Fifth Harmony’s latest hit is Down.
If you put Nina Schultz’s athletic accomplishments last week to music, it could suitably be called ‘Up.’
The New Westminster track and field star put a wrap to her freshman year at Kansas State by collecting the heptathlon silver at the NCAA championships in Eugene, Oregon.
While Billboard doesn’t chart athletes, the New West Spartans’ protege
definitely put down a trendy beat, scoring a pair of personal bests among a crowded field of junior and senior rivals.
Her two-day, seven-event point total of 5,959 only trailed Georgia University senior Kendell Williams, who won the title with 6,265 points.
On the first day, the 18-year-old New West athlete placed seventh in the 100-metre hurdles, coming just a 10th of a second off a personal best at 13.70 seconds. She tied for fourth in high jump (1.72m) and notched a new personal mark in the shotput, reaching a distance of 12.74m to place second.
In the 200m dash, Schultz finished ninth with a time of 25.12.
A day later, she recorded the fifth-best long jump at 6.10m, secured the top mark and a personal best in javelin at 46.70m, and completed the tournament with a time of 2:21.97 over the 800m, finishing 10th overall.
It capped a ground-breaking inaugural university year, where the soft-spoken Schultz netted a full complement of personal bests, while setting a new standard for Canadian under-20 women with her 6,021 total in May.
