For Immediate Release \\ Thursday, May 2, 2019 Contacts \\ Jesse Hooker ([email protected]); Adam Gonzales ([email protected] ) CHAMPIONSHIPS CENTRAL TELEVISION COVERAGE Schedule of events, live results, recaps, photos and other relevant information For the second time in event history, both days of the Pac- from the 2019 Pac-12 Track & Field Championships can be found on the 12 Track & Field Championships will be broadcast live. Championships homepage on pac-12.com at: Coverage of the event will air on Saturday, May 11 starting at 7:30 p.m. PT and Sunday, May 12 starting at 6 p.m. PT across Pac-12 Net- pac-12.com/tfchamps work, all regional channels and Pac-12 Now. It marks the first time ARIZONA has hosted the Pac-12 title meet since 2011, Paul Sunderland (1984 Olympian), Tom Feuer (Emmy Award-winning Olym- and is the Championships’ fifth all-time appearance in Tucson (1985, 1995, pics producer), Jordan Kent (four-time track All-American at Oregon) and Jill 2004, 2011, 2019). Savage will cover the action. 89TH ANNUAL PAC-12 MEN’S CHAMPIONSHIP 33RD ANNUAL PAC-12 WOMEN’S CHAMPIONSHIP The Pac-12 Track & Field Championships decathlon will have a new champion Fourteen competitors will look to capture their first heptathlon league title at in 2019 as nine of the 11 entries will be making their Combined Events Cham- this weekend’s 2019 Pac-12 Track & Field Combined Events Championship. pionship debuts this weekend, making this one of the most wide-open fields in event history. With the graduation of three-time champion Alissa Brooks-Johnson of WASH- INGTON STATE, a new winner will emerge in 2019. The race will likely come MEN’S COMBINED EVENTS ENTRIES (Pac-12 Multis app./Best finish) down to a four-woman battle between the league’s current leaders in COLO- Mohammad Almarhoun, So., ARIZONA (1st) RADO’s Maja Wichhart-Donzo and Michaela Wenning, UCLA’s Christina Tyler Brendel, R-Jr., CALIFORNIA (3rd/3rd in 2017) Chenault and WASHINGTON’s Hannah Rusnak. Josh Farmer, Fr., COLORADO (1st) Gregory Fernandez, So., ARIZONA STATE (1st) WOMEN’S COMBINED EVENTS ENTRIES (Pac-12 Multis app./Best finish) Dominic Gehr, So., ARIZONA (2nd/10th in 2018) Christina Chenault, R-Jr., UCLA (3rd/4th in 2017) Dalen Hargett, R-Jr., OREGON (1st) Claire Corbitt, So., OREGON STATE (2nd/14th in 2018) Parker Kennedy, So., WASHINGTON (1st) Allie Jones, Fr., STANFORD (1st) Ray Littles, Sr., WASHINGTON STATE (1st) Elinor Jones Toutant, Jr., WASHINGTON (1st) Hakim McMorris, Fr., CALIFORNIA (1st) Keira McCarrell, So., OREGON (2nd/15th in 2018) Wyatt Rhoads, Jr., COLORADO (1st) Saskia McNairy, R-Sr., OREGON STATE (3rd/7th in 2017 & 2018) Max Vollmer, Fr., OREGON (1st) Drianna Mustin, Jr., COLORADO (3rd/13th in 2017 & 2018) Hannah Rusnak, So., WASHINGTON (2nd/10th in 2018) The lone returning competitors are CALIFORNIA’s Trent Brendel, who finished Lindsey Schauble, Sr., WASHINGTON STATE (4th/9th in 2018) on the podium in third (7,413) in 2017, and ARIZONA’s Dominic Gehr, who Skylar Sieben, Fr., ARIZONA (1st) made his Pac-12 Combined Events Championships debut last spring. Kolbi Sims, Sr., UTAH (1st) Isa Videler, So., UCLA (1st) The field will not have to contend with the nation’s current decathlon leaders as Michaela Wenning, Sr., COLORADO (4th/11th in 2018) defending champion Harrison Williams of STANFORD (8,112, No. 2 in NCAA) Maja Wichhart-Donzo, Sr., COLORADO (4th/5th in 2018) and freshman Ayden Owens of USC (8,130, No. 1 in NCAA) will instead focus USTFCCCA RANKINGS MEN’S PREVIEW WOMEN’S PREVIEW PAC-12 WEEK-BY-WEEK TOP 25 TEAMS on helping their teams at next weekend’s Champi- UCLA’s Chenault boasts the best Pac-12 heptathlon MTF WTF Preseason ........................... 4 ................... 6 onships and likely entry in the NCAA Champion- finish of any of this year’s competitors with a fourth- April 1 ................................. 4 ................... 6 ships in early June. place showing (5,269) in 2017, while COLORADO’s April 8 ................................. 4 ................... 6 Wichhart-Donzo is the returning leader from last April 15 ............................... 4 ................... 6 Williams’ and Owens’ absences not only leave the year’s Combined Events Championship at which April 22 ............................... 5 ................... 7 door open for Brendel, but also OREGON’s Max she placed fifth (5,306). April 29 ............................... 5 ................... 7 Vollmer (7,840) and CALIFORNIA’s Hakim McMor- May 6 ...............................TBA ...............TBA ris (7,159), who rank third and fourth, respectively, Buffaloes’ teammate Michaela Wenning is tied for on the current Pac-12 decathlon leaderboard and second with Chenault on the current Conference MEN’S (April 29) are the only other Conference athletes to break heptathlon leaderboard with 5,585 points at the Rank School Points Last Wk 7,000 points so far this season. Bryan Clay Invitational in mid-April. Washington’s 1 Texas Tech 372.53 1 Rusnak set her current Pac-12 leading mark of 2 LSU 343.22 2 COLORADO’s Wyatt Rhoads and OREGON’s Dalen 5,642 to place third in the event at the Bryan Clay 3 Florida 222.02 7 Hargett could also factor into the podium race as Invite. 4 Texas A&M 207.08 3 the respective Iowa State and Montana State trans- 5 Houston 192.57 5 fers boast conference championships experience. 6 BYU 190.79 6 7 Alabama 186.50 4 8 USC 176.49 8 #PAC12TF ON #THEBOWERMAN19 WATCH LISTS 9 OREGON 175.81 18 One Pac-12 men’s athlete is on the Pre-Conference Five Pac-12 women’s athletes are on the Pre-Con- 10 STANFORD 161.80 9 Championships Watch List for the 2019 Bowerman ference Championships Watch List for the 2019 11 Mississippi State 149.86 11 Award released May 1. Bowerman Award released May 1. 12 ARIZONA 145.91 14 13 Texas 144.29 16 Grant Fisher ..................... STAN .............. Distance Chanel Brissett .................USC ......Sprints/Hurdles 14 Georgia 140.28 13 15 South Carolina 136.63 12 Olivia Gruver ....................WASH ........... Pole Vault 16 Iowa 134.02 10 Jessica Hull .....................ORE ................ Distance 17 Arkansas 116.65 15 Dani Jones .......................COLO .............. Distance 18 Kansas 109.73 26 Mackenzie Little ...............STAN ................. Javelin 19 North Carolina A&T 107.38 17 20 UCLA 105.19 21 21 Northern Arizona 103.01 20 2019 #PAC12TF ATHLETES OF THE WEEK 22 Baylor 98.95 19 DATE MEN’S TRACK MEN’S FIELD WOMEN’S TRACK WOMEN’S FIELD 23 Virginia 94.63 23 March 19 Zakee Washington, ARIZ Matthew Katnik, USC TeeTee Terry, USC Mackenzie Little, STAN 24 Wisconsin 84.44 24 25 Clemson 79.07 25 March 16 Cravon Gillespie, ORE Matthew Katnik, USC Alyssa Brewer, USC Beatrice Llano, ASU Other Pac-12 programs: #31 CALIFORNIA, #41 WASHINGTON, #51 COLORADO, #70 WASHINGTON April 2 William Paulson, ASU Jonah Wilson, WASH Jessica Hull, ORE Olivia Gruver, WASH STATE, #72 ARIZONA STATE. April 9 Joe Klecker, COLO Jordan Geist, ARIZ Chanel Brissett, USC Mackenzie Little, STAN WOMEN’S (April 29) Rank School Points Last Wk April 16 Tyler Janes, UCLA Jordan Geist, ARIZ Meleni Rodney, UCLA Alyssa Wilson, UCLA 1 Arkansas 350.51 1 2 Texas A&M 271.31 3 April 22 Grant Fisher, STAN Ayden Owens, USC Angie Annelus, USC Alyssa Wilson, UCLA 3 USC 261.83 4 4 Kentucky 216.35 2 April 30 Cravon Gillespie, ORE Justice Summerset, ARIZ TeeTee Terry, USC Samantha Noennig, ASU 5 LSU 186.67 8 6 Alabama 182.97 7 USTFCCCA NATIONAL TRACK & FIELD ATHLETES OF THE WEEK 7 Florida 168.63 5 Mackenzie Little, STANFORD - March 19 8 OREGON 164.23 10 9 New Mexico 163.36 9 Beatrice Llano, ARIZONA STATE - March 26 10 Florida State 161.09 6 Olivia Gruver, WASHINGTON - April 2 11 BYU 156.32 11 Mackenzie Little, STANFORD; Jordan Geist, ARIZONA - April 9 12 Kansas State 126.93 12 13 COLORADO 123.92 19 14 Texas Tech 123.63 28 15 Miami (Fla.) 122.83 14 16 Iowa 122.60 13 17 Texas 121.07 15 18 Georgia 115.86 21 19 STANFORD 111.27 20 20 ARIZONA STATE 108.66 23 21 UCLA 107.18 24 22 Ohio State 103.56 27 2019 NCAA WEST PRELIMINARIES 2019 NCAA SELECTIONS 23 South Carolina 102.85 18 Thursday-Saturday, May 23-25 Multis - Thursday, May 16 24 North Carolina A&T 100.65 16 Hornet Stadium NCAA.com | 10 a.m. PT 25 WASHINGTON 96.71 22 Hosted by Sacramento State University Final Champs - Sunday, May 26 Sacramento, Calif. NCAA.com | 2 p.m. PT Other Pac-12 programs: #49 ARIZONA, #54 UTAH, #56 CALIFORNIA, #178 OREGON STATE. 2019 NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS Wednesday-Saturday, June 5-8 Mike A. Myers Stadium Hosted by University of Texas Austin, Texas 2 2019 PAC-12 TRACK & FIELD COMBINED EVENTS CHAMPIONSHIPS 2018 PAC-12 CHAMPIONSHIPS REVIEW 2018 PAC-12 COMBINED EVENTS REVIEW STANFORD, Calif. - The OREGON men’s team continued its dominance with a 12th straight Confer- ence title, while the USC women’s team ended the Ducks’ nine-year reign with its first crown in more STANFORD, Calif. - STANFORD senior Harrison Williams than two decades at the 2018 Pac-12 Track & Field Championships at Cobb Track and Angell Field rolled to a dominating title in the decathlon and WASHING- on Sunday. TON STATE redshirt senior Alissa Brooks-Johnson matched the Conference record with her third career heptathlon crown No. 11 nationally ranked Oregon totaled 174 points – the fourth-most in meet history – to extend at the 2018 Pac-12 Track & Field Championships Combined Events at Stanford’s Cobb Track and Angell Field. its record streak of men’s team championships to 12 and total titles to 19. Host and No.