PUEBLO, Colorado – Sean Dixon put his name in Oklahoma Baptist University lore when he secured the first D2 national championship in track and field when he won the 400-meter hurdles at the NCAA Division II Outdoor Track and Field Championships.

Since joining the Division II ranks in 2016, no Bison track team or student-athlete before Dixon, a senior from Jacksonville, Fla., had ever won a national title on Bison Hill.

Dixon won the race in 49.54, a personal-best and just three, one-hundredths of a second away from the 2005 OBU record set by Pat Brown (49.51).

Harding junior Vlad Malykhin won his sixth national championship in the pole vault, his third outdoors and he added his sixth All-America honor.

He cleared 5.52 meters on his first attempt at that height.