XC Crosses Country for PreNational Invite

Photo by: Washington State Athletics

October 13, 2015 | Cross Country

By: Washington State Athletics

CROSS COUNTRY TEAMS CROSS COUNTRY FOR PRE-NATS

Select members of the Washington State men's and women's cross country teams travel to Louisville, Ky., for the Pre-Nationals Invitational at the E.P. “Tom” Sawyer Park, site of the 2015 NCAA Championships Nov. 21...men's 8,000m seeded Red race starts at 6:30 a.m. PT...women's 6,000m seeded Red race starts at 7:15 a.m. PT...live race results at www.pttiming.com...WSU will

also have runners competing at the Lewis-Clark State hosted Inland Empire Challenge meet at Community Park in Lewiston, Idaho...women's 5k begins at 11 a.m. and men's 8k begins at 11:45 a.m....team and individual results will be published at wsucougars.com, when available postrace.

WAYNE PHIPPS, DIR. OF WSU CROSS COUNTRY/TRACK & FIELD

Wayne Phipps (University of British Columbia '91) become the 15th coach to take the reins of the Washington State men's program and the second coach for the combined men's and women's program at WSU on July 1, 2014...Phipps had been the University of Idaho's Director and Track & Field/Cross Country from 2010 through 2014, and was a coach with the Vandals program for a total of 19 years...he served as co-head coach from 2000-09, after serving as an assistant coach from 1995-99... while at Idaho, Phipps was honored 14 times as a conference coach of the year and led the Vandals to a record 16 total conference titles.

ALLIX POTRATZ-LEE, ASSISTANT COACH
Allix Potratz-Lee joined the WSU track and field coaching staff in July 2014 after an outstanding career as a student-athlete and coach at the University of Idaho... member of the Idaho cross country/track and field coaching staff starting in 2010 as an assistant to Wayne Phipps, working primarily with the distance corps...Vandals' women's cross country team won WAC team titles in 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013.. she was a five-time WAC champion, a 10-time first-team all-WAC honoree and a two-time ESPN/CoSIDA Academic All-American...she helped Idaho cross country capture the 2005 and 2007 XC team titles,and claimed the 2008 individual WAC cross country crown.

COUGARS EXPECTED TO COMPETE AT THE PRENATIONAL INVITE
MEN
Sam Levora, sophomore

Paul Ryan, freshman
Nathan Tadesse, freshman
Chandler Teigen, freshman
Nathan Wadhwani, freshman
John Whelan, junior
Michael Williams, sophomore

WOMEN
Anisa Allaet, freshman
Devon Bortfeld, sophomore
Emily Dwyer, senior

Alexys Garcia, junior

CharLee Linton, senior
Steffie Pavey, junior
Morgan Willson, junior

COUGARS EXPECTED TO COMPETE AT THE INLAND EMPIRE CHALLENGE
MEN

Jake Finney, freshman

Kyler Litte, freshman
Reid Muller, freshman
Alex Simpson, junior

WOMEN

Natalie Ackerley, freshman

Katherine Dittmann, freshman

Amanda Henderson, senior