GULF SHORES, Ala. -- Indiana Wesleyan University’s Michael Moffitt (JR/Marion, Ind.) was crowned NAIA national champion Friday night in the Men’s High Jump at the 2015 NAIA Outdoor Track and Field National Championship in Gulf Shores, Alabama.

Moffitt won the 22-jumper field with a height of 6 feet 11.50 inches. Moffitt and Anthony Johnson of Evergreen State (Wash.) tied with the highest mark of the competition. But Moffitt won the tie-breaker that went back to when the bar was at 6 feet 10.25 inches. Moffitt cleared that height in one attempt while Johnson took two tries to clear the height.

The NAIA national championship is the ninth all-time in Indiana Wesleyan athletic history. Moffitt is the sixth track and field student-athlete to win an individual championship and the first to win the men’s high jump title. Darrian Mikell won the last Wildcat track and field championship in the Men’s Long Jump held at Indiana Wesleyan in 2013.