Des Moines, IA -- Mount St. Mary’s senior Tom FitzSimons finished in 19th place in the decathlon at the 2011 NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships to earn Third Team All-America honors. FitzSimons finished the decathlon with 7,364 points in the field of 24 competitors.

The final two events were postponed last night due to the weather and finished today at Drake Stadium.

Today, FitzSimons scored 584 points in the javelin with a mark of 49.68 meters before finishing the decathlon with the third-best time in the 1,500-meter run at 4:16.04 for 839 points.

Yesterday, FitzSimons tallied 841 points in the 110-meter hurdles with his time of 15.07 in the first event of the second day of the decathlon. He followed with 644 points with his toss of 38.99 meters in the discus before garnering 790 points for his mark of 4.60 meters in the pole vault.

Mike Morrison (California) won the decathlon with 8,118 points, ahead of Curtis Beach of Duke (8,084) and Miller Moss of Clemson (7,996).

FitzSimons is the Mount’s first All-America in the decathlon since Rob Pendergist in 1994. Current Mount St. Mary’s head track coach Jim Stevenson was an All-American in the decathlon in 1993.