2016 Michigan Men's Track & Field

MICHIGAN ATHELTIC COMMUNICATIONS Chad Shepard | Football 2016 MICHIGAN MEN’S TRACK & FIELD Men’s and Women’s Cross Country and Track and Field 734-386-0372 | phone QUICK HITS [email protected] | MGoBlue.com -- Michigan trips to Eugene, Oregon, with six NCAA OUTDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS athletes in tow, the program’s most since 2007 SITE: EUGENE, OREGON (HistoRIC HAYWARD FIELD) TV & STREAMING: ESPN3 (ALL EVENTS), MORE INFO BELOW -- U-M is in the midst of its best season since RESULTS: WWW.NCAA.COM OR HTTP://MYUMI.CH/6W87N 2007, adding 4th and 2nd-place conference track finishes to a Big Ten cross country title in the fall NOTES -- Wolverines have broken 8 U-M records and The University of Michigan men’s track and field team will send six athletes to set 51 all-time top-10 times or marks (24 out- Eugene, Oregon, to compete at the NCAA Outdoor Championships at Historic door) in 3 years under Head Coach Jerry Clayton Hayward Field this Wednesday, Thursday and Friday (June 8, 9 and 10). The two- day competition is hosted by the University of Oregon for the fourth year in a row -- U-M’s balance is on display this weekend with and the fifth time in the past seven seasons overall. entries in sprints/hurdles, middle-distance/distance, throws and multi-events All four days of competition (two men’s, two women’s) will stream events on ESPN3 and WatchESPN, and the times below represent on-air TV coverage throughout -- At the Big Ten outdoor Championships, U-M the weekend. Fans should follow @umictrack on Twitter for live updates, video scored in 16 of 21 events, including 8 of 9 field interviews and more exclusive content. events and became the first school to sweep the steeplechase, 5K and 10K since 1996 (UW) Wednesday, June 8 -- 7:30-11 p.m. ET (ESPN2) Thursday, June 9 -- 7:30-8 p.m. (ESPNU) -- U-M was the only program to score in each Friday, June 10 -- 8:30-11 p.m. (ESPN) throwing event, and was the only school to score Saturday, June 11 -- 6:30-9 p.m. (ESPN) in every middle-distance and distance event, a feat they had accomplished at each of the last WOLVERINE SCHEDULE OF COMPETITION AND ENTRIES two Big Ten Indoor Championships under Coach Event: Athlete (Time/Mark; NCAA East Seed) Kevin Sullivan Race Day/Time (all times Pacific) -- Top NCAA seed Mason Ferlic’s steeple PR SPRINTS/HURDLES and RELAYS (1 Entry) (8:28.77) set at Stanford (May 1) came in under the Olympic Standard of 8:30 400-meter hurdles: Taylor McLaughlin (49.80) Semifinals Wednesday at 6:30 p.m.; Finals Friday at 6:57 p.m. PROGRAM HISTORY DISTANCE (3 entries) First Year ........................................................................... 1893 Big Ten Member ................................................................ 1896* 5,000 meters: Tony Smoragiewicz (14:02.70) Big Ten Team Titles ............................................................... 57 Finals Friday at 7:25 p.m. Big Ten Indiv. Titles �� 394 Big Ten Relay Titles ............................................................... 46 10,000-meters: Ben Flanagan (29:13.72) NCAA Top 10 Finishes ............................................................ 33 Finals Wednesday at 7:08 p.m. NCAA Indiv. Titles .................................................................. 45 All-America Citations ............................................................. 179 3,000-meter steeplechase: Mason Ferlic (8:28.77*) Semifinals Wednesday at 5:02 p.m.; Finals Friday at 5:54 p.m. * = Charter Member MULTI-Events (1 entry) ‘THE LAST TIME’ AT THE NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS ACCOMPLISHMENT YEAR ATHLETES/PTS EVENT Steven Bastein (7,636 points) Individual Champion 2007 Andrew Ellerton 800m Decathlon: Multiple All-Americans 2007 Andrew Ellerton 800m (1st) Wednesday: 100-meter dash at 12:30 p.m., long jump at 1:10 p.m., shot put at 2:25 Jeff Porter 110m H (4th) p.m., high jump at 3:40 p.m., 400 meters at 6:56 p.m. Thursday: 110-meter hurdles at 10:30 p.m., discus at 11:20 a.m., pole vault at 12:30 Team Top 30 Finish 2006 30th p.m., javelin at 3 p.m. and 1,500-meter run at 6:56 p.m. Team Top 20 Finish 2007 t-18th Team Top 15 Finish 1997 t-13th THROWS (1 entry) Team Top 10 Finish 1961 t-6th Team Top 5 Finish 1945 2nd Hammer: Joe Ellis (68.25m; 223-11 ft.) Finals Wednesday at 2 p.m. COACHING STAFF Name (Specialization) Head Coach ................ Jerry Clayton (Throws, Jumps, Multi) * = Ranks as the top national seed Asst. ........................... Kevin Sullivan (Mid-D & Distance) Asst. ............................ Steve Rajewsky (Sprints & Hurdles) PROGRAM BALANCE Vol. Asst. .................. Shean Conlon (Pole Vault) The Wolverines have parlayed the momentum they built in the fall, when the Vol. Asst. .................. Dusty Lopez (Distance) team won the Big Ten Cross Country Championship, into the program’s best two Vol. Asst. .................. Stephen Saenz (Throws) conference finishes since 2008, taking 4th and 2nd. Now in the third year under head coach Jerry Clayton, U-M has had its best season since 2007, and ranks FOLLOW U-M TRACK & FIELD No. 21 in the USTFCCCA Program of the Year race entering this week, having Web: www.MGoBlue.com placed 9th during cross country and scored both entries during the NCAA Indoor Twitter: @umichtrack Championships. Michigan’s balance is on display this week with entries in each Facebook: www.facebook.com/MichiganMensTrack and every main discipline: Sprints/Hurdles (400-meter hurdles), Throws (Hammer), Distance (3,000-meter steeplechase, 5K and 10) and Multi-Events (Decathlon). COACHING STAFF In his short tenure leading the University of Michigan, Clayton has made the Wolverines a force again in the Big Ten conference, improving 11th and 9th-place showings in his first year to a fourth- place and runner-up Big Ten finishes in 2016. A Big Ten alum and Midwest native, he took over the U-M program after spending the previous 15 seasons at Auburn University. One of the nation’s top field event coaches, Clayton’s work has produced 16 NCAA individual cham- Jerry Clayton pions, 39 international team competitors, 24 qualifiers for the U.S. OlympicTrials and 33 participants Head Coach in Olympic Games and World Championship competition. He has coached athletes to NCAA titles in seven of nine field events as well, with All-America honors in all nine events. Overall, Clayton has Throws coached 89 NCAA All-American student-athletes. He has had 163 athletes qualify for the NCAA 3rd Season Track and Field Championships and 117 individual conference champions. In three seasons, the Maize and Blue have claimed seven conference titles under Clayton and broken eight program records. He also produced the program’s first-ever All-American in the heptathlon, Steven Bastien, who now owns the program standard in that event and became a back-to-back American this winter. Clayton has coached U-M to consecutive top-five indoor conference finishes, and this winter in Alabama, all five competing Wolverines left the NCAA Championships with All-America honors in hand.This year’s 20 NCAA East Region Preliminary Round qualifiers mark a program-high, and that number has increased from 10 to 13 to this season’s total in his three years at the helm. A native of Rushville, Ill., Clayton was a two-time NCAA qualifier in the shot put at Illinois, where he earned his bachelor of sciences degree in physical education in 1980. Clayton and his wife, Becky, a former three-time All-American long jumper at the University of Illinois, have two sons: Zach and Nick. Zach played on Auburn’s 2010 national championship team, while Nick is a 2013 graduate of the Air Force Academy and has Steve Rajewsky Kevin Sullivan Assistant Coach Asssistant Coach Sprints/Hurdles Head Coach - Cross Country 3rd Season Mid-Distance and Distance 2nd Season A proven winner, Rajewsky has been part of 17 conference title-winning The most decorated athlete in Michigan teams as an athlete and coach, and history, Sullivan has brought his alma he has brought that championship mater back onto the map of nationally elite pedigree to the U-M sprinters in his distance and middle-distance programs three years with the program, produc- since his return to Ann Arbor. ing four NCAA East Region Prelim- inary Round entries, and one relay, U-M has been the only school to score in along with a pair of Big Ten Champi- every middle-distance and distance event ons in the 60-meter dash (Chris Maye, 2015 indoor) and 400-me- (800, Mile, 3K, 5K, DMR) during the last ter hurdles (Taylor McLaughlin, 2016 outdoor). two Big Ten Indoor championships (2014-15), and at this year’s outdoor meet (2016) and Wolverines have won eight conference medals Rajewsky coached three Wolverines to the NCAA Preliminary overall under Sullivan (6 gold). He pushed Mason Ferlic to his first ca- Rounds in the 100-meter dash in 2015. U-M tied for the NCAA reer Big Ten title (2015 indoor 5K), and Ferlic added four more along lead and was the only school in the NCAA East Region to accom- with a Big Ten cross country runner-up finish and NCAA Great Lakes plish that feat last spring (Nolan, Spooney, Crenshaw). Regional individual crown. This indoor season, U-M broke the school DMR record held by the 2004 indoor NCAA Championship squad Five of the top six 60m dash times and two of the top 10 100m which featured three Olympians, and went on to earn the school’s first dash times in U-M history have been recorded during Rajewsky’s All-American accolades in the DMR since 2007. tenure, and freshman Taylor McLaughlin broke the 400-meter dash record (46.42) on his way to a bronze medal at the Big Ten An impressive 14 of Sullivan’s athletes have qualified for NCAA East Indoor Championships during the winter.

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