SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Angela Whyte's phenomenal collegiate career ended Saturday at the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships. She took home All-America honors in two events, despite fighting through injury for most of the day.

Whyte finished third in the heptathlon - rather traumatically - after she tweaked her ankle and pulled her groin in the long jump. The pain was severe enough that Vandal coaches considered withdrawing her from the event for the second consecutive day.

Whyte finished with 5745 points - 254 behind champion Hyleas Fountain of Georgia and 94 behind Ellannee Richardson of WSU. Dacia Fernandez finished 25th with 4779 points.

Only hours after finishing the heptathlon, and still hurting from that morning's long jump, Whyte took 7th in the 100-meter hurdles with a time of 13.07.

"It doesn't sound very good, but for her to come back a couple hours after finishing the heptathlon was amazing," co-head coach Wayne Phipps said. "She was only .04 seconds out of fourth."

Phipps said that Whyte had trouble even clearing hurdles on the practice track in the hour before the race.

"There's no one I know at the collegiate level who could come back the way she did (after four days of running) and compete like that in the hurdles," Phipps said. "She could have just done the 100 hurdles and focused on that. But she wanted to score as many points for her team as she could."

Whyte's final day pushed the Vandals into 20th place with 13 points. The ranking is the second highest in the history of Vandal women's track.

"That's a major accomplishment," Phipps said. "We're really excited about finishing in the top-20. There are some major programs that we finished ahead of."