EUGENE, Oregon – LSU junior Alexis Guillory of Alexandria earned second-team All-America honors when she placed 10th in the javelin at the NCAA Track and Field Championships Thursday evening.

Guillory had a personal best throw of 52.73 meters (173 feet), and she did it on her third and final throw. Her first heave travelled 157 feet, 11 inches, and she landed her second throw at 169 feet.

She qualified for the national meet two weeks earlier in Lexington, Ky., at the NCAA East regional championships with a throw of 168 feet, 3 inches.

The NCAA champion was McKyla Van Der Westhuizen of Rice with a throw of 60.87 meters (199-8) in the 24-woman competition at the University of Oregon’s Hayward Field in Eugene, known as “Track Town USA.”

Only one athlete from the Southeastern Conference, Valentina Barrios Birnacelli of Missouri, did better than Guillory. Her best throw was 187 feet, 6 inches, for a fourth-place finish.