As if a season of setting records and being awarded numerous honors wasn’t enough, Laulauga Tausaga closed out her 2019 outdoor track campaign by winning the NCAA discus title.

Coming off of a school-record throw of 62.69 meters that was tops among both NCAA regional meets, Tausaga launched a throw of 63.26 meters in the finals to bring home a national championship.

Tausaga previously finished seventh at the NCAAs as a freshman and fourth as a sophomore. Finally, she brought home gold as a junior to be the first Hawkeye woman to win an NCAA outdoor title since 1985.

“I’m so excited for Laulauga winning Iowa women’s first NCAA Outdoor Championship in 34 years,” Iowa Director of Track and Field Joey Woody said in a release. “I’m very proud of her and [assistant] Coach [Eric] Werskey for this amazing accomplishment.”

Tausaga is the fourth Iowa woman to win an NCAA title and 14th overall in Iowa track and field history. Tausaga is also the first Hawkeye to win a national title in a throwing event.

The championship is just the latest in a long line of memorable performances for Tausaga in her Iowa career to this point.

“She had an unbelievable year from indoors all the way to the outdoor championships,” Woody said in a release. “She’s an amazing competitor and showed today why she’s one of the best throwers in the NCAA.”

Tausaga’s winning throw makes her the 10th-best performer in NCAA history.

While no other champions were named, the conclusion of the outdoor season in Austin, Texas, had plenty of other performances to make Hawkeye fans proud.

The men’s 4×400-meter relay put up a time that would ordinarily put the squad into position to join Tausaga on the victory podium.

Wayne Lawrence Jr., Antonio Woodard, Karayme Bartley, and Mar’Yea Harris ran a school record 3:00.14 to finish fourth in the country in an event dominated by southern schools.

It is only the fifth time since 1964 that a time of 3:00.14 did not win the event, and the first time ever that a time that fast fell to fourth place.

To add additional context to the impressive nature of the time the relay squad put up, it would have placed seventh at the 2016 Rio Olympics.

The Hawkeyes might have came in fourth in the event, but Woody could not be any prouder of how they performed on the championship track.

“I thought the guys competed tremendously,” he said in a release. “They went for it put everything out there. We told them to compete like they never had before and to lay it all out there. You can’t be disappointed with the way they did that.”

Joining Tausaga, the relay crew earned first-team All-American recognition for their performance. Five additional Hawkeyes accompanied them with the honor.

Nathan Mylenek earned a second-team honor after finishing ninth in the steeplechase. Jay Hunt (high jump) and Nia Britt (shot put) earned All-America honorable mentions in the field events, while Tria Simmons and Jenny Kimbro earned the same distinction in the heptathlon.

With the conclusion of the NCAA Outdoor Championships, the season has come to an end for Iowa, but if one thing is for certain, it is one Hawkeye fans will remember for years to come.