MARIETTA, Ohio - The Wartburg College women's track and field team woke up Saturday with zero points at the NCAA Division III championships.

In a 4 1/2-hour span Saturday afternoon, the Knights racked up 52 points and captured their first outdoor national title since 2005 with a two-point victory over Wisconsin-Oshkosh at Don Drumm Memorial Stadium.

"This was our goal from day one," Wartburg coach Marcus Newsom said. "We never, ever wavered away from that. I feel very special and privileged we could do what we did."

The championship was determined in the final event - the 4x400. With Oshkosh holding an eight-point lead, Wartburg had to win the race to complete the sweep of indoor and outdoor championships in the same calendar year.

The quartet of Nevada Morrison, Chelsey Jacobs, Jenny Kordick and Hannah Baker left little doubt after posting a school-record time of 3 minutes, 43.48 seconds. The 10 points were enough to leapfrog Oshkosh, which didn't have a team in the 4x400 finals.

It's the third consecutive year Wartburg owns the 4x400 national crown.

"In my opinion, if you're going to be in the hunt for a (team) title, you've got to have a 4x400 team in the hunt," Newsom said. "This group has had the pressure all year long of leading the nation. It was pretty special what they did today."

Waterloo West graduate Akeya Aimable won the triple jump with a leap of 39-10 3/4. Aimable, who had never competed in the triple jump until this winter, completed a season sweep after winning the indoor championship in that event.

"She should get the key to the city of Waterloo," Newsom said. "For her to represent the Cedar Valley, the community of Waterloo and Wartburg like she did was unbelievable."

The Knights' other championship came from the foursome of Faith Burt, Morrison, Kordick and Kelsey Steffens in the 4x100. The relay recorded the best time in Division III this year at 46.21.

Burt, a freshman from Cedar Falls, collected a third in the 200 with a school-record time of 24.8. She was fourth in the 100 in 12.22.

Morrison and Baker finished fourth and fifth, respectively, in the 400, while Anna Kraayenbrink registered two critical points for the Knights by taking seventh in the 5,000.

"There were some peaks and valleys this year, but in the end, this team just believed they could reach this goal," said Newsom, whose program became the seventh Division III women's team to win indoor and outdoor titles in the same season. "It's something really special to see a group of individuals do what they did in 4 1/2 hours.

"It just tells you the type of character these girls have."

Meanwhile, the Wartburg men finished with 18 points and three All-American awards. Brian Chenoweth followed up his third-place finish in the 10,000 with a third in the 5,000. Junior Russell Harris was eighth in the 110-meter high hurdles.