WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY SPORTS INFORMATION - TRACK & FIELD RELEASEDIRECTOR: Bill Stevens ASST. DIRS: Linda Chalich, Craig Lawson, Jessica Schmick, Joe NickellContact: Linda Chalich (lindak@wsu.edu) (509) 335-COUG; Direct Line (509) 335-0268January 28, 2009

Cougar Track & Field Hosts Cougar Indoor Meet

WSU Indoor Track & Field

2009 Schedule

Jan. 23-24 WSU Open, Pullman

Jan. 30-31 Cougar Indoor, Pullman

(EWU, Idaho, Sacramento St., Utah St.)

Feb. 6 Vandal Indoor, Moscow

Feb. 7 Runners Soul Open, Moscow

Feb. 14 Husky Classic, Seattle

Feb. 21 Vandal Collegiate, Moscow

Feb. 27-28 Mtn. Pacific Sports

Fed. Championships, Seattle

March 7 NCAA Last Chance, Seattle

March 14-15 NCAA Indoor Champs,

College Station, Texas

COUGARS HOST FOUR TEAMS FOR INDOOR TEAM SCORING

MEET: Washington State University’s indoor track and field teams will meet

teams from Eastern Washington, Idaho, Sacramento State and Utah State this

Friday and Saturday at the Cougar Indoor Meet…competition starts Friday,

Jan. 30 with the women’s pentathlon (2:30 p.m.) and men’s heptathlon (3:30

 p.m.)…the women’s long jump, men’s and women’s weight throws also take

 place Friday…combined events continue Saturday morning at 9 a.m. with the

rest of the meet commencing at 10 a.m…the final event of the day, the 1600m

relays, begin at 3:10 p.m…the meet program listing competitors for each event

will be posted on www.wsucougars.com…complete results will be posted on

the following the meet’s completion on the same site. 

TEAM SCORING FORMAT: The Cougar Indoor Meet will be a team

scoring meet with dual meet scoring of 5-3-1 points for first through third place

and 5-0 points for first place in the relays…each team will compete against all

others in the meet but will choose to count only three of the dual meet scores

for NCAA competition requirements.

ABOUT THE IPF: The WSU Indoor Facility has a Mondo track with aneight-lane 60m straightaway, throwers’ cage, long/triple jump pit, pole vaultand high jump inside the six-lane 200m oval.

ABOUT THE COUGAR COACHES: Head coach Rick Sloan is in his 36th season with the Cougar track program;

15th year as a head coach, 14th year as mentor to the combined men’s and women’s program...he is joined by

associate coach Debra Farwell, and assistant coaches Jason Drake (Head Coach Cross Country), Mark Macdonald,

Ellannee Richardson and Matt McGee…former decathlete Rickey Moody joins Megan Johnson and Kyle Chandler.

TRACK AND FIELD REUNION: The Gray “W” Varsity Club and Track and Field Team will host the a Track and

Field Reunion Friday, May 1, 2009, at the Big Picture in Redmond, Wash…the Cougar -Husky Dual Meet will take

 place the next day, Saturday, May 2, at Husky Stadium…for more information, please contact Gray W coordinator 

Willie Jude via the email grayw@wsu.edu and update your information to ensure that you are not left out…also stay

current with information through the Facebook group, WSU Track Reunion.

COUGAR HIGHLIGHTS FROM WSU OPEN INDOOR: Trent Arrivey (junior, Woodinville, Wash.) reached an

NCAA Provisional Qualifying mark winning the high jump with the bar at 7-0 1/4 (2.14m)…Moreno Zapata (senior,

Lakewood, Wash.) tied the meet record with his winning triple jump of 50- 1/2 (15.25m)…Robert Williams (senior,

Riverside, Calif.) edged out All-American teammate Jeshua Anderson (sophomore, Woodland Hills, Calif.) to win the

60m hurdles…Williams ran a PR time of 7.95 seconds and Anderson also PRd in a time of 8.00 in the final…other

WSU men winning events were Marlon Murray (60m dash in 6.86 after running 6.85 PR in prelim), Joe Abbott (400m

dash in 49.93), David Hickerson (800m in 1:57.0), and Justin Englund (mile in 4:24.26)…Abbott and Englund are

freshmen…WSU women seeing wins Jan. 24 included Brianne Brown (400m dash, 1:01.09), All-American Anna

Layman (800m, 2:14.42), Amanda Stewart (high jump, PR 5-7/1.70m), and Jessica Yates (triple jump, 37-2 1/2,

11.34m).

NATIONAL POLLS: The United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA)

 preseason poll for 2009 lists Oregon as the top men’s team and Texas A&M as the top women’s team…individual

events where WSU is nationally listed are: Jeshua Anderson, 400m dash (t6th), men’s 4x400m relay of Leavitt,

Anderson, Follett, Woods (15th), and Trent Arrivey, high jump (11th).

 

ANDERSON MAKES TRACKSHARK TOP 12 SPRINTERS/HURDLERS TO WATCH IN 2009 LIST : WSU

sophomore Jeshua Anderson was named to the TrackShark.com Top 12 Sprinters/Hurdlers to watch in

2009…Anderson won the men’s 400m hurdles at the Pac-10 Conference, NCAA, USA Junior and World Junior

Championship meets in 2008.

COUGARS AND THE MPSF INDOOR HISTORY: Because the Pacific-10 Conference does not sponsor indoor

track and field competition, Washington State University competes in the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation for an

indoor track conference title, joining teams from the Pac-10, Mountain West, Western Athletic, West Coast and Big

West Conferences...at the 2008 MPSF Indoor Championships, the women’s team finish order was: 1. Arizona State

(154.5), 2. Stanford (141), 3. Oregon (72), 4. California (65.5), 5. Washington (61.5), 6. Arizona (57.5), 7.

Washington State (49), 8. Cal St. Northridge (38.5), 9. UCLA (14.5), and 10. Long Beach State (6)…placing for the

men’s teams were: 1. Oregon (90), 2. California (84.5), 3. Stanford (83), 4. Arizona State (77), 5. Washington (66.5),

6. UCLA (64.5), 7. Arizona (58) and Washington State (58), 9. Cal St. Northridge (49), and 10. Long Beach State

(28.5)…2009 MPSF Championships are slated for February 27-28, at Washington’s Dempsey Indoor Facility.

WSU COMPETITORS ENTERED AT COUGAR INDOOR MEET, JAN. 30-31, PULLMAN:

WSU Women

60m - Braidy Bates, Morgan Clem, Princess Joy Griffey

200m - Braidy Bates, Brianne Brown, Caroline Hedel, Jacki Hill

400m - Brianne Brown, Brittnay Crabb, Veronica Elseroad-Wall, Jacki Hill, Lorraine King

800m - Anna Layman, Mietra Smollack 

Mile - Amanda Andrews, Michelly Foley, Marisa Sandoval, Stephanie Sipes

3000m - Sarah Dunn, Lisa Egami, Emily Farrar, Ashlee Wall

60m Hurdles - Brittnay Crabb, Angelica Flynn, Caroline Hedel, Lorraine King, Jalisa Williams

4x400m Relay - A - King, Elseroad-Wall, Layman, Crabb

B - Griffey, Williams, Hedel, Smollack 

High Jump - Maria Creech, Amanda Stewart

Pole Vault - Mandi Dionne, Alexa Huestis, Kendall Mays, Hilary Moore, Loreah Winlow

Long Jump - Jade Langston

Triple Jump - Sarah Burns, Jessica Yates

Shot Put - Anna Albrecht, Jennifer Hamilton, Kjirsten Jensen, Ashley Kenney

Weight Throw - Jennifer Hamilton, Kjirsten Jensen, Ashley Kenney, Cassie Whitfield

Pentathlon - Angela Jensen, Courtney Kirkwood

WSU Men

60m - Marlon Murray, Justin Woods

200m - Trevor Habberstad, J Hopkins

400m - Reny Follett, Trevor Habberstad, J Hopkins

800m - Jeshua Anderson, Evan Blanshan, Luke Lemenager, Ian Smith

Mile - Joe Abbott, Sam Ahlbeck, David Hickerson, Jono Lafler, Peter Miller

3000m - Justin Englund, Mark Moeller, Drew Polley

60m Hurdles - Jeshua Anderson, Trevor Habberstad, J Hopkins, Barry Leavitt, Robert Williams

4x400m Relay - Follett, Murray, Habberstad, Abbott

High Jump - Trent Arrivey, Ryan Deese, Shawn Swartz

Pole Vault - Jake Baertlein, Trevor Sodorff 

Long Jump - Christian Crain, Devin Timpson, Sean Wilson

Triple Jump - Devin Timpson, Moreno Zapata

Shot Put - Steven Ayers, Joe Bartlett, Matt Lamb, Phil MacArthur

Weight Throw - Phil MacArthur

Heptathlon - Sean Harris

 

 

2009 COUGAR INDOOR SCHEDULE OF EVENTS at the Indoor Facility

FRIDAY:

2:30 p.m. 60 H (Pentathlon - W)

2:45 p.m. 35 # Weight (M)

3:10 p.m. High Jump (Pentathlon - W)

3:30 p.m. 60m (Heptathlon - M)

4:10 p.m. Long Jump (Heptathlon - M)

4:30 p.m. Shot Put (Pentathlon - W)

5:30 p.m. Shot Put (Heptathlon - M)

5:40 p.m. Long Jump (Pentathlon - W)

6:30 p.m. High Jump (Heptathlon - M)

20 # Weight (W)

6:50 p.m. 800m (Pentathlon - W)

7:00 p.m. Long Jump (M)

SATURDAY:

9:00 a.m. 60 HH (Heptathlon - M)

9:40 a.m. Pole Vault (Heptathlon - M)

10:00 a.m. Long Jump (W)

11:00 a.m. High Jump (M)

Shot Put (M)

11:30 a.m. Pole Vault (M)

1000m (Heptathlon - M)

12:00 p.m. Triple Jump (M)

60 HH (W) Prelim

12:10 p.m. 60 H (M) Prelim

12:25 p.m. 60 HH (W) Final

12:30 p.m. 60mH (M) Final

12:40 p.m. Mile (W)

12:45 p.m. Mile (M)

12:55 p.m. 60m (W) Prelim

1:05 p.m. 60m (M) Prelim

1:20 p.m. 60m (W) Final

1:25 p.m. 60m (M) Final

1:30 p.m. High Jump (W)

Shot Put (W)

1:35 p.m. 400m (W)

1:50 p.m. 400m (M)

2:00 p.m. Pole Vault (W)

Triple Jump (W)

2:05 p.m. 800m (W)

2:10 p.m. 800m (M)

2:20 p.m. 200m (W)

2:30 p.m. 200m (M)

2:40 p.m. 3000m (W)

2:55 p.m. 3000m (M)

3:10 p.m. 1600m Relay (W)

3:20 p.m. 1600m Relay (M)

Cougar Indoor Track Meet Collegiate Records

MEN60m - 6.69 James McSwain (WSU) 2006200m - 21.59 Darren Woods (California) 2005400m - 48.66 Nick Karren (Utah State) 2008800m - 1:52.82 Alex McClary (California) 2005Mile - 4:15.79 Justin Ireland (WSU) 20063000m - 8:20.31 Mike Nielson (Utah State) 200560m Hurdles - 7.89 Justin Wickard (Utah State) 20054x400m Relay - 3:17.09 California (D. Woods, Karl, C. Woods, Wright) 2004

High Jump - 2.20m/7-2 1/2 Teak Wilburn (California) 2004Pole Vault - 5.25m/17-2 3/4 Tyson Byers (WSU) 2007Long Jump - 7.40m/24-3 1/2 Jason Romero (CS Northridge) 2004Triple Jump - 15.41m/50-6 3/4 Jamil Smith (WSU) 2005Shot Put - 19.68m/64-7 Russ Winger (Idaho) 2007

 

Weight Throw - 21.26m/69-9 Matthew Wauters (Idaho) 20076Heptathlon - 5788 points Phil McMullen (Nike) 2004

WOMEN60m - 7.33 Virginia Powell (USC) 2006200m - 24.34 Carol Rodriguez (USC) 2006400m - 55.78 Carol Rodriquez (USC) 2008800m - 2:12.51 Jill Steele (Utah State) 20061000m - 2:54.37 Daniela Pogorzelski (Idaho) 2003Mile - 4:51.53 Dee Olson (Idaho) 20063000m - 10:01.60 Stacie Lifferth (Utah State) 200760m Hurdles - 8.06 Virginia Powell (USC) 20064x400m Relay - 3:47.30 USC (Treani Swain, Carol Rodriguez, Alexis Weatherspoon, Talia Stewart)

High Jump - 1.70m/5-8 Tassie Souhrada (Idaho), Natoya Woods (CS Northridge) 2004, Robin Mikesh (WSU) 2006Pole Vault - 4.20m/13-9 1/4 Ebbie Metzinger (Unattached) 2005Long Jump - 5.94m/19-6 Michelle Sanford (USC) 2006Triple Jump - 12.49m/40-11 3/4 Michelle Sanford (USC) 2006Shot Put - 16.13m/52-11 Karen Freeberg (USC) 2006Weight Throw - 18.00m/59-0 3/4 Marie Muai (WSU) 2004Pentathlon - 4260 points Diana Pickler (WSU) 2007 

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