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Click here to read Jeremy Reeves' May 27 feature story on Trevor James from the Kenosha News

The Carthage College men's track and field team tied for 16th place at the Thursday-Saturday, May 24-26 NCAA Division III Outdoor Track and Field Championship at Claremont-Mudd-Scripps College's Burns Stadium in Claremont, Calif. 

McMurry University won the 84-team championship with 66 points, followed by Wisconsin-La Crosse second at 47, Wisconsin-Stout third at 38, Wisconsin-Oshkosh fourth at 35, CCIW-member North Central College fifth at 32.33, Wisconsin-Eau Claire sixth at 30, CCIW-member Augustana College (Ill.) seventh at 24, Rowan University eighth at 23, Central College, the University of La Verne and Middlebury College tied for ninth place at 21 points each, Hamline University, the State University of New York-Oneonta and Wisconsin-Whitewater tied for 12th place at 20 points each, Whitworth University 15th at 16.33, and Carthage tied for 16th place with Wabash College at 16 points each.  Carthage's best finish at the national championship was a tie for eighth place in 1977.

Carthage's Trevor James (So., Maywood, Ill./Chicago-Hope Academy), who took up the high jump just 15 months ago, won a national championship in the event (6-10 ¼), on Friday, May 25, and Greg Raimondi (Sr., Harwood Heights, Ill./Norridge-Ridgewood) finished third in the hammer throw (199-4).  Both earned U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association All-America honors.  

James is the Red Men's fourth individual outdoor champion and the first since Dion Ballentine won the long jump in 2003.  James finished the event in a three-way tie with Nebraska Wesleyan University's Tommie Bardsley and Wartburg College's Jonas Elusme.  All three competitors had two misses at 6-10 ¼ before clearing it, but James had no misses at the preceding heights, giving him the tiebreaker.  Derrik Guyette (Fr., Hortonville, Wis.) finished 18th in the shot put (51-0).