BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Lindsey Butler earned the Hokies' second national title of the 2022 NCAA Indoor Championships on Saturday, taking the win in the women's 800m final.
Butler's time of 2:01.37 gives her the first 800m championship in Virginia Tech history and makes her only the second woman in ACC history to take the indoor title, joining Clemson's Natoya Goule, who won in 2015.
Season of Success
Following her teammate Rachel Baxter's national championship in the pole vault Friday night, Butler gives the Hokies their 19th individual NCAA title in program history. The junior from Corning, N.Y. improves her fourth-place finish in the 800m at the NCAA Championships in 2021 and earns the fourth All-American honor of her career. Butler's NCAA title marks the third championship she's won this season, after she defended her 800m ACC title and anchored the Hokies' distance medley relay to the win at this year's ACC Championships.
800m Dominance
Now an NCAA champion, Butler and the Hokies have held a chokehold on the 800m in recent years. Earning back-to-back indoor ACC titles in the event with an NCAA-leading time of 2:01.23, Butler helped Tech claim eight of the previous nine women's 800m titles at the indoor ACC Championships. Butler joined Hanna Green and Rachel Pocratsky as the third woman to repeat as ACC 800m winner in the past seven years.
Pair of Champions
Butler and Baxter's national championships means this weekend is the first time in Virginia Tech history that the Hokies have won multiple titles at the same NCAA Indoor Championships, and only the third time in school history that Tech has claimed multiple titles at the same national meet. In 2011 the Hokies swept the hammer throw outdoors as Dorotea Habazin and Alexander Ziegler won the women's and men's competitions, and in 2010 Queen Harrison became the first woman in NCAA history to win the 100m hurdles and 400m hurdles at the same Outdoor Championships.
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