The Westmont College men’s 4×800 relay finished in third place at the NAIA Track & Field Championships in Marion, Ind., on Thursday and earned All-American honors.
With Andres Leon, one of Westmont’s four runners from the preliminaries, unable to compete, Ben Bodine led things off for the Warriors. Bodine, Adam King, Jack Vanden Heuvel, and Zola Sokhela combined to finish the event in with a time of 7:34.75.
It was the the sixth-best time in Westmont history.
“During the last 400 it started to hit me,” said Adam King, who ran the final race of his Westmont career on Thursday. “I was telling myself, ‘This is your last 300 in the NAIA, this is your last 200 as a Warrior.’ That was my mindset going into it, and I don’t really know why.
“Usually, I’m not sentimental like that, but, this is it, my last race at Westmont.”