Bollard, a senior, won the Iowa Conference decathlon with an NCAA provisional qualifying score of 6380 points. Last year’s decathlon runner-up, he bested the 13 competitor field by 91 points. Bollard overcame an eight-point deficit heading into the final event, the 1500-meters. He posted the top time in the 1500 (4:29.27) and moved past Cornell’s James Klobucar. He finished in the top-three (of 13 participants) in seven of the 10 events – 1500-meters, 400-meters (1st, 49.36 seconds), 100-meters (2nd, 11.17 seconds), discus (2nd, 33.00 meters), 110-hurdles (3rd, 15.71 meters), long jump (3rd, 6.68 meters) and pole vault (3rd, 3.43 meters). He posted career-best marks in the discus, pole vault, 100-meters, long jump and 400-meters.
