings 12, Saint Martin's 11. Women - Seattle Pacific 126 1/2, Simon Fraser 120, Northwest Nazarene 97, Western Oregon 85, Central Washington 80 1/2, Western Washington 72 1/2, MSU Billings 30 1/2, Saint Martin's 10.