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SUN DEVIL TRACK & FIELD Women's 2007 & 2008 NCAA Indoor & 2007 Outdoor Champs Men's 2008 NCAA Indoor Champions INDOOR MEET #10 at MPSF INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS Friday, February 26 - Saturday, February 27, 2010 Dempsey Indoor Facility Seattle, Wash. CHAMPIONS WEAR Hosted by the University of Washington & the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation GGOLDOLD 2010 SEASON SCHEDULE ASU Track & Field Heads to Seattle for MPSF Indoor Meet INDOOR SEASON Several current, former Devils also will compete at the USATF Championships Date Meet Location J 23 Friday Night Challenge Flagstaff 29 Washington Invitational Seattle The championship season gets underway for the Arizona State University track and field 29-30 Mt. 'T' Invitational Flagstaff program this weekend as the Sun Devils travel to Dempsey Indoor in Seattle, Wash., to F 6 NAU Team Challange Flagstaff compete in the 2010 Mountain Pacific Sports Federation (MPSF) Indoor Championships on 6 New Mexico Classic Albuquerque Saturday and Sunday. Along with last chance meets next weekend, the MPSF event is one 12-13 NAU Invitational Flagstaff of the last competitions the Sun Devils can use to put themselves into qualifying position for 12-13 Husky Classic Seattle the NCAA Indoor Track & Field Championships that will be held in Fayetteville, Ark., March 12-13 Tyson Invitational Fayetteville 12-13. Several athletes with ties to the Sun Devil program also will compete at the 2010 19 NAU Tune-Up Flagstaff 26-27 MPSF Championships Seattle USATF Indoor Championships in Albuquerque, N.M., on Saturday and Sunday. M 5-6 Last Chance Meet TBD 12-13 NCAA Championships Fayetteville FOLLOW ALONG For those fans unable to attend the meets, both will be providing live updates on their respec- OUTDOOR SEASON F 20 Diablo Relays Tempe tive web sites. For live stats from the MPSF Championships, visit GoHuskies.com and go to M 19-20 Baldy Castillo Invitational Tempe the track & field page. For result updates from the USATF Championships, visit USATF.org. 26-27 ASU Invitational Tempe 26-27 Stanford Invitaitonal Palo Alto MEET INFO: MPSF A 9 Mesa Classic Mesa Washington will host the annual conference meet at Dempsey Indoor as 10 teams are slated 9-10 31st Sun Angel Classic Tempe to compete, including Pac-10 teams Arizona State, Arizona, California, Oregon, Stanford, 16-17 Mt. SAC Relays Walnut 23-24 SUn Devil Invitational Tempe UCLA, Washington and Washington State. Two other schools - CS Northridge and Long 23-24 UCSD Triton Invitational La Jolla Beach State - also will compete in the conference event. Action begins Friday at 12:30 M 1 Double Dual (UA/NAU) Tucson p.m. PT with the men's weight throw and concludes with the 6:55 p.m. start to the women's 1 Cardinal Invitational Palo Alto pentathlon 800m run. Saturday opens at 11 a.m. five events and closes with the women's 8-9 Pac-10 Multi-Events Berkeley 4x400m relay starting at 3 p.m. 15-16 Pac-10 Championships Berkeley 28-29 NCAA 1st/2nd Round Austin HIGH RANKING: MPSF J 6-12 NCAA Championships Eugene Heading into the conference meet, the Sun Devil men hold five of the top marks in the Home meets in bold (at Sun Angel Stadium) conference in their respective events, including three sprint events and both throws. On the 2010 SUN DEVIL DATA track, Lawrence Trice leads the 60m dash with his time of 6.70 while Donald Sanford has the top time in the 400m dash at 46.85. Sanford, along with Justin Kremer, Allante Battle and Location ................................................. Tempe, Ariz. Enrollment ...................................................... 68,064 Joel Phillip, lead the league in the 4x400m relay with a time of 3:08.19. Ryan Whiting (shot Nickname ................................................ Sun Devils put) and Jason Lewis (weight throw) lead the charge in the throws with tosses of 21.52m Colors ............................................... Maroon & Gold (70-07.25) and 21.92m (71-11.00), respectively. Conference (In & Out) .................... MPSF & Pac-10 Home Venue .............................. Sun Angel Stadium REVIEW: 2009 MPSF University President ..................... Dr. Michael Crow The ASU women scored 78 points and placed third overall and the men scored 76.5 points VP for University Athletics ........................ Lisa Love to take fifth at the 2009 MPSF Indoor Championships in Seattle as both teams won four Director of Track & Field/Cross Country events. For the women, Charonda Williams swept the short sprints by taking titles in the 60m Greg Kraft .................................................... Jumps dash and 200m dash while Sarah Stevens swept the throws with her fourth MPSF shot put Assistant Coaches crown and her third weight throw title. On the men's side, true freshman Mason McHenry Ryan Cole .......................... Distance/Mid-Distance David Dumble ............................................. Throws won the 800m run, Ryan Whiting (shot put) and Jason Lewis (weight throw) swept the throws Kenny McDaniel .......................... Sprints (women) and the 4x400m relay team of Joel Phillip, Darryl Elston, Justin Kremer and Donald Sanford Louie Quintana ............ Distance/Mid-Distance/XC combined to take gold as well. Ronnie Williams ................................ Sprints (men) Graduate Assistant MEET INFO: USATF Isley Gonzalez ................... Distance/Mid-Distance Three current and four former members of the Sun Devil program will be competing at the Volunteer Coaches USATF Indoor Championships on Saturday and Sunday in Albuquerque, N.M., with most of Ron Barela .............................................. Pole Vault Dan O'Brien ........................................ Multi-Events the entries coming in the field events. Athletes on the current ASU roster that will be compet- ing include Ryan Whiting (shot put), Jason Lewis (shot put & weight) and Anna Jelmini (shot put), who is redshirting this season. The four former Sun Devil women set to compete include www.TheSunDevils.com Desiree Davila in the 3,000m run, April Kubishta in the pole vault and both Sarah Stevens COACH KRAFT & TEAM NOTES HEAD COACH GREG KRAFT and Jessica Pressley in the shot put. All athletes will be looking to win national titles and earn places on Team USA for the 2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships that will be held Greg Kraft is in his 14th year with the Sun Devil pro- March 12-14 in Doha, Qatar. gram and has built it into a national power. During the 2008 season, his men and women captured the NCAA Indoor Championships, only the second time in the his- HIGH RANKING: USATF tory of the event that the same school swept both titles. At the USATF event, four individuals are currently ranked in the Top 4 of their respective The title was the second in a row for the women and their events. Ryan Whiting currently stands No. 2 in the U.S. and No. 3 in the world; Desiree third overall (2007 outdoor) and the first for the men. Dating back to the 2006 seasons, the Sun Devil women Davila is ranked No. 3 in the women's 3,000m run; Sarah Stevens is ranked No. 3 in the have won the Pac-10 three times, the MPSF twice, the women's shot put; and Jessica Pressley is ranked No. 4 in the women's shot put. Each NCAA indoor twice, the NCAA outdoor once and the athlete entered with ties to the ASU program is currently ranked among the Top 9 in their NCAA West Region outdoor once. The men have added respective events. one NCAA indoor and one NCAA West Region outdoor crown to that collection as well. Individually, athletes have excelled under the 2008 REVIEW: 2009 USATF Men's and Women's USTFCCCA National Indoor Coach Four with ties to the ASU program competed at the 2009 USATF Indoor Championships of the Year, including seven-time NCAA multi-event in Boston with two of those men earning national runner-up finishes. Current Sun Devil champion Jacquelyn Johnson, who also advanced to Brandon Bethke, who was redshirting the indoor season last year, took second in the the Olympic Games in the heptathlon after winning her fourth NCAA heptathlon title. In 2009, two men captured 3,000m run while Matt Turner was second in the long jump. Kyle Alcorn, a two-time NCAA three NCAA titles, including Ryan Whiting sweeping in the Champion for ASU in 2008, took 11th in the 1,500m run while 2004 Olympic Gold Medalist indoor and outdoor shot put crown and Jason Lewis won (long jump) Dwight Phillips competed in the 60m dash and placed ninth. the indoor weight throw. At the conference level, the Sun Devils have dominated on the women's side with three titles in a row while (2006- NATIONALLY KNOWN 08) the men have finished as the meet runner-up the The U.S. Track & Field, Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) released its lat- past three years in a row. His athletes have collected 49 est national rankings on Tuesday with the Sun Devil men remaining in the No. 5 position for individual titles and added another 14 relay crowns in the the third week in a row while the women are unranked. Pac-10 before going on to collect 143 All-America honors individually and another 22 in relays. Along with Johnson, other impressive names that have IN THE RANKINGS: MPSF been coached by Kraft include 2004 Olympic Long Jump According to the latest release of the national rankings from the USTFCCCA, five men's Champion Dwight Phillips and 2008 U.S. Long Jump team and two women's team in the MPSF are currently ranked in the national Top 25. On Champion Trevell Quinley. the men's side, the nationally ranked teams include No. 2 Oregon, No. 5 Arizona State, No. 14 Stanford, No. 18 Arizona and No. 24 California. The two ranked women's teams are No. BY THE NUMBERS 1 Oregon and No. 16 Arizona. Athletic Honors M W NCAA Champions (Team) 1 3 NCAA Champions (Individual) 6 14 REGIONAL INDEX NCAA All-Americans - TF (Individual) 61 82 Along with the updated national Top 25, the update regional indexes were released this NCAA All-Americans - TF (Relay) 13 9 NCAA All-Americans - XC 5 11 week with both Sun Devil squads remaining among the Top 6 in the West.