WSU T&F TRAVELS TO BAY AREA AND LOS ANGELES FOR MEETS
The Washington State track and field teams will be competing in several meets in the San Francisco Bay area and in Los Angeles March 31-April 1...middle distance and  distance runners will race at the San Francisco State Distance Carnival Friday, March 31, at SFSU's Cox Stadium, and then at the prestigious Stanford Invitational, Friday and Saturday, April 1-2, at Cobb Track and Angell Field on the Stanford campus...a larger group of Cougar sprinters, hurdlers and field competitors comprised of 22 men and 21 women are scheduled to compete at the UCLA Legends Invitational meet at Drake Stadium March 31-April 1. 

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 conference coach of the year 14 times, 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)

BROCK EAGER NAMED PAC-12 MEN'S FIELD ATHLETE OF THE WEEK
Brock Eager, a redshirt sophomore from Renton, Wash., won the men's hammer with a PR mark of 68.60m/225-1 at the 12th Sam Adams Classic at Whitworth University in Spokane, Thurs., March 23...his mark currently leads the Pac-12 Conference and is second-best inthe NCAA West Region by a mere one inch and third-best nationally...this was the second time in less than a week that Eager threw a hammer mark that is in the WSU all-time top 10, this mark moving him to fourth-best in school history...in WSU records, the men's hammer top ten had been dormant for 18 years until Eager's March 17 throw at the USC Trojan Invite.

COUGARS ENTERED IN SAN FRANCISCO STATE DISTANCE CARNIVAL, MARCH 31: 
MEN 
5000m - Kennan Schrag
10,000m - Jake Finney
3000m Steeplechase - Cameron Dean, Kyler Little

COUGARS ENTERED IN STANFORD INVITATIONAL MARCH 31-APRIL 1:
MEN 
1500m - Justin Janke, Paul Ryan, Nathan Tadesse, Chandler Teigen
5000m - Sam Levora, Nathan Tadesse, Michael WIlliams
10,000m - Michael Williams 

COUGARS ENTERED IN UCLA LEGENDS INVITE, MARCH 31-APRIL 1: 
MEN 
100m - Ja'Maun Charles, Ethan Gardner, Zach Smith
200m - Ja'Maun Charles, Ethan Gardner, Zach Smith
400m - Corey Allen, Ray Littles
800m - Reid Muller, Matthew Swanson
1500m - no entry
3000m - no entry
110m Hurdles - Sam Brixey, Christapherson Grant, Nick Johnson, Abu Kamara
400m Hurdles - CJ Allen, Sam Brixey
3000m Steeplechase - no entry
4x100m Relay - Smith, Charles, Brixey, Allen, Gardner
4x400m Relay - no entry
High Jump - Keelan Halligan, Cole Smith
Pole Vault - Dino Dodig, Tucker Mjelde
Long Jump - no entry
Triple Jump - Robby Flores
Shot Put - Jake Callaghan, Tyler Jackson
Discus - Tyler Jackson, Adam Mahama
Hammer - Brock Eager, Wyatt Meyring, Travis Pickett
Javelin - Cole Smith

WSU's Returning Pac-12 Championships Men Scorers:
CJ Allen, 400m Hurdles: 2014 (1st); 2016 (1st)
Dino Dodig, Decathlon: 2015 (5th); 2016 (4th)
Brock Eager, Hammer: 2015 (8th)
Peyton Fredrickson, High Jump: 2016 (t-7th)
Brad Stevens, Javelin: 2015 (8th); 2016 (6th)
Travis Pickett, Hammer: 2016 (8th)
4x400m Relay (Little, Allen, Dodig, Swanson): 2016 (6th)

WSU's Returning NCAA Outdoor Championships Men Participants:
CJ Allen, 400m Hurdles: 2016 (12th)
Dino Dodig, Decathlon: 2015 (DNF) 

COUGARS RANKED IN THE TRACK & FIELD NEWS 2017 COLLEGE PREVIEW    
Track & Field News published the top 15 performers for NCAA DI in the March 2017 issue...rankings are based on PRs.
MEN
400m Hurdles: CJ Allen - 50.16 (14th)
WOMEN
Heptathlon: Alissa Brooks-Johnson - 5,803 points (9th)

COUGARS ENTERED IN SAN FRANCISCO STATE DISTANCE CARNIVAL, MARCH 31: 
WOMEN 
1500m - Josie Brown, Steffie Pavey
5000m - Emily Dwyer, Katherine Dittmann, Melissa Hruska, Desi Stinger, 
    Morgan Willson
3000m Steeplechase - Emily Dwyer, Morgan Lash, Desi Stinger

COUGARS ENTERED IN STANFORD INVITATIONAL, MARCH 31-APRIL 1: 
WOMEN 
5000m - Devon Bortfeld
10,000m - Vallery Korir
3000m Steeplechase - Devon Bortfeld

COUGARS ENTERED IN UCLA LEGENDS INVITE, MARCH 31-APRIL 1: 
WOMEN 
100m - Danielle Darden, Regyn Gaffney, Jordyn Tucker
200m - Regyn Gaffney, Tierney Silliman. Jordyn Tucker
400m - no entry
800m - Natalie Ackerley, Marlow Schulz, Grace Victor
1500m - no entry
3000m - no entry
100m Hurdles - Alissa Brooks-Johnson, Liz Harper
400m Hurdles- Alissa Brooks-Johnson, Liz Harper
3000m Steeplechase - No entry
4x100m Relay - Tucker, Gaffney, Silliman, Gaffney
4x400m Relay - Gaffney, Schulz, Brooks-Johnson, Harper
High Jump - Kiana Davis, Lateah Holmes
Pole Vault - Molly Scharmann
Long Jump - Alissa Brooks-Johnson, Lauren Newman
Triple Jump - Greer Alsop, Kiana Davis
Shot Put - Alissa Brooks-Johnson, Liz Harper
Discus - no entry
Hammer - Katie Wardsworth
Javelin - Atina Kamasi, Kelsey Kehl

WSU's Returning Pac-12 Championships Women Scorers:
Greer Alsop, Triple Jump: 2015 (8th); 2016 (5th)
Alissa Brooks-Johnson, Heptathlon: 2014 (2nd); 2015 (1st) / 400m Hurdles: 2015 (7th)
Kiana Davis, High Jump: 2016 (2nd)
Kristine Felix, Pole Vault: 2013 (1st); 2014 (t-6th); 2015 (4th)
Liz Harper, 400m Hurdles: 2015 (4th), 2016 (4th) / High Jump: 2016 (4th)  / Heptathlon: 2016 (3rd)
Lateah Holmes, High Jump: 2016 (t-6th)

WSU's Returning NCAA Outdoor Women Participants:
Alissa Brooks-Johnson, Heptathlon: 2015 (18th)   / 400m Hurdles: 2015 (23rd)
Liz Harper, 400m Hurdles: 2015 (19th) / High Jump: 2016 (NH)  / Heptathlon: 2016 (16th)