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ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ 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.

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.

Sawler is the 10th track and field national champion in ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ history and the fourth indoors. He is the first ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ national champ since 1998, when Bill McEvila ’99 won the 35-pound weight at Brandeis University. This is the second national champion and 22nd All-America award in 17 years for ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ throwing coach Joe Woodhead.

“This feels great,” said Sawler after the event. “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.”