{"id":22892,"date":"2002-03-08T14:29:00","date_gmt":"2002-03-08T18:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=22892"},"modified":"2015-03-27T11:53:11","modified_gmt":"2015-03-27T15:53:11","slug":"sawler-wins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2002\/03\/08\/sawler-wins\/","title":{"rendered":"Sawler &#039;02 wins NCAA championship in 35-pound weight throw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2002\/03\/jaime-sawler-trophy.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"195\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2002\/03\/jaime-sawler-trophy.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium alignleft\" alt=\"jaime-sawler-trophy\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bates College senior captain Jaime Sawler of Stratham, N.H., capped off the final indoor meet of his career by winning 35-pound weight throw at the NCAA Division III indoor track and field championships at Ohio Northern University in Ada, Ohio.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Sawler won the meet with a throw of 64 feet, 1.75 inches (19.55 meters). The second seed in the event, he threw 15 inches further than runner-up Noah Eschenbach of the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point who had a distance of 62-10.5 (19.16 meters). Sawler completed the 2001-02 indoor track and field season undefeated against NCAA Division III competition.<\/p>\n<p>Sawler is the 10th track and field national champion in Bates history and the fourth indoors. He is the first Bates national champ since 1998, when Bill McEvila &#8217;99 won the 35-pound weight at Brandeis University. This is the second national champion and 22nd All-America award in 17 years for Bates throwing coach Joe Woodhead.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This feels great,&#8221; said Sawler after the event. &#8220;Coach Woodhead was a big key to success. He is the best coach in Division III, as far as I am concerned. It feels good to win this for myself and for him too.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bates College senior Jaime Sawler became the 10th man in school history to win a national championship in track and field when he captured the 35-pound weight throw at the NCAA Division III championships at Ohio Northern University in Ada, Ohio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[4534,5879],"class_list":["post-22892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-athletics","tag-jaime-sawler","tag-mens-weight-throw"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22892"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91063,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22892\/revisions\/91063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}