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WASHINGTON TRACK AND FIELD Mar. 9, 2005 //For Immediate Release// Contact: Brian Beaky Record 12 Huskies Head to Arkansas for 2005 Husky Track Schedule Indoor 2005 NCAA Indoor Track Championships Date Meet Location Jan. 15 UW Indoor Preview Seattle On the Track: One of the most prolific seasons in Washington indoor track and field Jan. 21-22 Nat’l Pole Vault Summit Reno, Nev. history comes to a conclusion this week at the 2005 NCAA Indoor Track and Field Jan. 28-29 UW Indoor Invitational Seattle Championships at the University of Arkansas’ Randall Tyson Center in Fayetteville. A Feb. 12 The Husky Classic Seattle record twelve Huskies will be competing at this weekend’s indoor championships, Feb. 25-26 MPSF Championships Seattle including three freshmen and four women’s pole vaulters, believed to be a record for Mar. 5 Last Chance Qualifier Seattle any collegiate team in the event. For complete bios of all of UW’s 2005 NCAA Indoor Mar. 11-12 NCAA Champ’s Fayetteville, Ark. Championships competitors, see pages 8-9 of this release. Outdoor Washington’s 2005 NCAA Indoor Championships Competitors Date Meet Location Name Year Event Hometown (High School) Mar. 19 UW Outdoor Preview Seattle Austin Abbott Fr. DMR Chehalis, Wash. (W.F. West) Mar. 25-26 Stanford Invitational Palo Alto, CA Ryan Brown So. DMR Renton, Wash. (Renton) Apr. 6-9 Texas Relays Austin, TX Carly Dockendorf Jr. Pole Vault Port Moody, B.C. (Best Secondary) Apr. 9 Pepsi Invitational Eugene, OR Lindsey Egerdahl Sr. Mile Auburn, Wash. (Auburn) Apr. 15-17 Mt. SAC Relays Walnut, CA Andy Fader Sr. DMR Everett, Wash. (Cascade) Norris Frederick Fr. Long Jump Seattle, Wash. (Roosevelt) Apr. 16 State Challenge Cup Pullman, WA Ashley Lodree So. 60m Hurdles Richmond, Calif. (El Cerrito) Apr. 23 Oregon Invitational Eugene, OR Stevie Marshalek So. Pole Vault Kent, Wash. (Kentlake) Apr. 30 UW-WSU Dual Seattle Amanda Miller Fr. 800m Wenatchee, Wash. (Eastmont) May 6-7 Pac-10 Multi Events Los Angeles, CA Kate Soma Sr. Pole Vault Portland, Ore. (Grant) May 7 Ken Shannon Invitational Seattle Ashley Wildhaber Jr. Pole Vault Chehalis, Wash. (W.F. West/UNC Wilmington) May 13-14 Pac-10 Champ’s Los Angeles, CA Sean Williams Sr. DMR Kirkland, Wash. (Lake Washington) May 27-28 NCAA West Regional Eugene, OR Event Schedule: Following is a schedule of events featuring UW athletes at this June 8-11 NCAA Champ’s Sacramento, CA June 23-26 USATF Jr./Sr. Nat’ls Carson, CA weekend’s NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships in Fayetteville, Ark. All times are Pacific. For a complete event schedule, visit www.ncaasports.com. Bold font indicates Husky home meet. All home Friday, March 11 Saturday, March 12 indoor meets held at Dempsey Indoor, all home 2:30 p.m. Women’s 800-Meter Run (P) 3:30 p.m. Women’s Pole Vault (F) outdoor meets held at Husky Stadium. 3:05 p.m. Women’s 60-Meter Hurdles (P) 4:15 p.m. Women’s Mile Run (F) 4:00 p.m. Men’s Long Jump (P/F) 4:35 p.m. Women’s 800-Meter Run (F) Hot off the Presses ... 4:45 p.m. Women’s Mile Run (P) • The UW women climbed to ninth in this week’s 6:10 p.m. Women’s 60-Meter Hurdles (F) USTCA Rankings, and are ranked 17th by Trackwire; 7:30 p.m. Men’s Dist. Medley Relay (F) the Husky men are 22nd in the USTCA poll, p2 NCAA Championships on TV: The 2005 NCAA Indoor Track and Field Champion- • 2004 Pac-10 champion Kate Soma, who stands ships will be broadcast on a tape-delay basis by ESPN, the Worldwide Leader in Sports. just five feet tall, enters this week’s NCAA meet The broadcast will air on ESPN2 from 9:00 a.m.-10:30 a.m. PT on Wed., March 16. as the national leader in the pole vault, p3 How They Got Here: Two Huskies, pole vaulter Kate Soma and hurdler Ashley Lodree • Two-sport star Carly Dockendorf will stretch qualified for this week’s NCAA Indoor Championships by meeting pre-determined her talents to the limit this weekend, competing automatic qualifying standards in their events. The remaining 10 UW competitors Friday against No. 1 gymnastics squad Utah in were among the provisional qualifiers added to the NCAA field Monday, in order to Salt Lake City, before traveling to Arkansas Sat- provide full fields for this weekend’s competition. Provisional qualifiers are added in urday morning for the 5:30 p.m. pole vault, p3 order from the NCAA’s descending order list, in an attempt to provide fields of roughly • Freshman Norris Frederick, one of three UW 16-17 athletes per individual event, and 10-12 teams per relay. For a complete list of freshmen in the NCAA field, is the nation’s No. NCAA qualifiers, visit www.trackshark.com. 5 seed in the long jump, p4 Meet Results: Results will be posted live throughout the competition to both www.ncaasports.com and www.hogwired.com, the official site of the host University of Arkansas. A full recap of UW action at the meet, including quotes from competitors and UW results, will be posted to www.GoHuskies.com roughly one hour following the conclusion of each day’s competition. UW TRACK AND FIELD • Mar... 9, 2005 • Page 2 2004 NCAA Indoor Championships Recap: The five Huskies who trav- Husky Track Quick Facts eled to Fayetteville, Ark., last year represented not only the team’s largest University of Washington indoor championships contingent since 1998 -- until this year’s record Athletic Department, Box 354070 crop of 12 -- but also one of its most talented. Three of the five earned Seattle, WA 98195-4070 All-America honors — the most individual UW All-Americans indoors since 1988 — while the Husky men earned their fifth top-25 finish in the Enrollment: .................. 42,000 (31,474 undergraduate) Founded: ................................................... Nov. 4, 1861 last five years. Senior Brad Walker, in his final collegiate performance, President:.................................................Mark Emmert earned his second-straight NCAA indoor pole vault title, and junior Kate Director of Athletics: ................................ Todd Turner Soma became the first UW women’s indoor All-American since 1994 Home Stadium: ........ Dempsey Indoor/Husky Stadium with a tie for fifth in the pole vault. Senior Eric Garner earned his sec- Press Row Phone: ................................ (206) 227-5709 ond-career All-America honor with an eighth-place finish in the mile, Conference: ................................................... Pacific-10 freshman hurdler Ashley Lodree placed 14th in the 60-meter hurdles, Head Coach: ............................ Greg Metcalf (3rd year) Asst. Coach (Vault/Jumps): ......... Pat Licari (9th year) and sophomore Ingvill Makestad took 15th in the mile. Asst. Coach (Throws): ........Bud Rasmussen (3rd year) Asst. Coach (Sprints/Hurdles): .. LaMonte Vaughn, Jr. (1st year) NCAA Championships By the Numbers: When Brad Walker won his Asst. Coach (Distances): ...........David Bazzi (4th year) second-straight NCAA pole vault title last season, the senior became just Asst. Coach (Distances): .......... Kelly Strong (3rd year) the fourth Husky ever to win more than one NCAA title, including just Volunteer Assistants: ............. Duncan Atwood (javelin) two — Walker and seven-time champion Scott Neilson — since 1930. Kate Carlson (jumps) Neilson, one of only four athletes in NCAA history to win four-straight Track Office Phone:............................. (206) 221-2625 Website: ........................................ www.gohuskies.com NCAA titles in the same event, was certainly UW’s most prolific titlist, 2004 Men’s Pac-10 Finish: ...................................... 8th with three indoor weight crowns, and four-straight NCAA hammer titles 2004 Men’s NCAA Finish (Outdoor/Indoor): .......... DNS/22nd (tie) from 1976-79. The other Huskies to earn multiple NCAA titles did so in Men’s NCAA Competitors Returning/Lost: ......... 3/3 the NCAA’s infancy, including hurdler Steve Anderson, in 1929 and 2004 Women’s Pac-10 Finish:................................. 6th 1930, and Gus Pope, the shot and discus champ in 1921. Twenty-two 2004 Women’s NCAA Finish ( woOutdoor/Indoor):18th (tie)/37th Huskies have combined for 28 NCAA titles overall, a total which ranks NCAA Women’s Competitors Returning/Lost: .... 5/2 Best Men’s Conference Finish: ................. 2nd (1976) 22nd among NCAA institutions all-time. Should any of the 12 Huskies Best Men’s NCAA Finish:................ 2nd (1929, 1930) traveling to this week’s meet win a national title, it would mark the first Best Women’s Conference Finish: . 4th (1995, ‘96, ‘98) time since Neilson’s string of crowns in the 1970s that Washington ath- Best Women’s NCAA Finish: ................... 10th (1988) letes brought home NCAA titles in at least three consecutive seasons. Husky Media Relations Rankings Report: Washington’s women will send seven competitors to Brian Beaky, Track and Field SID the NCAA Championships this week, so it was no surprise to see the E-mail: [email protected] Office Phone: (206) 543-2230 Huskies shoot to ninth in the USTCA Dual Meet Power Rankings, and to Mobile Phone: (206) 227-5709 No. 17 in the Trackwire poll. Trackwire awarded 13 points to the Huskies Fax: (206) 543-5000 in its poll, which predicts order of finish at the NCAA Championships, matching UW’s to its highest Trackwire total this year and the second- 2005 USTCA Dual Meet Power Rankings highest among any Pac-10 teams. The USTCA, meanwhile, awarded Men Women 313.29 points to the Husky women in its ranking, which simulates head- 1. Indiana 356.97 1. Nebraska 349.51 to-head competition between the nation’s elite college teams, a total good 2. Wisconsin 355.05 2. Penn State 333.69 for ninth in the nation. Tennessee eclipsed Stanford by one point atop the 3.