PULLMAN, Wash. -- Washington State men's and women's indoor track and field teams are ringing in the New Year by competing in two meets. The Cougars will host the Cougar Classic at The Podium in Spokane on Friday. The distance squad is making the trip to Seattle to race in UW Preview at the Dempsey Indoor Center on Saturday. Friday's field events are slated to begin at 9 a.m. while running events are set to begin at 11 a.m. Saturday's running events are scheduled to start at 8:45 a.m.
MEET INFO - Cougar Classic:
LAST TIME OUT - SPOKANE INVITATIONAL
The Cougars notched 25 personal bests at the Spokane Invitational, the first meet of the 2022-23 indoor season, back in December while tallying four event wins to open the season.
Daylon Hicks claimed first in the high jump with a season-best mark of 2.0m.
Ethan Willems won the men's 300 in a personal best time of 33.92 seconds while Elise Unruh-Thomas finished atop the podium in the women's 300 meter in 39.41 seconds.
Maribel Caicedo (8.29) won the 60m hurdles with the fourth-fastest time in program history and fourth in the NCAA this season and teammate Micaela De Mello (8.32) finished just .03 seconds off her pace to finish in second-place in their finals heat while clocking the fifth-fastest 60m hurdles in program history and sixth-fastest time in the NCAA this season.
WSU ENTRIES : COUGAR CLASSIC
Women's 60 Meter Hurdles
- Maribel Caicedo
- Micaela De Mello
- Valeria Cabeza Caracas
- Jada Van Staden
- Mackenzie Fletcher
Men's 60-meter hurdles
- John Parades
- Parker Duskin
Women's 60-meter dash
- Elise Unruh-Thomas
- Gilana Wollman
Men's 60-meter dash:
- John Parades
- Yanai Macon
- De'Antae Choates
- Lee Walburn
Women's 400 meter dash
- Valeria Cabeza Caracas
- Jada Van Staden
Men's 400-meter dash
- Jared McAlvey
- Ethan Willems
Women's 200-meter dash
- Elise Unruh-Thomas
- Jasneet Nijjar
- Micaela De Mello
- Maribel Caicedo
- Renick Meyer
- Ashley Hollenbeck
- Renee Yang
- Mackenzie Fletcher
- Sarah Kovich
Men's 200-meter dash:
- De'Antae Choates
- Blake Deringer
- Jared McAlvey
- Mason Lawyer
- John Parades
- Bode Brewer
- Yanai Macon
- Ethan Willems
Women's4x400 meter relay
- Renee Yang
- Jasneet Nijjar
- Elise Unruh-Thomas
- Elena Willems
- Mackenzie Fletcher
- Valeria Cabeza Caracas
Men's 4x400 relay
- Ethan Willems
- Parker Duskin
- Lee Walburn
- Mason Lawyer
- Jared McAlvey
- De'Antae Choates
Women's High Jump
- Suzy Pace
- Kaylee Sowle
- Giovanna Rhoads
Men's High Jump
- Daylon Hicks
- Taino Ferdinand
Women's Weight throw
- Alex Payne
- Audrey Hughes
Men's Weight throw
- Ronald Grueso Mosqquera
Women's Pole Vault
- Kolby Weiss
Men's Pole Vault
- Lucas Tailin
- Lee Walburn
Women's Long Jump
- Anna Rodgers
- Renick Meyer
- Gilana Wollman
Men's Long Jump
- Matthew Metcalf
- Justin Sands
Women's Shot Put
- Nana Gyedu
- Audrey Hughes
- Gracie Strickland
Men's Shot Put
- Grueso Mosqquera, Ronald
WSU ENTRIES: UW PREVIEW
Men's 1 Mile Run
- Alecc Barran
- Easton, Jacob
- Emerson, Aiden
- Griffith, Sam
- Pascal Kleyer
- Kyle Ortega-Gammill
Men's 3000
- Easton, Jacob
- Aiden Emerson
- Sam Griffith
- Isaiah Lowery
- Turlan Morlan
- Kyle Ortega-Gammill
- Ferran Verges
- Grayson Wilcott
THE FIELD:
The Cougar Classic will be made up of multiple conference foes in the Pac-12, Mountain West and Big Sky. The Cougars will face Fresno State, UNLV, University of Idaho, Montana State, Oregon, USC on Friday. A full list of entries can be found
here.
Saturday's UW Preview will feature a pair of Pac-12 schools in Stanford and meet hosts Washington in addition to a variety of NCAA Division I and Division II programs from across the West Coast and the Pacific Northwest. A full list of entries can be found
here.
UP NEXT: Next weekend the Cougars will take a quick trip across the border to Moscow, Idaho to compete in the Idaho McCluskey Memorial Open on Saturday, January 21, in the Kibbie Dome.
