GAME DAY for MENTAL HEALTH EMAIL: [email protected] SPORTS: Football, Women’S Tennis ASST
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2019 SCHEDULE 2019 CRIMSON & GRAY GAME DATE OPPONENT SITE TIME/RESULT COUGARS SET FOR CRIMSON & GRAY GAME Aug. 31 New Mexico State Pullman TBA Washington State is set for its annual Crimson and Gray Spring Game, but for the first time since 2010, the game Sept. 7 Northern Colorado Pullman TBA will be played in Martin Stadium. Kickoff is set for 1 p.m. Saturday on the Pac-12 Network. Sept. 13 at Houston & Houston, Texas 5 p.m. (ESPN) Sept. 21 UCLA * Pullman TBA 2019 SPRING PREVIEW Sept. 28 at Utah * Salt Lake City TBA The Washington State Football entered 2019 spring practice with 46 returning lettermen including seven starters BYE on offense, six on defense and one on special teams. The Cougars are coming off a record-setting 2018 cam- Oct. 12 at Arizona State * Tempe, Ariz. TBA paign, setting the WSU record with 11 wins capped by a victory over Iowa State in the Valero Alamo Bowl. Head Oct. 19 Colorado * Pullman TBA coach Mike Leach enters his eighth season at Washington State. Oct. 26 at Oregon * Eugene, Ore. TBA BYE The Air Raid offense owns seven returning starters including four on the offensive line that protected the nation’s Nov. 9 at California * Berkeley, Calif. TBA top passing attack and blocked for 24 rushing touchdowns. Dynamic running back Max Borghi returns for his Nov. 16 Stanford * Pullman TBA sophomore season after tying the WSU single-season freshman record with 12 total touchdowns while seven Nov. 23 Oregon State * Pullman TBA receivers with 20+ catches return led by Tay Martin and Easop Winston Jr. who each caught eight touchdowns. Nov. 29 at Washington * Seattle, Wash. TBA Senior Dezmon Patmon also returns after catching five touchdown and 61 passes for 816 yards a season ago. Dec. 6 Pac-12 Championship Santa Clara, Calif. TBA The “Speed D” defense will feature a couple familiar faces under the guidance of second-year defensive co- & AdvoCare Texas Kickoff (NRG Stadium) * Pac-12 Conference Game ordinator Tracy Claeys. The Cougars will have to replace longtime starting MIKE linebacker Peyton Pelluer and Home games in BOLD All-Pac-12 second-team defensive end Logan Tago but return three of their top four tacklers and eight players All times Pacific who recorded multiple sacks last season. A pair of starters in the secondary graduated but three-time All-Pac-12 safety Jalen Thompson returns for his senior campaign and senior cornerback Marcus Strong also returns after WASHINGTON STATE leading the team with three interceptions. ATHLETIC COMMUNICATIONS Cougar special teams was among the best in the country in 2018, finishing fifth in the country in kickoff return led OFFICE ADDRESS: by redshirt-sophomore All-Pac-12 honorable mention kick returner Travell Harris who led the Pac-12 in return Bohler Addition 195 average and had six kickoff returns of 30+ yards last season including a 100-yard kickoff return for touchdown Pullman, WA 99164-1602 against Eastern Washington. WSU also returns All-Pac-12 honorable mention punter Oscar Draguicevich III who OFFICE PHONE: 509-335-COUG finished last season tied for seventh in the country in net punting. OFFICE FAX: 509-335-0267 MARTIN STADIUM PRESS BOX: 509-335-COUG ASSOC. A.D. / ATHLETIC COMMUNICATIONS: Bill Stevens (FB) OFFICE PHONE: 509-335-4294 CELL: 916-761-7005 GAME DAY FOR MENTAL HEALTH EMAIL: [email protected] SPORTS: Football, Women’s Tennis ASST. DIRECTOR: Bobby Alworth (FB) “Strength is Asking for Help” OFFICE PHONE: 509-335-5785 Taking Care of Your Mental Health CELL: 951-452-6129 EMAIL: [email protected] Behind Happy Faces is designed to give student athletes the tools they need to address their mental health SPORTS: Football, Baseball, Swimming through interactive exercises. The results of this program show that student-athletes are more willing to seek ASST. DIRECTOR: Jessica Holmes help and manage their emotions, as well as lessen the stigma that surrounds mental illness. OFFICE PHONE: 509-335-0255 EMAIL: [email protected] Having received more than eight hours of training in Behind Happy Faces, six Washington State student-athletes SPORTS: Men’s Basketball, Rowing, from multiple sports will provide that training to 50 Pullman High School athletes Friday evening. The objectives Men’s & Women’s Golf of the training are: ASST. DIRECTOR: Ben Laskey • Learn the correction definition of mental health OFFICE PHONE: 509-335-0265 • Classify mental health challenges CELL: 209-608-2173 • Identify where you are on the MH spectrum EMAIL: [email protected] • Awareness of effective and ineffective coping SPORTS: Women’s Soccer, Women’s Basketball • How to approach someone you care about ASST. DIRECTOR: Devon Lucal OFFICE PHONE: 509-335-0268 Additionally, David Wyrick from UNC Greensboro’s Institute to Promote Athlete Health and Wellness, will be EMAIL: [email protected] leading a session for 20 area coaches at Pullman High School. This training will highlight the opportunity all SPORTS: Volleyball, Cross Country, Track & Field coaches have to create team cultures that push athletes to perform at high levels while not putting their mental health at risk. Specifically, the training will: • Raise awareness of the mental health needs of high school athletes • Introduce the concept that mental health continually fluctuates along a continuum • Combat the stigma that is too often attached to talking about mental health and/or seeking help • Distinguish between common mental health disorders and mental toughness • Identify signs/indicators of student-athlete stress, anxiety, and depression • Provide coaches will empathic communication strategies that can be used to facilitate individual and group conversations specific to student-athlete mental health • Model conversations where coaches voice concerns to a student-athlete about their mental well-being • Model conversations where coaches facilitate a student-athlete seeking help for mental health concerns • Identify specific strategies for creating a team culture that promotes help seeking WSUCOUGARS.COM 1 2019 WASHINGTON STATE WSU QUICK FACTS QUICK GAME FOUNDED: 1890 TEAM NICKNAME: Cougars • WSU set a program record with 11 wins, fifth 10-win season season program history COLORS: Crimson and Gray • WSU owns 26 Pac-12 wins since 2015, 2nd-most among all Pac-12 schools during that span (Stan-UW - 27) CONFERENCE: Pac-12 • WSU is the only Pac-12 team with four shutouts in the last six seasons (Stanford and Washington with 2) ENROLLMENT: 20,286 • WSU has beaten Oregon four straight years for the first time since 1981-84 LOCATION: • WSU has beaten Stanford three straight years for the first time since 2001-03 P. O. Box 641602 • WSU has produced an All-America offensive lineman in each of the last 4 seasons Pullman, WA 99164-1602 • The 2018 Senior class set the record for most wins by a senior class with 37 STADIUM: Martin Stadium (32,952 - FieldTurf) PRESIDENT: Kirk H. Schulz INDIVIDUAL DIRECTOR OF ATHLETICS: Patrick Chun • Mike Leach owns 49 wins at WSU, 3rd-most in program history, named 2018 Pac-12 Coach of the Year TICKET OFFICE: 509-335-9626, 800-GO-COUGS • Leach was named the 2018 AFCA National Coach of the Year GENERAL DEPARTMENT: 509-335-0311 • Under Leach, WSU has recorded 13 4th-quarter comebacks in his 7 seasons (Utah, at Stanford in 2018) WSU ATHLETICS WEBSITE: www.wsucougars.com • RT Abraham Lucas was named a Freshman All-American by USA Today and The Athletic, All-Pac-12 2nd Team HEAD COACH: Mike Leach COUGARS WIN ALAMO BOWL, SET PROGRAM RECORD WITH 11 WINS ALMA MATER: BYU, 1983 No. 10 Washington State capped its record-setting 11-win season with a 28-26 victory over Iowa State in the CAREER RECORD (Seasons): 133-83 (17) Valero Alamo Bowl. The Cougars produced the nation’s best passing attack (373.8 ypg) and the No. 42-ranked de- WSU RECORD (Seasons): 49-40 (7) fense in the country (358.4 ypg) that led the Pac-12 Conference in sacks (36). Pac-12 Offensive Player of the Year, WSU PAC-12 RECORD: 33-30 quarterback Gardner Minshew II led the country in passing (367.6) and was fourth in touchdown passes (38). CAREER BOWL RECORD (Games): 7-7 (15 apps) DEFENSIVE COORDINATOR: COUGARS IN THE RANKINGS Tracy Claeys (2nd Year) Washington State finished the 2018 season ranked No. 10 in both the Associated Press Poll and Coaches Poll. LINEBACKERS: It is the highest ranking to finish the season for WSU since finishing the 2003 season ninth in the AP poll. The Roc Bellantoni (1st Year) Cougars’ No. 10 ranking was the highest by any Pac-12 Conference team, the first time that has happended in SPECIAL TEAMS / OUTSIDE LINEBACKERS: conference history. Matt Brock (2nd Year) CORNERBACKS: DILLARD, LUCAS PICK UP ALL-AMERICA HONORS Darcell McBath (2nd Year) Offensive tackles Andre Dillard and Abraham Lucas each earned All-America honors in 2018, giving WSU an All-America offensive lineman for the fourth straight season. Joe Dahl (LT) was a second-team selection in 2015 RUNNING BACKS: and Cody O’Connell (LG) earned first-team honors in 2016 and 2017. Dillard, a redshirt-senior, was named to the Eric Mele (5th Year) All-America Second Team (SI.com) and All-America Third Team (AP) after being rated the third-best offensive OFFENSIVE LINE: tackle in the country, the top pass-blocking tackle and second-best screen-blocking tackle in the country by Mason Miller (2nd Year) ProFootballFocus College. Lucas was named to Freshman All-America Teams by the USA Today and The Athletic INSIDE RECEIVERS: after being rated the second-best pass-blocking tackle in the country and third-best overall tackle in the Pac-12 Dave Nichol (4th Year) by ProFootballFocus College.