SEATTLE -- At the Husky Classic at the Dempsey Indoor Facility in Seattle, Vallery Korir (senior, Iten, Kenya) won the top collegiate heat of the women's 5000m with a school record time of 16 minutes 7.72 seconds. Korir's time erased current teammate Devon Bortfeld's indoor record time of 16:16.42 run on the same Dempsey Facility track in 2017, and replaced Ruby Robert's 2014 outdoor time of 16:09.02 run at Stanford.
 
Both the WSU women's and men's squads won the Distance Medley Relay races. The women's team ran a time of 11 minutes 29.22 seconds, the third-best time in school history, and was comprised of Zorana Grujic (freshman, Novi Sad, Serbia) running the 1200m opening leg, Jelena Grujic (freshman, Novi Sad, Serbia) running the 400m leg, Marlow Schulz (senior, Whitefish, Mont.) running the 800m leg, and Kaili Keefe (sophomore, Yakima, Wash.) running the 1600m leg. The Cougars men's team of Paul Ryan (redshirt sophomore, Moscow, Idaho), Corey Allen (sophomore, Allyn, Wash.), Justin Janke (sophomore, Spokane) and Chandler Teigen (junior, Anatone, Wash.) won in a time of 9:49.26.
 
Brock Eager (redshirt junior, Renton, Wash.) was the runner-up in the men's 35-pound weight throw with a heave of 66-feet 2 1/4 inches (20.17m) while teammate Amani Brown (redshirt junior, Des Moines, Wash.) finished fourth with a PR and the eighth-best throw in WSU all-time of 62-7 3/4 (19.09m).
 
ALBUQUERQUE -- At the University of New Mexico Don Kirby Invitational at the Albuquerque Convention Center, Friday night's events for Cougars included the 200m and 400m dashes with a smattering of multi-events competitors in field events.
 
Of the WSU men, only Ethan Gardner ran a season-best in the 200m of 21.93 while all others ran close to their PRs but did not exceed them. Regyn Gaffney ran the 200m dash for women for the first time this season and clocked in at 24.99 while Jordyn Tucker ran a season-best time of 25.02.
 
THEY SAID:
Wayne Phipps, WSU Director of Cross Country/Track & Field, said, "I thought we had a great night. We started off with an outstanding win in the women's DMR. We knew we had a very good team but not many had experience with this event. Zorana had never raced anything over 800m previously so for her, as a freshman, to run such a great leg was amazing and really set the tone for the other legs. The men's DMR was very good as well but Chandler ran the entire last 1600m alone which made it a little more difficult to run the time we needed. Vallery was the big highlight for us tonight, breaking the school record and running a very intelligent race. She stayed behind the leaders until the last lap and then moved away quite easily. Michael Williams had a very good race in the 5000m and we had continued strong performances by Brock and Amani who set yet another PR."
 
Vallery Korir after breaking the school record in the 5000m said, "The race was really good. (I was) being calm and listening to coach Wayne yell splits helped a lot. Having the support from everyone on the infield made it better so thanks to all the Cougars, I wouldn't have done it without my teammates!"