Houston Christian University Athletics

Junior Denim Rogers became HBU's first Southland Conference men's individual champion when he captured the gold in the heptathlon Monday at the Southland Conference Indoor Championships in Birmingham, Alabama. The San Antonio native scored 5,528 points, the fourth-highest total in the history of the championship, the 18th-best mark in the nation and the third-highest from a student-athlete outside the "Power 5" conferences.