USC HEADS TO NCAA T&F PRELIMS AT TEXAS - No. 1 Women & No. 5 Men Begin Quest For Titles -

University of Southern California Sports Information Offi ce, Heritage Hall 103A, L.A., CA 90089-0601 • Phone: (213) 740-8480 • Fax: (213) 740-7584 USC Track & Field Schedule WEEKLY TRACK AND FIELD RELEASE - MAY 28, 2015 Date Meet - USC’s No. 1-ranked women’s and No. 5-ranked men’s track and fi eld 2/28 Rossi Relays THIS WEEK teams will compete at the 2015 West Preliminary Rounds hosted by Texas at Mike A. Myers 3/6-7 Cal State L.A. Invitational Stadium in Austin, Texas from May 28-30. There will be 48 athletes in each event, with the 3/13-14 Ben Brown Invitational top 12 after the Preliminary Rounds in each region moving on to the NCAA Championships 3/13-14 NCAA Indoor Championships in Eugene, Ore. from June 10-13. 3/20-21 Trojan Invitational* 4/3-4 Florida Relays USC’S MEN & WOMEN PLACE 2ND AT PAC-12s - Both the USC women’s and 4/3-4 California Collegiate Invite men’s team’s placed second at the 2015 Pac-12 Track & Field Championships hosted by 4/3-4 Stanford Invitational UCLA in Westwood, Calif. (May 16-17) as the Trojans won 13 event titles, more than any 4/11 Jim Click Shootout other school. The women’s team won seven event titles and scored 182 points, the most 4/16-18 Mt. SAC Relays ever for a second place team. The men’s team won six events and fi nished with 121 points, 4/18 Long Beach Invitational the most by a second-place team since the 2010 season. 4/24-25 Triton Invitational 5/2-3 USC-UCLA Dual Meet DE GRASSE NAMED MEN’S ATHLETE OF THE MEET AT PAC-12s - The junior 5/9-10 Pac-12 Multi-Events& De Grasse turned heads at the Pac-12 Championships by winning the 100m title in 9.97 5/16-17 Pac-12 Championships& seconds and winning the 200m title with a time of 20.05, after running 20.03 in the prelims. 5/28-30 NCAA Preliminary Rounds% He also ran a leg for USC’s winning 4x100m relay which clocked 39.17. For his efforts, De 6/10-13 NCAA Championships# Grasse was named the Pac-12 Men’s Track Athlete of the Meet. De Grasse’s 100m time of 9.97 broke the USC school record, the Pac-12 Meet record and set the UCLA Drake * Home &Westwood, Calif. Stadium record. His best 200m time of 20.03 is a Canadian record and ties him for second %Austin, Texas on USC’ all-time list. #Eugene, Ore. TROJANS WIN FOUR PAC-12 YEARLY HONORS - USC’s Director of Track & Field USC Quick Facts Caryl Smith Gilbert was named 2015 Pac-12 Men’s & Women’s Coach of the Year, Andre De Grasse was named the conference’s Men’s Track Athlete of the Year and Marquis Mor- Location: Los Angeles, Calif. ris was named the Pac-12 Men’s Freshman of the Year on May 20. Smith Gilbert became Enrollment: 40,000 (18,000) the fi rst woman ever to be named the Pac-12 Men’s Coach of the Year. USC won four of Nickname: Trojans the Pac-12’s eight yearly honors. Colors: Cardinal and Gold TRAVELING TROJANS - USC will have 36 athletes (16 men, 20 women) declared indi- Athletic Dir: Pat Haden vidually or as part of a relay team at the 2014 NCAA Preliminary Rounds. The men quali- Dir. of T&F: Caryl Smith Gilbert fying for the Preliminary Rounds are Myles Andrews (800m), Randall Cunningham (high (213) 740-4201 jump), Andre De Grasse (100m, 200m, 4x100m), Robert Ford (800m), Adoree’ Jackson Coaches: David Freeman (long jump), Michael Krone (high jump), BeeJay Lee (100m, 200m, 4x100m), Conor Mc- Dan Lange Cullough (hammer throw), Bryan Mercado (100m, 4x100m), D.J. Morgan (110m HH), Ricky Jamie Nieto Morgan (400m), Marquis Morris (110m HH), Nick Ponzio (shot put), Dominic Smallwood Loreal Smith (triple jump), Davonte Stewart (400m) and Just’N Thymes (200m, 4x100m). The women DeeDee Trotter qualifi ed are Destinee Brown (100m, 200m), Gabriella Cantrell (100m, 200m), Alexandra Quincy Watts Collatz (discus throw), Melia Cox (100m HH, triple jump), Kendall Ellis (400m, 4x400m), Ryan Wilson Alexis Faulknor (100m, LJ, 4x100m), Tynia Gaither (100m, 200m, 4x100m), Dior Hall Dir. of Ops: Mary Angell (100m HH), Deanna Hill (100m, 200m, 4x100m), Amalie Iuel (400m IH, 4x400m), Vanessa T&F SID: David Tuttle Jones (400m, 4x400m), Akawkaw Ncha-Ndip (400m, 4x400m), Tera Novy (discus throw), (213) 740-8480 Jenny Ozorai (hammer throw), Cameron Pettigrew (400m), Madisen Richards (long jump), Tanya Sapa (shot put), Kira Soderstrom (3000m SC), Jaide Stepter (400m IH, 4x400m) and USC’s History In Track & Field Ky Westbrook (100m, 200m, 4x100m). NCAA Titles: Men (26 outdoor) USC RANKING AMONG THE BEST -- There are currently 31 NCAA top 30 marks Men (2 indoor) posted by Trojan athletes this outdoor season: Men (10): Randall Cunningham (HJ - T- Women (1 outdoor) 4th), Andre De Grasse (100m - 1st, 200m - 2nd), Adoree’ Jackson (LJ - T-24th), BeeJay Last Title: Men (1976) Lee (100m - 5th, 200m - T-7th), Conor McCullough (HT - 1st), Nick Ponzio (Shot - 21st), Women (2001) Just’N Thymes (200m - T-14th) and the 4x100m relay (5th). Women (21): Alexandra NCAA Champs: Men (164) Collatz (Discus - 7th), Melia Cox (100m HH - T-26th), Alexis Faulknor (100m - T-9th, Women (32) 200m - 22nd, LJ - 10th), Tynia Gaither (100m - 15th, 200m - T-17th), Dior Hall (100m HH - Olympic Champs: Men (41) T-5th), Deanna Hill (200m - 11th), Amalie Iuel (400m IH - 4th, Heptathlon - 21st), Vanessa Women (5) Jones (400m - T-7th), Tera Novy (Discus - 3rd), Jenny Ozorai (Hammer - 30th), Jaide Stepter (400m IH - 3rd), Ky Westbrook (100m - 8th, 200m - 25th), the 4x100m relay (5th, PRONUNCIATIONS T-12th) and the 4x400m relay (10th, 16th). Andre De Grasse Da-GRAHS Katerina Berdousi Burr-DOO-see TOP 10 TROJANS - USC has eight spring semester teams ranked in the top 10 in the Alexandra Collatz COE-lotz Tynia Gaither tie-KNEE-uh Gayther country: Sand Volleyball (1, NCAA Champions), W-Golf (1), W-Tennis (1, T-3rd at NCAAs), Amalie Iuel AH-mah-lee Yule W-Track (2), W-Water Polo (4, 3rd at NCAA Championships), M-Track (6), M-Tennis (7, Emma Kao Gow Round of 16 at NCAAs), M-Volleyball (7). Reika Kijima RAKE-uh Kih-JEE-muh Akawkawa Ncha-Ndip Coco In-chah-In-dip UP NEXT - USC’s track and fi eld team will train in preparation for the NCAA Track & Field Jenny Ozorai OH-zor-eye Championships to be held at Hayward Field in Eugene, Ore. from June 10-13. RANKINGS - USC’s women’s team was ranked No. 1 in the USTFCCCA poll on April 27, its fi rst time being ranked at the top in the eight years of the poll. They are currently ranked No. 1 and the men’s team No. 5. USC has both teams in the top 5 for the fi rst time since the 2008 season. 3/24 4/6 4/13 4/20 4/27 5/4 5/11 5/18 5/26 6/1 USC Men 7 5 5 5 4 4 5 6 5 USC Women 8 7 7 4 1 2 2 2 1 USC TRACK AND FIELD HISTORY - USC is well known as one of the most successful athletic programs in the history of the NCAA, with 122 men’s and women’s national championships. The Trojans have won far more NCAA team and individual titles combined than any other univer- sity. However, the most dominant force in USC’s slate of athletic programs is not the baseball team (12 College World Series titles) or the foot- ball squad (nine national championships) but the men’s track and fi eld program, with an unprecedented 28 NCAA titles (including nine straight, 1935-43). In fact, in the history of the NCAA, only the Oklahoma State wrestling program (31) has more national titles than USC men’s outdoor track and fi eld. Trojan athletes have dominated the track and fi eld scene for decades. From the exploits of sprinter Charlie Paddock and thrower Clarence “Bud” Houser in the 1920s and 1930s, sprinter Mel Patton in the 1940s, thrower Parry O’Brien in the 1950s,sprinter Lennox Miller and pole vaulter Bob Seagren in the 1960s, sprinter Quincy Watts in the 1980s, to four-time NCAA hammer champion Balazs Kiss (only the fi fth collegian to win four in a row) in the 1990s and World Champion hurdler Felix Sanchez in the 2000s, USC is synonymous with track and fi eld excellence. TROJAN PROGRAM IN GOOD HANDS WITH SMITH GILBERT - USC Director of Track & Field Caryl Smith Gilbert is in her sec- ond season at the helm of the Trojans’ track and fi eld program. Already she has guided the women’s team to the 2014 and 2015 MPSF indoor titles, their fi rst two seasons in the conference. The men’s team placed second at the MPSFs in 2015, their fi rst year competing in the conference. She guided both the men’s and women’s teams to a second place fi nishes in the her fi rst two Pac-12 Champion- ships and was named the 2015 Pac-12 Men’s & Women’s Coach of the Year, the fi rst woman to win the Men’s Coach of the Year honor. She has also been named the 2014 and 2015 MPSF Women’s Indoor Coach of the Year, the 2014 and 2015 USTFCCCA West Re- gion Women’s Indoor Coach of the Year and the 2014 USTFCCCA West Region Women’s Outdoor Coach of the Year. She was named the USC Director of Track & Field on June 17, 2013, following the retirement of Ron Allice who guided the program for 19 sea- sons. Smith Gilbert was a six-time Conference USA Coach of the Year at Central Florida and guided them to a program-best fi fth- place fi nish at the 2013 NCAA Indoor and Outdoor Championships. Also in her six seasons at UCF, her athletes were named All- Americans more than 100 times and set more than 100 school records. Her team won four-straight Conference-USA titles (2010-13), the most in conference history. UCF’s fi fth-place fi nish in 2013 was the best fi nish by a non-BCS school since 2000. Smith Gilbert went to UCF after fi ve seasons (2003-07) as an assistant coach at Tennessee and three as an assistant coach at Alabama (2000-03). TROJANS’ OLYMPIC GLORY - USC athletes of the present and past won 25 medals at the 2012 London Olympics, 12 golds, 9 silvers and 4 bronze. Six of those medal were won by USC track and fi eld athletes and Trojan track athletes have claimed 46 gold medals in Olympic competition. USC’s 25 total medals and 12 gold medals in 2012 were school records for a single Olympics, breaking the previous highs of 24 total medals at the 1984 Los Angeles Games and 10 golds at both the 1948 London Games and the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Troy’s 12 gold medals in London tied with Stanford for the most by a university in 2012. USC continued its streak of having won a gold medal at every Sum- mer Olympics from 1912. If USC athletes had competed as a country in 2012, they would have placed sixth in the gold medal standings at the London Games and 11th in overall medals. Forty-one athletes with a USC affi liation competed in London (tied with Stanford for most from any U.S. university). They competed in seven sports and represented 18 countries. Twenty-four of USC’s London Olympians were women and 22 were competing in their fi rst Games. Seven coaches with USC ties served on Olympic staffs in 2012. In refl ecting on USC’s success over the years at the Olympics, it is amazing to note that a Trojan athlete has won at least one gold medal in every track and fi eld event except the 800m, 1500m, 5000m, 10000m, steeplechase, triple jump and javelin. ALL-STAR COACHING STAFF - Caryl Smith Gilbert has put together an impressive coaching staff that looks like an all-star roster. Well- decorated throws coach Dan Lange is one of the top assistants in the country and has been joined on staff by David Freeman (distances), Jai- me Nieto (jumps), Loreal Smith and Quincy Watts. Also, USC has DeeDee Trotter and Ryan Wilson on staff as volunteer assistant coaches. Watts was an Olympic gold medalist in the 400m and 4x400m relay, Nieto was the 2003, 2004 and 2012 U.S. high jump champion, Trotter has an Olympic bronze medal in the 400m and two golds as part of the USA 4x400m relay team, Wilson was the 2013 USA 110m HH champion. FUTURE TROJAN TRACKSTERS - A list of the announced 2015 recruits and a few of their accomplishments: Nathan Bultman (West Ranch HS in Stevenson Ranch, Calif.) - Ranks 5th among high schoolers with a 64-5 shot put mark...Also threw 63-8.25 at the Mt. SAC Relays on April 18....Won the 2014 CIF SS title with a mark of 60-11.25 (18.57m)...His high school best in the discus throw is 179-10 (54.83m) and 192-5 (58.64m) in the hammer throw...As a junior he was nationally ranked in the shot put, discus and hammer. Amber Gore (Redondo Union HS) - Has an 800m best time of 2:10.76...Took 10th at the 2014 CIF State Championships with a time of 2:12.05...Won the 800m at the Junior Olympics as a 13 & 14 year old...In XC, won the 2014 CIF 5K State Championship with a time of 17:22.00...Was 4th at the Nike Pre-Nationals (18:08.77) & 45th at the Nike Cross Country Championships (18:33.00)...As a senior won the CIF SS 3-mile race with a time of 17:03.00 and the Bay League three-mile title with a time of 17:12.26. Jasmyne Graham (East Roosevelt HS in Corona, Calif.) - Won the 100m HH (13.29) & 300m IH (PR of 41.92) at the 2015 Mt. SAC Relays...has a 100m HH PR of 13.21 which leads all high schoolers and her 300m IH time is 2nd...Was 2nd at the CIF Championships in the 100m HH as a junior...Also had a long jump PR of 19-8.25 (6.00m) at the CIF Championships to earn fourth place...Graham also won the long jump at the 2014 California Indoor State Meet Margaux Jones (Redlands HS in Redlands, Calif.) - Jumped 20-4 to take 2nd in the LJ at Mt. SAC, 4th in the country this season...Was U.S. No. 4 for 2014 high school women with a legal jump of 20-5.50 (6.23m)...Also had a wind-aided best of 20-9.00 (6.32m)...Won the 2014 California state long jump title as a junior with a leap of 20-4.75 (6.21m). She leaped over 6.00m seven times (with 5 wind legal marks) during the 2014 outdoor season. Matt Katnik (St. John Bosco HS in Bellfl ower, Calif.) - Had a PR of 71-3.50 (21.72m) in winning the shot put competition at the 2015 Arcadia Invitational...Just the 3rd throw in California history over 70 feet & the fi rst since 1997...Also owns a PR of 65-5.25 in the 16-pound shot put set on March 26 this year...He has a PR of 174-5 in the discus throw set at the 2015 Mt. SAC Relays...Strong family ties to USC, father John was a former USC center on the football team (1986-87) and his two brothers and a sister graduated from USC...Cousins include former USC football lineman Norm Katnik (2001-03), tight end Kurt Katnik (2003) and receiver Brad Walker (2004-07). Lyndsey Lopes (Edison HS in Fresno, Calif.) - Won the heptathlon at the 2015 Arcadia Invitational with a personal-best and high school-leading total of 4,984 points....In 2014 she had a best of 4,982 points in the heptathlon, the top high school score in the state of California and fi fth in the country...Her bests include 14.18 in the 100m HH, 24.52 in the 200m, 2:22.41 in the 800m, 5-6.00 in the high jump, 17-11.00 in the long jump, 100-6 in the javelin throw and 32-6.50 in the shot put. Lopes also has a 300m IH best of 43.67...Placed 10th in the multi-events at the 2014 USA T&F Junior Championships with a total of 4,680 points...Six of the top 10 fi nishers were college athletes. Eric Sloan - (Delta College in Stockton, Calif.) - Will transfer to USC with 2 years of eligibility...Placed 2nd in LJ at the 2015 Mt. SAC Relays with a PR of 25-10.25 (7.88m)... Last year as a freshman at Delta, he broke the school TJ record in his fi rst meet with a jump of 51-10 (15.80m) and won the California state title with a PR of 53-6.25 (16.31m)...Also placed 2nd in the LJ with a leap of 25-0.50 (7.63m)...He is a 2012 graduate of Bear Creek HS in Stockton where he also was a WR & DB on the football team. Mikaela Smith - (Clovis North HS in Fresno, Calif.) - Won the 800m at the 2015 Arcadia Invitational with a time of 2:08.44, the 4th-fastest outdoor time this season by a high schooler...Entered the season ranked 2nd in the U.S. among returning 800m runners with a PR of 2:06.85...She ran that time in winning the 800m title at the 2014 CIF State Championships..It was the second consecutive year that Smith won the California 800m title as she won in 2013 with a time of 2:08.39. Smith also has an outdoor 400m best of 55.34 and a 1500m best of 4:55.14. Smith captured the 600-yard title with a time of 1:28.87 at the 2013 California Indoor State Meet. TROJANS LEAVING THEIR MARKS - The Trojans have 26 athletes on the current team that have posted top 10 marks all-time by a Trojan, including 28 marks that rank individually or as part of a relay in USC’s all-time top 5. The following is a list of those athletes and their ranking at USC: Men Women Randall Cunningham (5th - HJ) Katerina Berdousi (8th - 3000m, 10th - 3000m SC, 7th - 5000m) Andre De Grasse (1st - 100m, T-2nd - 200m, 8th 4x100m) Alexandra Collatz (2nd - Discus) BeeJay Lee (T-5th - 100m, 6th - 200m, 8th, 9th - 4x100m) Melia Cox (5th - Triple Jump) Conor McCullough (2nd - Hammer) Kendall Ellis (8th - 400m) Bryan Mercado (8th - 4x100m) Alexis Faulknor (7th - LJ, 2nd, 3rd - 4x100m) Nick Ponzio (8th - Shot) Tynia Gaither (9th - 100m, T-8th -200m, 2nd, 3rd - 4x100, 3rd - 4x400m) Just’N Thymes (8th - 4x100m) Dior Hall (3rd - 100m HH) Deanna Hill (T-8th - 200m, 3rd - 4x100m) Felicia Horvath (T8th - Pole Vault Amalie Iuel (4th - 400m IH, 4th - Heptathlon) Vanessa Jones (2nd - 400m, 3rd, 4th, 10th - 4x400m) Akawkaw Ncha-Ndip (10th - 400m, 3rd, 4th, 10th - 4x400m) Tera Novy (1st - Discus, T-6th - Shot Put) Jenny Ozorai (2nd - Hammer) Tanya Sapa (8th - Shot Put) Kira Soderstrom (3rd - 3000m SC) Jaide Stepter (3rd - 400m IH, 4th - 4x400m) Jenna Tong (4th - 3000m SC) Ky Westbrook (3rd - 4x100m) USC’S RETURNING ALL-AMERICANS - USC has six 2014 fi rst-team All-Americans on this season’s team, including Alexan- dra Collatz (women’s discus), Alexis Faulknor (women’s 4x100m), Tynia Gaither (women’s 100m, 200m, 4x100m), Vanessa Jones (4x400m), BeeJay Lee (men’s 4x100m) and Akawkaw Ncha-Ndip (4x400m). In addition, 2011-13 All-American hammer thrower Jenny Ozorai returns after missing last season due to back surgery. SCHOOL FRESHMAN RECORD HOLDERS - Kendall Ellis set the USC women’s 400m freshman record with a time of 53.01 on April 11, then improved to 52.96 at the Mt. SAC Relays on April 18, the same day Dior Hall set the USC freshman 100m HH record with a time of 12.89. Ellis improved her record to 52.88 at the Pac-12 Championships on May 17. They join senior teammate Alexan- dra Collatz who set the freshman discus throw record in 2012 (177-11) as current Trojans who hold USC outdoor freshman records. During the 2015 indoor season three USC freshman records were set: Hall in the 60m HH (8.01), Ricky Morgan in the 400m (47.14) and Robert Ford in the 800m (1:49.21). NOVY SETS SCHOOL DISCUS THROW RECORD - USC junior discus thrower Tera Novy cracked into USC’s all-time top 10 early in her freshman season and has steadily moved up the charts, fi nally claiming the top spot with a winning throw of 193-11 (59.12m) at the Cal State L.A. Twilight Meet on April 16. That mark currently ranks third among college throwers and 7th among U.S. women. She had a then-PR of 186-0 (56.69m) to win at the Trojan Invitational on March 20 to better her then third-place standing on USC’s all-time top 10 list. The next day she placed second in the shot put with a PR of 50-0.50 (15.25m) which moved her into seventh on USC’s all-time shot put list. Novy entered the season with a college best in the discus throw of 179-2 (54.60m) which she had in placing fourth at the 2014 Pac-12 Championships. Novy has also won the discus throw competition at the California Collegiate on April 4 (182-10), the Jim Click Shootout (184-10) and the USC-UCLA Dual Meet on May 3 (184-10). Novy then placed second in the discus throw with a mark of 185-9 (56.63m) and a sixth in the shot put with a PR of 50-2.75 (15.31m) at the Pac-12 Championships. She moved into a sixth-place tie on USC’s all-time shot put list. Novy competed indoors this season in the shot put and had an indoor PR of 49-11.00 (15.21m) to place seventh at the MPSF Championships on March 28. McCULLOUGH ADDED TO THE BOWERMAN WATCH LIST - USC redshirt senior Conor McCullough was added to the Bowerman Men’s Watch List on May 6 for the prestigious award as the top college track and fi eld athlete in the country. He won the hammer throw at the USC-UCLA Dual Meet on May 2 with a college-best throw of 248-11 (75.88m) to move into second on USC’s all-time list and seventh on the NCAA’s all-time list. That mark is the top American throw this season and 14th in the world. The last college athlete to throw farther was Andras Haklits’ of Georgia who had a mark of 257-11 on May 4, 2002. McCullough won the Pac-12 hammer throw title on May 16 with a mark of 236-10 (72.20m). McCullough returned to action in the indoor season, but now will take aim at an NCAA title in the men’s hammer throw. In his fi rst collegiate outdoor meet since 2012, he threw 233-7 (71.21m) to win and had four throws over 231. His second meet was the Mt. SAC Relays and he won the Invitational with a best throw of 241- 9 (73.70m), the third-farthest throw in USC history. He had a very strong series, improving as he went and systematically moving up the USC all-time list. With his second throw of 237-6 (72.39m), McCullough moved from fi fth to fourth on the USC list, then with his fi fth throw of 239-11 (73.13m) he moved into third on the list and bettered it with his fi nal throw of 241-9. McCullough began his career at Princeton in 2010 and won the NCAA East Region hammer throw competition in 2012, but did not compete at the NCAA’s that season. McCullough enrolled at USC last year and was not able to compete, but was granted a sixth year of eligibility for this season. McCullough competed indoors this season and placed second at the NCAA Indoor Championships in the weight throw with a school-record toss of 80-3.75 (24.48m), but had not competed collegiately outdoors since winning the NCAA East Region hammer throw title on April 24, 2012. He has won his last 12 collegiate hammer throw competitions and 13 of 15 overall since he began at Princeton in 2010. McCullough has a personal-best of 253-3 (77.20m) which he threw at the at the Edmonton International Track Classic in Edmonton, Canada on July 6, 2014. DE GRASSE SETS USC 100M RECORD - Junior sprinter Andre De Grasse from Markham, Ontario, Canada set the USC, Pac- 12 Championships and UCLA Drake Stadium 100m dash record when he clocked 9.97 (+0.6) to win the Pac-12 title on May 17. The previous USC record and Drake Stadium record was 10.02 set by James Sanford in 1980 and the Pac-12 Meet record was 10.03 by UCLA’s Ato Boldon in 1996. De Grasse also captured the conference 200m title with a time of 20.05 (-0.1) after setting a PR and Can- dian record of 20.03 (-0.1) in the prelims on May 16, which ties him for second on USC’s all-time list. De Grasse also broke the USC Loker Stadium 100m dash record by running 10.04 (+0.4) to win at the Dual Meet on May 3. That time tied the Dual Meet record set by Boldon in 1996, the same year he earned a bronze medal in the event at the Olympics. The previous Loker Stadium record of 10.07 was co-held by Aaron Brown and current teammate BeeJay Lee. The junior also took second in the 200m dash with a time of 20.74 (+1.8) and ran the second leg for the winning 4x100m relay which ran 39.42. To help USC grab the team title, De Grasse ran the third leg for USC’s 4x400m relay team which won with a time of 3:09.89 to earn the meet’s fi nal fi ve points to secure an 82-81 Trojan victory. He has had many big days this season, including at Mt. SAC on April 18, winning the Invitational 100m, 200m and being part of the winning 4x100m relay. In the 100m he defeated a fi eld of professionals with a wind-aided PR of 9.87 (+4.0w), still tied for this season’s world-leading any conditions time. He won the 200m with a then PR of 20.16 (+0.3) which tied Aaron Brown’s Canadian record and third-place standing on USC’s all-time list. De Grasse, BeeJay Lee, Just’N Thymes and Bryan Mercado won the 4x100m relay with a time of 38.98 and became the fi rst college team to win the Mt. SAC Invitational 4x100m since 2002 and only the second in the last 29 years. During the indoor season, he posted a best of 6.60 in the 60m and placed second in the 200m at the NCAA Championships with a USC and Canadian indoor record of 20.26, both marks formerly held by Brown.

REMEMBER ME? - Three-time All-American women’s hammer thrower Jenny Ozorai had surgery in early March of 2014 to repair a disc in her back and was forced to miss the 2014 outdoor season. Ozorai placed fourth in the hammer throw at the 2013 NCAA Championships and ranks second all-time in the event by a Trojan with a best mark of 223-4 (68.08m). She also placed fourth at the 2012 NCAA Championships and sixth at the 2011 NCAA Championships in the event. Ozorai competed outdoors at the Cal State L.A. Invitational on March 6 for the fi rst time since the 2013 NCAA Championships and had a best throw of 191-8 (58.21m). She won the hammer throw competition at the Trojan Invitational with a throw of 199-4 (60.75m) on March 20, currently 30th in the country. She placed fourth at the 2015 Pac-12 Championships with a throw of 191-8 (58.43m).

STEPTER & IUEL POSE QUITE A HURDLE FOR THE OPPOSITION - Junior Jaide Stepter and sophomore Amalie Iuel currently rank third and fourth respectively among college 400m hurdlers and ninth and 10th in the world with times of 55.83 and 55.92 run at the Florida Relays on April 3. Those times also place Stepter third and Iuel fourth on USC’s all-time list and they are less than one second off the school record of 54.95 run by Natasha Danvers in 2000.

LEE PROVIDES TROJANS A STRONG 1-2 PUNCH IN THE SPRINTS - Senior BeeJay Lee anchors the Trojan sprint corps. Lee ranks tied for fi fth all-time on USC’s 100m list with a time of 10.07 (+1.6) which he ran in winning the 2013 Pac-12 title in the event and opened up with a 10.09 (+0.3) at the Florida Relays on April 3. Lee continued his strong early season showing by winning the 100m with a time of 10.16 (+0.4) at the Jim Click Shootout on April 11. Then he ran a wind-aided PR of 9.96 (+4.0w) at Mt. SAC Relays, tied for the 10th-fastest any condition time in the world this season. Lee won the 200m with a then-PR of 20.51 at the Trojan Invitational on March 21, then ran 20.27 (+1.6) to take second at the Florida Relays and move into sixth on USC’s all-time list. He currently is T-7th the country in the 200m and fi fth in the 100m. Lee took second in both the 100m (10.16/+0.6) and 200m (20.46/-0.1) at the 2015 Pac-12 Championships to teammate Andre De Grasse. Lee set indoor PRs this season of 6.61 in the 60m and 21.00 in the 200m and took 13th at the 2015 NCAA Indoor Championships in the 60m dash with a time of 6.69. In 2014, Lee placed third in the conference meet with a time of 10.45 (-1.0). Lee advanced to the 2014 NCAA Championships in the 100m dash and placed 22nd with a time of 10.38 (+0.6).

STEPTER A STEP CLOSER TO THE TOP - Junior hurdler Jaide Stepter opened up the 2015 season with a PR of 55.83 in the 400m IH and currently ranks third in the country and ninth in the world. That also moves her to third on USC’s all-time list, less than a second off the school record. She followed that up with a time of 56.14 to win the 400m IH at the Jim Click Shootout on April 11 and then won the Mt. SAC Relays Invitational 400m IH with a time of 56.74 on April 18. Stepter won her second consecutive Pac-12 400m IH title on May 17 with a time just off her PR of 55.85. Stepter won the 2014 Pac-12 400m IH title with a then PR of 56.99. She steadily improved throughout the 2014 campaign, cutting more than 3.5 seconds off her freshman best. Stepter competed mostly in the 400m dash during the 2015 indoor season and placed second in the event at the MPSF Championships with a time of 52.89, more than a second faster than her best time entering this season.

WOMEN’S 4X400M RELAY WINS PAC-12 TITLE - USC used a team of Jaide Stepter, Amalie Iuel, Kendall Ellis and Vanessa Jones to win the Pac-12 4x400m race with a season-best time of 3:32.11. That time currently ranks 10th in the country. It was the fi rst meet this outdoor season which the Trojans ran the team which set the school indoor record with a time of of 3:29.63 at the 2015 NCAA Indoor Championships in Fayetteville, Ark. on March 14. That time was also the 11th-fastest ever run at the NCAA Indoor Championships.

FRESHMAN HILL OFF TO A FAST START - Freshman Deanna Hill opened her outdoor season with a PR of 23.37 in the 200m dash at the Trojan Invitational on March 21 to take the NCAA lead. She then established a new PR with a time of 22.88 (+1.6) at the Florida Relays to gain the top time in the country and move into an eighth-place tie with teammate Tynia Gaither on USC’s all-time 200m list. That time now ranks 11th among college women. Hill also had a 100m PR of 11.44 (-0.7) at the Florida Relays which is tied for 43rd in the country. She also run the leadoff leg for USC’s 4x100m relay which won the Pac-12 title with the third-fastest time in school history of 43.10. Hill was a two-time Florida 2A 100m dash champion while running for Lake Highland Preparatory School in Orlando, Fla. ACTION JACKSON - USC freshman Adoree’ Jackson not only is a starting cornerback on the football team, but also a force in the long jump for the track and fi eld team. Jackson has a personal best of 25-5.25 (7.25m) in the long jump set at the Chandler Rotary Elite Session last year, the second-farthest jump by a high school athlete in 2014. Jackson won the 2012 CIF State long jump title with a leap of 25-0.50. He also has a best 200m time of 21.59. Jackson had an indoor best of 24-7.75 (7.51m) at the McCravy Memorial Invitational on Jan. 23 and jumped 24-4.25 (7.42m) to win the long jump in his opener at the Trojan Invitational on March 21. Spring football ended on April 11, so Jackson has been able to focus on track the rest of the semester. In his second competition on April 17 at the Mt. SAC Relays, Jackson jumped 25-0.00/7.62m (-2.8) to place eighth. He then won the LJ at the USC-UCLA Dual Meet on May 3 with a jump of 25-2.00/7.67 (+4.0w). Jackson also ran a then PR of 10.54 (+0.4) in the 100m dash on May 3. Jackson then won the Pac-12 long jump title on May 16 with a jump of 25-3.50/7.71m (-0.6) and had two other jumps of 25-1.75/7.66m in his series. Jackson currently ranks tied for 24th in the country and tied for 16th in the West Region in the long jump. Jackson also advanced to the Pac-12 100m fi nals where he fi nished seventh with a PR of 10.48 (+0.6). FOOTBALL FLAVOR - Most people are aware that USC’s star freshman cornerback/receiver Adoree’ Jackson is on the track and fi eld team competing in the long jump, but he is not the only athlete with football ties. Also, former USC running back D.J. Morgan decided to focus on track this season and compete in the hurdles. Morgan was the 110m HH champion at the 2009 IAAF World Youth Championships in Italy with a time of 13.28, then competed for the Trojans at the 2012 Pac-12 Championships and placed fi fth in the 110m HH of 14.21w. In his fi rst race since the 2012 West Regional, Morgan placed fourth at the Beach Invitational on April 18 with a time of 14.26 (+2.5w). He than ran 13.84 (+3.5w) to take second at the USC-UCLA Dual Meet on May 3. He had the fastest qualifying time at the 2015 Pac-12 Championships of 13.96, but had to pull up at the lead mid-race in the fi nals. Other USC track athletes with football ties are freshman woman’s sprinter Ky Westbrook who’s father is former NFL receiver Michael Westbrook and freshman men’s high jumper Randall Cunningham is the son of former NFL great quarterback Randall Cunningham.

NOTHING TYNIA ABOUT GAITHER - USC redshirt junior Tynia Gaither had a great fi rst season at USC earning All-American honors outdoors in the 100m, 200m and 4x100m and gaining indoor All-America honors in the 200m. She also placed third in the 100m and 200m and ran on winning 4x100m and 4x400m relays at the Pac-12 Championships. Gaither had a then 100m PR of 11.42 (+0.5) at the Florida Relays on April 4, 2014 and set a 200m PR of 22.88 (+1.5) at the NCAA West Preliminary Rounds on May 31, 2014 which ranks tied for eighth on USC’s all-time list. She ran on USC’s 4x100m relay team which placed second at the NCAA Championships with the second-fastest time in school history of 43.00, just .04 seconds off the school record. Gaither also ran anchor on the 4x400m relay team at the 2014 Florida Relays which posted the third-fastest time in school history of 3:29.42. Gaither seems to bring her best for the big races and the 2015 Pac-12 Championships were no exception. She won the women’s 200m title with a season-best of 22.97 and placed second in the 100m dash with a PR of 11.27 to move into ninth place on USC’s all-time list. She currently ranks T-17th in the 200m and 15th in the 100m among college runners.

COLLATZ REMAINS SECOND, BUT BEATS OLD USC DISCUS RECORD - All-American senior discus thrower Alexandra Collatz entered the season less than two feet off the school record in the discus throw with a PR of 187-6 (57.15m). Kate Hutchinson held the USC record in the event with a best of 189-5 (57.73) set in 2006 and at the same meet in which Tera Novy set the new stan- dard of 193-11 (59.12m), Collatz surpassed Hutchinson with a throw of 189-8 (57.82m) to take second at the CSULA Twilight Meet. Collatz thus remains second on USC’s all-time discus throw list and is currently seventh in the country. Collatz had a best throw of 179-11 (54.84m) to place fourth at the 2015 Pac-12 Championships in the discus throw. Collatz placed eighth in the discus throw at the 2014 NCAA Championships with a toss of 174-1 (53.07m) and placed fi fth in 2013 at the NCAAs with a throw of 181-11 (55.46m). Col- latz dramatically won USC’s fi rst-ever conference title in the women’s discus throw on her fi nal attempt with a mark of 184-3 (56.17m) on May 18, 2014. Collatz also has a hammer throw PR of 189-11 (57.89m) set at the USC-UCLA Dual Meet on May 2.

IUEL CAN DO IT ALL, LITERALLY - Sophomore Amalie Iuel (AH-mah-lee Yule) from Oslow, Norway had a great freshman season for USC, winning the 2014 Pac-12 Heptathlon and placing fi fth in the 400m IH at the conference meet, then placing 18th in the 400m IH at the NCAA Championships. In just her second heptathlon ever, Iuel scored 5,378 points to win the Pac-12 title and move into seventh place on USC’s all-time list. Iuel clinched the title by winning the 200m with a then-PR of 2:12.43, becoming the fi rst Trojan since 1996 and fi rst conference freshman since 2004 to win the event. After all of the conference championships were fi nished, Iuel had dropped to 31st in the country in the event and was four spots outside of the declared athletes to qualify for the NCAA Champion- ships. She did, however, qualify in the 400m IH with a then-PR of 58.10 at the NCAA West Regional which moved her into ninth on USC’s all-time 400m IH list. Iuel place 18th at the NCAAs in the 400m IH with a time of 59.74. Iuel set fi ve PRs at the 2015 Pac-12 Multi-Events Championships to score a new career best of 5,610 points and fi nish third. At the Multi-Events Championships on May 9-10, Iuel set PRs in the 100m HH (13.80), shot put (34-2.75), 200m (23.96), long jump (19-2w and 19.1.50 legal) and 800m (2:10.28). She also has PRs of 5-8.00 (1.73m) in the high jump and 110-5 (33.67m) in the javelin throw. Iuel opened her 2015 outdoor season by running a huge PR of 56.32 in the 400m IH to take second to 2012 Olympic silver medalist Lashinda Demus at the Trojan Invitational on March 21. She showed she was just getting started by running 55.92 in the 400m IH at the Florida Relays to take 3rd, which is the 4th-fastest in USC history. Iuel matched her collegiate best with a clearance of 5-7.00/1.70m in the high jump to take third at the USC- UCLA Dual Meet on May 3. Iuel took second in the 400m IH with a time of 56.06 at the Pac-12 Championships on May 17. Although qualifi ed for the heptathlon (21st nationally), she will focus on the 400m IH and the 4x400m relay at the NCAA Championships.

MERCADO PROVIDES DEPTH IN THE SPRINTS - Senior Bryan Mercado has been a fi xture in the Trojan sprint corps the last three seasons and is putting together a strong fi nal season. Mercado set his 100m PR of 10.51 (+0.4) to take fi fth at the USC-UCLA Dual Meet on May 3 and has run a 10.58 (-0.2) 100m dash at the Jim Click Shootout on April 11 and a 10.59 (+1.8) to win the 100m dash at the Cal State L.A. Invitational. He then ran a wind-aided PR of 10.47 (+2.1w) at Mt. SAC on April 17. He also ran a PR of 21.35 (+1.4) 200m dash at the Mt. SAC. Mercado anchored USC’s 4x100m relay team which won at the Florida Relays on April 4 with a time of 38.97, good for fi fth in the country and eighth on USC’s all-time list and anchored them to a Mt. SAC Invitational win with a time of 38.98. They also claimed the Pac-12 title in the event on May 17 with a time of 39.17. USC LOOKS TO BRING BACK THE HAMMER - The USC throws program under the direction of Dan Lange has been very strong, but none stronger than the success of the hammer throwers and this season is no different. Due to the preseason surgery of Jenny Ozorai and the emergency appendectomy to Remy Conatser just days before the NCAA Regionals in 2014, USC did not have a male or female athlete score in the hammer throw at the NCAA Championships for the fi rst time since 1992, ending a streak of 21 consecutive seasons with an NCAA scorer in the event. During those 21 seasons, USC claimed six hammer throw titles and had 16 fi nishes in the top three. USC has had 13 women’s hammer throwers score at the NCAAs in the past 16 seasons and has had 17 men’s athletes score in the last 22 seasons. Ozorai has been an All-American in each of her three seasons and ranks second all-time by a Trojan with a best mark of 223-4 and Conor McCullough has thrown 248-11 (75.88m) to move into second on USC’s all-time list. In addition, women’s throwers Alexandra Collatz and Tanya Sapa have both thrown over 180 feet in the event, and redshirt sophomore Erika Peyton threw 179-3 at the California Collegiate on April 4.

TOP 10 JONES - Senior Vanessa Jones appears on USC’s top 10 list in the 400m and on three separate 4x400 relay teams. Jones ran a then PR of 51.92 in the 400m prelims at the Pac-12 Championships on May 16, then came back to win the title with a PR of 51.50 which ranks second on USC’s all-time list and tied for seventh in the country. Jones also took fi fth at the Pac-12 Championships in the 200m dash with a time of 23.46 (+0.7) and ran anchor on the winning 4x400m relay which clocked 3:32.12. Jones ran a time of 52.15 to place fourth at the 2014 NCAA West Preliminary Rounds. She went on to place 12th at the NCAA Championships with a time of 52.45. She also anchored USC’s 4x400m relay team which placed seventh to earn All-America honors with a time of 3:30.29. Jones also ran the third leg for USC’s relay team at the 2014 Florida Relays on April 5 which had the third-fastest time in school history of 3:29.42. JThis indoor season she placed fourth in the 400m with a PR of 53.33 at the MPSF Championships. Jones opened up her 400m season with a time of 53.01 to take 12th at the Florida Relays on April 3 and that time currently ranks 25th nationally.

SPRINTER STEWART HITS FINAL STRETCH-- Senior Davonte Stewart has battled hamstring injuries during his career, but has posted some very strong times when healthy. His 2014 best in the 200m was 20.68 (+0.1) at the Florida Relays on April 4 and his 400m best was a then-PR of 46.90 in winning at the USC-UCLA Dual Meet on May 4 in just his second collegiate 400m race. He also has been a key member of the USC relays, running the second leg of USC’s winning 4x100m relay at the 2014 Pac-12 Championships before injury ended his season. Stewart has a 200m PR of 20.55 (+1.7) in fi nishing third at the 2012 Pac-12 Championships. Stewart was third in the 200m at the 2015 Mt. SAC Relays with a time of 20.85 (+2.1w). This season he has concentrated in the 400m race and has run four of his six career 400m races this season. Stewart won his second consecutive USC-UCLA Dual Meet 400m race on May 3 with a then PR of 46.51. He then fi nished second in the 400m at the Pac-12 Championships on May 17 with a PR of 46.34.

VERSATILE COX AGAIN A KEY MEMBER FOR THE WOMEN’S TEAM - Senior Melia Cox has advanced to the NCAA West Preliminary rounds in 12th place in the 100m HH and 15th in the triple jump with the top 12 in each event advancing to the NCAA Championships. She fi nished third in the 100m HH (13.48/-0.4) and third in the triple jump (SBs of 41-11.25/12.78m wind-aided and 41-7.00/12.67m) at the 2015 Pac-12 Championships on May 17. Cox advanced to the 2014 NCAA Championships in two events, placing 20th in the 100m HH and 11th in the triple jump. She also won the 2014 Pac-12 triple jump title and placed sixth in the 100m HH. In 2013 she advanced to the NCAA Championships in both of those events as well as the 4x100m relay, which placed seventh, earning her fi rst-team All-America honors. Cox ranks fi fth on USC’s all-time women’s triple jump list with a legal jump of 43-3.25 (13.19m) and has a wind-aided best of 43-4.50. She set her 100m HH best of 13.25 (+1.3) on April 18 at the 2015 Mt. SAC Relays which is .01 seconds outside of USC’s all-time top 10 and tied for 26th in the country. During the indoor season, Cox placed second in the triple jump and third in the 60m HH at the MPSF Championships. She had an indoor PR of 8.25 in the hurdles, but did not qualify for the NCAA Championships, but that time would have fi nished sixth in the fi nals.

FAULKNOR JUMPS INTO TROJAN TOP 10 - Junior Alexis Faulknor had a big Pac-12 Championships, fi rst winning the long jump title on May 16 with a wind-aided jump of 21-0.75/6.42m (+3.7w). She took the lead in her fi fth jump with was a season legal best of 20-9.25/6.33m (-2.3) which moved her into seventh place on USC’s all-time list. She also took second in the 200m with a PR of 23.08 (+0.7) and fourth in the 100m with a time of 11.36 (+1.1). Faulknor also ran the third leg for the 4x100m relay which set a meet record in winning with a time of 43.10, third on USC’s and the Pac-12s all-time list. Faulknor won the 100m dash with a PR of 11.30 (+0.8) to win at the USC-UCLA Dual Meet on May 3 and which moved into 10th on USC’s all-time top 10, but she dropped to 11th after Tynia Gaither ran 11.27 at the Pac-12 Championships. She also won the long jump at the Dual Meet with a leap of 20- 5.75/6.24m (+1.9) which had been her best as a Trojan. The three-time All-American got her 2015 outdoor season off strongly by running a 23.53 (+0.1) 200m dash and winning the long jump with a leap of 19-7.50/5.98m (-1.2) at the Trojan Invitational on March 21. Faulknor placed fourth in the 100m dash at the Florida Relays on April 3 with a then-PR of 11.32 (-0.3). She then ran a wind-aided PR of 11.22 (+2.8w) to place eighth at the Mt. SAC Relays...that time is tied for ninth in the country. In 2014 she place fourth in the 100m (11.53), ninth in the 200m (23.94), fi rst in the 4x100m (43.21) and third in the long jump (20-4.50/6.21m) at the Pac-12 Champion- ships. She fi nished 13th in both the 100m and long jump at the NCAA West Preliminary rounds, one spot outside of advancing to the NCAA Championships. Faulknor did run a leg on USC’s 4x100m relay team with took second to earn All-America honors with a time of 43.00, second all-time by a Trojan quartet. Faulknor also has a wind-aided long jump best of 21-6.25/6.56m (+2.7w) in winning the Conference USA title in 2013 as a freshman...She also had a wind-legal PR of 21-4.75/6.52m (+0.3) in that same competition. During the 2015 indoor season, Faulknor won the long jump title at the MPSF Championships with a jump of 20-5.25 (6.23m) and placed fi fth in the 60m dash with a time of 7.34. She had an indoor PR of 7.27 at the McCravy Memorial Invitational on Jan. 24.

MORRIS ALSO WINS SPRINT HURDLES TITLE AS A FRESHMAN - Marquis Morris, who would later be named Pac-12 Men’s Freshman of the Year, won the conference 110m HH title with wind-legal time of 13.95 (-0.9) on May 17. He became the third conference freshman to win the title (Spider Gaines, Wash., 1976 and Jonathan Cabral, Oregon, 2012). Morris had a wind-aided best of 13.80 (+3.5w) to win the 110m HH at the USC-UCLA Dual Meet on May 3 which ranks 33rd in the country. He also won the 400m IH that day with a PR of 52.78. HALL HURDLES TO ANOTHER RECORD - Freshman Dior Hall came to USC as the all-time U.S. high school record-holder in the 100m HH and demonstrated in the indoor season that she is going to be a force immediately. Hall won the MPSF 60m HH title with a time of 8.11. She set the USC freshman hurdles record at the Husker invitational with a time of 8.14, then broke it three more times, the last being an 8.01 clocking in the semifi nals at the NCAA Indoor Championships. Unfortunately for Hall, she clipped the third hurdle while leading in the fi nals and placed eighth with a time of 8.48. Hall’s high school record in the 100m HH is 12.92 set in placing second at the 2014 IAAF World Youth Championships , which broke the previous record of 12.95 set by Candy Young in 1979. Hall was a three-time state 100m HH champions and a two-time Colorado Gatorade Girls Track and Field Athlete of the Year honoree. Hall opened up her 2015 outdoor season by running a then PR of 23.90 in the 200m at the Trojan Invite on March 21. Hall ran her fi rst collegiate 100m HH race at the Florida Relays on April 3 and placed third with a wind-aided time of 13.00 (+2.1w). In her second 100m HH race, Hall ran 13.17 (+0.1) to win at the Jim Click Shootout on April 11 and move into 8th on USC’s all-time list. She also set a 200m PR that day of 23.79 (-1.7). Hall then took down the USC freshman record of 13.06 set by Lauren Blackburn in 2011 by winning at the Mt. SAC Invitational 100m HH race with a time of 12.89 (+1.8) on April 18. That time ranks tied for fi fth in the country and third all-time at USC, behind only NCAA champions Ginnie Crawford (12.48) and Nia Ali (12.73). Hall won the Pac-12 100m HH title with a time of 12.99 (-0.4) with a lean at the fi nish on May 17. She became just the second Pac-12 100m HH freshman winner, joining Joanna Hayes (UCLA, 1996).

HE ARRIVED “JUST’N THYMES” - Junior sprinter Just’N Thymes joined the Trojans’ track and fi eld roster in January of 2015 af- ter he transferred to USC from Riverside City College. He immediately brought the Trojans another high-end sprinter and strengthened the relay teams. Thymes came to USC with two seasons of eligibility remaining. Thymes is slowly running into shape and ran a PR of 20.46 (-0.1) in the 200m dash at the Florida Relays which ranks tied for 14th nationally. He also has a 100m best this season of 10.37 (+0.4) which ranks 60th in the country. Thymes fi nished third in the 200m dash with a time of 20.75 (-0.1) at the Pac-12 Champion- ships on May 17. He also placed 10th in the 100m dash with a time of 10.59 (+0.7). Thymes has a 100m legal PR of 10.18 (+1.0) in winning at the RCC Quad Meet on March 8, 2014. Thymes fi nished second in the 100m and 200m at the 2014 CCCAA State Men’s Track and Field Championships to help lead Riverside CC to its sixth title in seven seasons.

WESTBROOK EARNS INDOOR ALL-AMERICA HONORS - Freshman Ky Westbrook placed second in the 60m at the 2015 NCAA Indoor Championships with a time of 7.21. Five of the eight runners in the race had competed in the 2014 fi nal, including the top three fi nishers from last season. Westbrook became the fi rst Trojan to score in the 60m dash since Virginia Powell placed seventh in 2006. The last Trojan to place higher than Westbrook was all-time great and USC record-holder Angela Williams who won the event in 2002. Westbrook had an indoor best of 7.18 in the 60m and won the MPSF indoor title with a time of 7.23. Westbrook enters the 2015 outdoor season with high school PRs of 11.33 in the 100m and 23.37 in the 200m. She led her Chandler High team to the state title and was named the Gatorade Girls Track and Field Athlete of the Year for Arizona as she won the 100m, 200m, 100m HH and the shot put competitions at the state meet. Westbrook ran the second leg for USC’s 4x100m relay with ran 43.10 to win the Pac-12 title with a meet record and move to into third place on USC’s all-time list. She also took third in the 100m dash at the conference meet with a time of 11.36 (+1.1) and seventh in the 200m with a time of 23.58 (+0.7). Westbrook has a 100m legal best this season of 11.34 (+1.4) and a 200m best of 23.45 (-1.4) set in the Pac-12 prelims on May 16. She posted wind-aided PRs in both at the Mt. SAC Re- lays, going 11.20 (+2.3w) in the 100m and 23.20 (+2.8w) in the 200m. She currently ranks eighth in the 100m and 25th in the 200m.

BAR SET HIGH FOR CUNNINGHAM - Freshman Randall Cunningham came to USC with a personal best of 7-3.25 (2.22m) in the high jump and as a two-time AAU Junior Olympics high jump champion. It didn’t take long for him to improve upon that as he took second in the high jump at the Florida Relays on April 4 with a PR of 7-4.25 (2.24m). That jump moved him into fi fth on USC’s all-time list and puts him tied for fourth in the country this season. Cunningham won the Nevada high jump title in each of the past two seasons. During his senior season he won every meet in which he cleared at least one bar. Cunningham is the son of former NFL quarterback Randall Cunningham and also played football at Bishop Gorman High in Las Vegas, Nev. The younger Cunningham quarterbacked Bishop Gorman to its fi fth consecutive state championship as a senior, rushing for 213 yards and four touchdowns and completing 9 of 11 passes for 111 yards and a touchdown in the title game. Cunningham had a best of 7-0.25 (2.14m) during the indoor season and tied for third at the MPSF Championships at that height. Cunningham jumped 7-1.00 (2.16m) to win at the Trojan Invitational on March 21 and 7-2.50 (2.20m) to win at the USC-UCLA Dual Meet on May 3. He took second at the Pac-12 Champion- ships on May 17 with a clearance of 7-1.00 (2.16m).

MORGAN MAKING HIS MARK - Freshman Ricky Morgan had a strong indoor campaign for USC setting the school indoor 400m record of 47.14 at the McCravy Invitational on Jan. 24 and placing second at the MPSF Championships with a time of 47.32. Morgan had a high school outdoor PR of 46.67 in the 400m which he ran in placing fi fth at the 2013 New Balance Outdoor Nationals. Morgan placed fi fth in the 400m dash with a time of 46.71 at the 2014 USATF Junior Championships. He went on to run a leg for USA’s gold medal-winning 4x400m relay team which clocked 3:03.31 at the IAAF World Youth Championships. Morgan attended Forest Park High in Woodbridge, Va. and as a senior placed second in the 400m (48.06), fourth in the 200m (21.59) and second in the 100m (10.77) at the state meet. Morgan ran the 200m at the Cal State L.A. Invitational on March 7 and placed fourth with a PR of 21.26 (+1.6). He had run a season-best 46.72 twice, before running a PR of 46.63 to fi nish fi fth at the Pac-12 Championships.

FORD HAS STRONG INDOOR SEASON - Freshman Robert Ford set the USC indoor 800m record with a time of 1:49.21 at the Husky Classic on Feb. 14. He ran 1:49.32 to take fourth at the MPSF Championships. Ford graduated from Claudia Taylor Johnson High in San Antonio, Texas where he placed second in the 800m at the Texas state meet as a senior with a time of 1:52.01. He went on to place fi fth in the 800m at the USATF Junior championships with a time of 1:50.04. Ford ran his fi rst outdoor 800m race for USC at the Trojan Invitational on March 21 and won with a then PR of 1:49.21. He did not top that until running 1:48.14 to place fourth at the Pac-12 Championships on May 17. In his only 1500m race, he went 3:56.37 at the Beach Invitational on April 18. RICHARDS IMPRESSES EARLY - Freshman Madisen Richards took second in the long jump at the Florida Relays on April 3 with a more than six-inch PR of 20-1.75/6.14m (-0.3). Richards also had a wind-aided best of 20-3.00/6.17m (+4.5w) to take third at the USC-UCLA Dual Meet on May 3. Richards took sixth in the long jump with a leap of 19-10.25/6.05m (+0.5) at the Pac-12 Cham- pionships on May 16. She ranked eighth in the state of California and 19th in the U.S. among high school long jumpers in 2014. She placed fi fth at the 2014 California State Meet with a jump of 19-5.50w. She was a two-time Ventura County Champ, and a three-time Marmonte League champion and had a high school best of 19-7.50 (5.98m) and placed third at the 2014 Mt. SAC Relays on April 19. Richards attended Simi Valley High in Simi Valley, Calif., where she was a scholar athlete all four years and the recipient of the Ronald Reagan Student Leader Award. She kept her GPA above 4.0 all of high school, and graduated with honors. She also served as the ASB President in 2014.

ELLIS SETS USC FRESHMAN RECORD -- Freshman Kendall Ellis won the 400m with a USC freshman-record time of 53.01 at the Jim Click Shootout on April 11, besting Malika Edmonson’s old mark of 53.02 set in 1998. She then bettered it in her next meet, placing third at the Mt. SAC Relays Invitational 400m dash with a time of 52.96. That time moved her from ninth to eighth on USC’s all-time list. Ellis placed fi fth with a PR of 52.88 at the Pac-12 Championships on May 17 to better her school freshman record and eighth place standing on USC’s all-time list. She is currently ranked No. 37 in the country in the 400m. Ellis also ran a 53.11 400m race at the Florida Relays on April 3. She opened with a time of 53.49 in the 400m at the Trojan Invitational on March 21 and ran a then 200m PR of 23.55 (+0.1) that day. She bettered that with a time of 23.54 (+0.1) at Mt. SAC. Ellis graduated with the class of 2014 from St. Thomas Aquinas High in Pembroke Pines, Florida. She was a four-time Florida State champion in the 400m dash, winning in 2014 with a PR of 52.95. She is also the four-time female MVP. Ellis’ 400m dash time ranked fourth in the country among all high school women in 2014.

SAPA COMING OFF STRONG FRESHMAN SEASON - Sophomore Tanya Sapa moved into USC’s all-time top 10 in the shot put in her third career meet with a mark of 47-11.00 (14.60m) at the 2014 Trojan Invitational which put her in 10th place. She then moved into eighth place when she won the shot put competition at the 2014 Florida Relays on April 5 with a throw of 49-9.00 (15.16m). Sapa placed seventh in the shot put with a PR of 49-11.25 (15.22m) at the 2014 Pac-12 Championships on May 17 to move into sev- enth place on USC’s all-time list (now 8th). She also PR’d that day by 10-feet in the hammer throw to place eighth at the conference championships with a mark of 182-11 (55.76m). Sapa had a 2015 season-best shot put mark of 49-3.50 (15.02m) at the USC-UCLA Dual Meet on May 3. She fouled out at the Pac-12 Championships and enters the Regional ranked 52nd in the West.

USC PONZIO SCHEME PAYING DIVIDENDS -- Redshirt freshman Nick Ponzio has steadily been improving in the shot put, posting the eighth-farthest throw in school history of 63-2.25 (19.26m) in winning the college shot put competition at Mt. SAC on April 17, taking the competition title in his fi nal attempt. The next day he competed in the Mt. SAC Invitational shot put and placed fi fth with a mark of 62-11.50 (19.19m). Ponzio then bettered his PR and 8th-place standing on USC’s all-time list with a mark of 63-2.75 (19.27m) to take third at the Dual Meet on May 3. That mark ranks 21st in the country. Ponzio also won and set a discus throw PR of 185-3 (56.47m) on that day. Ponzio went on to place third in the shot put with a best throw of 63-1.25 (19.23m) at the Pac-12 Championships on May 16 and eighth in the discus throw with a mark of 173-10 (52.99m) on May 17. He opened his collegiate career by winning at the Trojan Invitational on March 21 with a throw of 60-0.25 (18.29m) and then winning at the California Collegiate on April 4 with a mark of 61-0.75 (18.61m). Ponzio came to USC after spending the 2013-14 school year at Florida, but he did not compete. Ponzio is a 2013 graduate of Great Oak High in Temecula, Calif. and was the California state champion that season with a throw of 66-2.50. His high school shot put best was 69-7.25.

TROJANS PILED UP PAC-12 ATHLETE OF THE WEEK AWARDS - A USC track and fi eld athlete was selected as a Pac-12 Athlete of the Week 12 times this season, out of the 28 awards handed out by the conference this outdoor season. Here is a list of the USC honorees this season:

March 24 (3) - Amalie Iuel (Women’s Track), BeeJay Lee (Men’s Track), Tera Novy (Women’s Field) April 6 (4) - Andre De Grasse (Men’s Track), Deanna Hill (Women’s Track), Conor McCullough (Men’s Field), Tera Novy (Women’s Field) April 13 (1) - Kendall Ellis (Women’s Track) April 20 (3) - Andre De Grasse (Men’s Track), Conor McCullough (Men’s Field), Tera Novy (Women’s Field) May 4 (1) - Andre De Grasse (Men’s Track) 2015 USC TRACK AND FIELD MEET RECAPS Feb. 28 - ROSSI RELAYS - Alexandra Collatz won the women’s discus and hammer throw competitions, Bryan Mercado the men’s 100m dash and Dominic Smallwood the men’s long jump as the Trojans opened the outdoor track and fi eld season at the Rossi Relays in Claremont, Calif. Collatz won the discus throw competition with a best mark of 175-11 (53.62m). She also won the hammer throw with a strong season-opening throw of 183-7 (55.96m). That throw was nearly 12 feet farther than she opened her 2014 season. Mercado won the men’s 100m dash with a time of 10.72. Right behind him in second place was Jovonte Slater with a time of 10.79. Dominic Smallwood won the men’s long jump with a leap of 23-2.00/7.06m (+0.7) and again Slater grabbed second with a jump of 22-5.00/6.83m (+2.3w). USC’s distance runners went 5-8 in the women’s 3000m race and teamed together to take second in the distance medley. Kira Soderstrom had a PR of 9:59.69 to fi nish fi fth in the 3000m race, with Katerina Berdousi fi nishing sixth (10:13.45), Amber Bragdon placing seventh (10:29.89) and Jenna Tong taking eighth (10:33.58). The quartet then ran 12:06.51 in the distance medley to fi nish second. Bryan Jordan placed third in the men’s 3000m race with a time of 8:38.85. David Sellens also competed for the fi rst time as a Trojan and placed second in the hammer throw with a mark of 152-0 (46.32m) and 13th in the discus throw with a best mark of 129-1 (39.35m). Feb. 27-28 - MPSF INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS - Dior Hall won the women’s 60m HH, Andre De Grasse the men’s 60m dash and the women’s 4x400m relay team won with a meet record time at the Mountain Pacifi c Sports Federation (MPSF) Indoor Track & Field Championships held at Dempsey Indoor in Seattle, Wash. The USC women’s team won their second consecutive MPSF title, while the men’s team took second in their inaugural season in the conference. Hall’s winning time was 8.11 and Melia Cox took fourth at 8.34. Marquís Morris took third in the men’s 60m high hurdles with a time of 7.95 and Allen Williams fi nished sixth with a time of 8.11. De Grasse and BeeJay Lee were separated by just .005 seconds in the men’s 60m dash with De Grasse winning the title at 6.61 (6.602) and Lee taking second with a PR of 6.61 (6.607). The Trojan women fi nished 3-6 in the 60m race as Tynia Gaither was third with a PR of 7.23, Deanna Hill was fourth with a PR of 7.28, Alexis Faulknor was fi fth with a time of 7.34 and Destinee Brown was sixth with a time of 7.40. The women’s team took control of the meet by amassing 23 points in the 400m race and moving into fi rst place to stay. USC’s fi rst four fi nishers all set PRs with Jaide Stepter taking second with a time of 52.89, Kendall Ellis fi nishing third with a time of 53.19, Vanessa Jones taking fourth with a time of 53.33 and Amalie Iuel fi nishing fi fth with a time of 53.38. Ricky Morgan fi nished second in the men’s 400m race with a time of 47.32. Morgan was just .02 seconds out of winning the title. Robert Ford placed fourth in the men’s 800m with a time of 1;49.32. Tera Novy had a PR of 49-11.00 (15.21m) in the women’s shot put to place seventh and Nick Ponzio also set an indoor PR with a mark of 60-5.25 (18.43m) in the men’s shot put to fi nish sixth. Michael Krone placed second and Randall Cunningham tied for third in the men’s high jump competition with both clearing 7-0.25. Cox came back to take second in the women’s triple jump with a best leap of 40-8.75 (12.41m). The women’s team already had the meet clinched, but fi nished things out in style by winning the 4x400m relay with a meet-record time of 3:33.58. USC’s relay team in order was Ellis, Iuel, Jones and Stepter. The men’s relay team of Morgan, junior Just’N Thymes, freshman Adoree’ Jackson and senior Davonte Stewart took second with a season-best time of 3:08.74. USC won seven titles during the two-day meet with De Grasse winning the men’s 60m, Faulknor winning the women’s long jump, Hall winning the women’s 60m HH, Hill winning the women’s 200m, Lee winning the men’s 200m, Conor McCullough winning the men’s weight throw and the women’s 4x400m relay taking the conference crown. March 6-7 - CAL STATE L.A. INVITATIONAL - USC won six events as Jenny Ozorai won the women’s hammer throw, Alexandra Collatz the women’s discus throw title, Madisen Richards the women’s long jump and 100m dash and both the men’s and women’s 4x100m and 4x400m relay teams were victorious to highlight USC’s efforts. Nearly 1,300 athletes competed during the two days of the meet. Ozorai won with a throw of 191-8 (58.43m), not a bad starting point for her fi rst meet since the 2013 NCAA Championships. Collatz took 2nd in the HT with a best mark of 176-2 (53.70m), followed by Tanya Sapa in third with a mark of 168-8 (51.41m) and Erika Peyton in fourth with a PR of 166-11 (50.87m). Peyton’s throw was a PR by 12 feet, which had come in her fi rst collegiate competition on March 2, 2013 while at Fresno State. USC’s 4 throwers all beat the fi eld by nearly 4 meters. Collatz came back to win the women’s discus throw competition with a mark of 180-11 (55.14m), followed closely by Tera Novy in 2nd place with an outdoor opener of 176-8 (53.86m). Both Trojans beat the fi eld by over 3 meters. On Saturday Richards got things started for USC and notched her fi rst victory of the day by winning the women’s long jump with a leap of 19-0.75/5.81m (+0.2). The running portion of the meet began with a pair of USC wins in the 4x100m races.Richards then came back to capture the women’s 100m dash with a time of 12.12 (+1.3). Bryan Mercado took 3rd in the men’s 100m dash with a time of 10.59 (+1.8), while decathlete Jemal Williams placed 38th with a wind-aided PR of 11.32 (+2.1w). Marquis Morris was the only Trojan to compete in the 400m IH races and he placed 6th with a time of 55.33. Several Trojans posted PRs in the 200m races as Melia Cox had a PR of 24.55 (+0.2) to take 3rd, CameronPettigrew a PR of 24.76 (+0.2) to take 5th and Richards had a time of 25.47 (+3.3w) to place 12th in the women’s race. Ricky Morgan was 4th in the men’s 200m with a PR of 21.26 (+1.6), while Mercado was 8th with a time of 21.58 (+1.4) and Allen Williams was 37th with a wind-aided PR of 22.41 (+2.6w). Kira Soderstrom had a PR of 9:54.21 to take third in the women’s 3000m race.The fi nal races of the day were a pair of wins in the 4x400m relay. The women’s team of Pettigrew, Ricks, Cantrell and Brown won with a time of 3:49.64, more than 13 seconds faster than the next team. The men’s team of Morris, Stewart, Thymes and Ford won too, but by just 0.65 seconds, fi nishing with a time of 3:15.15. March 13-14 - NCAA INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS - The USC men’s team tied for ninth and the women’s team tied for 12th at the NCAA Indoor Championships held in Fayetteville, Ark. on March 13-14. Conor McCullough was second in the men’s weight throw with a school-record throw of 80-3.75 (24.48m) and Andre De Grasse was second in the 200m dash with a school and Canadian-record time of 20.26. Ky Westbrook was second in the women’s 60m dash with a time of 7.21, Dior Hall was eighth in the women’s 60m HH (8.48) and the 4x400m relay team of Jaide Stepter, Amalie Iuel, Kendall Ellis and Vanessa Jones took third with a school-record time of 2:29.63. USC was one of six schools in the country to have both programs fi nish in the top 12 in the country. March 14-15 - BEN BROWN INVITATIONAL - Reika Kijima won the women’s 800m race and three Trojans posted the top collegiate fi nishes in events during the Ben Brown Invitational hosted by Cal State Fullerton. USC’s women dominated the 800m race with the junior Kijima winning with a slight PR of 2:12.47, followed closely by senior Erica Capellino in second with a time of 2:12.83, just .25 seconds off her PR. Setting a PR by more than four seconds and placing fi fth in the event was senior Kira Soderstrom with a time of 2:15.43. USC had 10 of the top 18 fi nishers in the event. In the women’s 1500m race, USC had fi ve of the top 10 fi nishers with Capellino placing second with a time of 4:35.74. Right behind her in third place was Soderstrom with another PR in the event of almost three seconds, fi nishing with a time of 4:36.61. Senior Myles Andrews had a personal best by more than 4.5 seconds and placed third in the men’s 1500m race with a time of 3:52.54. His time was the best among the college runners. Jenny Ozorai was third in the women’s hammer throw (190-8) and Alexandra Collatz was fourth (181-9). Other top fi nishes included Jemal Williams running a PR of 14.95 in the 110m HH to place second, tops among collegians, Malia Cravens tying for fourth in the high jump at 5-5.00 (tied for tops among collegians) and Felicia Horvath taking fourth in the pole vault with a clearance of 11-7.75. March 20-21 - TROJAN INVITATIONAL - USC won 16 events during the two-day Trojan Invitational led by Alexis Faulknor, Adoree’ Jackson, BeeJay Lee and Just’N Thymes being part of two victories each. The women’s 4x100m relay team of Deanna Hill, Ky Westbrook, Faulknor and Tynia Gaither took second with a time of 43.41, fi fth-fastest ever by a USC women’s quartet. The men’s 4x100m relay team of Lee, Jackson, Thymes and Bry- an Mercado won with a time of 39.74. Thymes also won the 100m with a time of 10.47 and Lee won the 200m with a PR of 20.51, followed by Thymes with a PR 20.55...at the time the top 2 times in the country. Faulknor also won the women’s long jump with a leap of 19-7.50. Jackson won the men’s lnog jump at 24-4.50. Tera Novy won the women’s discus with a PR of 186-0 to better her second place standing on USC’s all-time list and moved into the shot put top 10 at seven with a PR of 50-0.50. Jenny Ozorai continues to shake off the rust after a year off to win the women’s hammer with a mark of 199-4. Nick Ponzio won the men’s shot put with a PR of 60-0.25. Randall Cunningham won the men’s HJ with a clearance of 7-1.00. Robert Ford won the men’s 800m with a PR of 1:49.21, followed by Myles Andrews at 1:49.66. Reika Kijima won the women’s 800m with a PR of 2:11.78. Melia Cox won the women’s 100m HH with a time of 13.50. Kendall Ellis won the women’s 400m with a time of 53.49 and Destinee Brown won the women’s 100m dash with a 11.73. The Trojans last win came in the women’s 4x400m as the team of Vanessa Jones, Jaide Stepter, Akawkaw Ncha-Ndip and Gabriella Cantrell won with a time of 3:34.88. Kira Soderstrom ran a 10:47.62 steeplechase to move from fi fth to fourth on USC’s all-time list. April 3-4 - FLORIDA RELAYS - USC registered eight USC all-time top 10 performances and set 16 different personal bests during the Florida Re- lays in Gainesville, Fla. On the fi rst day BeeJay Lee had the top collegiate 100m time (10.09) and second overall, followed by Andre De Grasse in third with a PR of 10.11 whicm moved him into 8th on USC’s all-time list. De Grasse then won the 200m with a PR of 20.20, moving him to 4th on USC’s all-time list. Lee had a PR of 20.27 in the 200m to move into 6th on USC’s list. Lee and De Grasse teamed with Just’N Thymes and Bryan Mercado to run a 38.97 4x100m relay to move into 8th on USC’s AT list. Deanna Hill had the college women’s top 200m time of 22.88, a PR and tied for 8th on USC’s AT list. Jaide Stepter was second (55.83) & Amalie Iuel third (55.92) with PRs in the 400m IH to move into 3rd and 4th on USC’s AT list. Randall Cunningham cleared 7-4.25 (2.24m) to place second in the high jump and move into 5th on USC’s AT list. USC also had the top collegiate women’s 4x100m (43.85) and women’s 4x200m (1:31.41). USC’s women had 6 of the top 16 100m times among all runners and 3 of the top 6 college 200m times. The Trojan men had 3 of the top 9 collegiate 100m dash times and 3 of the top 6 overall 200m times.

April 4 - CALIFORNIA COLLEGIATE - USC won fi ve of the seven throwing events in which it competed at the California Collegiate Invitational in La Jolla, Calif. Conor McCullough opened up his season and made his fi rst hammer throws as a Trojan in impressive fashion, winning the competition with a best throw of 233-7 (71.21m). McCullough moved into fi fth place on USC’s all-time hammer throw list and into the NCAA lead. David Sellens took fourth in the competition with a best mark of 153-3 (46.72m). Jenny Ozorai won the women’s hammer throw with a mark of 190-10 (58.16m), Erika Peyton placed second with a PR of 179-3 (54.65m), Tanya Sapa was sixth with a throw of 155-1 (47.28m) and Alexandra Collatz did not register a legal throw. Nick Ponzio won the men’s shot put with a PR of 61-0.75 (18.61m). Tera Novy won the women’s discus throw competition with a best mark of 182-10 (55.74) with Collatz second with a best throw of 176-5 (53.77m). Novy came back to win a very close women’s shot put competition with a mark of 45-4.25 (13.82m). Sapa tied for second right behind her with a throw of 45-3.50 (13.80m). Ponzio also placed third and McCullough took fourth in the men’s discus throw competition. Ponzio had his best throw of 169-3 (51.59m) in his fi nal attempt. McCullough had a top throw of 164-5 (50.12) in his fi rst discus competition collegiately since 2012. Diego Lopez took fi fth place in the men’s javelin throw with a mark of 162-4 (49.47m).

April 4 - STANFORD INVITATIONAL - USC sent four 800m runners to the Stanford Invitational and they all posted solid times. Myles Andrews was fi fth in the fi rst section and overall in the men’s 800m with a time of 1:49.15. That time was his best since setting his PR of 1:48.95 at the 2013 Stanford Invitational. Robert Ford was second in the third heat and eighth overall with a time of 1:49.62. In the women’s 800m races, Reika Kijima was fourth in the seventh section with a time of 2:12.07 and senior Erica Capellino was fi fth in the same section with a time of 2:13.38. Kijima fi nished 36th overall, while Capellino was 44th.

April 11 - JIM CLICK SHOOTOUT - USC won eight events led by Kendall Ellis who ran the ninth-fastest women’s 400m race all-time by a Trojan and set a school freshman record of 53.01 and Dior Hall hurdling into the Trojans’ top 10 in the 100m HH at the Jim Click Shootout hosted by Arizona at Roy P. Drachman Stadium in Tucson, Ariz. Hall won the 100m HH with a time of 13.17 (+0.1) to move into 8th on USC’s all-time list and Melia Cox placed third with a PR of 13.34, just outside of USC’s top 10. BeeJay Lee won the men’s 100m with a time of 10.16 (+0.4) and Deanna Hill won the women’s 100m with a time of 11.47 (-0.1). Jaide Stepter won the women’s 400m IH with a time of 56.14. The women’s 4x400m relay of Ellis, Akawkaw Ncha-Ndip, Hill and Stepter won with a time of 3:32.87. Jenny Ozorai won the women’s hammer throw (194-10) and Tera Novy the women’s discus throw (184-10). The men’s 4x100m relay team took 2nd with a time of 39.08 as did the women’s 4x100m relay team with a time of 43.78. Junior Kateri- na Berdousi had her best 1500m race (4:32.53) and 3000m race (10:07.22) since the 2013 season. Ricky Morgan placed sixth in the men’s 400m dash with a season-best time of 46.72, just off his high school PR of 46.67. Reika Kijima posted a slight PR of 2:11.75 to place 8th in the women’s 800m race.

April 15-16 - CALIFORNIA INVITATIONAL - Jemal Williams used a strong second day to surge from eighth to fi nish second in the decathlon at the California Invitational in Azusa, Calif. to fi nish with a two-day total of 6,871 points. His season-opening total was just 163 points off his PR of 7,034 set in placing sixth at the 2014 Pac-12 Championships and more than 100 points better than he opened up in the decathlon last season. Williams had no PRs in the competition but started the fi nal day strong by placing second in the 110m HH (15.06) and discus throw (127-6) and closed by winning the 1500m race (4:34.25).

April 16 - CAL STATE L.A. TWILIGHT MEET - Tera Novy won the discus throw competition with a school-record throw of 193-10 (591.2m). Novy beat Kate Hutchinson’s mark of 189-5 (57.73m) set during the 2006 season. Novy surpassed her previous best of 186-0 set at the Trojan Invita- tional on March 21 by nearly 8 feet. Alexandra Collatz also surpassed the previous school with a PR of 189-8 (57.82m), more than 2 feet better than her previous career best set last season. Collatz began the day by taking fi fth in the women’s hammer throw with a season-best of 184-10 (56.35m).

April 16-18 - MT. SAC RELAYS - Kira Soderstom got things started for USC on April 16 by running the third-fastest 3000m SC in USC history of 10:34.18 (a 13-second PR)and Jenna Tong had a time of 11:07.75. On April 17, Nick Ponzio won the men’s shot put with the eighth-farthest throw in school history with a PR of 63-2.25 (19.26m) on his last throw. He became the fi rst athlete to crack the Trojan top 10 in the event since 2007. Tera Novy then took 5th in the womens Invitational Discus competiton with a mark of 189-1. Adoree’ Jackson in his second competition of the season placed 7th in the LJ with a jump of 25-0.00. USC had 6 women fi nish in the top 13 out of 55 runners in the 200m dash. Ky Westbrook was 3rd overall with a time of 23.20 (+2.8w). Davonte Stewart was 3rd in the men’s 200m with a time of 20.85 (+2.1w). Deanna Hill took 3rd in the women’s 100m with a time of 11.44 (+1.3). Tanya Sapa placed 8th in the women’s shot put with a season-best mark of 48-7.25 (14.81m). On April 18, USC won six events during the Invitational portion of the meet. Andre De Grasse won the 100m by tying the world-leading any condition time of 9.87 (+4.0w), followed by BeeJay Lee at 9.96, the only to collegians in the competition. De Grasse then won the 200m with a PR of 20.16 (+0.3) to tie Aaron Brown’s Canadian record and third-place standing on USC’s all-time list. He & Lee teamed with Just’N Thymes and Bryan Mercado to win the 4x100m relay with a time of 38.98, the 1st college team to win at Mt. SAC since 2002 and just the 2nd in 29 years. Dior Hall won the 100m HH Invitational with a PR and USC freshman record of 12.89 (+1.3)...that moved her into 3rd on USC’s all-time list. Conor McCullough won the men’s Invitational Hammer Throw with a best throw of 241-9 (73.70m), the 3rd-farthest throw in USC history. Jaide Stepter won the women’s Invitational 400m IH with a time of 56.74. Kendall Ellis won her heat & placed 3rd overall with a time of 52.96 in the women’s 400m Invite. Her time bettered her USC freshman record and moved her from 9th to 8th on USC’s all-time list. Ky Westbrook was 7th & Alexis Faulknor 8th in the 100m with with a wind-aided PRs (+2.3w) of 11.20 & 11.22 respectively.

April 18 - BEACH INVITATIONAL - Katerina Berdousi ran the eighth-fastest women’s 5000m race in school history to highlight USC’s efforts at the Beach Invitational hosted by Long Beach State in Norwalk, Calif. In her fi rst 5000m race as a Trojan she ran 17:26.47 to place 16th overall. Marquis Morris, a day off running his collegiate PR of 14.06 at Mt. SAC, ran 14.23 (+2.6w) to fi nish 3rd in the men’s 110m HH. D.J. Morgan, in his 1st collegiate race since the 2012 West Regional, wins the 2nd heat and is 4th overall with a time of 14.26 (+2.5w). Cameron Pettigrew was 2nd out of 90 in the women’s 400m with a PR of 54.45. Reika Kijima set a PR in the women’s 800m race by running 2:10.93 for fi nish 2nd in the 6th heat and 16th overall. Emma Kao had a PR of 2:15.12 to win the 10th heat (56th overall) & Natasha Strickland was 8th in the 7th heat with a season-best time of 2:15.55 (60th overall). Myles Andrews won his men’s 1500m heat and placed 15th overall with a time of 3:52.60, just .06 seconds off his PR set earlier this season. Robert Ford was 5th in the 4th heat and 34th overall in his fi rst collegiate 1500m race with a time of 3:56.37. Clayton Rule ran his 1st 5000m race for USC and had a time of 15:29.40 to fi nish 28th. His time was 29 seconds faster than any USC male ran the 5000m race in last season.

April 24 - TRITON INVITATIONAL - USC sent a few women’s throwers to the Triton Invitational in La Jolla, Calif. to get some work in. Jenny Ozorai was 7th in the Invitational hammer throw with a mark of 190-5 (58.03m). Tera Novy was 10th in the women’s Invitational discus throw with a mark of 190-4 (58.02m) and Alexandra Collatz was 16th with a throw of 176-8 (53.84m). May 2-3 - USC-UCLA DUAL MEET - Andre De Grasse’s won the men’s 100m dash with a stadium-record time and ran a leg on the winning men’s 4x400m relay to lead USC to a sweep over UCLA in the annual Dual Meet held at Loker Stadium. The USC men’s team won 82-81 thanks to the relay win in the fi nal event, while the USC women’s team won 93-70 despite trailing 39-6 after the fi rst fi ve scored events. The USC men improved to 43-39 all-time against UCLA, while the Trojan women trail 22-10, but have won seven of the last eight meetings with the Bruins. It was USC’s fi rst sweep in the series since the 2010 season. De Grasse set the Loker Stadium record when he won the men’s 100m dash with a wind-legal PR of 10.04 (+0.4) which also tied the meet record set by Ato Boldon of UCLA in 1996 and moved him into a second-place tie on USC’s all-time list. De Grasse beat the Loker Stadium record of 10.07 which was set by Aaron Brown on May 11, 2013 and tied by BeeJay Lee on May 12, 2013. De Grasse also took second in the 200m (20.74) and ran on the winning 4x100m relay (39.42). De Grasse and Alexis Faulknor (4x100m, 100m, LJ) won three events, with Faulknor running the 10th-fastest 100m dash in USC history of 11.30 (+0.8). The following athletes were part of two wins each: Men - Lee (4x100, 200m), Just’N Thymes (4x100m, 4x400m), Marquis Morris (110m HH, 400m IH), Davonte Stewart (4x400m, 400m) and Women - Ky Westbrook (4x100m, 200m), Melia Cox (100m HH, triple jump), Vanessa Jones (4x400m, 400m), Jaide Stepter (4x400m, 400m IH). Conor McCullough won the men’s hammer throw on May 2 with a college PR of 248-11 (75.88m), second-farthest ever by a Trojan and seventh on the NCAA all-time list.

May 9-10 - PAC-12 MULTI-EVENTS CHAMPIONSHIPS - Amalie Iuel fi nished third in the heptathlon and Jemal Williams 12th in the decathlon at the 2015 Pac-12 Multi-Events Championships hosted by UCLA. Iuel’s two-day total of 5610 points moved her into fourth place on USC’s all-time heptathlon list. During the two-day competition, Iuel set fi ve personal bests in the seven events to better her previous heptathlon total of 5378 by 232 points to vault her from seventh to fourth on USC’s all-time list. Her point total of 5610 moves her into 16th place on the NCAA descending order list. Iuel earned the Trojans six points in the team competition. Williams could not fi nd his stride, registering only one season best, clearing 6-4.00 in the high jump to fi nish with 6,654 points. He set a PR of 7,034 to place sixth at the 2014 Pac-12 Multi-Events Championships.

May 16-17 - PAC-12 CHAMPIONSHIPS - Both the USC women’s and men’s team’s placed second as the Trojans won 13 event titles at the 2015 Pac-12 Track & Field Championships hosted by UCLA in Westwood, Calif. Andre De Grasse was named the Pac-12’s Men’s Athlete of the Meet as he had electrifying wins in the 100m and 200m and ran a leg for USC’s winning 4x100m relay team. The USC women’s team entered the fi nal day trailing eventual winner Oregon by 56 points and the lead swelled to 63 points before the Trojans mounted a valiant rally, with the meet not decided until the fi nal event, the women’s 4x400m relay. USC won the 4x400m relay behind a team of Jaide Stepter, Amalie Iuel, Kendall Ellis and Vanessa Jones with a season-best time of 3:32.12, but needed Oregon to fi nish at least fourth for a tie, but the Ducks took second by less than three-quarters of a second over Stanford and Arizona State to hold on for a 185-182 victory. USC’s point total was the most ever by a second place team and they won seven event titles, more than any other school. The men’s team began the day 27 points behind Oregon and systematically closed the gap all day, but after taking a brief late lead at 115-107, the Trojans ran out of bullets and settled for second behind Oregon, 152-121. The men’s point total was the most scored by a second place team since USC was second to Oregon in 2010 by a score of 168.5-156. USC won six event titles, more than any other school. Trojan athletes winning conference titles were Andre De Grasse (100m, 200m, 4x100m), Kendall Ellis (4x400m), Alexis Faulknor (LJ, 4x100m), Tynia Gaither (200m, 4x100m), Dior Hall (100m HH), Deanna Hill (4x100m), Amalie Iuel (4x400m), Adoree’ Jackson (LJ), Vanessa Jones (400m, 4x400m IH), BeeJay Lee (4x100m), Conor McCullough (Hammer), Bryan Mercado (4x100m), Marquis Morris (110m HH), Jaide Stepter (400m IH, 4x400m), Just’N Thymes (4x100m), and Ky Westbrook (4x100m).

2015 USC WOMEN’S OUTDOOR BESTS Mark Athlete Place Day Event Mark Athlete Place Day Event 100M (USC: 11.04 FR: 11.04) 3000M SC (USC: 10.01.99 FR: 10:03.73) 11.20 (+2.3w) Westbrook 7 4/18 Mt. SAC Relays 10:34.18-PR Soderstrom 18 4/16 Mt. SAC Relays 11.22 (+2.3w) Faulknor 8 4/18 Mt. SAC Relays 11:04.43 Tong 3 5/3 USC-UCLA Dual Meet 11.27 (+1.1)-PR Gaither 2 5/17 Pac-12 Championships 11.30 (+0.8)-PR Faulknor 1 5/3 USC-UCLA Dual Meet 5000M (USC: 16.00.11 FR: 16:36.66) 11.34 (+1.4) Westbrook 2-p 5/16 Pac-12 Championships 17:08.08 Berdousi 17 5/17 Pac-12 Championships 11.43 (+2.0)-PR Brown 2 4/17 Mt. SAC Relays 17:40.52-PR Soderstrom 26 5/17 Pac-12 Championships 11.44 (-0.7)-PR Hill 8 4/3 Florida Relays 11.53 (-1.2)-PR Cantrell 11 4/3 Florida Relays 100M HH (USC: 12.48 FR: 12.89) 12.08 (+2.8w) Richards 6 3/14 Ben Brown Invitational 12.89 (+1.8)-PR Hall 1 4/18 Mt. SAC Relays 12.12 (+1.3) Richards 1 3/7 CSULA Invitational 13.25 (+1.3)-PR Cox 9 4/18 Mt. SAC Relays 13.80 (+0.3)-PR Iuel 2 5/9 Pac-12 Multi-Events 200M (USC: 22.23 FR: 22.84) 22.88 (+1.6)-PR Hill 2 4/3 Florida Relays 400M IH (USC: 54.95 FR: 56.49) 22.97 (+0.7) Gaither 1 5/17 Pac-12 Championships 55.83-PR Stepter 2 4/3 Florida Relays 23.08 (+0.7)-PR Faulknor 3 5/17 Pac-12 Championships 55.92-PR Iuel 3 4/3 Florida Relays 23.20 (+2.8w) Westbrook 3 4/17 Mt. SAC Relays 23.34 (+1.6)-PR Cantrell 14 4/3 Florida Relays LONG JUMP (USC: 21-11.00/6.68M FR: 21-3.25) 23.44 (+2.8w) Jones 5 4/17 Mt. SAC Relays 21-0.75/6.42 (+3.7w) Faulknor 1 5/16 Pac-12 Championships 23.45 (-1.4) Westbrook 4-p 5/16 Pac-12 Championships 20-9.25/6.33 (-2.3) Faulknor 1 5/16 Pac-12 Championships 23.46 (+0.1)-PR Stepter 3 3/21 Trojan Invitational 20-3.00/6.17 (+4.5w) Richards 3 5/3 USC-UCLA Dual 23.46 (+0.7) Jones 5 5/17 Pac-12 Championships 20-1.75/6.14 (-0.3)-PR Richards 2 4/3 Florida Relays 23.50 (+4.3w) Brown 6 4/17 Mt. SAC Relays 23.54 (+0.1)-PR Ellis 9 4/17 Mt. SAC Relays 19-2.00/5.84 (+4.0w) Iuel 4 5/10 Pac-12 Multi-Events 23.63 (+1.9)-PR Brown 7-p 5/16 Pac-12 Championships 19-1.50/5.83 (+1.9)-PR Iuel 4 5/10 Pac-12 Multi-Events 23.79 (-1.7)-PR Hall 5 4/11 Jim Click Shootout 23.82 (+2.8w) Ncah-Ndip 13 4/17 Mt. SAC Relays TRIPLE JUMP (USC: 45-5.25/13.85M FR: 44-8.25) 23.96 (+1.6)-PR Iuel 1 5/9 Pac-12 Multi-Events 41-11.25/12.78 (+2.3w) Cox 3 5/17 Pac-12 Championships 24.07 (+0.0) Ncha-Ndip 9 4/11 Jim Click Shootout 41-7.00/12.67 (-0.9) Cox 3 5/17 Pac-12 Championships 24.55 (+0.2)-PR Cox 3 3/7 CSULA Invitational 24.76 (+0.2)-PR Pettigrew 5 3/7 CSULA Invitational HIGH JUMP (USC: 6-2.00/1.88M FR: 6-2.00) 25.47 (+3.3w) Richards 12 3/7 CSULA Invitational 5-7.00/1.70 Iuel 3 5/3 USC-UCLA Dual Meet 5-5.00/1.65 Cravens T4 3/14 Ben Brown Invitational 400M (USC: 51.39 FR: 52.88) 51.50-PR Jones 1 5/17 Pac-12 Championships SHOT PUT (USC: 57-7.50/17.56M FR: 53-3.50) 52.88-PR Ellis 5 5/17 Pac-12 Championships 50-2.75/15.31-PR Novy 6 5/16 Pac-12 Championships 53.00-PR Ncha-Ndip 6 5/17 Pac-12 Championships 49-3.50/15.02 Sapa 3 5/3 USC-UCLA Dual Meet 53.28-PR Pettigrew 7 5/17 Pac-12 Championships 34-2.75/10.43-PR Iuel 6 5/9 Pac-12 Multi-Events 54.68 Gaither 5 3/21 Trojan Invitational DISCUS (USC: 193-10/59.12M FR: 177-11) 800M (USC: 1:58.51 FR: 2:04.16) 193-11/59.12-SR Novy 1 4/16 CSULA Twilight Meet 2:10.28-PR Iuel 1 5/10 Pac-12 Multi-Events 189-8/57.82-PR Collatz 2 4/16 CSULA Twilight Meet 2:10.93-PR Kijima 16 4/18 Beach Invitational 141-11/43.27-PR Sapa 4 5/3 USC-UCLA Dual Meet 2:11.28-PR Pettigrew 2 5/3 USC-UCLA Dual Meet 140-5/42.79 Peyton 5 5/3 USC-UCLA Dual Meet 2:12.68 Capellino 10 4/11 Jim Click Shootout 138-1/42.08 Ozorai 6 5/3 USC-UCLA Dual Meet 2:13.25-PR Strickland 14 5/16 Pac-12 Championships 2:13.92-PR Kao 15 5/16 Pac-12 Championships 2:15.43-PR Soderstrom 5 3/14 Ben Brown Invitational JAVELIN (USC: 186-10/56.95M FR: 173-11) 2:17.69 Ricks 6 3/7 CSULA Invitational 109-3/33.30 Iuel 5 5/3 USC-UCLA Dual Meet 2:17.78 Berdousi 9 3/21 Trojan Invitational 81-11/24.96 Tseng 6 5/3 USC-UCLA Dual Meet 2:21.02 Tong 13 3/14 Ben Brown Invitational 2:27.55 Bragdon 18 3/14 Ben Brown Invitational HAMMER (USC: 230-3/70.18M FR: 226-8) 199-4/60.75 Ozorai 1 3/20 Trojan Invitational 1500M (USC: 4:12.05 FR: 4:18.52) 189-11/57.89 Collatz 3 5/2 USC-UCLA Dual Meet 4:30.43 Berdousi 21 5/16 Pac-12 Championships 181-5/55.30 Sapa 4 5/2 USC-UCLA Dual Meet 4:31.22 Capellino 14 4/18 Beach Invitational 179-3/54.65-PR Peyton 2 4/4 California Collegiate 4:36.61-PR Soderstrom 3 3/14 Ben Brown Invitational 4:47.54 Tong 11 3/21 Trojan Invitational POLE VAULT (USC: 14-0.00/4.27M FR: 13-7.25) 4:50.71 Kijima 10 3/14 Ben Brown Invitational 11-8.50/3.57 Horvath T4 3/21 Trojan Invitational 4:52.04 Bragdon 11 5/3 USC-UCLA Dual Meet 5:09.08 Strickland 22 3/14 Ben Brown Invitational HEPTATHLON (USC: 6,079 POINTS FR: 5,582) 5:05.91-PR Reardon 112 4/18 Beach Invitational 5,610-PR Iuel 3 5/9-10 Pac-12 Multi-Events 5:08.00 Kao 15 5/3 USC-UCLA Dual Meet 4X100M (USC: 42.96) 3000M (USC: 9:11.78 FR: 9:33.29) 43.10 --- 1 5/17 Pac-12 Championships 9:54.21-PR Soderstrom 3 3/7 CSULA Invitational (Hill, Westbrook, Faulknor, Gaither) 10:07.22 Berdousi 4 4/11 Jim Click Shootout 10:21.24 Tong 6 3/7 CSULA Invitational 4X400M (USC: 3:28.08) 10:29.89 Bragdon 7 2/28 Rossi Relays 3:32.12 --- 1 5/17 Pac-12 Championships (Stepter, Iuel, Ellis, Jones) 2015 USC MEN’S OUTDOOR BESTS Mark Athlete Place Day Event Mark Athlete Place Day Event 100M (USC: 10.02 FR: 10.17) 400M IH (USC: 48:33 FR: 49:46) 9.87 (+4.0w) De Grasse 1 4/18 Mt. SAC Relays 52.78-PR Morris 1 5/3 USC-UCLA Dual Meet 9.96 (+4.0w) Lee 2 4/18 Mt. SAC Relays 53.51-PR D.J. Morgan 3 5/3 USC-UCLA Dual Meet 9.97 (+0.6)-SR De Grasse 1 5/17 Pac-12 Championships 56.63 J.Williams 4 5/3 USC-UCLA Dual Meet 10.09 (+0.3) Lee 2 4/3 Florida Relays 10.37 (+0.4) Thymes 3 4/11 Jim Click Shootout 10.47 (+2.1w) Mercado 17 4/17 Mt. SAC Relays LONG JUMP (USC: 27-4.25/8.33m FR: 27-4.25) 10.48 (+0.6)-PR Jackson 7 5/17 Pac-12 Championships 25-3.50/7.71 (-0.6) Jackson 1 5/16 P-12 Championship 10.51 (+0.4)-PR Mercado 5 5/3 USC-UCLA Dual 23-5.25/7.14 (+2.1w) Smallwood 10 5/16 P-12 Championship 10.74 (+2.4w) Slater 27 4/18 Beach Invitational 23-3.50/7.10 (+0.4) Smallwood 2 3/14 Ben Brown Invite 10.79 (+1.5) Slater 2 2/28 Rossi Relays 22-11.25/6.99 (+1.0) Slater 11 4/18 Beach Invitational 11.32 (+2.1w) J.Williams 38 3/7 CSULA Invitational 21-11.00/6.68 (+0.0)-PR Millon 8 3/7 CSULA Invite 20-8.50/6.31 (+0.4) J.Williams 11 3/21 Trojan Invitational 200M (USC: 19.94 FR: 20.24) 20.03 (-0.1)-PR De Grasse 1-p 5/16 Pac-12 Championships 20.27 (+1.6)-PR Lee 2 4/3 Florida Relays TRIPLE JUMP (USC: 56-4.00/17.17m FR: 53-9) 20.46 (-0.1)-PR Thymes 6 4/3 Florida Relays 49-7.25/15.12 (+1.6) Smallwood 2 5/3 USC-UCLA Dual 20.85 (+2.1w) Stewart 3 4/17 Mt. SAC Relays 48-8.75/14.85 (+1.7) A.Williams 3 5/3 USC-UCLA Dual 21.26 (+1.6)-PR Morgan 4 3/7 CSULA Invitational 44-11.00/13.69 (+1.2) Millon 14 5/17 P-12 Championship 21.35 (+1.4) Mercado 22 4/17 Mt. SAC Relays 44-00.75/13.43 (+2.6w) Slater 5 5/3 USC-UCLA Dual 21.37 (-2.3) Stewart 7 4/11 Jim Click Shootout 22.41 (+2.6w) A.Williams 37 3/7 CSULA Invitational HIGH JUMP (USC: 7-7.25/2.32m FR: 7-4.50) 7-4.25 (2.24) Cunningham 2 4/4 Florida Relays 400M (USC: 43.50 FR: 45.29) 6-11.75 (2.13) Krone 2 4/11 Jim Click Shootout 46.34-PR Stewart 2 5/17 Pac-12 Championships 6-4.00 (1.93) J.Williams T7 5/9 Pac-12 Multi-Events 46.63-PR Morgan 5 5/17 Pac-12 Championships 6-2.75 (1.90) Smallwood 6 5/3 USC-UCLA Dual 48.58 Ford 5 3/7 CSULA Invitational 50.74 J.Williams 15 4/11 Jim Click Shootout SHOT PUT (USC: 67-5.50/20.56m FR: 63-7) 63-2.75 (19.27)-PR Ponzio 3 5/3 USC-UCLA Dual 800M (USC: 1:44.92 FR: 1:47.1) 40-0.75 (12.21) J.Williams 5 3/7 Cal. Invite Multis 1:48.14-PR Ford 4 5/17 Pac-12 Championships 1:49.15 Andrews 5 4/4 Stanford Invitational DISCUS (USC: 206-0/62.78m FR: 192-8) 1:53.97 Manahan 5 3/21 Trojan Invitational 185-3/56.47-PR Ponzio 1 5/3 USC-UCLA Dual Meet 1:56.11 Iverson 6 5/3 USC-UCLA Dual Meet 164-5/50.12 McCullough 4 4/4 California Collegiate 1:56.98 Jordan 18 3/14 Ben Brown Invitational 129-1/39.35 Sellens 13 2/28 Rossi Relays 1:57.84 Wallin 11 3/7 CSULA Invitational 127-6/38.87 J.Williams 2 4/16 California Invite Multis 2:02.00 Rule 25 3/14 Ben Brown Invitational 2:02.77 Morin 7 5/3 USC-UCLA Dual Meet 2:03.79-PR Robinson 8 5/3 USC-UCLA Dual Meet JAVELIN (USC: 172-2/82.97m FR: 247-5) 181-0/55.16-PR Lopez 13 5/16 Pac-12 Championships 1500M (USC: 3:39.5 FR: 3:45.85) 176-10/53.89 Sullivan 5 5/3 USC-UCLA Dual Meet 3:52.54 Andrews 3 3/14 Ben Brown Invitational 143-4/43.69 J.Williams 10 4/16 California Invite Multis 3:56.37 Ford 34 4/18 Beach Invitational 3:56.54 Jordan 5 3/21 Trojan Invitational HAMMER (USC: 271-1/82.62m FR: 253-2) 4:07.13 Rule 6 3/21 Trojan Invitational 248-11/75.88 McCullough 1 5/2 USC-UCLA Dual Meet 4:07.61 Manahan 15 3/14 Ben Brown Invitational 165-3/50.36-PR Sellens 3 5/2 USC-UCLA Dual Meet 4:09.30 Wallin 31 3/7 CSULA Invitational 4:09.68 Morin 20 3/14 Ben Brown Invitational POLE VAULT (USC: 18-6.50/5.65m FR: 17-6) 4:14.64 Galen 6 5/3 USC-UCLA Dual Meet 15-1.75/4.62 Rozvar 8 3/21 Trojan Invitational 4:30.82 Robinson 30 3/14 Ben Brown Invitational 14-9.00/4.50 J.Williams 4 4/16 Cal. Invite Multis 4:34.25 J.Williams 1 4/16 California Invite Multis DECATHLON (USC: 8,022 POINTS FR: 7,623) 3000M (USC: --- ) 6,871 J.Williams 2 4/15-16 Cal. Invite Multis 8:38.85 Jordan 3 2/28 Rossi Relays 9:00.73 Rule 18 2/28 Rossi Relays 9:20.68 Morin 32 3/7 CSULA Invitational 4X100M (USC: 38.69) 38.97 --- 3 4/4 Florida Relays 5000M (USC: 14:02.6 FR: 14:19.18) (Lee, De Grasse, Thymes, Mercado) 15:29.40 Rule 28 4/18 Beach Invitational 4X400M (USC: 3:00.58) 110M HH (USC: 13:32 FR: 13:83) 3:09.56 --- 2 3/21 Trojan Invitational 13.80 (+3.5w) Morris 1 5/3 USC-UCLA Dual Meet (Morgan, Ford, De Grasse, Jackson) 13.84 (+3.5w) D.J. Morgan 2 5/3 USC-UCLA Dual Meet 13.95 (-0.9)-PR Morris 1 5/17 Pac-12 Championships 13.96 (+0.0) D.J. Morgan 1-p 5/16 Pac-12 Championships 14.38 (+0.6)-PR A.Williams 4 3/21 Trojan Invitational 14.95 (+1.1) J.Williams 2 3/14 Ben Brown Invitational ALL-TIME WOMEN’S PERFORMERS WOMEN'S OLYMPIC EVENTS 9. Kathleen Moloney ...... 17:29.33 3/6/10 JAVELIN THROW (1999 Implement) 10. Shea Wickland ...... 17:34.99 4/4/09 1. Inga Stasiulionyte ...... 186-10 (56.95) 5/18/02 100 METERS 2. Kristine Busa ...... 179-1 (54.58) 7/18/09 1. Angela Williams ...... 11.04 6/5/99 10000 METERS 3. Leslie Erickson ...... 168-11 (51.48) 5/4/02 2. Natasha Mayers ...... 11.09 4/19/03 1. Zsofi a Erdelyi ...... 33:18.75 3/26/10 4. Andrea McBride ...... 161-7 (49.25) 4/30/05 3. Torri Edwards ...... 11.10n 6/4/99 2. Beth Van Alstine ...... 34:29.62 3/27/04 5. Marissa Minderler ...... 157-3 (47.92) 4/2/10 Virginia Powell ...... 11.10 5/14/06 3. Kate Neeper ...... 36:09.24 4/17/04 5. Inger Miller ...... 11.11 4/7/93 4. Shea Wickland ...... 36:16.00 3/7/09 JAVELIN THROW (old implement) 6. Jessica Davis ...... 11.19 5/14/11 5. Dina Kitayama ...... 36:38.60 4/14/11 1. Sherry Calvert ...... 192-0 (58.52) 1972 7. Candace Young ...... 11.22 3/24/01 6. Zara Lukens ...... 37:11.02 4/14/11 2. Ashley Selman ...... 187-9 (57.22) 6/17/89 8. Carol Rodriguez ...... 11.24h 4/7/07 3. Diana Clements ...... 168-8 (51.42) 5/22/87 9. Tynia Gaither ...... 11.27 5/17/15 100-METER HURDLES 4. Nicole Haynes ...... 158-10 (48.42) 5/20/94 10. Roseta Birt ...... 11.28 1975 1. Virginia Powell ...... 12.48 6/9/06 5. Wendy Brown ...... 158-6 (48.32) 4/30/88 2. Nia Ali ...... 12.73 6/25/11 200 METERS 3. Dior Hall ...... 12.89 4/18/15 HAMMER THROW 1. Carol Rodriguez ...... 22.23 5/27/06 4. Candice Davis ...... 12:90 6/8/07 1. Eva Orban ...... 230-3 (70.18) 3/15/08 2. Inger Miller ...... 22.33 4/17/93 5. Lauren Blackburn ...... 13.06 5/14/11 2. Jenny Ozorai ...... 223-4 (68.08) 3/9/12 3. Kinshasa Davis ...... 22.69 4/16/00 6. Shalina Clarke ...... 13.09 5/29/10 3. Marissa Minderler ...... 220-11 (67.35) 5/12/12 4. Natasha Mayers ...... 22.80 5/29/02 7. Patty Van Wolvelaere ...... 13.14 5/26/78 4. Julianna Tudja ...... 218-9 (66.69) 6/14/03 5. Aareon Payne ...... 22.83 4/16/11 Sau Ying Chan ...... 13.14 4/17/94 5. L'Orangerie Crawford ..... 209-8 (63.91) 3/8/03 6. Jessica Davis ...... 22.84 5/14/11 9. Natasha Danvers ...... 13.20 5/6/00 6. Jade Niemeyer ...... 208-0 (63.40) 5/26/12 Torri Edwards ...... 22.84n 6/4/99 10. Natasha Neal ...... 13.24 5/31/01 7. Lauren Chambers ...... 206-5 (62.93) 4/16/10 8. Tynia Gaither ...... 22.88 5/31/14 8. Jennifer Vail ...... 204-3 (62.26) 5/21/00 Deanna Hill ...... 22.88 4/3/15 400-METER HURDLES 9. Julia Rozenfeld ...... 203-1(61.90) 3/12/05 10. Gervaise McCraw ...... 23.07 5/2/87 1. Natasha Danvers ...... 54.95 9/25/00 10. Leslie Coons ...... 198-7 (60.52) 5/4/96 2. Leslie Maxie ...... 55.79 6/6/87 400 METERS 3. Jaide Stepter ...... 55.83 4/3/15 HEPTATHLON 1. Carol Rodriguez ...... 51.39 5/3/08 4. Amalie Iuel ...... 55.92 4/3/15 1. Wendy Brown ...... 6,079 7/16/88 2. Vanessa Jones ...... 51.50 5/17/15 5. Dalilah Muhammad ...... 56.04 6/8/11 2. Nia Ali ...... 5,824 5/10/09 3. Michelle Taylor ...... 51.75 6/2/89 6. Michelle DeCoux ...... 57.05 4/4/92 3. Nicole Haynes ...... 5,786 5/12/96 4. Brigita Langerholc ...... 52.02 7/01 7. Natasha Neal ...... 57.16 5/5/01 4. Amalie Iuel ...... 5,610 5/10/15 5. Gervaise McCraw ...... 52.24 6/7/86 8. Karen Koellner ...... 57.59 3/18/89 5. Kerry Zwart-Bell ...... 5,550 6/1/82 6. Nakiya Johnson ...... 52.29 5/19/02 9. Shalina Clarke ...... 57.78 4/28/07 6. Shana Woods ...... 5,507 6/8/07 7. Inger Miller ...... 52.76 3/26/94 10. Talia Stewart ...... 58.65 3/17/07 7. Sharon Hatfi eld ...... 5,410 4/19/86 8. Kendall Ellis ...... 52.88 5/17/15 8. Tanya Smith ...... 5,345 5/26/93 9. Tracee Thomas ...... 52.99 5/1/04 LONG JUMP 9. Yolanda Fletcher ...... 5,307 5/17/86 10. Akawkaw Ncha-Ndip ...... 53.00 5/17/15 1. Yvette Bates ...... 21-11 (6.68) 7/23/88 10. Allison Franke ...... 5,156 5/15/93 2. Wendy Brown ...... 21-7 1/2 (6.59) 7/19/88 800 METERS 3. Sabrina Williams ...... 21-6 (6.55) 1985 POLE VAULT 1. Brigita Langerholc ...... 1:58.51 9/25/00 4. Pamela Simpson ...... 21-0 (6.40) 6/2/99 1. Brysun Stately ...... 14-0 (4.27) 5/1/10 2. Michelle Taylor ...... 2:00.01 7/19/89 5. Tatyana Obukhova ...... 20-11 3/4 (6.39) 4/13/02 2. Melissa Astete ...... 12-11 1/2 (3.95) 5/15/05 3. Lesley Noll ...... 2:03.30 4/8/88 6. Michelle Sanford ...... 20-10 1/2 (6.36) 5/1/04 Brittani Bernhard ...... 12-11 1/2 (3.95) 4/15/05 4. Grazyna Penc ...... 2:03.82n 4/5/97 7. Alexis Faulknor ...... 20-9.25 (6.33) 5/16/15 4. Shannon Lewallen ...... 12-5 1/2 (3.80) 3/26/05 5. Aleksandra Deren ...... 2:04.18 4/26/01 8. Shana Woods ...... 20-8 (6.30) 4/28/07 Chun Mei Nickles ...... 12-5 1/2 (3.80) 4/21/07 6. Donna Curtis ...... 2:04.58 5/29/85 9. Sandy Crabtree ...... 20-7 1/4 (6.28) 6/17/82 6. Thea Weiss ...... 12-4 1/2 (3.77) 5/4/13 7. Anna Lopaciuch ...... 2:05.71 5/24/98 Louan Guialdo ...... 20-7 1/4 (6.28) 3/17/90 7. Ariel Hayward ...... 12-2 3/4 (3.73) 3/2/13 8. Treani Swain ...... 2:05.93 4/30/05 Yolanda Fletcher ...... 20-7 1/4 (6.28) 5/21/83 8. Sonya Negriff ...... 12-1 1/2 (3.70) 4/26/02 9. Kristie Johnston ...... 2:06.09n 5/3/97 Kenisha Strong ...... 12-1 1/2 (3.70) 4/4/09 10. Gina Clayton ...... 2:06.58 4/30/05 HIGH JUMP Felicia Horvath ...... 12-1 1/2 (3.70) 4/26/14 1. Emelie Fardigh ...... 6-2 (1.88) 3/22/97 1,500 METERS 2. Nia Ali ...... 6-1 1/4 (1.86) 5/14/11 PENTATHLON 1. Grazyna Penc ...... 4:12.05n 4/20/97 3. Wendy Brown ...... 6-1 (1.85) 8/27/88 1. Kerry Zwart-Bell ...... 3,801 1979 2. Iryna Vashchuk ...... 4:12.79 5/29/04 4. Spring Harris ...... 6-0 1/2 (1.84) 3/22/03 3. Anna Lopaciuch ...... 4:16.49n 4/4/98 5. Crissy Mills ...... 6-0 (1.83) 1993 400-METER RELAY 4. Lesley Noll ...... 4:17.25 4/30/89 6. Debra Larsen ...... 5-11 3/4 (1.82) 6/24/83 1. Powell, Onyepunuka, Davis, 5. Emebet Shiferaw ...... 4:20.75 5/4/96 7. Natasha Danvers ...... 5-11 1/2 (1.82) 5/24/98 Rodriguez ...... 42.96 6/9/06 6. Aleksandra Deren ...... 4:20.84 5/5/01 Tanya Smith ...... 5-11 1/2 (1.82) 3/9/96 2. Laarman, Davis, ...... 43.00 6/14/14 7. Kristie Johnston ...... 4:21.84n 5/3/97 9. Shawana Taylor ...... 5-10 (1.78) 3/4/00 Faulknor, Gaither 8. Shannon Clark ...... 4:22.06 4/11/87 10. Nicole Haynes ...... 5-9 3/4 (1.77) 5/11/96 3. Hill, Westbrook, 9. Elise Lyon ...... 4:22.75 5/23/86 Faulknor, Gaither ...... 43.10 5/17/15 10. Lucyna Ligaj ...... 4:22.77 5/20/01 TRIPLE JUMP 4. Williams, Young 1. Wendy Brown ...... 45-5 1/4 (13.85) 1988 Edmonson, Davis ...... 43.14 6/2/00 3,000 METERS 2. Yvette Bates ...... 45-3 1/2 (13.79) 1987 5. Williams, Edwards, 1. Emebet Shiferaw ...... 9:11.78n 6/6/97 3. Michelle Sanford ...... 43-9 1/4 (13.34) 5/15/04 Edmonson, Young ...... 43.35 5/1/99 2. Anna Lopaciuch ...... 9:23.44n 5/2/98 4. Alitta Boyd ...... 43-8 3/4 (13.33) 5/25/13 6. Laarman, Payne, 3. Zsofi a Erdelyi ...... 9:27.96 3/20/10 5. Melia Cox ...... 43-3 1/4 (13.19) 6/7/13 Puterbaugh, Davis ...... 43.42 6/11/11 4. Iryna Vashchuck ...... 9:31:14 3/20/04 6. Tatyana Obukhova ...... 43-2 1/4 (13.16) 4/22/01 7. Williams, Edwards, 5. Lucyna Ligaj ...... 9:38.07 3/3/01 7. Ekene Anene ...... 42-10 1/4 (13.06) 5/29/10 Edmonson, Benyarku ...... 43.52 6/4/99 6. Shannon Clark ...... 9:41.41 4/17/87 8. Karleen Shields ...... 41-9 3/4 (12.74) 5/7/94 8. Onyepunuka, Davis, Stewart, 7. Sarah Cocco ...... 9:42.68 3/1/08 9. Oluwakemi Olonade ... 41-8 3/4 (12.72) 5/30/14 Rodriguez ...... 43.61 3/17/07 8. Katerina Berdousi ...... 9:45.42 3/22/13 10. Brittany Daniels ...... 41-2 1/2 (12.56) 4/29/06 9. Williams, Young, 9. Elise Lyon ...... 9:48.69 4/17/87 Neal, Davis ...... 43.64 6/1/01 10. Beth Van Alstine ...... 9:49.07 3/20/04 SHOT PUT 9. William, Young, 1. Karen Freberg ...... 57-7 1/2 (17.56) 4/29/06 Bennett, Davis ...... 43.64 5/20/01 3,000m Steeplechase 2. L’Orangerie Crawford . 56-3 1/4 (17.15) 5/14/04 1. Zsofi a Erdelyi ...... 10:01.99 5/30/09 3. Diana Clements ...... 55-8 1/4 (16.97) 2/21/86 1,600-METER RELAY 2. Julia Budniak ...... 10:14.51 6/12/04 4. Cynthia Ademiluyi ...... 55-0 1/4 (16.77) 5/31/00 1. Danvers, Edmonson, Langerholc, Davis ...... 3:28.08 6/5/99 3. Kira Soderstrom ...... 10:34.18 4/16/15 5. Cerenity Young ...... 51-2 1/4 (15.60) 4/6/02 2. Mayberry, McCraw, 4. Jenna Tong ...... 10:42.91 4/5/14 6. Marissa Minderler ...... 50-2 3/4 (15.31) 3/12/11 Taylor, Maxie ...... 3:28.93 3/6/87 5. Laura Meyers ...... 10:49.95 4/5/08 Tera Novy ...... 50-2 3/4 (15.31) 5/16/15 8. Tanya Sapa ...... 49-11 1/4 (15.22) 5/17/14 3. Ndipagbor, Jones, 6. Natalia Kovtun ...... 11:04.35 4/28/07 Davis, Gaither ...... 3:29.42 4/5/14 7. Kristen Berglas ...... 11:06.70 4/30/05 9. Leslie Coons ...... 49-10 1/2 (15.20) 5/4/96 10. Jennifer Vail ...... 49-5 (15.06) 2/26/00 4. Ndipagbor, Stepter, 8. Katherine Ellis ...... 11:07.26 5/2/09 Liverpool, Jones ...... 3:30.29 6/12/14 9. Brooke Thomas ...... 11:07.63 4/21/01 5. Neal, Langerholc, DISCUS THROW 10. Katerina Berdousi ...... 11:09.82 4/27/13 Davis, Estes ...... 3:30.84 5/31/01 1. Tera Novy ...... 193-11 (59.12) 4/16/15 6. Danvers, Estes, 5,000 METERS 2. Alexandra Collatz ...... 189-8 (57.82) 4/16/15 Langerholc, Edmonson ...... 3:31.29 4/19/98 1. Zsofi a Erdelyi ...... 16:00.11 4/15/11 3. Kate Hutchinson ...... 189-5 (57.73) 5/6/06 7. Langerholc, Danvers, 2. Emebet Shiferaw ...... 16:16.27 5/18/96 4. Cynthia Ademiluyi ...... 177-10 (54.20) 2/23/02 Edmonson, Davis ...... 3:31.31 4/22/00 3. Ariel Wright ...... 16:23.66 3/25/11 5. Claudia Paris ...... 176-11 (53.92) 3/5/88 8. Olear, Clarke, Muhammad, 4. Iryna Vashchuck ...... 16:28.71 3/25/05 6. Cindy Johnson ...... 173-11 (53.00) 6/4/83 Hassan ...... 3:31.57 6/11/09 5. Julia Budniak ...... 16:42.65 4/18/04 7. Lauren Guerrieri ...... 168-6 (51.37) 5/1/10 9. Olear, Clarke, Rodriguez, 6. Brooke Thomas ...... 16:53.82 3/29/03 8. Carrie Martin ...... 168-6 (51.36) 4/20/96 Hasson ...... 3:31.85 5/3/08 7. Katerina Berdousi ...... 17:08.08 5/17/15 9. Diana Clements ...... 167-10 (51.16) 5/3/86 10. Jones, Ndipagbor, 8. Julie Seleine ...... 17:18.81 3/21/87 10. Katalin Mate ...... 165-10 (50.55) 5/29/09 Davis, Liverpool ...... 3:31.94 5/31/14 USC MEN’S TOP 10 PERFORMERS MEN'S OLYMPIC EVENTS 7. Russell Silvers 7,254 5/11-2/02 400-METER INTERMEDIATE HURDLES 8. Roy Williams 7,163 4/25-26/64 1. Felix Sanchez ...... 48.33 6/28/00 100 METERS 9. Marcell Allmond 7, 152 3/10-11/00 2. Tom Andrews ...... 48.55 6/12/76 1. Andre De Grasse ...... 9.97 5/17/15 10. Casey Thompson 7,106 4/14-15/00 3. Reggie Wyatt ...... 48.58 6/7/13 2. James Sanford ...... 10.02 5/11/80 4. Pedro Rodrigues ...... 48.82 8/20/95 3. Lennox Miller ...... 10.04 10/14/68 DISCUS 5. Geoff Vanderstock ...... 48.94+ 9/11/68 4. Aaron Brown ...... 10.05 6/5/13 1. Gary Carlsen ...... 206-0 (62.78) 6/4/67 6. George Porter ...... 49.19n 6/3/89 5. Clancy Edwards ...... 10.07 6/2/78 2. Hank Kraychir ...... 203-8 (62.08) 4/9/83 7. Rich Graybehl ...... 49.31n 6/3/78 BeeJay Lee ...... 10:07 5/12/13 3. Bernd Kneissler ...... 202-11 (61.84) 5/24/86 8. Ryan Wilson ...... 49.33 5/18/03 7. Darwin Cook ...... 10.10 5/18/85 4. Ralph Fruguglietti ...... 202-0 (61.58) 6/5/76 9. Kai Kelley ...... 49.79 6/12/08 Ahmad Rashad ...... 10.10 6/12/09 5. Rink Babka ...... 198-10 (60.60) 3/22/58 10. Rex Cawley ...... 50.04+ 5/13/61 9. Sultan McCullough ...... 10.17 3/6/99 Joe Antunovich ...... 198-10 (60.60) 5/8/71 7. Aaron Dan ...... 198-5 (60.48m) 3/13/10 10. Luis Morales ...... 10.21 5/14/83 3,000 METER STEEPLECHASE Jason Shelton ...... 10.21n 6/14/97 8. Darrell Elder ...... 195-2 (59.48) 4/16/77 1. Henry Perez ...... 8:52.1e 4/29/78 9. Gary Kirchoff ...... 194-7 (59.32) 5/1/93 2. Romney Mawhorter ...... 8:52.5n 5/2/87 10. Gordon Hovey ...... 193-2 (58.88) 3/28/98 200 METERS 3. Fredson Mayiek ...... 9:00.42 4/29/89 1. James Sanford ...... 19.94+ 4/19/80 4. Curtis Jones ...... 9:01.0 4/11/70 2. Clancy Edwards ...... 20.03 4/29/78 JAVELIN 5. Dreux Valenti ...... 9:04.1 4/8/89 (1986 IMPLEMENT) Andre De Grasse ...... 20.03 5/16/15 6. Rich Dyer ...... 9:07.4 4/18/70 4. Aaron Brown ...... 20.16 5/31/14 1. Corey White ...... 272-2 (82.97) 4/4/09 7. Roman Gomez ...... 9:09.4 1987 2. Cooper Thompson ...... 253-3 (77.19) 5/15/10 5. Bryshon Nellum ...... 20.23 5/12/13 8. Adrian Rafi ee ...... 9:16.31 5/1/11 6. BeeJay Lee ...... 20.27 4/3/15 3. Nils Fearnley ...... 244-8 (74.58) 5/20/95 9. Andrew Knutsen ...... 9:19.09 5/5/01 4. Henrik Kjaereng ...... 227-0n (69.20) 5/3/97 7. Darwin Cook ...... 20.33 5/18/85 10. Matt McCarthy ...... 9:20.4n 4/8/89 8. James Gilkes ...... 20.39 6/21/75 5. Jeffrey Churchman ...... 219-4 (66.85) 5/17/14 Philip Francis ...... 20.39 5/14/06 LONG JUMP 6. Matt Gee ...... 213-5 (65.06) 3/4/89 10. Edward Hervey ...... 20.40 5/19/95 1. Randy Williams ...... 27-4 1/4 (8.33) 9/9/72 7. Dennis Rice ...... 211-6(64.47) 3/18/05 2. Larry Doubley ...... 26-11 3/4 (8.22) 5/3/77 8. Mike Gonzales ...... 208-9n (63.62) 5/3/86 400 METERS 3. Henry Hines ...... 26-8 1/2 (8.14) 5/8/71 9. Mike Thomas ...... 206-10 (63.04) 5/14/94 1. Quincy Watts ...... 43.50 8/5/92 4. Allen Simms ...... 26-3 3/4 (8.02) 3/1/03 10. William O’Grady ...... 206-6 (62.95) 5/5/01 2. Jerome Davis ...... 44.51 8/1/99 5. Ed Tave ...... 26-1 3/4 (7.97) 3/31/84 3. Lionel Larry ...... 44.63 6/14/08 6. Gerald Hardeman ...... 26-1 1/4 (7.96) 3/31/74 HAMMER 4. Bryshon Nellum ...... 44.73 6/7/13 7. Wellesley Clayton ...... 26-0 (7.22) 4/3/65 1. Balazs Kiss ...... 271-1 (82.62) 9/95 5. Josh Mance ...... 44.83 6/6/12 8. Kenny Hays ...... 25-11 3/4 (7.91) 5/30/80 2. Conor McCullough ...... 248-11 (75.88) 5/2/15 6. Billy Mullins ...... 44.84 5/11/80 9. Al Olson ...... 25-8 7/8 (7.84) 6/22/35 3. Norbert Horvath ...... 241-11 (73.75) 6/5/99 7. Ken Randle ...... 44.99 6/4/76 10. Henry Jackson ...... 25-8 (7.82) 5/6/72 4. Remington Conatser ...... 238-8 (72.76) 3/21/14 8. Joey Hughes ...... 45.05 5/14/11 5. Bengt Johansson ...... 236-11n (72.22) 6/5/98 9. Bill Green ...... 45.07n 5/10/81 TRIPLE JUMP 6. Adam Midles ...... 228-3 (69.57) 4/27/07 10. Travis Hannah ...... 45.17n 6/5/92 1. Allen Simms ...... 56-4 (17.17) 4/28/03 7. Trey Henderson ...... 227-10 (69.45) 4/1/11 2. Julien Kapek ...... 56-2 (17.12) 6/14/03 8. John Wolitarsky ...... 225-10 (68.84) 5/19/85 800 METERS 3. Tom Cochee ...... 54-4 1/2n (16.57) 5/10/75 9. Szabolcs Maroti ...... 225-9 (68.80) 3/24/00 1. Ibrahim Okash ...... 1:44.92 6/19/88 4. Djeke Mambo ...... 54-4 (16.56) 3/17/01 10. Daniel Szabo ...... 220-2 (67.10) 3/23/12 2. Duane Solomon ...... 1:45.69 6/24/07 5. Ed Washington ...... 53-9 (16.38) 3/16/74 3. Lloyd Johnson ...... 1:46.5en 7/4/77 Don Bryson ...... 53-9n (16.38) 5/3/75 400-METER RELAY Rayfi eld Beaton ...... 1:46.5e 4/29/78 7. Kenny Hays ...... 53-3 1/4 (16.23) 5/3/80 1. Williams, Mullins, Mark Handelsman ...... 1:46.5en 7/14/82 8. Kedjeloba Mambo ...... 53-0 1/4 (16.16) 4/19/98 J. Sanford, M. Sanford ...... 38.69 2/23/80 6. David Omwansa ...... 1:46.8n 6/2/79 9. Michael Pullins ...... 52-10 1/4 (16.11) 3/23/85 2. Williams, Mullins, Joey Bunch ...... 1:46.8 4/19/86 10. Greg Harper ...... 52-8 (16.05) 5/21/88 Edwards, J. Sanford ...... 38.85 4/29/78 8. Irek Sekretarski ...... 1:47.11 6/11/09 3. Francis, Felix, Larry, Anderson ....38.89 4/17/05 POLE VAULT 9. Isaac Turner ...... 1:47.15 5/3/97 4. Reading, Manning, 1. Dennis Kholev ...... 18-6 1/2 (5.65) 5/30/00 10. William Wang ...... 1:47.3 5/3/80 Dexter, Morales ...... 38.90n 6/6/86 2. Dave Kenworthy ...... 18-2 3/4 (5.55) 7/24/82 5. Williams, Bradford, 3. Russ Rogers ...... 18-1 1/2 (5.52) 3/27/76 J. Sanford, Mullins ...... 38.91 4/28/79 1,500 METERS 4. Steve Klassen ...... 18-0 1/2 (5.50) 4/19/86 1. David Omwansa ...... 3:39.5en 5/20/78 6. Jones, Felix, Francis, Anderson ..38.92 6/9/05 Eric White ...... 18-0 1/2 (5.50) 5/2/87 7. Lee, Davis, 2. Ibrahim Okash ...... 3:40.86 7/5/88 Brandon Estrada ...... 18-0 1/2 (5.50) 3/6/10 3. Blake Shaw ...... 3:43.08 4/15/11 Williams, McCullough ...... 38.94n 4/3/99 7. Jeff Ryan ...... 17-10 1/2 (5.45) 5/17/03 8. Lee, De Grasse ...... 38.97 4/4/15 4. Tomasz Babiszkiewicz ...... 3:43.41 4/15/05 8. Bob Seagren ...... 17-9 (5.41) 9/12/68 5. Ray Griffi n ...... 3:45.54 5/6/89 Thymes, Mercado 9. Paul Wilson ...... 17-7 3/4 (5.37) 6/23/67 9. Harris, Brown, 6. Irek Sekretarski ...... 3:45.60 5/2/09 10. David Grijalva ...... 17-7 1/4 (5.37) 5/18/02 7. Rayfi eld Beaton ...... 3:46.2 5/1/76 Lee, Abram ...... 39.08 6/11/14 8. Dan Aldridge ...... 3:47.7n 5/14/77 10. Volsan, Hervey, HIGH JUMP Ekpenyong, Krill ...... 39.10 6/2/95 9. Brandon Pacheco ...... 3:47.81n 4/21/96 1. Jesse Williams ...... 7/7 1/4 (2.32) 6/9/06 10. Duane Solomon ...... 3:48.29 5/3/08 2. Dawid Jaworski ...... 7-5 3/4 (2.28) 6/14/03 1,600-METER RELAY 3. Manjula Wijesekara ...... 7-5 1/4 (2.27) 9/4/05 5,000 METERS 1. Hannah, Conway, 4. Anthony Caire ...... 7-4 1/2 (2.25) 5/28/84 Cannady, Watts ...... 3:00.58 3/6/92 1. Ole Oleson ...... 14:02.6 3/23/68 5. Randall Cunningham .... 7-4 1/4 (2.24) 4/4/15 2. Max Truex ...... 14:04.2 5/31/57 2. Hughes, Mance 6. Dean Owens ...... 7-2 1/4 (2.19) 4/7/73 Wyatt, Nellum ...... 3:00.64 6/9/12 3. Fredson Mayiek ...... 14:19.18 5/24/86 7. Dennis Smith ...... 7-2n (2.18) 5/24/80 4. John Carley ...... 14:23.60 3/5/11 3. Ekpenyong, Hervey, 8. Tyler Ruiz ...... 7-1 1/2 (2.17) 5/12/13 Rodrigues, Krill ...... 3.02.59 6/2/95 5. Ray Griffi n ...... 14:24.66 4/1/89 9. Tim Walker ...... 7-1 1/4 (2.16) 5/14/77 6. Roman Gomez ...... 14:28.74n 5/2/87 4. Jordan, Joyner, 10. Jerry Culp ...... 7-1 (2.16) 2/23/74 Sanchez, Davis ...... 3:02.68 5/22/99 7. Blake Shaw ...... 14:30.60 3/10/12 Brian Patchett ...... 7-1 (2.16) 2/22/86 8. Ryan Holman ...... 14:31.9n 4/4/81 5. Hughes, Mance, Jeff Trepagnier ...... 7-1 (2.16) 5/21/00 Walker, Wyatt ...... 3:02.87 4/9/11 9. Adolfo Garcia ...... 14:34.7n 5/14/88 Viktor Fajoyomi ...... 7-1 (2.16) 4/5/14 10. Justin Neems ...... 14:34.85 3/30/03 6. Lee, Williams, SHOT PUT Sanchez, Davis ...... 3:02.89 4/3/99 7. Kelley, Garrison, 10,000 METERS 1. Noah Bryant ...... 67-5 1/2 (20.56m) 4/28/07 Cunningham, Larry ...... 3:03.08 6/10/06 1. Fredson Mayiek ...... 29:42.7n 5/21/88 2. Doug Lane ...... 66-11 1/4 (20.40) 5/19/72 8. Hughes, Nellum, 2. Mitch Sloan ...... 30:15.1 4/21/90 3. Hank Kraychir ...... 66-0 1/2 (20.13) 6/4/83 Walker, Wyatt ...... 3:03.21 6/7/12 3. Adolfo Garcia ...... 30:30.3n 5/21/88 4. Dallas Long ...... 65-10 1/2 (20.08) 5/18/62 9. Nellum, Hughes, 4. Ted Price ...... 30:31.10 3/25/11 5. Dave Murphy ...... 64-3 (19.58) 5/15/70 Anderson, Wyatt ...... 3:03.26 4/3/10 5. Max Truex ...... 30:52.0 6/22/56 6. William Denbo ...... 63-7 1/2 (19.39m) 5/12/07 7. Mike Budincich ...... 63-5 3/4 (19.34) 5/1/76 10. Carter, Turner, 110-METER HIGH HURDLES 8. Nick Ponzio ...... 63-2 3/4 (19.27) 5/3/15 Joyner, Davis ...... 3:03.28n 6/7/97 1. Aleec Harris ...... 13.14 7/27/14 9 Van Mounts ...... 62-6 (19.05) 5/21/00 2. Oscar Spurlock ...... 13.33 4/16/11 Tambi Wenj ...... 62-6n (19.05) 1/31/87 Mark Crear ...... 13.33 8/14/92 4. Ryan Wilson ...... 13.35 6/14/03 DECATHLON 5. Brendan Ames ...... 13.39 5/13/11 1. Mike Gonzales 8,022 6/21-22/84 6. Robert Reading ...... 13.42 6/2/89 2. Viktor Fajoyomi 7,712 6/11-12/14 7. Earl McCullouch ...... 13.44 7/16/67 3. Daniel Haag 7,623 3/14-15/98 Tonie Campbell ...... 13.44n 8/28/81 4. Bo Sterner 7,574 6/4-5/74 9. Milan Stewart ...... 13.46n 4/25/82 5. Bob Coffman 7,321 6/4-5/74 10. Kehinde Alade’fa ...... 13.58 6/95 6. Shelton Davis 7,290 5/10-11/03 UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 2015 WOMEN OF TROY ROSTER

NAME EVENTS HT BIRTHDATE YEAR HOMETOWN (HIGH SCHOOL/J.C.) Katerina Berdousi Distances 5-10 8/26/93 Junior Tripoli, Greece (Second HS of Tripoli) Amber Bragdon Distances 5-7 3/11/96 Freshman Fountain Valley, Calif. (Fourntain Valley Destinee Brown, Sprints 5-5 7/6/94 Sophomore Inglewood, Calif. (Westchester/CS Fullerton) Gabriella Cantrell Sprints 5-4 11/30/95 Freshman San Leandro, Calif. (San Leandro) Erica Capellino 1500m 5-7 1/26/93 Senior Palos Verdes, Calif. (Palos Verdes) Alexandra Collatz Discus 5-8 5/25/93 Senior Bakersfi eld, Calif. (Stockdale) Melia Cox Hurdles, Jumps 5-7 11/23/93 Senior Long Beach, Calif. (Long Beach Poly) Malia Cravens Jumps 5-9 1/28/93 Junior* Los Angeles, Calif. (Temecula Valley/Hawai'i) Nicole Davies Distances 5-4 1/7/94 Junior Coronado, Calif. (Coronado) Jerayah Davis Sprints 5-10 4/15/96 Freshman Casper, Wy. (Kelly Walsh) Kendall Ellis Sprints 5-8 3/8/96 Freshman Pembroke Pines, Fla. (St. Thomas Aquinas) Alexis Faulknor Sprints/LJ 5-5 9/22/94 Junior Los Angeles, Calif. (Serra/UCF) Tynia Gaither Sprints 5-2 3/16/93 Junior* Kissimmee, Fla. (Osceola/Georgia) Lauren Grego 800m, 1500m 5-10 6/25/94 Sophomore* Huntington Beach, Calif. (Edison) Dior Hall Hurdles 5-6 1/2/96 Freshman Denver, Colo. (Denver School of Science & Technology) Deanna Hill Sprints 5-5 4/13/96 Freshman Orlando, Fla. (Lake Highland Prep) Felicia Horvath Pole Vault 5-7 7/7/93 Junior Budapest, Hungary (Szinyei Merse Pal) Amalie Iuel Heptathlon, Hurdles 5-11 4/17/94 Sophomore Oslow, Norway (International School of Bangkok) Vanessa Jones 200m/400m 5-7 1/1/93 Senior Fontana, Calif. (Etiwanda) Emma Kao Distances 5-6 1/9/96 Freshman Laguna Niguel, Calif. (Dana Hills) Reika Kijima Distances 5-6 2/21/94 Junior Yokohama, Japan (Ojai Valley/Azusa Pacifi c) Jessica Lesser Distances 5-3 6/20/96 Freshman Irvine, Calif. (Woodbridge) Akawkaw Ncha-Ndip Sprints, Heptathlon 5-8 4/30/93 Senior Corona, Calif. (Long Beach Poly) Tera Novy Shot, Discus 6-0 2/10/94 Junior Montesano, Wash. (Montesano) Jenny Ozorai Throws 5-4 12/3/90 Senior* Szombathely, Hungary (Kanizsai Dorottya Gimnazium) Mackensie Peace Distances 5-8 5/12/96 Freshman Mission Viejo, Calif. (Mission Viejo) Cameron Pettigrew Sprints 5-10 4/17/95 Sophomore Chicago, Ill. (Walter Payton College Prep) Erika Peyton Throws 5-11 10/12/94 Sophomore* Studio City, Calif. (Notre Dame/Fresno State) Alyssa Reardon Distances 5-5 8/30/93 Junior Placentia, Calif. (El Dorado) Madisen Richards Jumps 5-7 11/15/96 Freshman Simi Valley, Calif. (Simi Valley) Madison Ricks 800m, 1500m 5-11 10/20/96 Freshman San Ramon, Calif. (California) Tanya Sapa Throws 5-8 6/13/95 Sophomore Riverside, Calif. (La Sierra) Kira Soderstrom Distances 5-4 5/2/92 Senior Winter Park, Fla. (Winter Park) Jaide Stepter Hurdles 5-8 9/25/94 Junior Tucson, Ariz. (Canyon Del Oro) Natasha Strickland Distances 5-11 12/9/93 Junior Laguna Beach, Calif. (Laguna Beach) Jenna Tong Distances 5-2 12/3/93 Junior Manhattan Beach, Calif. (Mira Costa) Juila Tseng Javelin 5-3 3/31/92 Junior* West Covina, Calif. (South Hills) Ky Westbrook Sprints 5-9 2/29/96 Freshman Chandler, Ariz. (Chandler)

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NAME EVENTS HEIGHT BIRTHDATE COMPETITIVE YEAR HOMETOWN (HIGH SCHOOL/J.C.) Myles Andrews 800m 6-0 4/12/93 Senior Long Beach, Calif. (Long Beach Poly) Randall Cunningham High Jump 6-6 1/4/96 Freshman Las Vegas, Nev. (Bishop Gorman) Andre De Grasse Sprints 5-10 11/10/94 Junior Markham, Ontario, CN (Milliken Mills/Coffeyville CC) Robert Ford Middle Distances 5-10 3/8/96 Freshman San Antonio, Texas (Claudia Taylor Johnson) Josh Galen Distances 5-6 5/26/94 Sophomore* Los Angeles, Calif. (Beverly Hills) Kyle Iverson 800m 6-0 4/15/94 Junior Newport Beach, Calif. (Corona del Mar) Adoree' Jackson Jumps 5-11 9/18/95 Freshman Belleville, Ill. (Serra) Michael Krone High Jump 6-1 9/24/91 Senior Annapolis, Md. (Conestoga/Duke) BeeJay Lee Sprints 5-6 3/5/93 Senior West Covina, Calif. (West Covina) Diego Lopez Javelin 6-0 1/9/93 Senior Pasadena, Calif. (Loyola/Cal Poly Pomona) David Manahan Middle Distances 6-1 10/19/95 Freshman Los Angeles, Calif. (Harvard-Westlake) Conor McCullough Throws 1/31/91 Senior* Canoga Park, Calif. (Chaminade Prep/Princeton) Bryan Mercado 100m, 200m 5-6 10/5/92 Senior Pomona, Calif. (Colony) Jabre Millon Sprints/Jumps 6-0 11/7/94 Senior La Verne, Calif. (Bonita/La Verne) D.J. Morgan Hurdles/Sprints 5-10 1/3/92 Senior Pacoima, Calif. (Taft) Ricky Morgan Sprints 5-9 9/12/95 Freshman Woodbridge, Va. (Forest Park) Gabriel Morin Middle Distances 5-7 10/25/96 Freshman Los Angeles, Calif. (Loyola) Marquís Morris Hurdles 6-3 2/6/96 Freshman Pittsburg, Calif. (De La Salle) Nick Ponzio Throws 6-0 1/4/95 Freshman* Temecula, Calif. (Great Oak/Florida) Will Robinson 800m 6-0 12/4/93 Junior San Juan Capistrano, Calif. (Crean Lutheran) Alex Rohani 400m 6-0 2/21/95 Sophomore Beverly Hills, Calif. (Beverly Hills) Mike Rozvar Pole Vault 5-10 4/10/95 Sophomore San Juan Capistrano, Calif. (Mater Dei) Clayton Rule Distances 6-1 3/27/95 Sophomore San Diego, Calif. (Valhalla) David Sellens Throws 6-4 6/26/94 Freshman* Yreka, Calif. (Yreka) Jovonte Slater Long Jump/Sprints 5-9 12/11/92 Junior* Murrieta, Calif. (Vista Murrieta) Dominic Smallwood Jumps 6-2 12/28/95 Freshman Las Vegas, Nev. (Silverado) Andreas Spanos Distances 6-0 12/26/93 Junior Stockton, Calif. (Stevenson School) Davonte Stewart Sprints 6-1 6/11/93 Senior Fontana, Calif. (AB Miller) Just'N Thymes Sprints 6-0 1/24/94 Junior Phoenix, Ariz. (Hamliton/Riverside City College) Jordon Wallin Distances 5-11 11/7/95 Freshman Meridian, Id. (Rocky Mountain) Allen Williams 110m HH, TJ 5-9 6/24/93 Senior Oakland, Calif. (Bishop O'Dowd) Jemal Williams Decathlon 6-0 4/11/93 Senior Santa Rosa, Calif. (Sonoma Academy)

*--used redshirt year

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