MICHIGAN ATHELTIC COMMUNICATIONS Chad Shepard | Men’s and Women’s 2016 MICHIGAN MEN’S TRACK & FIELD Cross Country and Track and Field 734-386-0372 | phone [email protected] | MGoBlue.com QUICK HITS NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS -- U-M enters the weekend ranked No. 1 in the BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA (BIRMINGHAM CROSSPLEX) Great Lakes Regional Index (314.81 points) TV: SUNDAY, MARCH 13 (7 PM/ESPN2) -- U-M has athletes competing in two events this STREAM: ESPN3 weekend: the Heptathlon (Steven Bastien, No. LIVE RESULTS: NCAA.COM 7 seed) and the Distance Medley Relay (No. 5 seed) NOTES -- Michigan records have been broken in both those events (Bastien; Heptathlon; 5,801, DMR; The University of Michigan men’s track and field team surges into the NCAA Barnett, Washington III, Munley, Ferlic; 9:27.67) Championships with the opportunity to put forth the program’s best scoring this winter performance in years, and certainly the best under third-year head coach Jerry Clayton. -- The Wolverines are riding momentum from a Big Ten Cross Country title in the fall and a TV and Streaming information for the NCAA Championships is as follows: ESPN3 fourth-place finish at the indoor conference meet, will stream the meet live on March 11 starting at 6:25 p.m. ET and March 12 starting just two points shy of runners-up and the best for at 4:55 p.m. ET. A re-air of the championships will take place on Sunday, March 13 Michigan since the 2009 season starting at 7 p.m. ET on ESPN2 and also Wednesday, March 23 starting at 10 p.m. ET on ESPNU. SCHEDULE FOR MICHIGAN ATHLETES PROGRAM HISTORY First Year ..................................................................... 1893 Senior/junior Steven Bastien (Heptathlon) will begin competing at 12:00 p.m. noon Big Ten Member ........................................................... 1896* on both days, wrapping up competition around the 3:45 p.m. mark on Saturday. The Big Ten Team Titles ..................................................... 57 Distance Medley Relay (DMR) runs at 8:45 p.m. on Friday evening. NCAA Top 10 Finishes ................................................. 33 NCAA Titles ................................................................. 45 IMPRESSIVE TURNAROUND SHOWS AT CONFERENCE MEET When the Wolverines competed at the Big Ten Championships in 2014, months after * = Charter Member Clayton was hired, the team finished 11th -- not unlike their 9th and 10th place finishes the two years prior. Since then, Clayton and his staff have directed U-M to fifth and fourth-place finishes the last two winters, the program’s best placing since a runner-up LAST 5 YEARS SCORING AT THE NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS finish in 2009. The Wolverines were just two points shy of a runner-up showing two YEAR.................... PLACE ...................................... POINTS weekends ago on the strength of titles in the 5K and Heptathlon. U-M set program 2015...................... t-62nd^ ...................................... 1 point records in three events (400, Heptathlon, Weight Throw) during the weekend and 2009...................... 32nd .......................................... 7 pts medaled in the 800 (third place), Triple Jump (runner-up) and Shot Put (third place) in 2008...................... 44th .......................................... 5 pts addition to the two titles, using scoring from 11 different athletes, plus relays. 2007...................... 6th ............................................. 23 pts 2006...................... t 37th ......................................... 5 pts LEADERSHIP AND A WINNING CULTURE Clayton and his staff have brought forth the best from their student-athletes thanks ^ = Under Coach Jerry Clayton to a positive, winning culture the group has instilled and a high level of buy-in from the team. The Wolverines set individual, event group and team goals as part of the COACHING STAFF Name (Specialization) process of the season, and weekend by weekend, work towards those achievements. Head Coach ................ Jerry Clayton (Throws, Jumps, Multi) Asst. ........................... Kevin Sullivan (Mid-D & Distance) INDOOR RECORDS BROKEN IN 2016 Asst. ............................ Steve Rajewsky (Sprints & Hurdles) The performances below are University of Michigan set during the 2016 indoor season Vol. Asst. .................. Shean Conlon (Pole Vault) Vol. Asst. .................. Dusty Lopez (Distance) EVENT TIME/MARK ATHLETE(S) DATE (MEET) Vol. Asst. .................. Stephen Saenz (Throws) 400m Dash 46.42 McLaughlin Feb. 27 (B1G) DMR 9:27.67 Barnett, Washington III Feb. 20 (ND Munley, Ferlic Alex Wilson ) FOLLOW U-M TRACK & FIELD Weight Throw 21.22m Web: www.MGoBlue.com 69-7.50 ft. Ellis Feb. 27 (B1G) Twitter: @umichtrack Heptathlon 5,801 pts. Bastien Feb. 26-27 (B1G) Facebook: www.facebook.com/MichiganMensTrack SCORING DEPTH AT MIDDLE-DISTANCE AND DISTANCE EVENTS 20), breaking the 12-year old program record held by the 2004 NCAA Since returning to his alma mater to lead the middle-distance and dis- Championship Team of Nate Brannen, DarNell Talbert, Andrew Ellerton tance programs, Kevin Sullivan has brought Michigan back to the cusp and Nick Willis. All four athletes reached out to current team members of elite national stature. U-M has captured one Big Ten cross country title, on social media to congratulate them on their achievement. The time two top-five indoor conference finishes and in those two indoor champi- ranks No. 11 in all-time, all-conditions DMRs. Restoring the DMR has onship meets, was the only Big Ten program to score in every middle-dis- been a focus for Clayton and his staff in recent seasons, and it was an tance and distance event (800, Mile, 3K, 5K, DMR). exciting breakthrough performance. BASTIEN CONTINUES GROWTH AS ONE-MAN RECORD BOOK The distance program is once again the strength of U-M’s program, and Last winter, Steven Bastien became the program’s first-ever All- Sullivan was rewarded for his efforts when he was named the NCAA American in the Heptathlon, securing eighth place in Arkansas at the Great Lakes Region Assistant Coach of the Year last Friday (March 4). NCAA Championships. He also furthered the program record he set in his Wolverine debut, totaling 5,664 points at the NCAA Meet. At the Big RESTORING DMR TRADITION Ten Championships, Bastien surpassed that total again, reaching 5,801 With a progression of Chase Barnett, Phil Washington III, Brennan points for his first Big Ten Title. With another year of eligibility, Bastien Munley and Mason Ferlic, U-M’s Distance Medley Relay clocked a has even more time to blossom, as he has cemented himself as one of 9:27.67 third-place finish at Notre Dame’s Alex Wilson Invitational (Feb. U-M’s elite athletes. COACHING STAFF In his short tenure leading the University of Michigan, Clayton has made the Wolverines a force again in the Big Ten conference. A Big Ten alum and Midwest native, he took over the U-M program after spending the previous 15 seasons at Auburn University. One of the nation’s top field event coaches, Clayton has successfully developed individualized Jerry Clayton training programs for the sprints, hurdles and the field events. His work has produced 16 NCAA Head Coach individual champions, 39 international team competitors, 24 qualifiers for the U.S. OlympicTrials and 33 participants in Olympic Games and World Championship competition. He has coached ath- Jumps/Throws letes to NCAA titles in seven of nine field events as well, with All-America honors in all nine events. 3rd Season Overall, Clayton has coached 88 NCAA All-American student-athletes. He has had 158 athletes qualify for the NCAA Track and Field Championships and 115 individual conference champions. In three seasons, the Maize and Blue have claimed five conference titles under Clayton and broken five program records, including both indoor and outdoor shot put records. He also produced the program’s first-ever All-American in the heptathlon, Steven Bastien, who owns the program stan- dard in that event. Last month in Ohio, Clayton helped direct the Maize and Blue to the program’s best conference finish since 2009 (4th), two points shy of a runner-up finish. Clayton’s athletes medaled in the shot put (Sievers; 3rd) and triple jump (Stephens Jr.; 2nd) with a fourth-place finish in the weight throw (Ellis) that broke the U-M record (21.22m; 69-7.50). In his first two outdoor seasons at the helm of the program, Clay- ton has helped guide 23 U-M athletes, including 11 in field events, qualify for the NCAA East Preliminary Rounds, totaling 29 entries. A native of Rushville, Ill., Clayton was a two-time NCAA qualifier in the shot put at Illinois, where he earned his bachelor of sciences degree in physical education in 1980. Clayton and his wife, Becky, a former three-time All-American long jumper at the University of Illinois, have two sons: Zach and Nick. Zach played on Auburn’s 2010 national championship team, while Nick is a 2013 graduate of the Air Force Academy and has been selected into the pilot’s program. Steve Rajewsky Kevin Sullivan Assistant Coach Asssistant Coach Sprints/Hurdles Head Coach - Cross Country 3rd Season Mid-Distance and Distance 2nd Season A proven winner, Rajewsky has been part of 17 conference title-winning The most decorated runner in program teams as an athlete and coach, and history, Sullivan has brought his alma he has brought that championship mater back onto the map of nationally pedigree to the U-M sprinters in his elite distance and middle-distance two-plus seasons with the program, programs since his return to U-M. producing the program’s first confer- ence title winner since 2009 in the In his two seasons, Michigan has 60m dash (Chris Maye, 2015) and two been the only school to score in every middle-distance and dis- 400m record holders (Ali Arastu, 2015; Taylor McLaughlin, 2016). tance event (800, Mile, 3K, 5K, DMR) during the indoor confer- ence championships. He pushed Mason Ferlic to his first career The Maize and Blue went 1-2-5 in the 60 in 2015, producing a pair Big Ten titles with the 2015 indoor 5K crown and Ferlic took off, of all-conference performers in Maye (first-team) and runner-up sandwiching the outdoor 3,000m steeplechase (2015) and another Codie Nolan (second-team).