NEWBERG, Ore. – Defending Northwest Conference heptathlon champion Kira Hawaaboo sits in a neck-and-neck battle with George Fox's Jenna Huntsman for the 2025 title at the midway point of the 2025 NWC Multi-Event Championships being staged this week at George Fox University's Stoffer Family Stadium.
 
Following the results of Monday's four events, Hawaaboo trails Huntsman by five points, 2,883 to 2,878, followed closely by George Fox's Breeauna O'Rear with 2,748 points. Tuesday's final three events start at 12:30 p.m.
 
The NWC heptathlon title will be decided Tuesday when competitions in the long jump, javelin and 800-meter run are contested.
 
Five decathlon events were contested Monday with five more on the schedule for Tuesday starting at 11 a.m.
 
The points earned by each multi-event athlete's final finishes will be applied to their respective school's team total at the NWC Championships, which are set for April 26-27 at Lewis & Clark College's Griswold Stadium.
 
HEPTATHLON
Hawaaboo recorded one first-place finish and two second-place results on Day 1. She nailed down second place in the day's opening event, the 100-meter hurdles, cutting more than a half-second off her personal-best time to finish in 15.26.
 
In the high jump, Hawaaboo shared fourth place with Pacific's Dani Hammond, equaling her season-best effort with a leap of 5-0½. And with a heave of 34 feet, 4 inches, the junior from Enumclaw, Washington, sewed up second place in the shot put.
 
Hawaaboo went on to win Monday's final event, the 200-meter dash, to pull within five points of Huntsman in the overall point standings.
 
DECATHLON
Linfield's Durham Huson established three new personal records in individual events on Day 1 in his fourth men's multi-events decathlon competition. Huson scored 3,006 points on the first day of competition and sits eighth among 11 challengers. He is on pace to surpass his previous best decathlon mark of 5,404 points set three weeks ago at the Klein/Nwaba Combined Events in Santa Barbara, Calif.
 
Huson sprinted to a seventh-place showing in the 100-meter dash, registering a personal-record time of 11.37.
 
In the long jump, Huson placed eighth with a mark of 19-0¾. He cleared 5-8 in the high jump, good for seventh place among the 11 competitors.
 
Huson followed that up with a personal best mark of 30-0½ in the shot put, though the sophomore from Hillsboro, Oregon, finished in 11th place.
 
In the day's final event, the 400-meter run, Huson placed sixth overall in a personal-record time of 53.12 seconds.