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U N I V E R S I T Y O F W A S H I N G T O N HUSKY TRACK & FIELD 2012 Contact: Michael Bruscas • Tel: 206-543-2331 • E-Mail: mbruscas@uw.edu • www.GoHuskies.com Huskies Hunt For NCAA Titles In Des Moines Husky Track Schedule Indoor NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS Date Meet Location/Result June 6-9 • Des Moines, Iowa • Drake Stadium Jan. 14 UW Indoor Preview Seattle LIVE RESULTS: godrakebulldogs.com Jan. 27-28 UW Invitational Seattle LIVE WEBCAST: NCAA.com Wednesday; ESPN3.com Thursday-Friday Feb. 4 Bronco Classic Boise, Idaho HUSKY UPDATES: Follow @uwtrack on Twitter Feb. 10-11 The Flotrack Husky Classic Seattle Feb. 12 UW Indoor Open Seattle ON THE TRACK: Once again the NCAA Track & Field season culminates in Des Moines, Iowa, with the Feb. 24-25 MPSF Championships M - 8th; W - 5th NCAA Championships bringing together the 24 remaining athletes and relay teams from the West and East regions at Drake Stadium this Wednesday through Saturday, June 6-9. National champs in every event Mar. 3 UW Final Qualifier Seattle along with the team battles will be settled this week, with eleven Husky athletes still in the hunt after the Mar. 9-10 NCAA Championships W - t23rd preliminary rounds in Austin. Outdoor All track athletes that run less than 5,000-meters still have semifinal rounds in Des Moines between them Date Meet Location/Result and the finals, while the 5k and 10k races plus all field events are now straight finals with 24 athletes in each. This is the second straight year and the third time in the past five years that Des Moines, and Drake Mar. 23-24 Trojan Invitational Los Angeles, Calif. University, has hosted the NCAA finals. Apr. 7 Pepsi Team Invitational M - 3rd; W - 2nd Coverage of the meet will be primarily online. The first day of competition will be streamed live on NCAA. Apr. 19-21 Mt. SAC Relays Walnut, Calif. com. Thursday and Friday fans will want to tune in to ESPN3.com to watch the live feed. Saturday’s final Apr. 21 Beach Invitational Cerritos, Calif. day will then be televised live on ESPNU. April 28 at Washington State M - 2nd; W - 1st The Husky men’s team has finished in the top-25 of the NCAA Outdoor meet for the past six years in a row, May 5 Oregon Twilight Meet Eugene, Ore. a streak that has not been matched since 1974-79. The men are ranked 41st entering the meet, while the May 5-6 Pac-12 Multi-Events Eugene, Ore. UW women are at a season-high 27th and are looking for a fifth top-25 finish since 2004. May 12-13 Pac-12 Championships M - t5th; W - 6th Also up for grabs this week are All-America honors. Every athlete to reach Des Moines is assured of honor- May 24-26 NCAA Preliminary Rounds Austin, Texas able mention All-America status. But First Team honors will go to those athletes and relays finishing first June 6-9 NCAA Championships Des Mones, Iowa through eighth in their events, and Second Team status is given to athletes placing between ninth and 16th overall. Scoring for the championships works as usual, with 10 team points for a first-place finish, then 8 for second, 6 for third, and 5-4-3-2-1 for fourth through eighth. Bold font indicates Husky home meet, at Dempsey Indoor. PURPLE & GOLD PERSPECTIVE: Eleven Huskies remain alive after the preliminary rounds in Austin, Texas, covering nine different events. Six of those Dawgs are making a return trip to Des Moines after competing 2012 USTFCCCA Week 9 Outdoor Rankings at the NCAA finals last year, with five more making their NCAA Outdoor debuts. Men Women 1 Texas A&M 284.76 1 LSU 349.89 The first finals to be decided for UW this week is the women’s pole vault on Wednesday at 5:30 p.m. Central 2 LSU 222.51 2 Kansas 276.72 time. Junior Logan Miller and redshirt freshman Georgia Reynolds will both be in action. Miller (Reno, 3 Arizona 220.20 3 Oregon 239.80 4 Texas 219.50 4 Texas A&M 232.32 Nev.) is making her second straight trip to Des Moines, where she finished 11th last year to earn All-American 5 Florida State 209.96 5 Clemson 225.74 Second Team honors. But this year Miller has gone nearly a full foot higher than a year ago, making herself 6 Florida 204.69 6 Texas 205.21 a contender despite a field that includes the NCAA record-holder. Miller has cleared 14-feet twice this year, 7 Indiana 194.06 7 Stanford 181.28 including a school record 14-4 1/2 in a runner-up Pac-12 finish, and another meet over the 14-foot mark 8 Virginia Tech 178.65 8 Florida 175.25 could mean a trip to the podium. Reynolds, a North Bend, Wash. native from Mount Si High School, was 9 USC 165.52 9 Oklahoma 142.20 10 Auburn 163.34 10 Arizona 141.65 one of the big surprises of the West Prelims. The redshirt freshman PR’d by eight inches, clearing 13-8 1/4 11 Texas Tech 161.66 11 Tennessee 137.86 to move up to No. 5 on the UW list and advance to her first NCAA finals. Reynolds had never cleared 13-feet 12 Arkansas 156.37 12 Arkansas 135.96 in collegiate competition prior to this year’s Pac-12 meet, but now is riding a great wave of momentum. 13 Nebraska 152.27 13 UCF 135.89 14 Mississippi 146.39 14 USC 131.28 At the same time on Wednesday, the men’s 4x100-meter relay will look to advance through to the finals 15 Oregon 133.19 15 So. Illinois 117.53 and build on their season-best time from prelims. The men’s 4x1 relay has advanced to the final site of 16 Stanford 126.54 16 Arizona State 114.91 17 Arizona State 121.61 17 Florida State 113.61 nationals four of the past five years now, but is looking for its first trip to the final heat itself. SeniorRyan 18 Penn State 115.81 18 Georgia 99.83 Hamilton (Vancouver, Wash.) anchors and is making his third NCAA appearance on the relay, while senior 19 Ohio State 104.82 19 Ohio State 97.45 Sam Rucker (Seabeck, Wash.) leads off and is making his NCAA debut. Junior James Alaka is on the 20 Kansas 104.30 20 Louisville 97.28 second leg, starting a busy week, and sophomore Maurice McNeal (Federal Way, Wash.) runs the third 21 Georgia 101.45 21 Illinois State 90.79 leg in his second straight trip to Iowa. The group ran a season-bes 39.98 seconds in Austin to grab the 12th 22 Minnesota 100.78 22 Texas Tech 85.59 and final qualifying spot out of the west. 23 Wisconsin 99.17 23 Southern Miss 81.46 24 UCLA 95.73 24 San Diego St. 80.11 25 Oklahoma 93.62 25 TCU 79.81 After running in the relay, Alaka will look to make his first career final in the 100-meter dash with the semis HUSKY TRACK AND FIELD • June 4, 2012 • Page 2 at 7:15 p.m. The London native was runner-up at the Pac-12 meet with a career-best wind- Husky Track Quick Facts legal time of 10.22 seconds. He is ranked about 20th, but with all the variants in wind speeds among season-bests, Alaka will have a great shot if he approaches his PR. University of Washington Athletic Department, Box 354070 Thursday starts at 2:30 p.m. Central with junior Jimmy Brookman making his NCAA debut Seattle, WA 98195-4070 in the javelin throw. A Redmond, Wash. native, Brookman was out of action little more than a month ago, expected to redshirt as he continued to train to return from Tommy John Enrollment: .............................. 42,000 (31,400 undergraduate) surgery. But come the end of April, Brookman felt ready to go, and the decision was made to forego the redshirt year and dive right back into competition. He opened right up with a Founded: ................................................................Nov. 4, 1861 216-foot throw on his first attempt back at the UW-WSU dual meet. That was followed by President: ..................................................... Michael K. Young a fifth-place finish at the Pac-12 Championships, throwing 217. In just his third competition Director of Athletics:................................... Scott Woodward back, at West Prelims, Brookman got a hold of a huge toss, sending his third try out 233- Nickname: ................................................................... Huskies feet, 11-inches, a PR by almost 10 feet. That wound up fifth at Prelims, sending Brookman Colors: ............................................................. Purple and Gold on to NCAAs just a few weeks after his season began. Home Facility:.................................................Dempsey Indoor Another newcomer to the national meet is sophomore A.J. Maricich, the first Husky to Conference:..........................Pac-12 (Outdoor) / MPSF (Indoor) reach the finals in the high jump since 2008. Maricich (Spokane, Wash.) is riding two straight Head Coach:......................................Greg Metcalf (10th year) personal-bests, the culmination of two years of hard work. All through his freshman season Assoc. Head Coach: ........................... Jason Drake (3rd year) and the 2012 indoor campaign, Maricich was chasing the seven-foot mark, consistently com- Asst. Coach (Vault/Jumps): ...................Pat Licari (15th year) ing close but enduring several near misses. But he finally got up and over that bar to start this outdoor season, and the bar has gone up from there.