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CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – Several members of the Virginia Tech track & field team made Hokie history on the final day of the 2014 ACC Outdoor Track & Field Championships.

Amanda Smith became the first woman in Virginia Tech history to win the ACC Title in the women’s 800 meter. Sarah Rapp became the first woman at Virginia Tech to win an ACC title in the 5000-meter race. Grant Pollock became the first man in Hokie history to repeat as the men’s 1500-meter champion and Stephan Munz claimed the ACC title in the men’s pole vault.

The Virginia Tech women finished in sixth place with 69 total points, while the men finished in fifth with 78 points.

For the women, Smith won her race in the women’s 800-meter with a school-record setting time of 2:04.45, an improvement on her previous school record of 2:05.59 set back in 2013.

Rapp ran a personal best time of 16:12.47, 25 seconds faster than her previous personal best, en route to a first-place finish in the women’s 5000-meter race. Rapp became the first Hokie to ever win the race at the ACC meet.

Shannon Morton finished in third-place in the women’s 1500-meter final with a time of 4:32.74.

Christine London earned a point for the Hokies after finishing in eighth in the 400-meter hurdles with a time of 1:01.81.

On the men’s side, Pollock became the eighth person in ACC outdoor track & field history to win back-to-back 1500-meter titles after winning the race with a time of 3:50.34. The Hokies’ Juan Campos finished seventh in the 1500-meter final with a time of 3:51.73.

Tech dominated the men’s pole vault competition with Stephan Munz winning the men’s pole vault with a mark of 17’10.50” (5.45m), a new personal best. Munz’s win marks the fifth time in six years and the seventh time in 10 years that the Hokies have won the event. Torben Laidig hit a mark of 17’2.75” (5.25m) en route to a second-place finish. Chris Uhle and Jared Allison tied for fourth place both hitting 16’10.75” (5.15m).

In the men’s 100-meter dash, Tadashi Pinder ran an impressive time of 10.36, a personal best, en route to a second-place finish for the Hokies. Dante Price earned a sixth-place finish with a time of 10.61 seconds.

Competing in his first ACC meet, Patrick Joseph finished in seventh place in the men’s 800-meter final with a time of 1:52.36.

The Hokies will be back in action next weekend when they travel to they head to the Penn Relays and Radford Invitational.

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