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Tyler Grob Smashes SVSU and GLIAC Decathlon Records on Day Two of GLIACs
Tyler Grob (Pinckney, Mich.), a 6-foot-2 senior on the SVSU men's track & field team, had a week for the record books at the 2013 GLIAC Outdoor Track and Field Championships hosted by Ashland University.
Grob finished the first day of competition with 3,510 points atop the decathlon standings after five events. Tyler sits 41 points ahead of Lake Superior State's Kaleb Schweiger in second position.
Grob earned top honors in the shot put after a mark of 41-feet-4 1/4 inches, while posting a runner-up finish in the 400 meter dash crossing the line in 50 seconds flat.
Tyler also notched a second place showing in the 100 meter dash after clocking in at 11.34 seconds and a fourth place finish in the long jump with a distance of 20-feet-4 1/4 inches.
After sleeping on a 41-point lead Wednesday night through five events, senior decathlete Grob increased his margin with runner-up finishes in the first two events on Thursday. Grob posted a time of 15.70 seconds in the 110 hurdles before hurling the discus 122-feet-2 inches to assert his dominance at the top of the standings.
In event No. 8 of 10, Tyler went up by over 400 points after finishing in the top spot of the pole vault after clearing 15-feet-9 inches. Grob then took third in the javelin throw with a heave of 146-feet-5 inches.
In the final event, Tyler Grob clinched the title finishing in first place in the 1500 meter run. Grob earned an NCAA Division II Automatic Qualifying mark for nationals with a total score of 7,024 points breaking both the GLIAC (1998: 6917 - Mike Stowe, GVSU) and SVSU (1995: 6786 - Dustin Snodgrass) records.
Grob now holds the Saginaw Valley State University school records in both the indoor heptathlon and the outdoor decathlon and has the 5th best score in the nation.
The SVSU men's and women's track and field teams will be back in action Saturday (April 27) at the Lyle Bennett Open hosted by Central Michigan University.
