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ARIZONA STATE TRACK & FIELD Women's 2007 & 2008 NCAA Indoor & 2007 Outdoor Champs Men's 2008 NCAA Indoor Champions OUTDOOR SEASON - WEEK 2 Outdoor Meet #2: ARIZONA STATE INVITATIONAL 2008 SUN DEVIL SCHEDULE Joe Selleh Track at Sun Angel Stadium • Tempe INDOOR SEASON Friday, March 28 - Saturday, March 29 Date Meet Location J 25 Friday Night Challenge Flagstaff, AZ F 1-2 Washington Invitational Seattle, WA 1-2 United Heritage Multi Nampa, ID Track & Field Set to Host ASU Invitational This Weekend 1-2 Mountain 'T' Invitational Flagstaff, AZ Sun Devils welcome several teams to Tempe for its second home meet of '08 8-9 Bronco Invitational Nampa, ID 15 Tyson Invitational Fayetteville, AR For the second weekend in a row, the Arizona State University track and field team will play 15-16 Iowa State Classic Ames, IA host to a meet, this weekend hosting several teams and individuals to the ASU Invitational 16 Husky Classic Seattle, WA on Friday and Saturday on Joe Selleh Track at Sun Angel Stadium. Similar to last weekend, 23 NAU Tune-Up Flagstaff, AZ the hammer will be held Friday night with Saturday leading off with the women's discus at 10 29-1 MPSF Championships Seattle, WA M 8 Iowa State Last Chance Ames, IA a.m. and the running events starting at 5:30 p.m. with the women's 100m hurdles. 8 Washington Last Chance Seattle, WA 14-15 NCAA Championships Fayetteville, AR WELCOME! Several university teams will have athletes on hand to compete this weekend, including: Air OUTDOOR SEASON 21-22 Baldy Castillo Invitational Tempe Force, Arizona, Augustana (S.D.), BYU, CS Fullerton, Loyola Marymount, Northern Arizona, 28-29 ASU Invitational Tempe Notre Dame, Purdue, Southern Utah, Wayne State (Neb.) and Western State (Colo.). A 3-4 Jim Click Multis Tucson, AZ 5 Jim Click Invitational Tucson, AZ NATIONALLY KNOWN 4-5 Stanford Invitational Palo Alto, CA The preseason team rankings were released by the USTFCCCA on March 26 with the rank- 11-12 29th Sun Angel Classic Tempe ings based upon points earned for an athlete's position on the NCAA descending order list 17-20 Mt. SAC Relays Walnut, CA 25-26 Oregon Relays Eugene, OR (the final list of 2007 was used for the first ranking of the year). The men open the season 25-26 Drake Relays Des Moines, IA ranked No. 8 with 172.36 points with Florida State leading the way with 259.63 points. LSU M 3 Double Dual (UA/NAU) Tucson, AZ (247.33), Tennessee (209.00), Florida (195.32) and USC (188.89) round out the Top 5 men's 4 Cardinal Classic Palo Alto, CA teams. The women, winners of the last three NCAA championships, enters the year ranked 9-10 Pac-10 Multi-Events Tempe No. 2 with 312.98 points while LSU leads with 324.05 points. Virginia Tech (238.37), Texas 16-17 Pac-10 Championships Tempe A&M (237.34) and USC (210.94) round out the Top 5 in the women's rankings. 30-31 NCAA West Region Northridge, CA J 11-14 NCAA Championships Des Moines, IA 27-6 US Olympic Trials Eugene, OR TOMAS' TRIPLE Last weekend, the Sun Devils opened the outdoor season by playing host to the Baldy Home meets in bold (at Sun Angel Stadium) Castillo Invitational. At the meet, Tomas Navarro competed in three throwing events and 2008 SUN DEVIL DATA regionally qualified in all three. Navarro hit marks of 60.74m (the fourth-best in ASU history) Location ................................................. Tempe, Ariz. in the hammer, 54.11m in the discus and 17.13m in the shot put to punch his ticket to the Enrollment ...................................................... 63,278 regional meet in Northridge, Calif., May 30-31. Nickname ................................................ Sun Devils Colors ............................................... Maroon & Gold ONE FOR ONE Conference (In & Out) .................... MPSF & Pac-10 April Kubishta opened her outdoor season last weekend by winning the pole vault with a Home Venue .............................. Sun Angel Stadium clearance of 4.15m (13-07.25), qualifying for the NCAA West Region meet in the process. University President ..................... Dr. Michael Crow VP for University Athletics ........................ Lisa Love After the weekend, Kubsihta, the defending NCAA Outdoor Champion and the 2008 NCAA Indoor runner-up two weeks ago, has taken the national lead, five centimeters ahead of the Director of Track & Field/Cross Country next three athletes on the list. Greg Kraft .................................................... Jumps Assistant Coaches David Dumble ............................................. Throws FIELD DAY Kenny McDaniel .......................... Sprints (women) At the Baldy Castillo Invitational, the field events produced seven of the program's eight Louie Quintana .................. Distance/Mid-Distance region qualifiers. For the women, Kubishta was joined by Alana Waterford (3.85m) in the pole Terry Winston .................................... Sprints (men) vault while Addison McGrath (see next note) qualified in the javelin (44.34m). On the men's Graduate Assistants side, Navarro was joined by Brad Roth in the javelin (69.52m). Ryan Cole .......................... Distance/Mid-Distance Victoria Jackson ................ Distance/Mid-Distance Volunteer Coaches JUST REMOVE WATER Ron Barela .............................................. Pole Vault In the women's javelin, Addison McGrath qualified for the regional meet and finished fifth in Dan O'Brien ........................................ Multi-Events the meet with her toss of 44.34m (145-06), the fourth-best throw in school history. The mark, Support Staff which came on her second attempt, also came on her second attempt ever as she joined the Frank Perez .................... Assistant Athletic Trainer team this season to give the event a try. McGrath was already a student-athlete at Arizona Andrea DiTrani ........................ Grad. Asst. Trainer State before joining the team as she is a member of the No. 7-ranked water polo team, lead- Jennifer Pawson ...................... Grad. Asst. Trainer ing the team in scoring with 55 goals (seventh in the nation). Ben Hilgart ............................. Sports Performance Shay Jewett ................. Academic Coach (women) Sophia Sledge .................. Academic Coach (men) THESUNDEVILS.COM SID Track/Field Contact: Alex Ryan ([email protected]) • Phone: (480) 965-4987 • Fax: (480) 965-5408 COACH KRAFT & TEAM NOTES HEAD COACH GREG KRAFT COMPLETE 2008 SUN DEVIL SCHEDULE Greg Kraft is in his 12th year with the Sun Devil pro- Date INDOOR MEETS W Finish M Finish Wins Top 3s Autos Provs Region gram and has built it into a national power. During the J 25 at Friday Night Challenge W 2, L 2 W 2, L 2 7-7 15-12 1-0 1-4 n/a 2007 season, his women were ranked No. 1 through- F 1-2 at Washington Invitational NTS NTS 0-1 0-2 0-0 0-3 n/a out the entire indoor and outdoor slates, culminating 1-2 at Mountain 'T' Invitational NTS NTS 5-2 9-6 1-0 1-3 n/a with their first national titles. For his efforts, he was 1-2 at United Heritage Invite NTS NTS 1-0 1-0 1-0 1-0 n/a selected as the 2007 USTFCCCA Women's National and 8-9 at Bronco Invitational NTS NTS 7-3 15-10 2-2 5-3 n/a Women's West Region Coach of the Year before earning 15 at Tyson Invitational NTS NTS 1-0 1-0 1-0 0-0 n/a the 2007 MPSF Women's Coach of the Year honor. He 15-16 at Iowa State Classic NTS NTS 2-3 7-4 2-1 4-4 n/a also was selected for the same honors outdoor, including 16 at Husky Classic NTS NTS 0-0 0-0 0-0 1-2 n/a the Pac-10 Coach of the Year. Kraft's women also won 23 at NAU Tune-Up NTS NTS 7-3 12-8 0-0 1-1 n/a their first indoor conference crown, capturing the 2007 MPSF Indoor Championships before repeating at the 29-1 at MPSF Championships 1st 4th 7-3 14-5 3-2 11-5 n/a Pac-10 outdoor meet where the men were three points M 7-8 at Iowa State Last Chance NTS NTS 2-0 3-0 0-0 3-0 n/a shy of capturing their first crown under Kraft. 7-8 at Washington Last Chance NTS NTS 0-1 1-3 0-0 0-1 n/a In 2006, Kraft's women's program moved up into the 14-15 at NCAA Championships 1st 1st 1-2 5-5 6-3 7-5 n/a national spotlight and captured its first Pac-10 title (May Date OUTOOR MEETS W Finish M Finish Wins Top 3s Autos Provs Region 13-14) in Eugene, Ore., after finishing third at the indoor M 21-22 BALDY CASTILLO INV NTS NTS 2-3 5-5 0-0 0-0 2-5 NCAA meet. At the conference meet, the women won 28-29 ASU INVITATIONAL five titles. This past fall, the women's cross country team A 3-4 at Jim Click Multis finished fourth to earn their second trophy finish in three 5 at Jim Click Invitational years while the men, ranked 30th, finished 26th. Individually, Kraft has worked with numerous talented 4-5 at Stanford Invitational athletes, including five-time NCAA champion Jacquelyn 11-12 SUN ANGEL CLASSIC Johson and 2004 Olympic Gold Medalist Dwight Phillips. 17-20 at Mt. SAC Relays During the past three seasons alone, his women have 25-26 at Oregon Relays won nine individual national titles. 25-26 at Drake Relays Since taking over the ASU program, both the cross M 3 at Arizona (Double Dual) country and track and field programs have become 3 vs Northern Arizona (D Dual) staples of the national Top 20 with 14 All-America honors 4 at Cardinal Classic attained in cross country, five indoor relays, 10 outdoor 9-10 PAC-10 MULTI-EVENTS relays, 47 indoor individuals and 40 outdoor individuals.