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WASHINGTON TRACK AND FIELD //For Immediate Release// Contact: Michael Bruscas Mar. 11, 2009 UW Readies For NCAA Indoor Track & Field Championships Husky Track Schedule Indoor Washington athletes rank in the top-eight in five different events. ON THE TRACK: The indoor track and field season culminates with the 2009 NCAA Indoor Championships this weekend, hosted by Texas A&M in College Station, Texas. Washington will be sending four men and eight women to the national meet, several with national title aspirations. The two-day meet runs this FridaySaturday, March 13-14. <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">Date </li><li style="flex:1">Meet </li><li style="flex:1">Location </li></ul>Seattle Seattle Seattle Seattle Seattle Seattle Seattle Dec. 6, 2008 UW Winter Preview Jan. 17 Jan. 30-31 Feb. 14 Feb. 15 Feb. 27-28 Mar. 7 UW Indoor Preview UW Invitational The Husky Classic UW Indoor Open MPSF Championships UW Last Chance Qualifier The 24th-ranked Husky men’s team will be looking to make history with its third straight Top-10 finish. Washington was 7th in 2007 and tied for 10th at the 2008 indoor meet. The women’s team, currently ranked 18th, will look to improve on last season’s 22nd-place finish. UW’s twelve participants this year outpaces the seven they sent to NCAA Indoors one year ago. <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">Mar. 13-14 </li><li style="flex:1">NCAA Championships </li><li style="flex:1">College Station, Texas </li></ul>The championships will be held at Texas A&M’s McFerrin Athletic Center. A total of 568 participants will compete in the championships. Student-athletes qualified for the championships by reaching the automatic or provisional standards established for each event. Outdoor Meet UW Outdoor Preview Stanford Invitational Jim Click Shootout Sun Angel Classic Mt. SAC Relays Date Mar. 20 Mar. 27-28 Apr. 4 Apr. 10-11 Apr. 16-18 Apr. 24-25 Apr. 24-25 May 2 Location Seattle Palo Alto, Calif. Tucson, Ariz. Tempe, Ariz. Walnut, Calif. Eugene, Ore. Philadelphia, Penn. Seattle A pair of seniors with national title aspirations headline the quartet of Washington men heading to nationals. Senior Jordan Boase (Bothell, Wash./Bothell) will be making his third-straight national meet appearance in the 400-meters, where he is ranked third with a school-record time of 46.09 seconds. A four-time All-American, Boase was third at NCAA Indoors last year and fourth at the 2008 Outdoor meet. Oregon Relays Penn Relays Senior Austin Abbott (Chehalis, Wash./W.F. West) and new school record-holder in the mile will be competing at his sixth NCAA meet, and fourth NCAA Indoor meet. Abbott, a five-time All-American, will be going for his first such honor in the mile run, after placing seventh in the 800-meters at the 2008 NCAA Outdoor meet. Last Saturday, Abbott ran 3:58.23 to break the UW school record in the mile and his time ranks seventh among the entries. He also ranked in the Top-10 in the 800-meters, but chose to take a shot at the mile this season. vs. Washington State Ken Shannon Invitational Pac-10 Multi-Events Pac-10 Championships NCAA West Regional NCAA Championships <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">May 8 </li><li style="flex:1">Seattle </li></ul>May 8-9 May 16-17 May 29-30 June 11-14 Eugene, Ore. Eugene, Ore. Eugene, Ore. Fayetteville, Ark. Junior Jake Schmitt (Kentfield, Calif./Redwood) snagged the 14th and final spot in the 5,000-meter run with his time of 13:54.25 set just this past Saturday. Schmitt was 21st in the 10k at the 2008 NCAA Outdoor meet and led the Huskies at the 2008 NCAA Cross Country Championships. Bold font indicates Husky home meet, at either Dempsey Indoor (indoor) or Husky Stadium (outdoor). Local newcomer Jeremy Taiwo (Renton, Wash./Newport) also will test the waters at his first NCAA Championships, as he qualified 12th in the heptathlon. Taiwo won the heptathlon title at the MPSF Championships, setting a school record with 5,559 points. He will look to be Washington’s first All-American in the indoor multi-events. 2009 USTFCCCA Indoor Rankings Women Texas A&M 123.93 Men Oregon Arkansas 123456789 123456789 182.38 150.04 Tennessee LSU 120.95 104.72 102.45 The 19th-ranked Washington women’s team will be sending eight athletes to nationals, including five members of the 2008 Women’s Cross Country National Championship Team. The Huskies will look to light up the track in the distance medley relay, which features cross country All-Americans Christine Babcock (Fr.; Irvine, Calif./Woodbridge) and Katie Follett (So; Fort Collins, Colo./Fort Collins), plus junior Kailey Campbell (Seattle, Wash./Ballard) and senior Falesha Ankton (Benicia, Calif./Benicia). Babcock and Campbell both would have also qualified for the mile run but will be focusing on a strong finish in the DMR. Florida State 143.82 Oregon <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">Florida </li><li style="flex:1">104.29 </li></ul>101.35 85.25 Florida State 86.47 Nebraska LSU Texas A&M Arizona State 74.91 South Carolina 72.32 Michigan Texas Tech 77.70 <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">77.35 </li><li style="flex:1">81.83 </li></ul>South Carolina 76.21 <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">Penn State </li><li style="flex:1">74.32 </li></ul><ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">70.77 </li><li style="flex:1">10 Texas </li></ul>10 Oklahoma 11 Baylor 66.24 61.36 60.45 59.76 58.96 58.24 52.69 44.93 43.25 41.51 41.08 40.98 39.85 37.89 Follett will double up in the 3,000-meter run, where she will be looking to stick with redshirt freshman Mel Lawrence (Reno, Nev./Reno). Lawrence and Follett placed 25th and 26th, respectively at the 2008 Cross Country Championships. Lawrence is ranked fourth in the 3k field after running a school-record 9:08.50 at the MPSF Championships. This will be her first NCAA Track appearance, while it will be the third for Follett who was an All-American in the mile indoors last year. 11 Arizona State 69.25 12 Clemson 13 Arkansas 14 Florida 68.36 64.29 58.87 56.22 53.25 12 Texas Tech 13 Texas 14 California 15 Kentucky 16 Missouri 17 Virginia Tech 18 Tennessee 19 Stanford 20 Minnesota 21 Illinois 15 Nebraska 16 Arizona 17 Virginia Tech 50.67 Another member of the women’s National Championship distance crew set to run this weekend is senior Anita Campbell (Vancouver, B.C./Aldergrove). Campbell is seeded 12th in the 5,000-meter run. She set a school record earlier this year at the distance in a time of 16:09.26. She has run the 5,000-meters at two NCAA Outdoor Championships but this will be her first outing indoors. 18 Washington 46.57 <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">19 BYU </li><li style="flex:1">45.72 </li></ul>45.45 45.02 44.98 44.16 43.66 43.65 20 Connecticut 21 Auburn 22 Minnesota 23 Baylor 22 Arizona 23 New Mexico The Dawgs will also be represented by a pair of first time qualifiers in the field events. Spokane’s Kelly McNamee (Ferris HS) made the cut in the high jump in her freshman season. McNamee is the only freshman in 24 Miami (Fla.) 25 Stanford 24 Washington 34.97 <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">25 Providence </li><li style="flex:1">34.17 </li></ul>HUSKY TRACK AND FIELD • Mar. 11, 2009 • Page 2 the field, and will look to earn UW’s first All-American honor in the women’s high jump since Husky Track Quick Facts University of Washington Athletic Department, Box 354070 Seattle, WA 98195-4070 Vicki Borsheim in 1988. Another local product, sophomore Elisa Bryant out of Inglemoor High School, will attempt to become the first Husky All-American ever in the weight throw. Bryant has held the school record since her freshman season, and improved upon it with a mark of 64-feet, 8-inches this year. Friday will be a busy day for the UW contingent. Finals on day one will include the 5,000-meter runs, DMR, women’s weight throw and high jump, while Taiwo will complete the majority of the heptathlon. Prelims in the 400-meters and the mile are also Friday. The only Husky waiting to run until Saturday is Lawrence in the women’s 3,000-meters. Enrollment:.............................. 42,000 (31,400 undergraduate) Founded:................................................................Nov. 4, 1861 President:............................................................Mark Emmert Director of Athletics:................................... Scott Woodward Nickname: ................................................................... Huskies Colors: ............................................................. Purple and Gold Home Facility:.......................Dempsey Indoor/Husky Stadium Press Row Phone:............................................(206) 714-5556 Conference:.....................Pacific-10 (Outdoor) / MPSF (Indoor) Head Coach:........................................ Greg Metcalf (7th year) Asst. Coach (Vault/Jumps):...................Pat Licari (12th year) Asst. Coach (Throws):............... Reedus Thurmond (3rd year) Asst. Coach (Sprints/Hurdles):........... Raul Sheen (1st year) Asst. Coach (Distances): ....................Jimmy Bean (3rd year) Asst. Coach (Distances): ....................Kelly Strong (7th year) HOW TO FOLLOW THE DAWGS: ESPN is the official network of the 2009 NCAA Indoor Championships and will stream the event live on ESPN360.com. Click on the FAQs link for software and system requirements, etc. Anyone with an .edu e-mail address is able to obtain access to ESPN360 for free. ESPN2 will then air a 90-minute show on Monday, March 23 at 2:30 p.m. Eastern. Texas A&M will provide live results on their championships page, which <a href="/goto?url=http://www.aggieathletics.com/ncaa2009/track/" target="_blank">can be found at http://www.aggieathletics.com/ncaa2009/track/ </a>EVENT SCHEDULE: Following is the schedule for the events featuring Washington athletes at this weekend’s NCAA Indoor Championships. All times are Central. For a complete <a href="/goto?url=http://www.aggieathletics.com" target="_blank">schedule, visit www.aggieathletics.com. </a>Friday, March 13 Hep: 60m Dash (M) 12:00 p.m. Saturday. March 14 <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">Hep: 60m Hurdles (M) </li><li style="flex:1">12:00 p.m. </li></ul>12:40 p.m. 1:45 p.m. 2:45 p.m. 4:00 p.m. 4:15 p.m. 5:15 p.m. 6:30 p.m. 7:05 p.m. 7:30 p.m. 8:20 p.m. Hep: Long Jump (M) 12:45 p.m. Hep: Shot Put (M) 3:15 p.m. Hep: High Jump (M) 5:10 p.m. Weight Throw Final (W) 5:50 p.m. Mile Run Prelim (M) 6:40 p.m. 400m Dash Prelim (M) High Jump Final (W) 5,000m Run Final (W) 5,000m Run Final (M) Hep: Pole Vault (M) Hep: 1,000m Run (M) Mile Run Final (M) 400m Dash Final (M) 3,000m Run Final (W) Website: .................................................www.GoHuskies.com 2008 Men’s Pac-10 / MPSF Finish:..........................9th / 5th 2008 Men’s NCAA Finish (Outdoor/Indoor):.......16th / 10th Best Men’s Pac-10 Finish:.....................................2nd (1976) Best Men’s MPSF Finish:..............................1st (2007, 2006) Best Men’s NCAA Finish: ............................2nd (1929, 1930) Men’s 2008 NCAA Competitors Returning:................Seven Austin Abbott (800m) DMR Final (W) Jordan Boase (400m, 4x100m) HOW THEY GOT TO COLLEGE STATION: All athletes who meet the NCAA’s automatic- qualifying standards in their events are guaranteed inclusion in the NCAA Championships field. In the event that there are not enough automatic qualifiers to provide full fields, athletes are selected in descending order of performance from those who have met the provisional standard in each event, creating fields of approximately 14-18 per individual event and 10-12 per relay. Ryan Hamilton (4x100m) Jared O’Connor (pv) Scott Roth (pv) Jake Schmitt (10000m) Joe Turner (4x100m) 2008 Women’s Pac-10 Finish: ................................10th / 5th 2008 Women’s NCAA Finish (Outdoor/Indoor):.... N/A / 22nd (tie) Best Women’s Pac-10 Finish:..................4th (1995, ‘96, ‘98) Best Women’s MPSF Finish:..................................1st (1996) HUSKIES IN THE RANKINGS: Both the Husky men’s and women’s teams are ranked in the Top-25 by the USTFCCCA heading into nationals. The men lost points in the DMR as over a dozen teams ran Auto marks at Notre Dame last weekend to bump out the Huskies, so the men slipped from 16th to 24th this week. The women improved one place to 18th, a new season-high. Washington is one of 17 schools in the nation to have both men’s and women’s teams in the Top-25. The rankings assign points in each event based on the current national leaders to try and approximate NCAA scores. The current rankings are based solely on the entry lists for NCAA’s. The highest-ranked Huskies in their respective events are Jordan Boase (3rd in the 400m), Mel Lawrence (4th in the 3,000m), the women’s DMR (6th), Austin Abbott (7th in the mile), and Kelly McNamee (tied for 7th in the high jump). For a complete list of UW’s NCAA qualifiers and their national rankings, check page four of this release. Best Women’s NCAA Finish:................................10th (1988 )Women’s 2008 NCAA Competitors Returning:...........Three Falesha Ankton (100m HH, DMR) Andrea Brown (DMR) Katie Follett (mile, 1500m) 2008 NCAA INDOORS IN REVIEW: Washington sent seven individuals to the NCAA Indoor Championships at Arkansas’ Randall Tyson Track Center, and all seven came away with Top-10 finishes. The men’s squad tied for 10th-place behind All-America performances from Jordan Boase and Norris Frederick, while the women tied for 22nd, thanks to their trio of All-American milers and vaulter Kelley DiVesta. Frederick had his best showing at nationals, placing second in the long jump with a mark of 26-2 3/4, and took sixth in the high jump, clearing 7-2 1/4. Boase proved he belonged on the national level with a third-place run of 46.34 seconds, a new PR. Amanda Miller, Katie Follett, and Michelle Turner went fifth, sixth, and ninth in the women’s mile, respectively. DiVesta meanwhile ended her indoor career exactly how any athlete would want, with a new personal-best, as she cleared 13-9 1/4 to place seventh and earn her first All-America honor. The 10th-place finish by the men followed 2007’s seventh-place showing, giving UW its first back-to-back Top-10’s in program history. The women’s 22nd-place finish was the third-best in program history. Husky Athletic Communications Michael Bruscas, Track and Field SID E-mail: <a href="mailto:[email protected]" target="_blank">[email protected] </a>Office Phone: (206) 543-2230 / Fax: (206) 543-5000 Mobile Phone: (206) 714-5556 HUSKY TRACK AND FIELD • Mar. 11, 2009 • Page 3 WOMEN’SCROSSCOUNTRYTAKESNCAABYSTORM:This past fall, the Husky women’s cross country team grabbed the national spotlight, dominating every race they entered en 2009 Husky Indoor Statistical Leaders route to the program’s first National Championship. At the start of the season, the women were given a No. 3 national ranking, but quickly jumped up to No. 1 after dominating wins at the Sundodger and Tiger Invitational. UW confirmed its top billing with a huge win at Women’s Pre-Nationals. The Huskies then headed for a showdown with second-ranked Oregon at the 60m Dash Falesha Ankton Falesha Ankton Falesha Ankton Amber Finley 7.87 8.41 Ducks’ home course for the Pac-10 Championships. Washington turned the expected battle into an historic route, sweeping the top six places to record a perfect 15 points and snap Stanford’s 12-year run of conference titles. Freshman Kendra Schaaf won the race by 30 seconds in a conference record time, becoming UW’s first individual champion since 1982. After another routine win at West Regionals, the women went to NCAA’s as the overwhelming favorite and did not disappoint, defeating Oregon once again by 52 points to win the national title. Freshman Christine Babcock led the way with a 7th-place finish, followed by Schaaf (12th-place), sophomore Mel Lawrence (25th), junior Katie Follett (26th), senior Amanda Miller (35th), sophomore Lauren Saylor (41st), and senior Anita Campbell (51st). The top five all earned All-America honors, with Saylor just missing out by one-tenth of a second. Schaaf was named Pac-10 Athlete of the Year, a first ever for Washington, and Babcock was named Pac-10 Newcomer of the Year. Head coach Greg Metcalf swept the coaching awards, as he was named the Pac-10, West Regional, and National Coach of the Year. Now with the track season in full swing, UW’s distance stars are making their mark inside the Dempsey as well. Three members of the NCAA Championship team--Babcock, Follett and junior Kailey Campbell--have already crushed the school record in the distance medley relay along with sprinter Falesha Ankton in the 400-meter leg. The foursome ran 11:05.80 at the UW Invitational to hit the NCAA Automatic mark and break the school record set just last year by nearly seven seconds. Follett and Babcock both hit the NCAA Auto mark in the mile run, while Kailey Campbell also could have made the NCAA mile field with a time of 4:38.51. All three however will forego the mile to focus on a top DMR finish. Lawrence, meanwhile, shattered the school’s 3,000-meter school record at the MPSF Championships and ranks fourth in the event heading to NCAA’s, while Anita Campbell broke the school’s indoor 5,000-meter record and will be making her first NCAA Indoor appearance. All told the women’s distance crew has put 11 new marks on the all-time indoor Top-10 lists this season, with school records in the 3k, 5k, and DMR. 60m Hurdles 200m Dash 400m Dash 800m Run 24.61 57.07 Kailey Campbell Christine Babcock & Katie Follett Mel Lawrence $ Anita Campbell $ Glass/Martin 2:07.85 4:38.00 9:08.50 16:09.26 3:49.23 Mile Run 3000m Run 5000m Run 4x400m Relay Finley/Ankton DMR Babcock/Ankton K. Campbell/Follett $ Kelly McNamee Lara Jones 11:05.80 High Jump Pole Vault Long Jump Triple Jump Shot Put Weight Throw Pentathlon 5-11 1/2 13-5 1/4 18-6 41-0 1/4 40-7 3/4 64-8 Taylor Nichols Daria Amiad-Pavlov Elisa Bryant Elisa Bryant $ <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">Daria Amiad-Pavlov </li><li style="flex:1">3,853 </li></ul>Men’s Kenjamine Jackson Andrew Ferleman Jordan Boase Jordan Boase $ Austin Abbott Austin Abbott $ Jake Schmitt 60m Dash 6.87 8.29 20.85 46.09 60m Hurdles 200m Dash 400m Dash 800m Run 1:48.56 3:58.23 8:03.04 13:54.25 3:11.11 Mile Run 3000m Run 5000m Run 4x400m Relay BOASE READY FOR ENCORE: Few could have predicted the season that awaited Jordan Boase heading into 2008, when the two-time All-American in the 4x400m relay returned to the team after a year off from the sport. Even after Boase started the year by breaking the indoor school record in the 400-meters, and placing third at the NCAA Indoor Championships, he still remained something of an unknown nationally. That all changed at the Sun Angel Classic in April in Tempe, when Boase took over the NCAA lead with a school record 44.82, which was the second-fastest run in the world at the time. Boase would go on to battle USC’s senior sprinter Lionel Larry, with Larry getting the edge for the Pac-10 title as both went under 45-seconds. The Bothell, Wash. native also ran the lead-off leg for UW’s 4x100m relay, which won the Pac-10 title for the first time in program history, and qualified for nationals. At the national meet, Boase placed fourth in an extremely fast 400m final, running 44.83 despite having been limited in training by an injury. Boase went on to make the semifinals of the U.S. Olympic Trials, before a painful blister stopped him one race short of the final. But a fully healthy Boase gave notice that he is ready for the long season ahead when he made his 2009 season debut in early February in Nampa, Idaho at the United Heritage Invite. Boase set an indoor personal best over 200-meters, winning the event in 20.85 seconds, which ranks fourth in the NCAA and was the second-fastest time in UW history behind Ja’Warren Hooker. At the Husky Classic, Boase ran the 400m for the first time since the Trials, and laid down a 46.15, which gave him the 2009 world lead at the time and broke the Dempsey record. Not bad for a season-opener. Boase followed that up with a 46.09 two weeks later to win the MPSF 400-meter title for the second year in a row. Boase will now shoot for his first NCAA title on March 14.

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