Morgan Griffiths, a junior on the Kansas track and field team, secured a gold medal at the Inaugural Women’s Open Decathlon Championships this past weekend in Grass Valley, Calif.

Griffiths scored a total of 5,939 points to claim the highest point total of the 12 women under 30 competing in the event. Griffiths kicked the weekend off with 694 points in the 100-meter dash with a time of 13.44 seconds. In the second event of the weekend, Griffiths notched the top performance in the long jump with a wind-aided mark of 5.62 meters (18-5.25 ft.) to add 735 points to her total.

Griffiths scored 507 points in the shot put with a throw of 9.66 meters (31-8.5 ft.), which was the second-best mark in the women’s decathlon. She then cleared the second-highest bar of the day at 1.57 meters (5-1.75 ft.) in the high jump to score 701 points. Griffiths finished the first day with a 1:04.69 time in the 400-meter dash, adding 523 points to bring her total to 3,160 points.

Despite starting the second day by falling in the 100-meter hurdles and only tabbing 488 points with a time of 18.00 seconds, Griffiths rebounded by posting the top mark in the discus with a throw of 32.29 meters (105-11 ft.) to score 506 points. She also gained the top clearance in the pole vault at a height of 3.60 meters (11-9.75 ft.) to add another 803 points. It marked her highest point total of any event in the decathlon.

Griffiths capped things off in the field events with a second-place finish in javelin, recording a toss of 26.35 meters (86-5 ft.) to claim 408 points. She then concluded her weekend off with 574 points in the 1,500-meter run with a time of 5:41.43 seconds.