SEATTLE (Sept. 8) ­ Danielle Ayers-Stamper, the Great Northwest Athletic Conference female athlete of the year and six-time track and field All-American for Seattle Pacific University, has been granted her release, enabling her to transfer to Cal Poly San Luis Obispo.

Ayers-Stamper (Sr., Lacrosse, Wa.) won the NCAA Division II indoor high jump championship and finished second in the heptathlon last season. Earlier this summer she took eighth place in the USA Track & Field Championships heptathlon and last month she represented the U.S. for a meet in Holland.

Ayers-Stamper has one year of remaining eligibility in outdoor track and two years indoors.

Ayers-Stamper follows her coach, Jack Hoyt, to Cal Poly SLO. Hoyt resigned after six seasons as SPU head coach to become an assistant for the Mustangs, a Division I program in the Big West Conference.

In three seasons at Seattle Pacific, Ayers-Stamper was a All-American the heptathlon, high jump and hurdles, and won a total of nine indoor and outdoor GNAC individual titles. She shared the 2004-05 SPU athlete of the year honor with Chris Randolph, the NCAA champion in the decathlon.