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WASHINGTON STATE TRACK & FIELD RELEASE @ UW Final Qualifier (NCAA Last Chance) Saturday, March 3 Dempsey Indoor Facility, Seattle Linda Chalich • Asst. Dir. Athl. Comm. (Track & Field Contact) • W-509-335-0268 • C-509-432-3263 • [email protected] WSU TRACK & FIELD SENDS LAST CHANCE COMPETITORS TO SEATTLE WSU TRACK & FIELD Five members of the Washington State men’s track and field teams travel to 2012 SCHEDULE Seattle for the UW Final Qualifier/NCAA Last Chance Meet Sat., March 3, at JANUARY the Dempsey Indoor Facility in Seattle...Joe Abbott (800m), Shawn Swartz (high jump), Jovan Vukicevic (high jump), Ryan Barrett (200m, 400m) and 13-14 WSU Open, Pullman Nick Smith (800m)...Abbott, Swartz and Vukicevic are aiming for marks to 21-22 @ Cherry & Silver Invite, qualify for the NCAA Indoor Championships while Barrett and Smith are Albuquerque, NM accumulating competitive experience...Saturday’s events are scheduled to 27-28 Cougar Multis, Pullman begin at 11 a.m. and conclude about 3 p.m...Live results will be available Cougar Indoor, Pullman at www.gohuskies.com...results will be posted at www.wsucougars.com, at the completion of the meet. FEBRUARY ABOUT THE COUGAR COACHES 3 @ Vandal Indoor, Moscow Head coach Rick Sloan is in his 39th season with the Cougar track program; 4 @ Idaho Indoor Open, 18th year as a head coach, 17th year as mentor to the combined men’s Moscow and women’s program...Sloan (decathlon/heptathlon) is joined by associ- 10-11 @ Husky Classic, Seattle ate coach Debra Farwell (throws), head coach for cross country Pete Julian (distance), and assistant coaches Mark Macdonald (hurdles/relays), Ellannee @ Tyson Invite, Fayetteville Richardson (sprints/relays) and Matt McGee (jumps)…volunteer coaches in- 18 @ Vandal Collegiate, clude Jeshua Anderson, Tim Riley and Wes McCann. Moscow 24-25 @ Mountain Pacific Sports SCOTT-ELLIS WINS LONG JUMP AT MPSF CHAMPIONSHIPS Fed. Champs, Seattle Stephan Scott-Ellis, a junior from Tacoma, won the men’s long jump and fin- ished second in the triple jump at the 2012 Mountain Pacific Sports Federa- MARCH tion Championships...Scott-Ellis long jumped a PR distance of 7.75m/25-5 1/4 Friday night to win...mark is 10th-best in WSU history...all three of Scott-Ellis’ 3 @ NCAA Last Chance, attempts were PRs with his winning mark a nine-inch improvement from his Seattle previous best...Saturday triple jumped 15.89m/52-1 3/4 for second place... 9-10 @ NCAA Indoor T&F ASU’s Chris Benard took second to Scott-Ellis in the long jump but won the Championships, Boise triple jump with an NCAA Automatice Qualifying mark of 16.43m/53-11 to win. NCAA DESCENDING ORDER LISTS The NCAA has automatic qualifying standards for Indoor competition that can be found on the 2012 Indoor Bests Lists posted on the WSU website (www.wsucougars.com)...national descending order lists can be viewed at the United States Track & Field/Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) Track & Field Results Reporting System website (www.tfrrs.org). COUGARS AMONG THE NATION’S TOP 50 WSU men in the TFRRS national top 50 list this week include: Joe Abbott, 800m (41st), Jono Lafler, 5000m (29th); Stephan Scott-Ellis, long jump (6th) and triple jump (9th); Michael Bolligar, heptathlon (36th); and 4x400m Relay of Brandon Dawson, Joe Abbott, J Hopkins, Jacob Sealby (41st). WASHINGTON STATE TRACK & FIELD RELEASE Saturday, March 3 @ UW Final Qualifier/NCAA Last Chance Meet, Seattle Page 2 USTFCCCA NATIONAL TEAM RANKINGS The United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Asso- ciation (USTFCCCA) national rank- ings are a prediction of how teams Stephan Scott-Ellis (above) won the long jump and was the runner-up in the triple jump and individuals will place at the at the 2012 MPSF Championships. 2012 NCAA Div. I Indoor Champion- ships, March 9-10, in Boise, Idaho. USTFCCCA INDOOR T&F RANKINGS BOLLIGAR TALLIES SECOND-BEST WSU MEN’S TOP 25 TEAMS HEPTATHLON TOTAL AT MPSF CHAMPIONSHIPS February 28, 2012 Michael Bolligar, a junior from Peoria, Ariz., racked up 5,406 points in the heptathlon at the MPSF Championships for third Rank School Total Last Ranking 1. Florida 188.49 2 place...mark was a personal-best for Bolligar, a junior trans- 2. Arkansas 135.65 1 fer...during the competition he scored PRs in the 60m hurdles, 3. Texas A&M 123.78 3 long jump, shot put and 1000m run...it is the second-best in 4. LSU 104.93 4 WSU history for the men’s indoor heptathlon...Darion Powell 5. Arizona 96.68 6 holds the school record with 5,631 points from 2005. 6. Texas 92.10 5 7. Arizona State 86.48 7 8. BYU 76.03 16 9. Minnesota 75.76 8 FLEISCHER BREAKS 3K FRESHMAN SCHOOL RECORD 10. Stanford 73.66 12 11. Virginia Tech 68.71 9 Katie Fleischer, a freshman from Sarnia, Ontario, Canada, 12. Mississippi St. 66.90 10 ran a 3000m time of 9:46.46 at the MPSF Championships, 13. Indiana 62.14 11 erasing Sarah Bobbe’s freshman school record time of 14. Georgia 59.32 24 9:48.91 run in 2011. 15. Kansas State 54.36 14 16. Florida State 51.62 20 17. Ohio State 44.95 13 18. Nebraska 42.95 15 HEAD COACH RICK SLOAN COMMENTS 19. Auburn 38.76 17 ABOUT MPSF CHAMPIONSHIPS 20. Oregon 36.73 19 “The MPSF Championships is the culmination 21. Mississippi 36.64 22 22. NC State 35.00 37 of our indoor season except for the people who 23. Princeton 34.31 25 might be going on to the NCAA meet, and it 24. Oklahoma 33.50 21 signals the beginning of the outdoor season. 25. N. Arizona 31.68 23 With the outdoor season comes the intermedi- ate hurdles and the javelin, two strongholds for 47. Washington State 18.89 68 the Cougars. I’m pleased, especially with the MEN’S INDIVIDUAL RANKINGS men, with the performances we had here and I’m very excited to get to the Event Name Prediction outdoor season and on to the Pac-12 and national championships.” 800m Joe Abbott 41st 5000m Jono Lafler 29th 4x400m Relay 26th Dawson, Abbott, Hopkins, Sealby LJ Stephan Scott-Ellis 6th TJ Stephan Scott-Ellis 9th Final Indoor rankings Mar. 6, 2012 WASHINGTON STATE TRACK & FIELD RELEASE Saturday, March 3 @ UW Final Qualifier/NCAA Last Chance Meet, Seattle Page 3 WATCH 2012 TRACK & FIELD VIDEO INTERVIEWS USTFCCCA INDOOR T&F RANKINGS Throughout the 2012 season watch Cougar Head Coach Rick Sloan, the WSU WOMEN’S TOP 25 TEAMS February 28, 2012 coaching staff and student-athletes’ outlook on Track & Field competitions by going to www.wsucougars.com and clicking on Videos...new content Rank School Total Last Ranking will be posted weekly. 1. Oregon 192.15 1 2. Arkansas 138.55 4 3. Clemson 136.13 3 4. LSU 127.57 2 5. Texas A&M 110.21 5 6. Kansas 87.43 7 7. Florida 83.28 6 8. California 76.82 19 9. BYU 63.94 14 10. Washington 63.82 23 NCAA TRACK & FIELD INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS TICKETS SELLING FAST 11. Stanford 57.20 18 The 2012 NCAA Division I Indoor Track & Field Championships will be held 12. Southern Illinois 54.50 9 Friday and Saturday, March 9 and 10 at the Jacksons Indoor Track at the Ida- 13. Arizona 53.98 16 ho Center in Nampa, Idaho...all-session tickets for the event, good for both 14. Central Florida 53.29 15 days and all events, are on sale now at the Idaho Center Box Office and are 15. Iowa State 52.67 13 16. Tennessee 51.63 8 available ICtickets.com or NCAA.com/tickets, by calling 208-442-3232... Ticket 17. Ohio State 51.16 10 Prices (all-session) are Adult Reserved - $50, Adult General Admission - $45, 18. Texas 50.61 11 Senior/Student Reserved - $37, Senior/Student General Admission - $30...tick- 19. TCU 44.47 41 eting fees apply...more information on the meet can be found at ncaa.com/ 20. Florida State 43.24 21 championships. 21. Georgetown 43.47 20 22. Georgia 40.40 30 23. Texas Tech 40.11 12 USTFCCCA ALL-ACADEMIC HONORS 24. Wisconsin 39.86 17 FOR COUGAR CROSS COUNTRY 25. Auburn 39.01 50 The Washington State men’s and women’s cross country teams earned NR. Washington State NR United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTF- CCCA) 2011 Division I All-Academic Cross Country Team national honors... WOMEN’S INDIVIDUAL RANKINGS Cougar men’s team, with a cumulative 3.13 GPA after Fall semester, was one Event Name Prediction of 147 men’s team tabbed...WSU women’s team, carrying a 3.41 cumulative Currently none GPA after Fall 2011, was one of 205 institutions honored for academics...An- Final Indoor rankings Mar. 6, 2012 drew Kimpel, a sophomore from Spokane, was the lone Cougar to receive ____________________________________ national academic recognition and was one of 58 male student-athletes from 36 institutions to earn the USTFCCCA honor...Kimpel is majoring in man- WEST REGIONAL RANKINGS agement information systems at WSU and has a 3.29 GPA...last fall Kim- February 21, 2012 pel was the top finisher for WSU at the Pac-12 Championships (14th), at the Men Women NCAA West Regionals (14th), and at the NCAA Championships (59th)...his Rank School Rank School finish at the NCAA West Regionals earned him an All-Region honor. 1. Arizona State 1. Oregon 2. Stanford 2. Stanford 3. Arizona 3. Arizona 4. Oregon 4. Arizona State 5.