Riverside— Matthew Sam set a new personal record in the Decathlon Friday at the UC Riverside Spring Track Classic finishing with 4.967 points—nearly 200 points better than the 4,774 points he accumulated last season at the Big West Championship. He also moved into fifth place on UC Riverside's Top Performers List with Friday's effort.
View complete Decathlon results.On Thursday, Sam finished third in the 100m (11.44), second in the Long Jump (6.59m), ninth in the Shot Put (10.60m), seventh in the High Jump (1.81m), and fourth in the 400m (52.25). On Friday, he came in 15th in the 110m Hurdles (24.29), eighth in the Discus (31.29m), sixth in the Pole Vault (3.75m), seventh in the Javelin (42.80m) and 14th in the 1,500m.
| Men's Decathlon |
| Student-Athlete | Team | Points |
| 1 | Herman Day | Long Beach State | 7,249 |
| 2 | Brock Larson | North Dakota State | 6,691 |
| 3 | Ryan Emerson | North Dakota State | 6,481 |
| 4 | Grant Mjelstad | North Dakota State | 6,374 |
| 5 | Jake Ostgaard | Cal State Fullerton | 6,002 |
| 6 | Eric Durrant | Southern Utah | 5,995 |
| 7 | Johnathan Broadhead | Long Beach State | 5,890 |
| 8 | Matt Moberg | North Dakota State | 5,863 |
| 9 | Jackson Schepp | Concordia-MO | 5,618 |
| 10 | Zachary Munoz | Cal State Fullerton | 5,507 |
| 11 | Joe Hendrickson | Concordia-MO | 5,487 |
| 12 | Gabe Wright | Concordia-MO | 5,098 |
| 13 | Matthew Sam | UC Riverside | 4,967 |
| 14 | Hans-Kristof Nelson | Concordia-MO | X4,877 |
