WASHINGTON STATE TRACK & FIELD RELEASE 12th Annual Cougar Invitational Saturday, April 21, 2012, Mooberry Track, Pullman April 19-21@ Mt. SAC Relays, Walnut, Calif.
Linda Chalich • Asst. Dir. Athl. Comm. (Track & Field Contact) • W-509-335-0268 • C-509-432-3263 • [email protected]
COUGAR INVITATIONAL MEET APRIL 21, Mt. SAC WSU TRACK & FIELD The 12th Annual Cougar Invitational outdoor track and field meet is set for 2012 OUTDOOR SCHEDULE Saturday, April 21, at the Mooberry Track Complex...field events begin at 10 March a.m. and running events are set to start at 1:15 p.m...admission is free and 17 @ SCC Dusty Lane Open, concessions are available...free parking is available at the Beasley Coliseum Spokane Yellow 1 lot...meet features collegiate competitors from around the North- 23-24 @ USC Trojan Invitational west...entry standards and meet schedule are posted on the WSU website, 31 @ UCLA & Tennessee Duals www.wsucougars.com...entries are only through Direct Athletics...results will be posted online at the completion of the meet...a group of Cougars will also April be competing at the prestigious Mt. SAC Relays in Walnut, Calif., April 19-21. 2-3 @ UCSB Sam Adams Multis 6-7 @ Stanford Invitatational ABOUT THE COUGAR COACHES 7 @ SCC WAR V, Spokane Head coach Rick Sloan is in his 39th season 21 COUGAR INVITATIONAL, with the Cougar track program; 18th year as a PULLMAN head coach, 17th year as mentor to the com- 28 WSU VS. WASHINGTON bined men’s and women’s program...Sloan DUAL MEET, PULLMAN (decathlon/heptathlon) is joined by associate coach Debra Farwell (throws), head coach for May cross country Pete Julian (distance), and as- 5-6 @ Pac-12 Combined Events sistant coaches Mark Macdonald (hurdles/re- Championships, Eugene lays), Ellannee Richardson (sprints/relays) and 6 @ Vandal Jamboree, Moscow Matt McGee (jumps)…volunteer coaches include Jeshua Anderson, Tim Ri- 12-13 @ Pac-12 Championships, ley and Wes McCann. Eugene 24-26 @ NCAA Championships Preliminary Rounds, Austin NCAA DESCENDING ORDER LISTS The NCAA has automatic qualifying standards for Indoor competition that June can be found on the 2012 Outdoor Bests Lists posted on the WSU website 6-9 @ NCAA Championships, (www.wsucougars.com)...national descending order lists can be viewed at Des Moines, Iowa the United States Track & Field/Cross Country Coaches Association (USTF- CCCA) Track & Field Results Reporting System website (www.tfrrs.org). June 22-July 1 @ USA Track & Field Olympic Trials, Eugene
WSU VERSUS WASHINGTON DUAL MEET APRIL 28 AT MOOBERRY TRACK Track and field teams from Washington State University and University of Washington will meet in their nearly an- nual dual meet Saturday, April 28, at Mooberry Track in Pullman...this will be the 37th meeting for women and the 97th or 101st meeting between the men’s teams (each school has conflicting records)...scoring is 5-3-1 for individual events and 5-0 for relays...events begin at 11 a.m. and the final event is scheduled for 4:15 p.m...admission is free of charge.
PAC-12 TRACK & FIELD CHAMPIONSHIPS TICKET INFORMATION The Pac-12 Track & Field Championships are May 5-6 and 12-13 at Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon...there is no ad- mission charged for the May 5-6 Combined Events...All-Session passes and individual day tickets to the May 12-13 events are now available through the Oregon Athletic Ticket Office at GoDucks.com or by calling 800-WEB FOOT...the main ticket office at the Moshofsky Center will be open Monday, May 7 through Friday, May 11...those wishing to pur- chase tickets beginning Saturday, May 12 will need to do so at Hayward Field...ticket windows open 90 minutes prior to the start of competition...http://ev10.evenue.net/cgi-bin/ncommerce3/SEGetGroupList?groupCode=TF&linkID=uore gon&shopperContext=&caller=&appCode WASHINGTON STATE TRACK & FIELD RELEASE 12th Annual Cougar Invitational Sat., April 21, 2012, Mooberry Track Complex, Pullman Page 2
COUGARS IN THE TOP 50 NATIONALLY (TFRRS top 50 as of April 17, 2012) WOMEN 400m - Shawna Fermin (53.86) 37th Javelin - Christine Kirkwood (50.05m/164-2) 16th Courtney Simmons (48.87m/160-4) 22nd MEN 800m - Joe Abbott (1:48.57) 19th 1500m - Joe Abbott (3:44.22) 23rd USTFCCCA NATIONAL TEAM 5000m - Drew Jordan (13:59.25 ) 32nd RANKINGS The United States Track & Field and 400m Hurdles - J Hopkins (51.52) 29th Cross Country Coaches Associa- 3000m Steeplechase - Andrew Gonzales (8:59.23) 29th tion (USTFCCCA) national rankings Long Jump - Stephan Scott-Ellis (7.55m/24-9 1/4) 24th are a prediction of how teams and Triple Jump - Stephan Scott-Ellis (15.37m/50-5 1/4) 32nd individuals will place at the 2012 Shot Put - Joe Bartlett (17.66m/57-11 1/4) 39th NCAA Div. I Outdoor Champion- ships, June 6-9, in Des Moines, Iowa. Javelin - Sam Ferenchak (66.07m/216-9) 45th COUGARS COMPETING AT COUGAR INVITE, APRIL 21, PULLMAN: USTFCCCA OUTDOOR WOMEN TRACK & FIELD MEN’S TOP 25 TEAMS 100m - Morgan Clem, Chanel James, Lauran Johnson, Kayla Warren, 2012 Rankings Shantae Young April 17, 2012 200m - Morgan Clem, Holly DeHart, Bria’una Watley Rank School Total Last Ranking 400m - Holly DeHart, Jacki Hill, Bria’una Watley 1. Florida 266.06 1 1500m - Katie Fleischer, Ramona Morshead 2. Florida State 238.97 2 3000m - Emily Farrar, Marisa Stoick 3. Texas Tech 227.14 8 100m Hurdles - Devin Brooks, Morgan Clem, Andrea Smith 4. Texas A&M 224.55 4 400m Hurdles - Erin Allen, Brittnay Crabb 5. LSU 224.47 3 4x400m Relay - Allen, Crabb, DeHart, Hill 6. Arkansas 216.25 5 3000m Steeplechase - Katie Fleischer 7. Texas 212.91 6 High Jump - Lauran Johnson, Christine Rice 8. Arizona State 185.72 7 Pole Vault - Samantha Andrada, Kelsey Bueno, Carly Fitzpatrick 9. Indiana 181.60 9 Long Jump - Chanel James, Lauran Johnson, Andrea Smith, Shantae Young 10. Mississippi St. 177.52 10 11. USC 175.94 11 Triple Jump - Kayla Warren 12. Mississippi 149.03 12 Shot Put - Mary Barnett, Jasmine Johnson-McKeown 13. Oregon 146.24 13 Discus - Jasmine Johnson-McKeown 14. Arizona 144.17 14 Hammer - Cassie Whitfield 15. Nebraska 138.41 15 Javelin - Anna Adamko, Kaclyn Onosko 16. Georgia 137.46 18 17. Stanford 133.18 16 MEN 18. Iowa 127.34 17 100m - Stephan Scott-Ellis 19. Auburn 126.88 22 200m - Stephan Scott-Ellis 20. Baylor 119.76 19 400m - Ryan Barrett 21. Oklahoma 118.40 21 800m - Michael Bolligar, Nick Smith 22. Virginia Tech 115.35 20 23. Princeton 88.83 23 1500m - Drew Jordan, Andrew Kimpel, Jono Lafler, Mack Young 24. Oklahoma State 80.63 27 110m Hurdles - Garrett Gerling, Sean Harris, Josiah Sims 25. Wisconsin 79.18 24 400m Hurdles - Robert Shelby 3000m Steeplechase - David Hickerson 50. Washington St. 34.38 49 4x400m Relay - Barrett, Bollligar, Harris, Shelby High Jump - Sean Harris, Grant Schultz, Ross VanZanten
Next ranking April 24, 2012 Pole Vault - Jake Baertlein, John Brenteson, Curtis Flolid, Sean Harris Long Jump - PJ Benedictus, Stephan Scott-Ellis Shot Put - Michael Bolligar, Oliver Henry, Matt Wardell (unat) Discus - Michael Bolligar, Sean Harris, Oliver Henry Hammer - Chris Baltazar, Dan Henehan Javelin - Derek Byrne, Sam Ferenchak
WASHINGTON STATE TRACK & FIELD RELEASE 12th Annual Cougar Invitational Sat., April 21, 2012, Mooberry Track Complex, Pullman Page 3
ABOUT THE MT. SAC RELAYS The is the 54th year for the Mt. San Antonio College Relays, “Where the USTFCCCA OUTDOOR TRACK & FIELD RANKINGS world’s best athletes compete”...competitors from high schools, community WOMEN’S TOP 25 TEAMS colleges and universities, and the elite division flock to Hilmer Lodge Stadi- 2012 Rankings um in Walnut, Calif...Live streaming video of this year’s Relays will be avail- April 17, 2012 able online at http://www.mtsacrelays.com...WSU Head Coach Rick Sloan coached track at Mt. SAC from 1972-73 and was inducted into the Mt. SAC Rank School Total Last Ranking Relays Hall of Fame in 2006...Olympic hopefuls Jeshua Anderson and Ma- 1. Oregon 347.98 1 2. LSU 313.10 2 rissa Tschida will be competing at this year’s Mt. SAC Relays. 3. Clemson 238.56 3 4. USC 226.13 4 COUGARS COMPETING AT MT. SAC RELAYS, APRIL 19-21, WALNUT, CALIF.: 5. Texas A&M 211.49 5 WOMEN 6. Arkansas 196.93 6 100m - Cindy Robinson 7. Florida 186.14 7 200m - Shawna Fermin, Cindy Robinson 8. Texas 183.00 9 400m - Shawna Fermin 9. Oklahoma 168.89 8 1500m - Ruby Roberts 10. Texas Tech 162.89 11 100m Hurdles - Shaquana Logan, Candii McFarland 11. Kansas 161.43 10 400m Hurdles - Shaquana Logan, Candii McFarland 12. UCF 154.82 12 3000m Steeplechase - Caroline Austin 13. Arizona 144.78 13 14. Georgia 136.37 14 4x100m Relay - Fermin, Logan, McFarland, Robinson 15. Baylor 123.33 18 Javelin - Christine Kirkwood, Courtney Simmons 16. Arizona State 121.05 15 17. Kansas State 119.52 17 MEN 18. Tennessee 119.23 16 100m - Brett Blanshan, Greg Hornsby, Richard Wilhite 19. Auburn 107.61 18 200m - Brett Blanshan, Richard Wilhite 20. Stanford 104.71 22 400m - Brandon Dawson, Jacob Sealby 21. Nebraska 101.88 20 1500m- Joe Abbott, Matt Cronrath, Lee George, Todd Wakefield 22. Florida State 96.17 24 110m Hurdles - Ramsey Hopkins, Aric Walden 23. Southern Illinois 93.95 21 400m Hurdles - J Hopkins, Rashaun Johnson, Dana Wells 24. BYU 88.80 23 3000m Steeplechase - Andrew Gonzales 25. Illinois State 83.19 46 4x100m Relay - Blanshan, Hornsby, Johnson, Wilhite 62. Washington State 29.40 62 4x400m Relay - Dawson, J Hopkins, Johnson, Sealby, Wells Shot Put - Joe Bartlett
Next ranking April 24, 2012 WATCH 2012 TRACK & FIELD VIDEO INTERVIEWS ______Watch Cougar Head Coach Rick Sloan, the WSU coaching staff and student- athletes’ outlook on Track & Field competitions by going to www.wsucou- WEST REGIONAL OUTDOOR RANKINGS gars.com and clicking on Videos...new content will be posted weekly. APRIL 17, 2012 COUGARS SIGNING RECRUITING CLASS FOR 2013 SEASONS Men Women Rank School Rank School Seven outstanding performers have signed National Letters of Intent to join 1. Arizona State 1. Oregon the WSU Track & Field teams for fall 2012: 2. Oregon 2. Stanford Kristine Felix, a pole vaulter from Wailuku, Hawai’i 3. Arizona 3. Arizona State Byron Howell, a sprinter from Seattle 4. Stanford 4. Arizona Jesse Jorgensen, an 800m runner from Puyallup, Wash. / Spokane CC 5. UCLA 5. USC 6. USC 6. California Dominique Keel, a sprinter from Beaverton, Ore. 7. California 7. UCLA Matthew Swanson, an 800m runner from Vancouver, B.C. Canada 8. Washington State 8. Washington Kelsie Taylor, a thrower from Naches, Wash. 9. UC Santa Barbara 9. San Diego State Mercedes Young, a sprinter from Country Club Hills, Ill. 10. Washington 10. UNLV 11. Boise State 11. Sacramento State 12. Long Beach State 12. UC Santa Barbara 2012 TEAM CAPTAINS 13. UC Riverside 13. Washington State Seniors Jake Baertlein and Courtney Kirkwood Simmons are the Cougar 14. Cal Poly 14. UC Davis men’s and women’s track and field team captains for the 2011-12 school 15. UC Irvine 15. Long Beach State year...Baertlein is a pole vaulter from Portland, Ore...Simmons is a javelin thrower from Othello, Wash. WASHINGTON STATE TRACK & FIELD RELEASE 12th Annual Cougar Invitational Sat., April 21, 2012, Mooberry Track Complex, Pullman Page 4
WATCH 2012 TRACK & FIELD VIDEO INTERVIEWS 2012 MARKS RECORDED IN Watch Cougar Head Coach Rick Sloan, the WSU coaching staff and student- THE WSU T&F RECORD BOOK athletes’ outlook on Track & Field competitions by going to www.wsucou- gars.com and clicking on Videos...new content will be posted weekly. Women All-Time Marks 2012 TEAM CAPTAINS Pole Vault Seniors Jake Baertlein and Courtney Kirkwood Simmons are the Cougar t-9th. 3.66m / 12-0i men’s and women’s track and field team captains for the 2011-12 school Carly Fitzpatrick year...Baertlein is a pole vaulter from Portland, Ore...Simmons is a javelin thrower from Othello, Wash. Pentathlon 4th. 3,609 points MEN’S T&F/XTRY PROGRAM IN CONTENTION FOR NATIONAL AWARD Shaquana Logan The Washington State men’s track and field/cross country program is cur- rently 23rd in the United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) Division I Program of the Year award standings for Men All-Time Marks the 2011-12 school year...USTFCCCA Program of the Year Awards are given annually to the most outstanding cross country/track & field programs that Long Jump have achieved the most success in each academic year, spanning the cross 10th. 7.75m / 25-5 1/4i country, indoor track and field, and outdoor track and field seasons, and is Stephan Scott-Ellis based on the institution’s finish at the NCAA Championships for each of the three seasons...scoring is based on the team’s finish at each NCAA Division I Triple Jump Championship in cross country, indoor track and field, and outdoor track and 10th. 15.98m / 52-5 1/4i field (i.e. 1st = 1 point, 2nd = 2 points, 31st = 31 points) with the lowest total Stephan Scott-Ellis score for all three championships combined determining the award recipi- ent...ties among schools split points for positions taken...WSU men’s cross Heptathlon country team finished 21st at the 2011 NCAA Championships, and Stephan 2nd. 5,406 points Scott-Ellis scored at the NCAA Indoor Track & Field Championships to have a Michael Bolligar team score of 56th...Indiana leads the 23 men’s teams in the Program of the Year March 14 progress report with fellow Pac-12 school Stanford second... Oregon is the women’s team leader with Pac-12 members Stanford (5th), COUGAR ATHLETICS ON THE WEB Washington (7th), Arizona (9th), California (10th), and Arizona State (19th) Connect with Washington State Uni- among the 20 women’s teams in the progress report...current standings and versity Athletics on the web at WSU- past winners are at www.ustfccca.org/ustfccca-awards/ustfccca-program-of- Cougars.com, the official website the-year. of Cougar Athletics, and on Twitter (twitter.com/WSUCougars_com), Facebook (facebook.com/WSUCou- COUGAR ALUMS AT WORLD INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS garAthletics) and YouTube (youtube. com/WSUCougarAthletics) during Bernard Lagat (USA) won the 3000m gold the 2012 season. medal with a time of 7:41.44 at the 2012 IAAF World Indoor Championships March 9-11, at Istanbul, Turkey..third consecutive gold for Lagat, the USA team captain...Ebba Jungmark (Sweden) shared the silver medal in the wom- en’s high jump after clearing 1.95m/6-4 3/4... Jungmark was the NCAA Indoor high jump champion in 2008. WASHINGTON STATE TRACK & FIELD RELEASE 12th Annual Cougar Invitational Sat., April 21, 2012, Mooberry Track Complex, Pullman Page 5
BERNARD LAGAT BREAKS AMERICAN 5K RECORD AT MILLROSE GAMES 2011 Track & Field News WSU Athletic Hall of Fame member Bernard Lagat won the 5,000-meter race Men’s World Rankings with an American record time of 13-07.15 Feb. 11,at the 105th Millrose Games (NYC Armory)...Lagat, age 37, crushed the Galen Rupps’ 5k record time of Bernard Lagat, 5000m - 2nd 13:11.44...same day, Rupp broke Lagat’s 2-mile record by a mere second... Jeshua Anderson, 400m Hurdles - 9th also competing at the Millrose Games Saturday was former Cougar Jeshua Anderson who ran in a special 500m race, taking second place in a time of 2011 Track & Field News 1:01.86....race video and a link to story in the New York Daily News about the Women’s World Rankings Millrose Games can be found on the wsucougars.com website. Ebba Jungmark, High Jump - 7th LAGAT STILL WINNING ON THE NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL STAGE Bernard Lagat, a WSU graduate, won his third IAAF World Championships 2011 Track & Field News gold medal in the men’s 3000m Mar. 11 at Istanbul, Turkey...Lagat (pictured Men’s United States Rankings left) ran a time of 7:41.44 in the win...Lagat tallied his third consecutive USA Bernard Lagat, 1500m - 2nd indoor 3000m title Feb. 25 at the Albuquerque Convention Center in a time Bernard Lagat, 5000m - 1st of 7:47.54...Lagat, 37, defied his age and ran a blistering 25.42-second last lap Jeshua Anderson, 400m Hurdles - 3rd to complete the fastest winning time at the USA Indoor T&F Championships in five years. Ian Waltz, Discus - 2nd
2011 Track & Field News Women’s United States Rankings Blessing Ufodiama, Triple Jump - 3rd Marissa Tschida, Javelin - 4th
NCAA & ESPN AGREE TO B’CAST OUTDOOR T&F CHAMPIONSHIPS The NCAA Division I Track & Field Championships are part of a $500 million agreement between the ANDERSON SEATTLE STAR FINALIST NCAA and ESPN to broadcast mul- Jeshua Anderson was a finalist for the Male Sports Star of the Year at the tiple sports championships through 77th Annual Sports Star of the Year presented by the Seattle Sports Commis- the 2023-24 school year...ESPN has sion January 25, 2012...there were five nominees in each category: Profes- international rights to men’s basket- sional Sports Star, Male Sports Star, Female Sports Star and Sports Story of ball and continues U.S. coverage of the Year...nominees were selected by a committee comprised of Seattle-area women’s basketball tourney and the sports historians, media and major programs and franchises...fans voted College World Series for baseball and once every 24-hours for one nominee in each category online...Washington softball...championships increase football player Chris Polk won the 2012 award...Anderson, the USA 400m to 24, adding women’s gymnastics, hurdles champion and three-time NCAA intermediate hurdles champion, is men’s and women’s fencing, wom- training as a professional runner in Pullman with his collegiate coach Mark en’s lacrosse, men’s and women’s Macdonald...Anderson finished second in the special 500m race at the 105th outdoor track, and women’s bowling. Millrose Games in a time of 1:01.86, Feb. 11 at New York City’s Armory.
DREW POLLEY TAKES 21st AT OLYMPIC MARATHON TRIALS Cougar grad Drew Polley placed 21st at the 2012 U.S. Olympic Team Trials held January 14, 2012, in Houston...Polley, from Port Orchard, Wash., has been running professionally for nearly three years for the Hansons-Brooks Distance Project based in Rochester, Michigan...Polley is well-represented with videos and blogs on the Flotrack.org website.