MPSF INDOOR T&F CHAMPIONSHIPS NEXT STOP FOR COUGARS
The Washington State men's and women's track and field teams travel to
Seattle for the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Championships, Fri., Feb. 24 (Noon), and Sat., Feb. 25 (10:30 a.m.), at the Dempsey Indoor Facility...scoring is 10-8-6-5-4-3-2-1...14 schools with both men's and women's teams: Arizona, Arizona State, BYU, California, Cal State Northridge, Colorado, Long Beach State, Oregon, Portland, Stanford, UCLA, USC, Washington and WSU...five schools have women's only teams: Cal State Fullerton, Hawai'i, Oregon State, UC Irvine, and Utah...Live results through wsucougars.com/ Track&Field/Schedule/Results available Feb. 24...results will be posted at www.wsucougars.com, at the completion of each day's events.

WAYNE PHIPPS, DIR. OF WSU CROSS COUNTRY/TRACK & FIELD
Wayne Phipps (University of British Columbia '91) is in his third season with the Washington State track and field program...he became the 15th men's coach and the second coach for the combined men's and women's program at WSU on July 1, 2014, after 19 years at the University of Idaho...Phipps led the Cougar men's cross country program back-to-back NCAA Championships at-large berth appearances with a 14th-place finish in 2016: the highest in 32 years after the entire 2015 team that placed 26th returned for the 2016 season....during the 2016 Track & Field season, a pair of Cougs earned second-team All-America honors...Cougars tallied 25 new entries into the WSU all-time top ten records...while at Idaho, Phipps was honored 14 times as a conference coach of the year and led the Vandals to a record 16 conference titles.

COUGAR TRACK & FIELD COACHING STAFF
WSU Track & Field coaching staff includes Associate Head Coaches Julie Taylor (throws), and  Yogi Teevens (sprints, relays and horizontal jumps)...Assistant Coaches are Brad Walker (vertical jumps), Allix Potratz-Lee (distance) and Ryan Grinnell (multis and horizontal jumps)...Andrea Sabbatine is the Operations Coordinator...volunteers this year include: Jesse Jorgensen, CharLee Linton, Tim Taylor and Kayla Warren.

2017 WSU TEAM CAPTAINS
Track - CJ Allen (M), Liz Harper (W)
Distance - John Whelan (M), Devon Bortfeld (W)
Field - Travis Pickett (M), Katie Wardsworth (W)

WSU HISTORY AT MPSF CHAMPIONSHIPS
Established in 1992 to serve the competitive needs of members of the Pac-12, Big West, Mountain West, Western
Athletic and West Coast Conferences and other selected universities in the western United States , the Mountain
Pacific Sports Federation provides Division I championships in selected sports...at the 2016 MPSF  T&F Indoor Championships, the WSU men's scored 19 points (12th) and the women scored 54.5 points (4th)...for the 2017 championships, the returning WSU women scorers are: Liz Harper - Pentathlon: 2016 - 2nd, and High Jump: 2016 - 3rd; Danielle Darden, 200m: 2015 - 4th; Kiana Davis, High Jump: 2015 - 5th and 2016 - 1st and Triple Jump: 2016 - 3rd; Lateah Holmes, High Jump: 2016 - 8th; Kristine Felix, Pole Vault: 2013 - 2nd, 2014 - 2nd, 2015 - 5th; Greer Alsop, Triple Jump: 2016 - 5th...returning WSU men scorers are: Ja'Maun Charles, 200m: 2016 - 8th; CJ Allen, 400m: 2015 - 7th; Brock Eager, Weight Throw: 2016 - 6th; Adam Mahama, Weight Throw: 2016 - 7th; Travis Pickett, Weight Throw: 2014 - 8th...WSU's men's team won the title in 1998 (Reno) and again in 2001 (Flagstaff), and had runner-up finishes in 1999 (Reno), 2002 (Flagstaff) and in 2009 (Seattle)...Cougar women's team won the title in 1999 (Reno) and 2000 (Reno), and finished second in 1998.

COUGARS ENTERED IN MPSF CHAMPIONSHIPS, FEB. 24-25, SEATTLE: 
WOMEN 
60m - Danielle Darden, Regyn Gaffney, Tierney Silliman, Jordyn Tucker
200m - Danielle Darden, Regyn Gaffney, Tierney Silliman, Jordyn Tucker
400m - No entry 
800m - Natalie Ackerley, Marlow Schulz, Grace Victor
Mile - Morgan Lash
3000m - Devon Bortfeld, Emily Dwyer, Melissa Hruska, Vallery Korir, Morgan Willson
5000m - Devon Bortfeld, Emily Dwyer, Melissa Hruska, Vallery Korir, Morgan Willson
60m Hurdles - No entry
4x400m Relay - Natalie Ackerley, Liz Harper, Stephanie Cho, Marlow Schulz, Regyn Gaffney, Grace Victor
Distance Medley Relay - Grace Victor, Natalie Ackerley, Marlow Schulz, Morgan Lash
High Jump - Kiana Davis, Liz Harper, Lateah Holmes
Pole Vault - Danielle Carnahan, Kristine Felix, Katelyn Frost, Molly Scharmann
Long Jump - Greer Alsop, McKenna Hogan, Lauren Newman
Triple Jump - Greer Alsop, Kiana Davis
Shot Put - no entry
Weight Throw - Aoife Martin, Katie Wardsworth
Pentathlon - Liz Harper, Lindsey Schauble

MEN 
60m - Ja'Maun Charles, Ethan Gardner, Zach Smith
200m - Ja'Maun Charles, Ethan Gardner, Zach Smith
400m - CJ Allen
800m - Reid Muller, Matthew Swanson
Mile - Paul Ryan
3000m - Sam Levora, Nathan Tadesse, Chandler Teigen, Nathan Wadhwani, Michael Williams
5000m - Sam Levora, Nathan Wadhwani, Michael Williams
60m Hurdles - CJ Allen, Sam Brixey, Christapherson Grant, Abu Kamara
4x400m Relay - CJ Allen, Corey Allen, Ja'Maun Charles, Matthew Swanson
Distance Medley Relay - Paul Ryan, CJ Allen, Matthew Swanson, NathanTadesse
High Jump - Peyton Fredrickson, Keelan Halligan, Cole Smith
Pole Vault -  Anden Lewis, Tucker Mjelde
Long Jump - No entry
Triple Jump - Josh Colbert, Robby Flores
Shot Put - Jake Callaghan
Weight Throw - Brock Eager, Adam Mahama, Travis Pickett
Heptathlon - No entry