EUGENE, Ore. -- Washington State's Alissa Brooks-Johnson is in 11th place after the first day of the heptathlon Friday at the NCAA Track & Field Championships at Hayward Field on the Oregon campus in Eugene.
 
Brooks-Johnson, a redshirt senior from Doty, Wash., scored 3,419 points, which is 11th place among the 23 remaining competitors. Her first-day total is the second-highest in her career.
 
The three-time Pac-12 heptathlon champion (2015, 2017, 2018) and 2017 All-American, Brooks-Johnson opened the day running the 100m hurdles in a time of 13.84 seconds which was 13th-fastest of the 24 women competing. She high jumped a height of 5-feet 5 1/4 inches (1.66m) which was tied for 15th overall.
 
In the shot put, after her first two throws were unremarkable, Brooks-Johnson threw a lifetime-best mark of 42-2 3/4 (12.87m), a distance that is one foot better than her previous PR and the fourth best on the day. Those points moved her from 17th to 10th in the overall standings after three of the seven events.
 
Brooks-Johnson ended her first day with a 200m dash time of 24.93 seconds, 14th-fastest on the day. Her first-day total of 3,419 points is 333 points behind the leader, Georgia sophomore Louisa Grauvogel.
 
Saturday's heptathlon events are the long jump, javelin and 800m.
  
NOTEWORTHY:

• Thursday, Kaili Keefe placed 16th in the women's 1500m with a PR of 4:15.39 (second-best in WSU all-time) and Stephanie Cho placed 20th in the women's 400m hurdles
• Wednesday, Brock Eager placed 14th in the men's hammer, Sander Moldau placed tied for 17th in the men's pole vault, and Chandler Teigen finished 24th in the men's 1500m semifinals