Lead photo of Grant Fisher by Kirby Lee/Image of Sport. Lower photo of Christina Aragon by Howard Lao.
EUGENE, Ore. – Stanford sophomore Grant Fisher won the men's 1,500 meters at the Pac-12 Track and Field Championships at Hayward Field on Sunday and became the ninth individual in school history to win a men's 1,500 or mile at the outdoor conference meet.
Fisher, a returning first-team outdoor All-America in the 5,000, won a tactical race in 3:54.67 and became the first Stanford 1,500 champ since Garrett Heath in 2008.
Fisher tucked into the front pack in the slow early-going and was in a close third coming to the bell before unleashing a 51.81 final lap to outdistance Oregon runner-up Blake Haney, who finished nearly a second back.
Fisher joins a Stanford championship tradition that includes Gabe Jennings, Grant Robison, and Russell Brown, and spans all the way back to Bob Alexander, the 1937 Pacific Coast Conference winner.
Stanford collected points in all the middle-distance races.
Freshman Christina Aragon highlighted performances from the Stanford women by finishing second in the 800 in 2:05.67, the No. 5 time in Stanford freshman history.
Aragon came through the 400 in 1:02.98, but ran a negative split to finish strong. Her second lap was 1:02.70. In the race for second, Aragon led a group of three that finished within 0.06 of each other.
In the men's 800, Stanford's Tai Dinger, a redshirt sophomore, ran a personal best of 1:49.71 to place third. Dinger moved up on the final lap with a 56.70 split.
In the women's 1,500, Stanford senior Malika Waschmann was fourth in 4:24.19. Waschmann, who moved up from sixth on the final lap, led a group of four Cardinal runners who had reached the final.
Lena Giger and Danielle Katz each came back to score on the second consecutive day. Giger followed a third-place in Saturday's women's shot put to place seventh in the hammer (184-8, 56.28m) on Sunday. Katz followed her fifth in the Saturday's steeplechase to place seventh in the women's 5,000 (16:16.11).
In the 4x400 relays, the Stanford men were sixth (3:10.91) and the women were seventh (3:43.21).
Olivia Baker, the defending 400 champion, was in the midst of an extremely fast race, with the winner breaking the meet record. Baker was seventh in 53.71.
Also seventh were Daniel Brady (52.49) in the men's 400 hurdles and Alex Ostberg (14:06.46) in the men's 5,000.