UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA TRACK AND FIELD |2018 SCHEDULE Date Event Location January 19-20 Dr. Martin Luther King Collegiate Invitational (Indoor) Albuquerque, N.M. January 26-27 Razorback Invitational (Indoor) Fayetteville, Ark. February 9-10 Clemson Tiger Paw Invitational (Indoor) Clemson, S.C. February 23-24 MPSF Championships (Indoor) Seattle, Wash. March 3 Long Beach Meet Long Beach, Calif. March 9-10 NCAA Championships (Indoor) College Station, Texas March 16-17 Trojan Invitational USC March 23-24 Power 5 Conference Challenge USC March 31 California Collegiate Invitational San Diego, Calif. April 7-8 Sun Angel Classic Tempe, Ariz. April 13-14 Triton Invitational San Diego, Calif. April 19-21 Mt. SAC Relays Torrance, Calif. April 29 USC-UCLA Dual Meet Westwood, Calif. May 5-6 Pac-12 Multi-Event Championships Palo Alto, Calif. May 12-13 Pac-12 Championships Palo Alto, Calif. May 24-26 NCAA West Preliminary Rounds Sacramento, Calif. June 6-9 NCAA Championships Eugene, Ore. 1380 NCAA ALL-AMERICANS | 200 OLYMPIANS |UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA TRACK AND FIELD — PAGE 1 2018 USC TRACK & FIELD QUICK FACTS TABLE OF CONTENTS Nickname: Trojans Schedule................................................................................... 1 Contents and Quick Facts ........................................................ 2 2018 Outlook ........................................................................3-4 Fight Song: USC Director of T&F Caryl Smith Gilbert .............................. 5-6 “Fight On” Track & Field Staff and Support Staff ..................................7-13 2018 Team Captains ............................................................... 14 Colors: Men's 2017 NCAA Championship Results ............................. 15 Cardinal & Gold 2017 Season in Review ..........................................................16 Men's 2018 Roster ................................................................. 18 Enrollment: 2018 Men's Student-Athlete Bios ...................................... 19-32 44,000 (19,000 undergraduates) 2018 Men's Team Photo .........................................................33 2017 Men's Outdoor & Indoor Season Bests .................... 34-35 University President: Men's Year-by-Year Results .............................................. 38-39 C.L. Max Nikias Men's NCAA Individual Champions ...................................40-41 Men's NCAA Point Scorers ................................................42-45 Athletic Director: Men's NCAA Point Leaders .................................................... 46 Lynn Swann Olympic Team Members ....................................................47-48 Olympic Champions ............................................................... 49 Director of Track & Field: Hall of Famers ........................................................................ 50 Caryl Smith Gilbert Heritage Award Winners and Inductees ................................. 51 Katherine B. Loker Tribute and Award ....................................52 Assistant Coaches: Men's All-Time Records ..........................................................53 Sheldon Blockburger, Joanna Hayes, Patrick Henner, Men's All-Time Top 10 Performers .....................................54-56 Men's Freshman and Cromwell Field Records .......................57 Dan Lange, Quincy Watts Trojans in the World/U.S. Rankings........................................ 58 USC at 2017 World Championships .......................................59 Directors of Operations: Trojans on Track and Field News ........................................... 60 Kyrah McCowan Paths of Glory ....................................................................61-62 Amanda Skowronek All-Time Men's Letterwinners ............................................ 63-66 Women's 2018 Roster ............................................................ 68 Strength Coach: 2018 Women's Student-Athlete Bios .................................69-87 Ivan Lewis, Tatyana McMahon 2018 Women's Team Photo .................................................... 88 Women's 2017 NCAA Championships Results ...................... 89 Academic Counselor: 2017 Women's Outdoor & Indoor Season Bests ...............90-91 Angela Munger-Rivera Cross Country......................................................................... 92 Women of Troy Year-by-Year.................................................. 93 Compliance: Women's All-Time Records .................................................... 94 Shareef Amer, Jill Ingels Loker Stadium/Cromwell Field Records ................................. 95 Women's All-Time Performers ................................................ 96 Track & Field Athletic Trainer: Women's Pac-12 and Freshman Record-Holders ..................97 Dunford Rodill Women's NCAA Individual Champions................................... 98 Women's All-Time NCAA Finalists ...................................99-100 Historian: Women's All-Time All-Americans By Year ............................ 101 Women's All-Time NCAA Point Leaders ...............................102 Tracy Sundlun Women's Olympic Members .................................................103 Women in the World Top 10 ................................................. 104 Trojan Force President: Women's Letterwinners ........................................................ 105 Treani Swain Around The Track In 2017 ....................................................106 USC Experience Section ...............................................107-112 USC SPORTS INFORMATION Track and Field SID David Tuttle -- (213) 740-3806 (offi ce) (213) 725-3102 (cell) The 2018 USC Track & Field Media Guide has been prepared by the sports informa- For all the latest news, facts and fi gures tion offi ce for use during the 2018 season. The guide was written and edited by David on Trojan track and fi eld, visit the offi cial USC Tuttle, USC associate sports information director. Cover design and layout by Brady athletics website at the following internet address: Patterson. Printing provided by Chromatic. Some photographic services provided by Kirby Lee/Image of Sport, Dan Avila, Patrick Gee, Glenn Hundley, Jon SooHoo, Dan Lange, Hali Helfgott and David Tuttle. Additional historical support provided by www.usctrojans.com Russ Reabold. Copies of this guide are available to the general public by sending $10 payable to USC to the USC Sports Information Offi ce, Heritage Hall 103, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0601. PAGE 2 — UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA TRACK & FIELD | 29 NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS | 200 NCAA CHAMPIONS 2018 USC Season Outlook Morris who placed sixth in the 110m hurdles at nationals last season, and his best of 13.56 ranks 10th on USC’s all-time list. This year, they TROJANS EYE THE TOP OF THE MOUNTAIN are joined by junior Jaydon Logan (52.89 in the 400m hurdles) and freshman Cameron Samuel (13.78 in the 110 hurdles and 52.37 in the The Trojan track and fi eld program under the direction of Caryl Smith 400m hurdles). Gilbert continues its upward ascent and seems poised to break through on the national scene in 2018. The women’s team won the MPSF indoor The middle distances are once again led by senior Robert Ford. He title, fi nished fourth indoors and third outdoors nationally and returns placed second in the 800m at the Pac-12 Championships and advanced fi ve All-Americans. The men’s team placed second at the Pac-12 meet to the NCAA semifi nals in the event. Redshirt senior Alex Rohani and 20th nationally outdoors and returns all of its scorers. With strong competed in the 800m race last season and posted a PR of 1:49.73 to recruiting classes and several high-end transfers added to these groups, take second at the USC-UCLA Dual Meet. Also returning in the 800m the top of the mountain is clearly in sight. are senior Mitchell Cameron and sophomores Matthew Myrtue and Josh Zavala. Freshman David Hulme will also compete in the middle The men’s team returns its NCAA scorers from 2017 in 400m runners distances for USC. Michael Norman and Ricky Morgan Jr., hurdler Marquis Morris, shot putter Nick Ponzio and jumper Eric Sloan. It has also added transfer The jumps should be a strength for USC, led by a trio of seniors in Eric hurdler All-American Rai Benjamin and a strong freshman class, which Sloan and Dominic Smallwood in the long jump and triple jump, and includes California high school state champion Zach Shinnick. Randall Cunningham in the high jump. Sloan won the 2017 Pac-12 triple jump title and placed third in the long jump. He then went on to The men’s sprints will be led by the sophomore Norman and senior take sixth in the long jump and reach the semifi nals in the triple jump at Morgan Jr. in the 200m and 400m. Norman won the Pac-12 400m title, the NCAA Championships. He had a PR of 55-6.25 in the triple jump fi nished fourth at the NCAA meet and set the USC freshman record in at the regional which moved him into third on USC’s all-time list in the the event with a time of 44.60 at the USA Championships. Morgan event and set the meet record. Smallwood took second in the triple Jr. was third in the 400m dash at the Pac-12 Championships and jump and fourth in the long jump at the Pac-12 Championships. The reached the NCAA semifi nals in the event. They are far from alone in pair is joined in the horizontal jumps by senior Jadon Joyner who, in the sprints, though. his fi rst season of focusing on the jumps, fi nished just out of scoring at the conference meet. Michael Norman Randall Cunningham won the