2016 SCHEDULE/QUICK FACTS 2016 CROSS COUNTRY SCHEDULE TABLE OF CONTENTS Date Meet Location 2016 Schedule ...............................................................1 Friday, Sept. 2 Nevada Twilight Classic Sparks, Nev. Coaching Staff ...............................................................2 Saturday, Sept. 24 Roy Griak Invitational St. Paul, Minn. Team Rosters .................................................................4 Saturday, Oct. 1 Mustang Invitational Santa Clarita, Calif. Meet Th e Bruins ...........................................................5 2015 Review ................................................................15 Friday, Oct. 14 Wisconsin Under Armour Invite Madison, Wisc. NCAA Championship History .................................18 Saturday, Oct. 15 Bronco Invitational Sunnyvale, Calif. UCLA All-Americans ................................................19 Friday, Oct. 28 Pac-12 Championships Tucson, Ariz. Conference History ....................................................21 West Region History ..................................................22 Friday, Nov. 11 NCAA West Regional Sacramento, Calif. Saturday, Nov. 19 NCAA Championships Terre Haute, Ind. QUICK FACTS Location ..............................................Los Angeles, CA Athletics Phone .......................................310-825-8669 Director of Athletics ..............................Dan Guerrero Associate AD ..............................................Gavin Crew Faculty Athletic Rep .......................Dr. Michael Teitell Enrollment............................................................40,500 Founded ...................................................................1919 Colors .........................................................Blue & Gold Nickname ............................................................ Bruins Conference .....................................................Pacifi c-12 Conference Phone ..................................925-932-4411 National Affi liation ...........................NCAA Division I Director of Track & Field/Cross Country ................... ................................................................. Mike Maynard ...........................................................(Azusa Pacifi c ‘86) XC Coach ....................Forest Braden (Boise State ‘07) Volunteer Coaches... Rob Beamer & Hanna Peterson Sports Information Contact .....................Skip Powers SID Phone ................................................310-206-4008 SID [email protected] Th e UCLA Athletic Department wishes to express its gratitude to Victoria Cook-Chapus for making the fi rst endowed women’s track & fi eld scholarship a reality. For information on how you can endow a scholarship, call the UCLA Athletic Fund Offi ce at 310-206-6533. Credits Th e 2016 UCLA Cross Country media guide was written, edited and designed by Skip Powers, with assistance from Julie Takakjian, Melissa Mahoney and Ted Huh. Photos are courtesy of ASUCLA Photography and Don Liebig, Kirby Lee, Alex Ryan, Ricky Bassman and Geoff Th urner. UCLABRUINS.COM 1 CROSS COUNTRY COACHES Th e 2013 season saw Kelsey Smith and Nick Maynard came to Boise State following an out- Hartle earn all-Pac-12 accolades. Smith went on standing assistant coaching career at the University to earn USTFCCCA All-Region honors and was of Arizona. He was the associate head track and joined by Nohe Lema. Th e 11th place fi nish for fi eld coach for the Wildcat program for 13 years Smith at the NCAA regional meet was the best by prior to joining the Broncos. While coaching at a female Bruin since 2006. Th e all-region honor Arizona, Maynard guided 32 individual NCAA for Lema was his second in as many seasons. Off Division I All-Americans, including three NCAA the course, 23 Bruins were named to the Pac-12 National Champions. All-Academic team. Maynard’s coaching resume also includes a two- In 2012, the UCLA cross country teams year stint as the assistant strength and conditioning experienced their best season in recent years, coach at Arizona, where he worked with the Wild- with the men fi nishing in 13th place at the NCAA cat football program as well as being responsible Championships, their highest fi nish since 1985, for the Arizona track and fi eld, swimming and and claiming an All-American in Lane Werley. tennis teams. He began his collegiate coaching The UCLA men also enjoyed a third-place career at Mesa Community College (Ariz.) where 8th Year fi nish at the NCAA Regional meet and had four he was the assistant track and fi eld coach from Director of Cross Country runners earn All-West Region honors. Werley 1982-84, and in 1987. also earned fi rst-team All-Pac-12 honors aft er Maynard was also instrumental in bringing a Mike placing fi ft h at the Pac-12 Championships. On world-class facility to Bronco Track & Field. the women’s side, the Bruins placed sixth at the During his fi rst two years leading the Broncos, Pac-12 Championships and seventh at the NCAA Maynard and Boise State were successful in pur- MAYNARD West Region Championships. Th ey also ranked as chasing a world championship caliber track and high as 24th during the year in the coaches’ poll. Azusa Pacifi c, 1986 helped construct the building to put it in. Th e Th e 2011 cross country squads competed well in Mondo track was used by USA Track and Field the inaugural season for the new Pac-12 Confer- and the Georgia Dome for the national indoor Mike Maynard enters his eighth season at UCLA ence. In spite of new conference competitors, championships. Th e building is the Idaho Sports and his fi ft h as the Director of Track and Field/ Colorado and Utah, the Bruin men upheld their Center located in the Idaho Center complex in Cross Country. In addition to being Director, May- fourth place position in the conference with a Nampa, Idaho. Th e track was purchased with a nard also oversees the men’s and women’s throws fourth place fi nish at the 2011 Pac-12 Champi- $250,000 cash gift from John Jackson, President program and coordinates all aspects of training onships. Th e team claimed back-to-back team of Jacksons Food Stores in Meridian, Idaho. Boise for the Bruin decathletes. Maynard was the Bruin victories at the Nevada Chase and Aztec Invita- State has hosted several major meets, including six men’s track and fi eld head coach from 2010-12, tional, culminating their season with a sixth place WAC Indoor Championships. Th e facility hosted as well as the throws coach for both squads. Prior fi nish at the NCAA West Region Championships. its fi rst national meet in 2005 with the USA Indoor to coming to UCLA, Maynard was head coach/ Senior Kent Morikawa earned fi rst team all Pac-12 Master’s Championships. His eff orts culminated throws coach at Boise State for nine years. Conference honors aft er placing eighth over and last season, when the Boise State facility was host In 2015 the men’s team made another trip to the he, and fellow Bruin Nohe Lema were named to to the NCAA Championships. National Championships and placed 14th overall. the USTFCCCA All-West Region team aft er their Outside the collegiate world, Maynard has coached Senior Lane Werley earned All-American hon- performances at the regional meet in Palo Alto, a World Champion, fi ve diff erent Olympians, ors by placing 21st overall. Werley also earned CA. In track, the men fi nished 17th behind All- a Pan American gold medalist, fi ve USA Track all-region accolades and was joined by Sergey American perfrmances by Mike Woepse (2nd in and Field Champions and three American Junior Sushchikh on that list. Carolina Johnson anchored pole vault), Alec Faldermeyer (3rd in hammer) Champions. One of Maynard’s former athletes the women’s team in her fi rst season as a Bruin, and Marcus Nilsson (6th in decathlon). Th is was Tony Washington (1990-96), won the World individually qualifying for the NCAA meet while a huge improvement on the 34th place fi nish in Championship in the discus in 1999. Washing- also being tabbed the Pac-12 Freshman of the Year. 2010, and equaled the second-best team fi nish in ton also won the gold medal in the discus at the 2014 marked a breakout season for the Bruins as the last ten years. 1991 Pan American Games along with fi ve USA both teams qualifi ed for the NCAA Champion- In his fi rst year with the Bruins, the 2010 men’s National Championships. ships. Th e championship appearance for both cross country team sent one athlete to the NCAA Maynard is currently an Executive Committee squads in the same season was the fi rst for UCLA Championships, Marco Anzures, and fi nished member of the United State Track Coaches As- since 1985. For the men it was the fi rst trip to fi ft h at Pac-10s and seventh in the West Region. sociation and the NCAA Division I Track and nationals since 2012 and 2004 for the women. In outdoor track, the men tied for 52nd at the Field Executive Committee. Maynard was also Th e Bruins put together a solid eff ort at the NCAA NCAA Outdoor Championships with fi ve athletes the head coach for the USA Track and Field team West Regional Championships to earn the berth. earning All-America honors and were fi ft h at the in its dual meet against Germany in 1996. He Th e men placed fourth overall while the women Pac-10 meet. In indoor track, the men won the has served USA Track and Field as the Regional fi nished fi ft h. Th e fourth place fi nish by the men MPSF Championship crown and tied for 47th Decathlon Chairman, the United States Olympic