Published on May 13, 2017 by Philip Poole
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The Samford Bulldogs women’s track and field team won the 2017 Southern Conference outdoor championship May 12, cruising to an easy 51-point victory over Western Carolina University.
The win followed the team’s indoor championship earlier this year.
The Bulldog men finished a close second to Western Carolina, with the title decided in the last event of the weekend.
The championship meet was hosted by Samford May 11–12 at the Samford Track and Soccer Stadium.
Samford is a leading Christian university offering undergraduate programs grounded in the liberal arts with an array of nationally recognized graduate and professional schools. Founded in 1841, Samford is the 87th-oldest institution of higher learning in the United States. Samford enrolls 5,791 students from 49 states, Puerto Rico and 16 countries in its 10 academic schools: arts, arts and sciences, business, divinity, education, health professions, law, nursing, pharmacy and public health. Samford fields 17 athletic teams that compete in the tradition-rich Southern Conference and ranks 6th nationally for its Graduation Success Rate among all NCAA Division I schools.