PAC-12 TRACK & FIELD CHAMPIONSHIPS NEXT FOR COUGARS
The Pac-12 Conference Track & Field Championships are Saturday and Sunday, May 14 & 15, at UW's Husky Track...returning Pac-12 Champion from WSU is junior
CJ Allen who won the 2014 men's 400m hurdles but was injured last year and did not compete...missing champions on the women's side are heptathlete
Alissa Brooks-Johnson (injury) and pole vaulter
Kristine Felix (redshirt)...in 2015 the WSU women finished 5th (64 points) and WSU men finished 9th (31.5 points)...2016 Live Results can be viewed by clicking on the track schedule at www.wsucougars.com...Pac-12 TV Networks, will air tape-delayed 3-hour broadcast of the championships May 22 at 9 a.m. (Pacific Time).
WAYNE PHIPPS, DIR. OF WSU CROSS COUNTRY/TRACK & FIELD
Wayne Phipps (Univ. of British Columbia '91/Oregon '94) 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... at Idaho, he was named conference Coach of the Year 14 times and led the Vandals to a record 16 conference titles.
COUGAR COACHING STAFF
WSU Track & Field coaching staff includes Associate Head Coaches
Julie Taylor (throws), and Â
Yogi Teevens (sprints, relays and horizontal jumps)...Assistant Coaches are
Brad Walker (vertical jumps), and
Allix Potratz-Lee (distance)...
Andrea Sabbatine is the Operations Coordinator...volunteeers working with the WSU track and field this year include:
Jesse Jorgensen, Nigel Joseph, Hannah Kiser, Josiah Sims, Tim Taylor, and Liga Velvere.
2016 WASHINGTON STATE TRACK & FIELD TEAM CAPTAINS
COUGARS HIGHLIGHTS PAC-12 COMBINED EVENTS
At the Pac-12 Combined Events Championships at Husky Track in Seattle May 7-8, junior
Liz Harper finished third and freshman
Lindsey Schauble finished 10th in the heptathlon and
Dino Dodig placed fourth in the decathlon...Harper (Missoula, Mont.) competed in only her second heptathlon tallied PRs in first day points (3495), high jump (1.81m/5-11 1/4 - 10th-best in WSU all-time records), 200m (24.61), 800m (2:14.03)...her PR total of 5,564 points is seventh-best in WSU all-time records and ranked 20th-best nationally...Schauble (Kennewick, Wash.) scored 4,626 points for 10th out of the 14 competitors...she reached PRs in the 100m hurdles (15.00), 200m (26.25), and 800m (2:25.07)...In the decathlon, Dodig (Novi Sad, Serbia) tallied 7,339 points which is 16th-best nationally... Dodig was in fourth place after his first day PR of 3,909 points...other PRs included long jump (7.09m/23-3 1/4), and the 400m (48.83)...in the final event of the two-day competition, Dodig ran the 1500m in a time of 4:28.68, just 45/100s of a second off his PR time but Oregon's Joe Delgado climbed into third place with a two-point edge over Dodig...the top 24 heptathletes and decathletes advance to the national championships and do not compete at the Preliminary Rounds.
WSU COMPETITORS ENTERED AT PAC-12 CHAMPIONSHIPS, MAY 14-15
WSU Men
4x100m Relay - Smith, Charles, Chambers, Green
4x400m Relay - Charles, Allen, Dodig, Swanson, Littles, Green, Chambers
PAC-12 MEN'S TEAM STANDINGS AFTER 2016 DECATHLONÂ
Oregon 14
Arizona 10
WSU 5
Washington 4
UCLA 4
Colorado 2
WSU'S RETURNING NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS PARTICIPANTS
WSU'S RETURNING PAC-12 CHAMPIONSHIPS SCORERS
WSU COMPETITORS ENTERED AT PAC-12 CHAMPIONSHIPS, MAY 14-15Â
WSU Women
800m  - no entry
1500m - no entry
4x100m Relay - Gaffney, Darden, Ekelem, Keel
4x400m Relay - Keel, Darden, Ekelem, Harper, Gaffney
Shot Put - no entry
PAC-12 WOMEN'S STANDINGS AFTER 2016 HEPTATHLON Â
 USC 14
Arizona 11
WSU 6
Colorado 6
Washington 2
WSU'S RETURNING NCAA OUTDOOR WOMEN PARTICIPANTS
400m Relay (D. Darden, C. Ekelem, D. Keel): 2015 (17th)
1600m Relay (C. Ekelem, L. Harper, D. Keel): 2015 (21st)Â
WSU'S RETURNING PAC-12 CHAMPIONSHIPS WOMEN SCORERS
SENIOR HONORS FOR T&F STUDENT-ATHLETES
