2011-12 Idaho T&F/XC Yearbook by University of Idaho Athletics

The Vandal Track & Field/Cross Country Tradition... 20 Olympians 22 National Records 4 NCAA Champions 54 All-Americans 90 All-America Honors 202 NCAA Championships Appearances 8 Academic All-Americans 17 Cross Country Team Titles 4 Indoor Track & Field Team Titles 10 Outdoor Track & Field Team Titles 8 Indoor Track & Field Conference Records 25 Outdoor Track & Field Conference Records 8 Individual Cross Country Conference Champions 82 Individual Indoor Track & Field Conference Champions 221 Individual Outdoor Track & Field Conference Champions 15 Indoor Track & Field Relay Champions 25 Outdoor Track & Field Relay Champions 17 Vandal Athletic Hall of Fame Inductees

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Table of Contents Introduction

Cross Country Seasons in Review................................................................................................................................. 12 2011 Award Winners............................................................................................................................ 13 Meet-by-Meet Results........................................................................................................................... 14 Cross Country Championship History.............................................................................................. 15

Indoor Track & Field Seasons in Review........................................................................................................................... 16-17 2012 WAC Indoor Champions...................................................................................................... 18-19 2012 WAC Indoor Championships Recap......................................................................................... 20 2012 Indoor Season/Career Bests....................................................................................................... 21 Indoor Conference Championship History....................................................................................... 22 NCAA Indoor Championships History............................................................................................. 23 All-Time Indoor All-WAC Honorees........................................................................................... 24-25

Outdoor Track & Field Seasons in Review........................................................................................................................... 26-27 2012 WAC Outdoor Champions................................................................................................... 28-29 2012 WAC Outdoor Championships Recap...................................................................................... 30 2012 Outdoor Season/Career Bests.................................................................................................... 31 Outdoor Conference Championship History.............................................................................. 32-35 NCAA Outdoor Championships History.................................................................................... 36-37 2012 NCAA West Preliminary Qualifiers.................................................................................... 38-39 All-Time Outdoor All-WAC Honorees........................................................................................ 40-41

2011-12 Vandal Biographies Idaho Coaching Staff....................................................................................................................... 42-45 Women’s Individual Biographies................................................................................................... 47-54 Men’s Individual Biographies......................................................................................................... 55-63

Records and History Indoor School Records......................................................................................................................... 65 Men’s Outdoor Top-10.......................................................................................................................... 66 Women’s Outdoor Top-10.................................................................................................................... 67 All-Time WAC Athlete of the Week Honors..................................................................................... 68 Vandal Conference Record Holders................................................................................................... 69 All-Time WAC All-Academic Honorees...................................................................................... 70-71 National/Regional/Conference Academic Awards........................................................................... 72

20 Olympians 4 NCAA Champions 54 All-Americans 90 All-America Honors WAC Women’s Cross Country Champions * 2005, 2007, 2010, 2011 * WAC Men’s Indoor Track & Field Champions * 2012 * WAC Men’s Outdoor Track & Field Champions * 2012 * 46 Individual WAC Indoor Titles 53 Individual WAC Outdoor Titles

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2011-12 Vandal Champions................................................................................................................2-5 2012 Idaho All-Americans..................................................................................................................... 6 2012 WAC Joe Kearney Award Winner............................................................................................... 7 We Are... Runners, Jumpers, Throwers Kids’ Camp........................................................................8-9 The Vandal Tradition...................................................................................................................... 10-11

University of Idaho Track & Field

IDAHO STAFF

Director of Track & Field/Cross Country

Wayne Phipps, 12th Season British Columbia, ‘91; Oregon, ‘94 Office Phone....................................................... (208) 885-0210

Head Track & Field Coach

Julie Taylor, 22nd Season Idaho, ‘86 Office Phone....................................................... (208) 885-5105

Assistant Coach (Jumps/Multi-Events) Jason Graham (Idaho, ‘94)

Assistant Coach (Distance) Allix Potratz-Lee (Idaho, ‘10)

Assistant Coach (Sprints) Sam Michener (Idaho, ‘11)

Volunteer Assistant Coaches

Throws..................................................Tim Taylor (Idaho, ‘85) Sprints/Hurdles...............................Angela Whyte (Idaho, ‘03) Throws....................................Chris Campbell (Ohio, ‘06; ‘08) Athletic Trainer.............................. Jaimie Hoskins (Utah, ‘11)

IDAHO QUICK FACTS

Location....................................................... Moscow, Idaho Founded......................................................................... 1889 Enrollment................................................................. 12,302 Nickname.................................................................Vandals Colors............................................. Silver and Vandal Gold Conference............................................... Western Athletic President....................................................Dr. Duane Nellis Director of Athletics..................................... Dr. Rob Spear SWA..........................................................Debbie Buchanan Compliance/Eligibility...................................John Wallace Home Facilities................... Kibbie-ASUI Activity Center ............................. Dan O’Brien Track and Field Complex Athletic Department Phone...................... (208) 885-0200 Athletic Department Fax........................... (208) 885-2862 Web Site............................................ www.GoVandals.com Twitter....................................................... @Idaho_Vandals

ATHLETIC MEDIA RELATIONS

Asst. Director....................................... Spencer Farrin (MBB/SOC/T&F/XC) Email...........................................spencerf@uidaho.edu Office...................................................... (208) 885-7065 Cell......................................................... (208) 310-9610 Asst. AD/Media Relations......................... Becky Paull (FB/GOLF/S&D) Email...............................................bpaull@uidaho.edu Office...................................................... (208) 885-0245 Asst. Director..................................Nick Heidelberger (WBB/VB/TEN) Email................................. nheidelberger@uidaho.edu Office...................................................... (208) 885-0245 Media Relations Fax............................. (208) 885-0255

The 2011-12 University of Idaho Cross Country/Track and Field Yearbook was written, designed and produced by Spencer Farrin, with research, editing and design input from Becky Paull, Nick Heidelberger and student work staff of the University of Idaho Athletics Media Relations Office. Action photography by Spencer Farrin (Moscow, Idaho), Larry Johnson (Seattle, Wash.), Bruce Mann (Moscow, Idaho) and the Western Athletic Conference. Student-athlete and coach head shots and cover photograph by Jonathan Billings (Archer Photography - Moscow, Idaho).

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WOMEN’S INDOOR 3000M - SECOND TEAM

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MEN’S OUTDOOR JAVELIN - HONORABLE MENTION

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DENVER – Louisiana Tech track and field athlete Chelsea Hayes along with Idaho track and field athlete Andrew Blaser and Utah State football player Robert Turbin are the 2011-12 Western Athletic Conference Joe Kearney Award winners. With the two men’s winners, it is the first time in the 21-year history of the award that co-Joe Kearney Award winners have been named. It is also the first time a student-athlete from Idaho, Louisiana Tech or Utah State has won the award. Named in honor of former WAC commissioner Joe Kearney, the awards are given annually to the top male and female student-athletes in the WAC. Hayes completed her career at Louisiana Tech by earning first team All-America honors in both the 100-meters and long jump earlier this month. She was the national runner-up at the indoor meet held in March. Hayes was a 14-time WAC champion and 15-time first team all-WAC honoree. She holds the WAC record in nine categories and is the only athlete in WAC history to sweep both the track athlete of the week and field athlete of the week honors in the same week (which she did twice). Hayes is the school’s record holder in six events and recorded the 10 best long jump distances in Tech history. “Look at her list of honors and I think Chelsea’s athletic accomplishments speak for itself,” said Louisiana Tech head track and field coach Gary Stanley. “What is impressive is she was able to accomplish all of that after being chased out of New Orleans from Hurricane Katrina before her senior year of high school and almost didn’t graduate from high school after bouncing around from several states and four or five high schools. Words cannot do Chelsea justice with her athleticism, drive to succeed and with the overall way she carries herself despite any type of pressure whether it be placed on her by herself, her teammates or any member of our coaching staff.” Blaser was named the Outstanding Field Performer at both the WAC Indoor and Outdoor Track & Field Championships in 2012. He was also the high point award honoree at both championships. He won five titles during the two seasons including the 60-meter hurdles, high jump and heptathlon at the indoor meet and the 110-meter hurdles and defended his title in the decathlon at the outdoor meet. His performance helped Idaho to a sweep of the two championships and he did all of this despite undergoing surgery for a hernia in December of 2011. Blaser finished his career with a program-best 17 all-WAC honors in the two sports. “Andrew came to Idaho as a solid multi-event athlete and turned himself into one of the greatest all-around athletes in the history of the University of Idaho,” said Wayne Phipps, Director of Track & Field at Idaho. “His motivation to do so came purely from a team standpoint - he wanted to do whatever he could to help Idaho win its first ever men’s WAC title in any sport.” Turbin earned Utah State’s first WAC Offensive Player of the Year award and helped the Aggies to its first winning season since 1993 and a trip to the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl. He rushed for 1,517 yards and led the WAC in scoring with 23 touchdowns and 138 points. The junior finished his career as the school’s all-time leader in scoring with 308 points and total touchdowns with 51. He was picked by Seattle in the fourth round of the 2012 NFL Draft.

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WE ARE... Runners, Jumpers, Throwers MOSCOW, Idaho – On May 2, University of Idaho track and field welcomed more than 50 local elementary school students to the third annual We Are… Runners, Jumpers, Throwers free kids camp at the Dan O’Brien Track & Field Complex.

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The event was a rousing success for all involved, and Idaho volunteer assistant Angela Whyte said the event had its most participants since its inception in 2009 and that both the team and the kids enjoyed themselves. The event was put on a one-year hiatus in 2011 because of construction in the Kibbie Dome and on the outdoor track, and Whyte said parents and children alike were very excited to hear about the team bringing the camp back this year. “I know a lot of people were upset when we didn’t do the camp last year, so it was great to see so many come out,” Whyte said. “It’s great for our Vandals to be able to enjoy track through the eyes of these kids. A lot of kids know about running, but don’t know what track and field really is. If we’re able to spark the sport in some of these kids, that’s just great.”

“It’s great for our Vandals to be able to enjoy track through the eyes of these kids. A lot of kids know about running, but don’t know what track and field really is. If we’re able to spark the sport in some of these kids, that’s just great.”

Whyte, a two-time Olympian in the 100m hurdles for her home country of Canada, said she had seen similar events across her home country while she was growing up and wanted to try to build that same support locally in Moscow. Junior Mike Marshall, a 2012 All-American in the javelin throw and an Elementary Education major at Idaho, said he enjoyed getting to introduce the students to his sport and to show them what he does outside the classroom. “I recognized a lot of kids I’ve taught in school, so it was nice to see them out here and to be able to show them about track,” Marshall said. “I think it’s really important to get them into the sport when they’re young, because I didn’t even really get into track until later in high school. It’s nice to introduce them to something other than the more popular sports like baseball or soccer.”

The children were separated into teams according to age, and taken from station to station on the track, where they learned the sprints, hurdles, long jump, high jump and the throws, as instructed by members of the Idaho track and field team. “A lot of the kids don’t know very much about track and field, so it’s fun to be able to introduce them to all the different events and show them how fun it can be,” said junior multi-athlete Alyssa Covington, who led the long jump station. Whyte pointed out the individual accomplishments of the Vandal track and field student-athletes at the end of the event and emphasized to the children to stay active and be involved in athletics. She said that hopefully, the camp can continue to grow and build interest in the sport. “I was excited to bring something here that I saw back in Canada and to get our team involved in the community,” Whyte said. “It has been a really fun experience for everyone, and hopefully we’ve helped some of these kids find something new they can try.” Whyte also credited Gropp Heating, Air and Electric in Moscow for sponsoring the event a third time in a row to cover the cost of the free camp t-shirts for every participant.

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The University of Idaho track and field program has had success in the recent past, but its championship roots go back to the turn of the century. The Idaho team had a breakout year in 1905, when it finished second in the Lewis and Clark Exposition Games at Portland, Ore. Leading the charge for the Vandals was Clarence “Hec” Edmundson, who won two events for the three-man team, despite competing against nationally recognized schools from across the Northwest. Edmundson impressed spectators with his graceful form and unfaltering determination. The Lewis and Clark Games helped lay the groundwork for a growing track and field team that would go on to add many more pages to the books of Vandal legend. In 1908, Edmundson organized the school’s first cross country team and later that same year, he represented the United States in the 800m run at the Olympic Games at London. I n 1909, Edmundson was the top half-miler in the country, a title which held up for three more years. By the time he graduated in 1910, Edmundson had set such high standards that some of his school records were untouched for 17 years. In 1912, he headed to Stockholm for his second Olympic Games competition, where he was a finalist in the 800m and a semifinalist in the 400m. Edmundson was the first, but certainly not the last, Olympian to hail from the state of Idaho. By 1915, yet another Vandal track star was receiving national acclaim. John L. “Buck” Philips set a collegiate record at the Penn Relays National Record Holders Tuelo Setswamorogo..... Botswana...............3k Steeplechase (Outdoor).................. 11:13.26 at Philadelphia by throwing the javelin 177 feet, an Anders Møller................ Denmark...............Triple Jump (Indoor).............................55-9.75 eight-foot improvement on the previous record. Triple Jump (Outdoor)...............................55-0 Vandal cross country got its first taste of championships in Joachim Olsen................ Denmark...............Shot Put (Indoor)........................................70-5 1923 by winning the Pacific Coast title, then repeating the feat the Discus (Indoor).........................................192-6 following year. These back-to-back championships forged Idaho’s legacy of great Shot Put (Outdoor)..............................70-11.75 distance runners. Sherwin James................ Dominica..............55m (Indoor)................................................6.35 While back-to-back championships are great, there is nothing quite like five in 60m (Indoor)................................................6.72 100m (Outdoor).........................................10.47 a row. Vandal harriers established a Pacific Coast cross country dynasty from 1937 4x100m Relay (Outdoor)..........................40.48 to 1941, winning every PCC title during that time. The success of the team attracted Stephen Lewis................ Montserrat............60m (Indoor)................................................6.91 Idaho’s next great runner, Vic Dyrgall. In 1939, Dyrgall began his career as one of 100m (Outdoor).........................................10.26 the top runners in the nation and one of the first great Vandal athletes. In just his 200m (Outdoor).........................................20.84 freshman year, Dyrgall qualified for the NCAA National Championship, where he Hugo Munoz.................. Peru........................High Jump (Indoor).................................7-3.75 finished seventh. He would go on to win trophy after trophy for the university until High Jump (Outdoor)................................7-6.5 World War II interrupted his collegiate career. In 1946, Dyrgall returned from his Jose Riesco...................... Peru........................110m Hurdles (Outdoor)..........................14.17 service in the war to lead the Vandals to yet another Pacific Coast Championship. Tawanda Chiwira........... Zimbabwe.............200 Meters (Indoor)...................................21.15 In 1952, Idaho track and field got its first NCAA champion in Dave Martindale, 4x100m Relay (Outdoor)..........................40.01 4x400m Relay (Outdoor)...................... 3:00.79 who took home the crown in the pole vault with a height of 13-9. Idaho’s next great Felix Kamangirira.......... Zimbabwe.............4x100m Relay (Outdoor)..........................40.01 athlete was Steve Brown, who made waves in 1967 when he became the first person in Letiwe Marakurwa........ Zimbabwe.............3k Steeplechase (Outdoor).................... 9:52.98 the West to clear seven feet in the high jump. Brown took home the NCAA high jump Nikela Ndebele............... Zimbabwe.............60m (Indoor)................................................6.70 title with a leap of 7 feet, 1½ inches to become the Idaho’s second NCAA champion. Vandal sprinter Chris Stokes, a member of Idaho’s 1985 school-record 4x100m relay team, probably will be remembered for something a little different. Stokes, a native of Jamaica, was one of the original members of the Jamaican bobsled team that competed in the 1988 Olympics and inspired the Disney movie “Cool Runnings.” It became apparent as early as high school that there was something special about Dan O’Brien. In his senior year at Henley High School at Klamath Falls, Ore., he earned four state track titles and earned all-state honors in both football and basketball. O’Brien was a 1989 NCAA qualifier in the 55m hurdles, where he finished seventh. In that same year, he established a school record of 7,988 in the decathlon. That still stands today as the Idaho school record and the all-time Big Sky Conference record. In 1991, O’Brien began a career of world domination in the decathlon with a gold-medal finish in the event at the World Championships with a score of 8,812. Later that year, he won the event at the USA Outdoors with a score of 8,844 and earned a No. 1 ranking by Track and Field News. After a no-height in the pole vault kept him out of the 1992 Olympic Games, O’Brien came back with a vengeance. At a meet in Talence, France, later that year, he set a world record in the decathlon with a score of 8,891 and beat Olympic champion Robert Zmelik by 547 points. O’Brien won his second World Championship in 1993 with an 8,817-point effort to give him another No. 1 world ranking. That same year, O’Brien set a world record, which still stands today, in the heptathlon at the World Indoor Championship with a score of 6,476. Over the next two years, O’Brien won another World Championship and USA Outdoor championship to give him three titles for each meet.

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O’Brien won the decathlon at the 1996 Olympic Trials and earned a spot on the 1996 U.S. Olympic Team. He made the most of his opportunity and earned the gold medal in the event to become the first American to win the decathlon in 20 years. After not competing in 1997 because of injury, O’Brien returned in 1998 for the Goodwill Games, where he scored 8,755 points and earned his record sixth No. 1 ranking from Track and Field News. In November of 2006, “The World’s Greatest Athlete,” Dan O’Brien was inducted into the USA Track and Field Hall of Fame. As the Vandals changed athletic conferences, one thing didn’t change – success. Idaho won five Big Sky outdoor team championships from 1981 to 1996, then took the move to the Big West in stride and took home the 1997 Big West Outdoor Championship in its first year in the conference. That title would be the first of six total team titles and 60 individual Big West titles from 1997 to 2005.

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In 1996, Tawanda Chiwira came to Idaho from Zimbabwe. In his four years at Idaho, Chiwira was an All-American in both the 400m dash and the 4x400m relay. He left the school as the Vandal men’s all-time top conference outdoor scorer with 81 points. A 1996 Olympian and World Championship finalist, Chiwira used his experience to help create a foundation of success for his Idaho teams. Chiwira holds Zimbabwe’s 200m indoor national record and was a member of two nationalrecord relays, as well. He was a member of Zimbabwe’s national-record 4x400m and Vandal Olympians 4x100m relays. Former Vandal teammate Felix Kamangirira was also a member of the 4x100m relay team. Chris Stokes................................ Jamaica...................... 1988, 1992, 1994, 1998 Francis DoDoo.......................... Ghana...................................1988, 1992, 1996 In 1998, Idaho welcomed another world-class athlete in high jumper Hugo Munoz Eversley Linley........................... Saint Kitts.............................1988, 1992, 1996 of Peru. Like Chiwira, Munoz was a 1996 Olympian. During his Vandal career, Munoz Greg Sun..................................... Trinidad & Tobago..............1994, 1998, 2002 was a two-time NCAA qualifier. In 1999, Munoz broke a 20-year-old outdoor school Joachim Olsen............................ Denmark........................... 2000, ^2004, 2008 record in the high jump with a leap of 7-3¾. Munoz’s indoor personal best of 7-3¾ in Clarence “Hec” Edmundson.... United States..................................1908, 1912 the event is the national record for Peru. Tawanda Chiwira....................... Zimbabwe......................................1996, 2000 Hugo Munoz.............................. Peru.................................................1996, 2000 Before helping set both the indoor and outdoor school records in the 4x400m Angela Whyte............................. Canada...........................................2004, 2008 relay in 1998, former Vandal Adekunle Adejuyigbe was a world-class sprinter from Vic Dyrgall................................. United States............................................ 1952 Nigeria. In 1995, Adejuyigbe earned a bronze medal at the World Championships in Orde Ballantyne......................... Saint Vincent........................................... 1988 Gothenburg, Sweden. In doing so, Adejuigbe became the youngest medalist in the Jackie Ross.................................. Saint Vincent........................................... 1988 history of the World Championships. He was only 18 years, 5 months old at the time. Lenford O’Garro........................ Australia................................................... 1992 Patrick Williams........................ Jamaica..................................................... 1992 Joachim Olsen came to Idaho from Denmark in 1999 and immediately established Adekunle Adejuyigbe................ Nigeria...................................................... 1996 himself as both a Big West and a national force in the throws. In Olsen’s four years Jose Riesco.................................. Peru........................................................... 1996 at Idaho, he earned six Big West individual titles and qualified for the NCAA Dan O’Brien............................... United States.......................................... #1996 Championship every year. In six NCAA Championship appearances for the shot put, Eric Haynes................................ Jamaica..................................................... 1996 Olsen never finished lower than third and took home the 2000 NCAA title to become Sherwin James............................ Dominica................................................. 2000 Errol Aguilera............................ Trinidad & Tobago.................................. 2002 the third NCAA champion in Idaho track and field history. Olsen also qualified twice # - Gold Medal, Decathlon in the discus and finished sixth both times. Olsen left Idaho in 2002 as the most ^ - Bronze Medal, Shot Put decorated athlete in Idaho track and field history with eight All-America honors to his name. Olsen went on to compete in the 2004 Olympic Games for Denmark, where he won a bronze medal. He ended the 2004 track and field season as the world’s top-ranked athlete in the shot put. In 2001, thrower Katja Schreiber brought Idaho its first women’s NCAA individual title. After finishing fourth at the 2000 NCAA Outdoor Championship, Schreiber returned in 2001 and launched the discus 197-11 to earn the national title. Her closest competition was more than 13 feet behind. Sprinter Angela Whyte ended her Vandal career in 2003 as a four-time All-American, five-time Big West individual champion and the owner of 13 school records. Whyte was a two-time Big West Athlete of the Year as she helped bring the Idaho women team titles in 2001 and 2003. She also finished third in the heptathlon at the 2003 NCAA Outdoor Championship. In 2003, Whyte competed in her first IAAF World Championship where she finished 12th in the 100m hurdles. In 2007, she finished eighth at the competition. Whyte represented Canada in the Olympics in 2004 and 2008, with a sixth-place finish in 2004. In 2005, Idaho moved to the Western Athletic Conference and immediately made an impact Idaho took the women’s cross country team and individual titles by placing four runners in the top five, which included WAC champion and Cross Country Athlete of the Year, Dee Olson. In 2006, another Vandal took home the individual title. True freshman Rhea Richter won the women’s individual title and earned WAC Athlete of the Year and WAC Freshman of the Year honors. In 2008, Allix Lee-Painter won the women’s title and earned WAC Athlete of the Year accolades in cross country, then followed it up with a 2009 WAC Indoor Track Performer of the Year and in 2010 with a WAC Outdoor Track Performer of the Year honor and WAC High Point Award. She finished her career in 2010 as the only woman in WAC history to be named Athlete of the Year in three differenlt sports. Ulrike Hartz was named WAC Outdoor Field Performer of the Year in 2010 after winning the heptathlon and javelin and scoring in the long jump, 200m and 4x100m relay. Paul Dittmer was named WAC Freshman of the Year for the 2007 outdoor season, while Markus Geiger grabbed the honor in 2008-09 in both men’s cross country and indoor track and field. In 2010, Idaho’s women claimed their third WAC cross country crown World Championship Finalists by putting five runners in the top 15. Markus Geiger grabbed 2011 WAC Men’s Indoor Track Co-Performer of the Year honors after winning the Dan O’Brien........................... 1991, Decathlon, 1st 3000m and taking runner-up honors in the 3000m. Junior Barry Britt 1993, Decathlon, 1st 1995, Decathlon, 1st made Idaho history in the 2011 outdoor season as the first Vandal man Adekunle Adejuyigbe..... 1995, 4x400m Relay, 3rd to earn double gold in the 5000m and 10,000m at the same conference Tawanda Chiwira.............1997, 4x400m Relay, 7th championship meet. Joachim Olsen...........................2002, Shot Put 2nd Idaho’s men made history in 2012 with the school’s first WAC men’s title 2003, Shot Put (Indoor), 8th 2004, Shot Put, 1st in any sport with a WAC Indoor Track & Field crown, then they followed 2004, Shot Put (Indoor), 3rd it up with a 2012 WAC outdoor crown to give the team its first indoor/ 2005, Shot Put, 7th outdoor sweep since 1997. Vandal women’s cross country successfully 2006, Shot Put, 3rd defended its WAC title in 2011, which gives the team four crowns in 2006, Shot Put (Indoor), 3rd Two-Time All-American seven years since joining the WAC. Three more Vandals - sophomore 2007, Shot Put, 11th Hannah Kiser and senior Jeremy Klas indoors, and junior Mike Marshall Anders Møller................... 2005, Triple Jump, 12th Tawanda Chiwira Angela Whyte..................2007, 100m Hurdles, 8th outdoors - earned All-America honors for Idaho in 2012.

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Another season, another conference title for Vandal women’s cross country.

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For the second consecutive year and the fourth time since 2005, the Idaho women’s cross country team took home the Western Athletic Conference championship trophy. Four Vandals finished in the top 10 and earned All-WAC honors, while director of track and field/cross country Wayne Phipps earned his second-consecutive WAC Women’s Coach of the Year award. The team’s dominant performance at the end of the season was a reflection of its year-long success. The Vandals were ranked as high as 13th in the West Region by the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association. They finished in the top five at five meets against nationally-ranked competition. In only their second race of the season, Idaho placed second at the Sundodger Invitational behind only Washington, the country’s 11th-ranked team at the time. A trio of sophomores left their mark on the 2012 season in a big way. Hannah Kiser was the top collegiate finisher in four consecutive meets before finishing second at the WAC Championships. She also finished 18th overall at the NCAA West Region Championships to claim USTFCCCA All-Region honors and her first career NCAA Championships bid. Her outstanding season also included a First-Team All-WAC honor and three Verizon WAC Women’s Cross Country Athlete of the Week selections. Fellow sophomores Emily Paradis and Alycia Butterworth also excelled for Idaho. Paradis took third and Butterworth came in fifth – both career-best finishes – at the WAC Championships, and each was a First-Team All-WAC honoree. Paradis was Idaho’s second finisher four times during the year, while Butterworth did so twice. The team’s senior leaders were key contributors, as well. Anna Kalbrener made Second-Team All-WAC and was an Idaho scorer in four meets, including the WAC Championship, where she took eighth overall. Julia Veseth was a scorer in five Vandal meets during the year, including at the NCAA West Region Championships. Vandal women’s cross country was just as impressive in the classroom as on the track. The group was honored as a USTFCCCA Division I All-Academic Team with a cumulative 3.60 grade-point average, while Kiser was a Division I All-Academic individual selection and nine women earned WAC All-Academic accolades.

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The 2012 men’s cross country team used an ample supply of senior leadership and stand-out performances to earn its spot as one of the top teams in the conference. Idaho was ranked as high as 12th in the West Region by the U.S Track & Field Cross Country Coaches Association. Three runners were named to the All-Western Athletic Conference First Team after the Vandals finished third overall at the WAC Championships. The Vandal men placed second in two meets, including the Sundodger Invitational, where they finished just behind Washington, the West Region’s sixth-ranked team. In that race, Idaho put four runners in the top 10. Idaho ended the season in strong fashion when the team finished 12th out of 25 teams at the NCAA West Region Championships. Idaho will say farewell to eight seniors, three of whom garnered impressive individual accolades in their final season. Senior Markus Geiger took third at the WAC meet to earn his fourth-consecutive First-Team All-WAC honor – most in program history. He never finished worse than fourth in a conference meet in his career. Senior transfer Stephane Colle made an immediate impact in his first year as a Vandal. Colle was named the Verizon WAC Cross Country Athlete of the Week after completing the Dellinger Invitational with an exceptional time of 24:06.45. Senior Jeremiah Dubie earned First-Team All-WAC honors for the first time in his career after taking seventh overall at the WAC Championships. Junior Barry Britt did not miss a beat following his outstanding 2011 season, with a second-consecutive First-Team All-WAC honor and top finishes in four Idaho meets during the year, including his individual runner-up honor at the WAC Championships. He also took second overall in the Canadian Cross Country Championships at Vancouver B.C. In addition to the team’s athletic achievements, nine individual runners were rewarded with WAC All-Academic honors and the team was selected as a USTFCCCA Division I All-Academic Team with a combined 3.50 gradepoint average.

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2011 Cross Country Award Winners

Hannah Kiser

Emily Paradis

(Sophomore)

USTFCCCA All-Region

Anna Kalbrener

Hannah Kiser

Alycia Butterworth

(Sophomore)

(Senior)

Markus Geiger

(Junior)

Jeremiah Dubie

(Senior)

(Sophomore)

USTFCCCA Division I All-Academic

First-Team All-WAC

Barry Britt

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First-Team All-WAC

Second-Team All-WAC

Hannah Kiser

(Senior)

(Sophomore)

Western Athletic Conference All-Academic

Alex Brekke

James Clark

Stéphane Colle

Jeremiah Dubie

Alycia Butterworth

Laurel Draper

Anna Kalbrener

Hannah Kiser

(Senior)

(Sophomore)

(Senior)

(Junior)

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(Senior)

(Sophomore)

Markus Geiger (Senior)

Jeff Osborn (Junior)

Ailene MacPherson Diana Rosslerova (Sophomore)

(Senior)

Matt Robinson

Luke Tonnemaker

Kyle Tylor

Lauren Schaffer

Holly Stanton

Julia Veseth

(Senior)

(Sophomore)

(Junior)

(Senior)

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2011 Meet-by-Meet Results

Men

Women

Clash of the Inland Northwest (Spokane, Wash.)

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Sep. 3, 2011 (6200m)

5. 10. 11. 26. 34. 38. 39. 56. 62. 68. 74.

Markus Geiger Stephane Colle Barry Britt Jeremiah Dubie Alex Brekke Jeff Osborn James Clark Matt Robinson Cayle Turpen Luke Tonnemaker Kyle Tylor Team

Sep. 3, 2011 (4200m)

18:34.8 18:56.5 18:57.9 19:30.7 19:47.1 19:54.8 19:55.3 20:22.7 20:32.9 21:03.4 21:49.7 (Avg.) 19:09.40

5 9 10 18 23 25 26

Sep. 17, 2011 (8000m)

Barry Britt Stephane Colle Markus Geiger Jeremiah Dubie James Clark Jeff Osborn Alex Brekke Matt Robinson Cayle Turpen Luke Tonnemaker Team

24:14.36 24:18.02 24:32.39 24:33.80 25:14.51 25:16.33 25:46.46 26:19.23 26:39.16 27:03.19 (Avg.) 24:34.62

2 3 6 8 15 16 25

34 (2nd)

Oct. 1, 2011 (8000m)

Stephane Colle Barry Britt Markus Geiger Jeremiah Dubie Jeff Osborn Alex Brekke Matt Robinson Team

24:06.45 24:11.81 24:14.63 24:23.23 25:44.41 25:58.67 26:40.42 (Avg.) 24:17.26

11 14 15 21 49 51 57 110 (4th)

Bronco Invitational (Sunnyvale, Calif.) Oct. 15, 2011 (8000m)

16. 21. 35. 46. 103. 131. 144.

Barry Britt Stephane Colle Jeremiah Dubie Markus Geiger James Clark Alex Brekke Jeff Osborn Team

24:21.5 24:26.6 24:39.3 24:54.9 25:52.6 26:19.8 26:42.9 (Avg.) 24:51.0

15 20 30 39 87 109 114 191 (5th)

WAC Championships (Honolulu, Hawai`i) Oct. 29, 2011 (8000m)

2. 3. 7. 21. 29. 33. --

Barry Britt Markus Geiger Jeremiah Dubie Stephane Colle Jeff Osborn Alex Brekke James Clark Team

25:16.4 25:26.0 25:52.9 26:45.3 27:43.9 28:02.4 DNF (Avg.) 26:12.90

2 3 7 20 27 30 59 (3rd)

NCAA West Region Championships (Palo Alto, Calif.) Nov. 11, 2011 (10,000m)

30. Barry Britt 75. Stephane Colle 76. Jeremiah Dubie 92. Markus Geiger 137. Jeff Osborn Team

30:12 30:59 31:00 31:20 32:17 (Avg.) 31:10

14:11.3 14:38.4 14:42.5 14:50.8 14:51.6 14:59.7 15:55.1 16:20.3 17:12.9 (Avg.) 14:38.92

1 7 8 12 13 15 26

41 (2nd)

Sep. 17, 2011 (6000m)

2. 8. 10. 14. 19. 24. 58. 43. 45.

Hannah Kiser Alycia Butterworth Emily Paradis Julia Veseth Holly Stanton Anna Kalbrener Diana Rosslerova Alycia Butterworth Emily Paradis Team

20:58.43 21:28.69 21:40.55 21:47.51 21:59.52 22:21.45 24:13.68 23:02.38 23:12.21 (Avg.) 21:34.94

1 7 9 12 16 21 43

45 (2nd)

Dellinger Invitational (Eugene, Ore.) Oct. 1, 2011 (5000m)

Dellinger Invitational (Eugene, Ore.) 14. 17. 18. 24. 64. 67. 73.

Hannah Kiser Anna Kalbrener Alycia Butterworth Julia Veseth Emily Paradis Holly Stanton Laurel Draper Diana Rosslerova Ailene MacPherson Team

Sundodger Invitational (Seattle, Wash.)

65 (2nd)

Sundodger Invitational (Seattle, Wash.) 3. 4. 7. 9. 25. 26. 38. 44. 49. 56.

2. 8. 9. 13. 14. 17. 30. 39. 57.

28 72 73 89 134 396 (12th)

1. 22. 31. 42. 46. 71. 74. 76.

Hannah Kiser Emily Paradis Alycia Butterworth Anna Kalbrener Julia Veseth Holly Stanton Lauren Schaffer Laurel Draper Team

16:45.71 17:24.64 17:30.95 17:50.15 17:56.48 18:26.01 18:41.15 18:46.26 (Avg.) 17:29.59

1 20 29 39 42 60 63 131 (5th)

Bronco Invitational (Sunnyvale, Calif.) Oct. 15, 2011 (5000m)

1. 21. 24. 50. 55. 68. 113.

Hannah Kiser Alycia Butterworth Emily Paradis Julia Veseth Holly Stanton Anna Kalbrener Lauren Schaffer Team

16:55.3 17:37.6 17:39.5 18:09.2 18:12.3 18:18.6 18:41.3 (Avg.) 17:42.8

1 16 18 43 48 58 98 126 (4th)

WAC Championships (Honolulu, Hawai`i) Oct. 29, 2011 (5000m)

2. 4. 5. 8. 19. 25. 38. 40.

Hannah Kiser Emily Paradis Alycia Butterworth Anna Kalbrener Holly Stanton Lauren Schaffer Julia Veseth Laurel Draper Team

17:55.8 18:29.5 18:36.6 18:57.3 19:23.5 19:40.3 20:09.9 20:16.1 (Avg.) 18:40.54

2 4 5 8 19 25 35 38 (1st)

NCAA West Region Championships (Palo Alto, Calif.) Nov. 11, 2011 (6000m)

18. 58. 84. 95. 108. 122. 174.

Hannah Kiser Emily Paradis Alycia Butterworth Anna Kalbrener Julia Veseth Holly Stanton Lauren Schaffer Team

20:48 21:39 22:01 22:08 22:18 22:30 23:17 (Avg.) 21:47

18 58 83 94 107 121 171 360 (13th)

NCAA Division I Championships (Terre Haute, Ind.) Nov. 21, 2011 (6000m)

85.

Hannah Kiser

20:54.0

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2005 2007

Men’s Team Titles Pacific Coast Conference

1923, 1924, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1946, 1957

Big Sky Conference 1963, 1965

Women’s Team Titles Mountain West Athletic Conference 1982

Big West Conference 2002

Western Athletic Conference 2005, 2007, 2010, 2011

Individual Champions Pacific Coast Conference Victor Dyrgall - 1941 (Men)

Mountain West Athletic Conference

Patsy Sharples - 1982 (Women) Patsy Sharples - 1983 (Women)

Big Sky Conference

Angie Mathison - 1993 (Women)

Big West Conference

Letiwe Marakurwa - 2002 (Women)

Western Athletic Conference

Dee Olson - 2005 (Women) Rhea Richter - 2006 (Women) Allix Potratz-Lee - 2008 (Women)

All-WAC Honorees

Jan Eitel - 2002 (West) Barry Britt - 2010 (West)

Women

Hannah Kiser - 2011 (West)

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2005

Dee Olson (First Team) Bevin Kennelly (First Team) Mary Kamau (First Team) Mandy Macalister (First Team)

Women

2006

Women

2007

Rhea Richter (First Team)

Individual Awards Men

Dale Engler (Second Team) Kevin Friesen (Second Team)

Women

2008

Women

2009

Teegan Schoch (First Team)

Women

2010

Lauren Schaffer (First Team) Hannah Kiser (First Team) Erica Digby (Second Team) Maggie Miller (Second Team)

Women

2011

Hannah Kiser (First Team) Emily Paradis (First Team) Alycia Butterworth (First Team) Anna Kalbrener (Second Team)

Mountain West Athletic Conference

Women’s Coach of the Year Roger Norris (1982)

Big Sky Conference

Men’s Coach of the Year Doug MacFarland (1963, 1965)

Men

Big West Conference

Men

Women’s Athlete of the Year Letiwe Marakurwa (2002)

Kevin Friesen (First Team)

Mandy Macalister (First Team) Diego Moreno-Guzman (First Team) Dee Olson (First Team) Kevin Friesen (Second Team) Melissa McFaddan (First Team) Allix Potratz-Lee (Second Team)

Allix Potratz-Lee (First Team) Maike Holthuijzen (Second Team) Teegan Schoch (Second Team)

USTFCCCA All-Region Men

2011 2010

Men

Markus Geiger (First Team)

Women’s Coach of the Year Wayne Phipps (2002)

Western Athletic Conference Women’s Coach of the Year Wayne Phipps (2005, 2007, 2010, 2011)

Women’s Athlete of the Year Dee Olson (2005) Rhea Richter (2006) Allix Potratz-Lee (2008) Women’s Freshman of the Year Rhea Richter (2006)

Men

Markus Geiger (First Team)

Men

Markus Geiger (First Team) Barry Britt (First Team)

Men

Barry Britt (First Team) Markus Geiger (First Team) Jeremiah Dubie (First Team)

Men’s Freshman of the Year Markus Geiger (2008)

NCAA Championships Men

1939 Victor Dyrgall (7th)

Women

2004 Letiwe Marakurwa - 96th (21:53.6) Mary Kamau - 127th (22:13.1) Mandy Macalister - 179th (22:41.0) Dee Olson - 183rd (22:43.7) Bevin Kennelly - 190th (22:51.9) Tania Vander Muelen - 220th (23:12.5) Alisha Murdoch - 244th (24:09.9) Team: 25th (607) 2011 Hannah Kiser - 85th (20:54)

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Cross Country Championship History WAC Women’s Titles

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BY ANTHONY KUIPERS (MEDIA RELATIONS INTERN)

For the first time in its history, the University of Idaho men’s indoor track and field team stands atop the Western Athletic Conference.

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The Vandals clinched the WAC Championship in dominating fashion by winning eight events, the most ever by the men’s team in a conference championship meet. Idaho swept all four jumping events for the first time in program history and won the heptathlon, which earned the team 95.5 of its 217.5 total points. Idaho also won the 4x400m relay, the distance medley relay and the 60m hurdles. When it was all over, Vandal men’s athletes combined to earn 29 First-Team All-WAC honors and 18 Second-Team accolades, while director of track and field/cross country Wayne Phipps was named WAC Men’s Coach of the Year. Elite, record-breaking performances were the story of the 2012 season. Everyone from the freshmen to the seniors shined against the top competitors in the conference and the region. Senior Jeremy Klas made the most of his final season at Idaho by qualifying for the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships, where he tied for 11th in the pole vault. Klas became the fourth man in school history to qualify for the NCAA Championships in three consecutive seasons and the first Idaho athlete to qualify for the NCAA Championships three times in a row in the pole vault. To cap it all off, The U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association selected him as All-American for the third year in a row. Along the way, Klas broke his own school record with one of the top vaults in the NCAA this season by clearing 17-9.75 (5.43m) at the Husky Classic. He was the only vaulter in the conference to clear 17 feet and also earned three Verizon WAC Athlete of the Week awards for the season. Senior Andrew Blaser put on a show during Idaho’s conference championship by winning three events and taking home the WAC Men’s Outstanding Field Performer and WAC High Point Award trophies. He won the heptathlon, high jump and 60m hurdles and scored a school-record 40 points at the WAC Indoor Championship. Senior Rendel Jones took care of business in the triple jump by winning gold at the championship, while the long jump title belonged to junior walk-on Jason Lorentz, who showed steady improvement throughout the year. The distances runners continued to make great strides this season. Senior Stephane Colle and junior Barry Britt turned heads as they jockeyed over the top spot in the Idaho record book. At the UW Open, Britt set the Idaho record in the 3000m, but Colle stole it away one month later at the UW Final Qualifier. Colle provided the most dramatic moment of the championship with his diving, come-from-behind win in a photo finish in the men’s distance medley relay, while Britt grabbed a pair of First-Team All-WAC honors in the 3000m and 5000m. In his final WAC meet, senior Josh Dalton won three golds as a member of Idaho’s winning distance medley relay and the second leg of the team’s title-clinching 4x400m relay. He also ran a 1:52.54 to win the men’s 800m title. Even the youngest Idaho competitors left their mark on the program. Freshman Ben Ayesu-Attah made an immediate impact in his first year as a Vandal with a meet record in his very first appearance in the 400m dash at the WSU Open. He was the top collegiate finisher in the same event at the Vandal Collegiate and ran the anchor leg in the 4x400 relay that sealed the WAC title. First-year Vandal Matt Sullivan set an Idaho freshman record in the men’s pole vault with a season-best height of 16-2 and earned First-Team All-WAC honors with a runner-up finish in the event at the WAC Championships. Sophomore Andrew Bloom ran the opening leg in the 4x400 relay, as well as the goldwinning distance relay team. Freshmen such as Jesse Villines and Colton Hastings were scorers for the Vandals in the 60m hurdles and mile run, respectively. Sophomore Tyler Bennett was an All-WAC First Team honoree after clearing a career-best 6-4.25 and taking third in the high jump. In all, 24 different Vandal men scored and earned All-WAC honors for the Vandals in a pure group effort for the team that goes down as the first Idaho men’s WAC champion.

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Four Vandals won Western Athletic Conference titles, 12 were All-WAC selections and one earned All-America honors. Idaho also toppled two school records, broke four meet records and finished second at the WAC Indoor Championships. It was a year filled with historical, record-breaking achievements, thanks in large part to a talented group of underclassmen. Sophomore Hannah Kiser is already making a name for herself on the national level in just her second year at Idaho. Kiser was selected as a U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association Second-Team All-American after finishing 13th in the women’s 3000m at the NCAA Indoor Championships. Kiser was also named WAC Women’s Outstanding Track Performer after winning the mile, 3000m and running the anchor leg of the winning distance medley team at the WAC Indoor Championship. She is the first woman in Idaho history to win an indoor conference title in the mile. Earlier in the season at the Husky Classic, Kiser became the third woman in Idaho history to hit an NCAA automatic qualifying mark when she ran a 9:07.23 in the 3000m to break both the Idaho school record at the WAC all-time record in the event. Kiser’s 9:45.11 in the 3000m was a meet record, while she combined with juniors Lauren Schaffer and Liga Velvere and senior Erica Digby to post a WAC meet-record 11:41.67 in the distance medley. Sophomore distance runner Alycia Butterworth earned First-Team All-WAC honors after finishing second in her first ever 5000m race and third in the 3000m at the conference championship. Velvere made history in the sprint events as she became the first Idaho woman to win back-to-back indoor 800m titles. She also broke the school record in that event at the Vandal Indoor with a 2:07.63. Sophomore sprinter Kelly Jacka came back strong after a hip injury forced her to redshirt last season. In her first meet of the year, she broke the WSU Open record in the 200m with a 25.39. She earned Second-Team All-WAC honors after running the first leg of the 3rd place 4x400m Relay at the Indoor Championship. The throwers left their mark on the season by sweeping the top three spots in the weight throw at the WSU Open and Vandal Indoor. Junior Kristine Leonard earned Verizon Indoor Women’s Field Athlete of the Week honors when she won the indoor discus and finished second in the 20-lb weight throw and shot put at the WSU Open. She also won the discus at the Vandal Indoor and Vandal Collegiate. She was the top collegiate finisher in the weight throw in the Vandal Collegiate as well. Senior Gabby Midles started the year off right by winning the women’s 20-lb weight toss at the WSU Open, then winning it again at the Idaho Indoor Open weeks later. She was a Second-Team All-WAC performer after taking sixth in the 20-lb weight throw at the conference championship. Freshman Johanna Hocketstaller posted the top shot put mark and scored 3,323 points on her way to a fourth-place finish and SecondTeam All-WAC honors in the pentathlon. In all, five different Vandal women combined to earn 12 First-Team All-WAC honors and seven more combined for 10 Second-Team awards. The team also earned four Verizon WAC Track and Field Athlete of the Week honors during the season. WWW.GOVANDALS.COM

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There was plenty of reason for optimism at the start of the 2012 season for the Idaho women’s indoor track and field team. With many of the same pieces from a successful 2011 season intact, the Vandals looked to compete among the top teams in the region. They did not disappoint.

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Women’s Distance Medley Relay (11:41.67)

Erica Digby (Senior)

Liga Velvere (Junior)

Lauren Schaffer (Junior)

Hannah Kiser (Sophomore)

Men’s Distance Medley Relay (9:56.87)

James Clark (Senior)

Josh Dalton (Senior)

Andrew Bloom (Sophomore)

Stepháne Colle (Senior)

Men’s 4x400m Relay (3:14.62)

Andrew Bloom (Sophomore)

Josh Dalton (Senior)

Kyle Tylor (Junior)

Ben Ayesu-Attah (Freshman)

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2012 WAC Indoor Track & Field Champions Women’s Mile

Women’s 3000m

Liga Velvere

Hannah Kiser

(2:09.05)

(4:45.67)

(9:45.11)

Men’s 800m

Men’s 60m Hurdles

Men’s High Jump

Men’s Heptathlon

Josh Dalton

Andrew Blaser

(1:52.54)

(8.03)

(6-4.25, 1.94m)

(5,324)

Men’s Pole Vault

Men’s Long Jump

Men’s Triple Jump

Jeremy Klas

Jason Lorentz

Rendel Jones

(17-4.5, 5.30m)

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(22-9.75, 6.95m)

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Women’s 800m

(47-7, 14.50m)

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400m:

Idaho Men’s Scoring 4th 5th

Josh Dalton James Clark Kyle Tylor

1st 3rd 6th

1:52.54 10 1:53.25 6 1:55.38 1

Mile:

Jeff Osborn Stephane Colle Colton Hastings

3rd 4th 6th

4:18.75 4:18.91 4:21.75

6 4 1

3000m:

Barry Britt Markus Geiger Stephane Colle

2nd 3rd 6th

8:19.66 8:28.31 8:39.85

8 6 1

5000m:

Markus Geiger Barry Britt

2nd 3rd

14:35.02 14:41.86

8 6

Andrew Blaser Jesse Villines

1st 6th

Andrew Bloom Josh Dalton Kyle Tylor Ben Ayesu-Attah

1st 1st 1st 1st

3:14.62 3:14.62 3:14.62 3:14.62

2.5 2.5 2.5 2.5

James Clark Josh Dalton Andrew Bloom Stephane Colle

1st 1st 1st 1st

9:56.87 9:56.87 9:56.87 9:56.87

2.5 2.5 2.5 2.5

Andrew Blaser Tyler Bennett Colin Briggs

1st 3rd T5th

6-4¼ 10 6-4¼ 6 5-10½ 1.5

Jeremy Klas Matt Sullivan Dylan Watts Andrew Blaser

1st 2nd T3rd T3rd

17-4½ 10 16-0¾ 8 15-7 4 15-7 4

Jason Lorentz Andrew Blaser Michael Bach Colin Briggs

1st 3rd 4th 5th

22-9¾ 10 22-6¼ 6 21-8¼ 4 21-6¼ 2

Rendel Jones Jason Lorentz

1st 5th

47-7 10 45-3¾ 2

Kyle Rothwell Donavon Cunningham Joseph Charles Zach Trumbauer

3rd 4th 5th 6th

48-2½ 44-5¼ 42-11¾ 40-8¼

6 4 2 1

Kyle Rothwell Donavon Cunningham Joseph Charles Zach Trumbauer

2nd 4th 5th 6th

57-8¼ 55-5 53-2¾ 51-9¾

8 4 2 1

Andrew Blaser Jeremy Klas Colin Briggs

1st 3rd 5th

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Mile:

3000m:

5000m:

60m Hurdles: 4x400m Relay:

Distance Medley Relay:

High Jump:

Pole Vault:

Long Jump:

Triple Jump: Shot Put:

35-lb. Weight Throw:

Heptathlon:

Team Total:

4 2

Idaho Women’s Scoring

Ben Ayesu-Attah Andrew Bloom

800m:

48.12 48.18

800m:

8.03 10 8.64 1

5,324 10 4,951 6 4,573 2

217.5

Liga Velvere Lauren Schaffer Keli Hall

1st 2nd 5th

2:09.05 10 2:10.12 8 2:12.92 4

Hannah Kiser Erica Digby Anna Kalbrener

1st 3rd 8th

4:45.67 10 4:49.84 6 5:04.60 1

Hannah Kiser Erica Digby Alycia Butterworth

1st 2nd 3rd

9:45.11 10 9:45.46 8 9:48.58 6

Alycia Butterworth

2nd

17:17.78

Cait Rowland

5th

8.99

Kelly Jacka Keli Hall Lauren Schaffer Liga Velvere

3rd 3rd 3rd 3rd

3:44.76 3:44.76 3:44.76 3:44.76

1.5 1.5 1.5 1.5

Erica Digby Liga Velvere Lauren Schaffer Hannah Kiser

1st 1st 1st 1st

11:41.67 11:41.67 11:41.67 11:41.67

2.5 2.5 2.5 2.5

Zoe Timmers

5th

5-6

Morgan Dunning

8th

11-3

Alyssa Covington

5th

18-9

Kristine Leonard

8th

43-11¾

Gabby Midles

6th

57-0

Johanna Höcketstaller Alyssa Covington

4th 8th

3,323 3,219

5 1

60m Hurdles:

4x400m Relay:

Distance Medley Relay:

High Jump: Pole Vault:

Long Jump: Shot Put:

20-lb. Weight Throw: Pentathlon:

Team Total: 1. Idaho

Men’s Team Scores

2. Utah State 3. Louisiana Tech

Women’s Team Scores

1. Utah State

2. Idaho

3. New Mexico State 4. Louisiana Tech 5. Nevada 6. Fresno State 7. Hawai`i

WAC Men’s Outstanding Field Performer

ANDREW BLASER

WAC Men’s High Point Award

ANDREW BLASER (40)

WAC Men’s Coach of the Year

110

217.5 212.5 77

144

110

WAYNE PHIPPS

WAC Women’s Outstanding Track Performer

94 89 86 71 67

HANNAH KISER

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2012 Individual Indoor Season/Career Bests MEN Season Career

Ben Ayesu-Attah 200m 400m

22.53 22.53 48.12 48.12

Michael Bach 60m Long Jump

7.56 7.56 21-8¼ 21-8¼

Tyler Bennett High Jump

6-4¼

Andrew Blaser 60m 1000m 60m Hurdles Pole Vault High Jump Long Jump Shot Put Heptathlon

7.14 7.14 3:05.48 3:01.86 8.03 8.03 16-0¾ 16-0¾ 6-4¼ 6-6¾ 22-6¼ 22-6¼ 40-7¾ 40-7¾ 5,324 5,324

Andrew Bloom 200m 400m

Alex Brekke Mile

60m 1000m 60m Hurdles High Jump Pole Vault Long Jump Triple Jump Shot Put Heptathlon Mile 3000m 5000m

7.38 7.38 3:03.24 3:03.24 8.92 8.92 5-10½ 6-0½ 13-9¼ 13-9¼ 21-6¼ 21-11¾ 44-2¾ 46-7½ 33-0¼ 33-0¼ 4,573 4,573 4:12.78 4:12.78 8:07.02 8:07.02 14:41.86 14:41.86

Adam Bunch 200m 400m

Joseph Charles Shot Put Weight Throw

James Clark 800m

Stepháne Colle Mile 3000m

22.26 22.26 48.18 48.18

4:33.12 4:25.30

Colin Briggs

Barry Britt

6-4¼

23.80* 23.80* 52.39 52.39 52-8 54-4½

52-8 54-4½

Josh Dalton 800m

Mile 3000m

Triple Jump

Jeremy Klas

60m 1000m 60m Hurdles High Jump Pole Vault Long Jump Shot Put Heptathlon

8:33.16 8:32.97

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47-7

7.33 7.33 3:06.76 3:06.76 8.93 8.93 5-8¾ 5-8¾ 17-9¾ 17-9¾ 20-11¾ 20-11¾ 35-1¾ 35-1¾ 4,951 4,951

Andrey Levkiv Shot Put Weight Throw

51-6¼ 47-10

Jason Lorentz Long Jump Triple Jump

23-0½ 45-3¾

52-4 47-10 23-0½ 45-3¾

Spencer Meinburg 60m 400m 800m

7.48 7.48 52.64 49.57 1:59.94 1:58.33

Jeff Osborn

1:59.89 1:56.49* 4:17.53 4:17.53 9:23.52 9:23.52

Matt Robinson 800m Mile

Kyle Rothwell Shot Put Weight Throw

Matt Sullivan Pole Vault

2:01.80 2:01.80 4:41.48 4:37.30*

48-2½ 58-11½

49-7¼ 58-11½

16-2

Zach Trumbauer Shot Put Weight Throw Mile

400m 800m

Jesse Villines 400m 60m Hurdles

Dylan Watts Pole Vault

Name

44-6¼ 51-9¾

4:33.15 4:33.15 50.45 50.45 1:52.84 1:52.84 52.12 52.12 8.64 8.64 16-6¾

16-6¾

*Time converted for track size

Season Career

Mercedes Blackwood 60m

7.96 7.96

Alycia Butterworth Mile 3000m 5000m

Allee Cooper 60m 200m

4:57.06 4:57.06 9:47.62 9:47.62 17:17.78 17:17.78 7.90 7.90 26.29 26.29

Alyssa Covington

800m 2:31.11 2:31.11 60m Hurdles 9.33 9.33 High Jump 4-7½ 4-7½ Long Jump 18-9 18-9 Shot Put 29-0 29-0 Pentathlon 3,219 3,219

Shot Put Discus Pentathlon

Kelly Jacka 200m 400m 800m Mile

Hannah Kiser 800m Mile 3000m

Abby Larson 3000m

Erica Digby

Katy Lutjens

800m Mile 3000m

Laurel Draper 800m Mile

2:24.52 2:24.52 2:11.22 2:11.22 4:46.44 4:46.44 9:45.46 9:45.46 2:13.74 2:13.74 5:28.60 5:13.18

Morgan Dunning

11-3

11-7¾

Reba Eggert

800m 2:45.55 2:45.55 60m Hurdles 10.43 10.43 High Jump 4-7½ 4-7½ Long Jump 14-8 14-8 Shot Put 36-3½ 36-3½ Pentathlon 2,675 2,675

Emma Goode 200m 400m

Keli Hall

400m 600m 800m

25.73 25.73 58.31 58.31 56.87 56.87 1:37.33 1:37.33 2:11.72 2:11.72 10-4

10-4

Taylor Hewett

800m 2:21.48 2:21.48 60m Hurdles 9.57 9.57 High Jump 5-2½ 5-2½ Long Jump 16-3¾ 16-3¾ Shot Put 29-3¾ 29-3¾ Pentathlon 3,251 3,251

Johanna Höcketstaller 800m 60m Hurdles High Jump Long Jump

2:14.25 2:14.25 4:55.52 4:55.52 2:10.65 2:10.65 4:42.41 4:42.41 9:07.23 9:07.23

11:19.08 11:19.08

Discus

44-7½ 45-3½ 55-10½ 55-10½ 158-3 158-3 125-0 125-0

Ailene MacPherson 3000m

Molly Meyers Shot Put Weight Throw

11:42.26 11:42.26 39-5 44-2¾

39-5 44-2¾

57-0

58-6

54-3¾

Gabby Midles Weight Throw

Sarah Nutsch Weight Throw

Diana Rosslerova 3000m

Cait Rowland 200m 400m 60m Hurdles

11:28.48 11:28.48 25.79 25.79 1:01.74 1:01.29 8.99 8.99

Lauren Schaffer

Sara Hemenway Pole Vault

24.68 24.59 56.69 56.69

Kristine Leonard Shot Put Weight Throw Discus

800m

44-9 44-9 144-4 144-4 3,323 3,323

Anna Kalbrener

Megan Dempsey

Pole Vault

800m Mile 3000m

Kyle Tylor

1:50.52 1:50.52

4:19.10 4:19.10 9:01.36 9:01.36

Rendel Jones

4:12.17 4:12.17 8:05.39 8:05.39 7.48 7.48 44-5¼ 44-5¼ 55-5 55-5

4:20.30 4:20.30 8:25.74 8:25.74 14:35.02 14:35.02

Colton Hastings

Cayle Turpen

Jeremiah Dubie 3000m

Mile 3000m 5000m

1:51.55 1:50.91

Donavon Cunningham 60m Shot Put Weight Throw

Markus Geiger

2:38.37 2:38.37 9.51 9.51 4-8¾ 4-8¾ 18-3 18-3

400m 800m

Holly Stanton Mile 3000m 5000m

Zoe Timmers High Jump

Liga Velvere 200m 400m 800m

Julia Veseth Mile 3000m 5000m

57.22 57.22 2:09.83 2:09.83

5:23.06 5:18.60 10:32.50 10:16.48 18:09.96 18:09.96 5-6

5-6

25.85 25.28 55.53 55.47 2:07.63 2:07.63 5:29.61 5:29.61 10:31.15 10:24.20 18:30.27 17:41.03

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Name

WOMEN

2011-12 IDAHO TRACK & FIELD/CROSS COUNTRY YEARBOOK Indoor Conference Championship History 1983 Women

Mountain West Athletic Conference

Indoor Team Titles 1997 Men 1984 Men Mountain Pacific

Big Sky Conference

Sports Federation

2011 WESTERN ATHLETIC CONFERENCE WOMEN’S CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONS

Individual Indoor Conference Champions Doug Beckman Bob Peterson Steve Saras Neil Crichlow John Trott Jim Sokolowski Neil Crichlow Mitch Crouser Neil Crichlow Dave Harewood Leroy Robinson Neil Crichlow Sam Koduah Mike Kinney George Ogbeide Stephen Lewis Dan O’Brien Dan O’Brien Patrick Williams Patrick Williams Eversley Linley Eversley Linley Darrick Davis Ty Koellmann Dave Smith Niels Kruller Tawanda Chiwira Felix Kamangirira Eric Hisaw Chris Kwaramba Tawanda Chiwira Niels Kruller Chris Kwaramba Ryan Lang Driss Yousfi Russ Winger Bastien Tardy Russ Winger Matt Wauters Lucas Pope Russ Winger Lucas Pope James Rogan Jeremy Klas Markus Geiger Jeremy Klas Eugenio Mannucci Josh Dalton Andrew Blaser Andrew Blaser Jeremy Klas Jason Lorentz Rendel Jones Andrew Blaser

Men:

One Mile High Jump Shot Put Triple Jump 800m High Jump Triple Jump Shot Put Triple Jump 400m 800m Triple Jump 500m Long Jump 200m 55m 55m Hurdles Long Jump 55m 200m 800m 800m 55m Hurdles 800m 400m Long Jump 200m 400m 55m Hurdles Triple Jump 400m Long Jump Triple Jump Heptathlon 800m Shot Put 800m Shot Put Weight Throw Pole Vault Shot Put Pole Vault Shot Put Pole Vault 5000m Pole Vault Shot Put 800m 60m Hurdles High Jump Pole Vault Long Jump Triple Jump Heptathlon

Total:

1979 1979 1979 1980 1981 1981 1981 1981 1982 1983 1983 1983 1984 1984 1988 1989 1989 1989 1990 1990 1990 1992 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1996 1996 1996 1997 1997 1997 2005 2006 2006 2007 2007 2007 2008 2008 2009 2009 2010 2011 2011 2011 2012 2012 2012 2012 2012 2012 2012

Women:

Allison Falkenberg-Ryan Mary Bradford Patsy Sharples Jackie Ross Jackie Ross Jackie Ross Jackie Ross Jackie Ross Tanya Tesar Melinda Owen Manuela Kurrat Dee Olson Melinda Owen Heather Bergland Melinda Owen Heather Bergland Allix Lee-Painter K.C. Dahlgren Mykael Bothum Lauren Schaffer K.C. Dahlgren Mykael Bothum Ulrike Hartz Liga Velvere Hannah Kiser Liga Velvere Hannah Kiser Hannah Kiser

2012 Men

400m 500m 3000m Triple Jump Long Jump Triple Jump Long Jump Triple Jump Triple Jump Pole Vault Pentathlon 3000m Pole Vault 60m Hurdles Pole Vault 60m Hurdles 5000m Pole Vault Shot Put 800m Pole Vault Shot Put Pentathlon 800m 3000m 800m Mile 3000m

Total:

Men’s Relay Champions:

Distance Medley Relay 4x400m Relay 4x400m Relay 4x400m Relay 4x400m Relay 4x800m Relay 4x400m Relay 4x400m Relay 4x400m Relay Distance Medley Relay (Thompson, Pabst, Yousfi, Friesen) Distance Medley Relay (Clark, Dalton, Bloom, Colle) 4x400m Relay (Bloom, Dalton, Tylor, Ayesu-Attah)

Total:

Women’s Relay Champions:

Distance Medley Relay (Kamau, Samuel, Murdoch, Olson) Distance Medley Relay (Hall, Kalbrener, Kiser, Velvere) Distance Medley Relay (Digby, Velvere, Schaffer, Kiser)

Total:

Western Athletic Conference Conference Award Winners

1983 1984 1984 1990 1991 1991 1992 1992 1993 2005 2005 2006 2006 2007 2007 2008 2009 2009 2009 2010 2010 2010 2010 2011 2011 2012 2012 2012

1979 1983 1984 1989 1990 1990 1995 1996 1997 2006 2012 2012

Mountain West Athletic Conference Women’s Indoor Coach of the Year Roger Norris (1983) Big Sky Conference Men’s Indoor Coach of the Year Mike Keller (1984)

Big Sky Conference Men’s Outstanding Indoor Track Athlete Dan O’Brien (1989) Big Sky Conference Men’s Outstanding Indoor Field Athlete Dan O’Brien (1989) Big Sky Conference Women’s Outstanding Indoor Field Athlete Jackie Ross (1990) Jackie Ross (1991) Jackie Ross (1992) Western Athletic Conference Men’s Indoor Coach of the Year Wayne Phipps (2012) Western Athletic Conference Men’s Indoor Performer of the Year Russ Winger (2007) Western Athletic Conference Men’s Indoor Outstanding Track Performer Markus Geiger (2011) Western Athletic Conference Women’s Indoor Outstanding Track Performer Allix Lee-Painter (2009) Hannah Kiser (2012) Western Athletic Conference Men’s Indoor Oustanding Field Performer Russ Winger (2008) Andrew Blaser (2012) Western Athletic Conference Men’s Indoor Freshman of the Year Matt Wauters (2006) Markus Geiger (2009) Western Athletic Conference Men’s Indoor High Point Award Andrew Blaser - 40 (2012)

12 2006 2011 2006

Russ Winger was a two-time Western Athletic Conference Indoor Performer of the Year for Idaho in 2007 and 2008 after earning four total First-Team All-WAC honors and two WAC titles during that span.

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2011-12 IDAHO TRACK & FIELD/CROSS COUNTRY YEARBOOK Idaho NCAA Indoor Championships History

NCAA Championships Competitors

Bob Peterson

1983

Leroy Robinson

1985

Tim Taylor

1988

George Ogbeide

1989

Dan O’Brien Orde Ballantyne

1995

Niels Kruller

1996

Tawanda Chiwira Thad Hathaway

1997

Tawanda Chiwira Niels Kruller Chris Kwaramba

1998

Felix Kamangirira Curtis Kunkel Jason St. Hill Adekunle Adejuyigbe Chris Kwaramba

1999

Tawanda Chiwira Curtis Kunkel Adekunle Adejuyigbe Martijn Ungerer Tawanda Chiwira Hugo Muñoz Joachim Olsen

2000

Joachim Olsen

2001

Joachim Olsen

2002

Joachim Olsen Simon Stewart

2003

Simon Stewart Simon Stewart

2006

Driss Yousfi Russ Winger

2007

Russ Winger Matt Wauters

2008

Russ Winger Matt Wauters Russ Winger

2010

Jeremy Klas

2011

Jeremy Klas

2012

Jeremy Klas

MEN:

High Jump 800m Shot Put

7-3 1:52.46 57-11

2nd 5th 18th

WOMEN:

2001

Angela Whyte

2003

Angela Whyte

2005

Manuela Kurrat

2006

Long Jump

26-2¼

4th

55m Hurdles Long Jump

7.25 25-7¼

7th 6th

Long Jump

24-4¼

10th

200m High Jump

21.76 7-0¼

10th 11th

400m Long Jump Triple Jump

48.03 24-8½ 51-9¾

15th 8th 8th

4x400m Relay 4x400m Relay 4x400m Relay 4x400m Relay Triple Jump

DNF DNF DNF DNF 53-5¾

2nd

400m 4x400m Relay 4x400m Relay 4x400m Relay 4x400m Relay High Jump Shot Put

46.73 5th 3:10.43 6th 3:10.43 6th 3:10.43 6th 3:10.43 6th 6-10¾ 12th 63-8¼ 3rd

Shot Put

64-8½

2nd

1999

Shot Put

65-10½

2nd

2000

Shot Put Shot Put

69-6¾ 61-7½

2nd 12th

Shot Put 61-10½ Weight Throw 67-10¼ 800m Shot Put

8th 8th

1:55.20 14th 63-9½ 2nd

Shot Put 67-4 Weight Throw 69-9½

2nd 6th

Shot Put 69-10¼ 2nd Weight Throw 70-9 6th Weight Throw 65-5 14th Pole Vault

17-2¾

Pole Vault

17-4½

Dee Olson Dee Olson

2007

Melinda Owen

2009

Mykael Bothum K.C. Dahlgren

2010

Mykael Bothum

2012

Hannah Kiser

60m Hurdles

8.18

8th

Pentathlon

4,140

3rd

Jeremy Klas (3)...................................Pole Vault (2010) Pole Vault (2011)^ Pole Vault (2012)#

Mile 3000m

4:41.01 3rd 9:44.89 20th

Simon Stewart (3)................................ Shot Put (2002) Shot Put (2003) Weight Throw (2003)

Pole Vault

13-9¼

5th

Shot Put Pole Vault

53-1½ 13-7¼

7th 6th

Shot Put

54-4¾

6th

Chris Kwaramba (2).......................Triple Jump (1997) Triple Jump (1998)

3000m

9:26.88 13th

Matt Wauters (2)........................ Weight Throw (2007) Weight Throw (2008) Bob Peterson.................................... High Jump (1979) Leroy Robinson......................................... 800m (1983) George Ogbeide...............................Long Jump (1988) Dan O’Brien..................................55m Hurdles (1989) Orde Ballantyne...............................Long Jump (1989) Thad Hathaway................................ High Jump (1996) Niels Kruller.....................................Long Jump (1997) Adekunle Adejuyigbe.................4x400m Relay (1999) Curtis Kunkel..............................4x400m Relay (1999) Martijn Ungerer..........................4x400m Relay (1999)

All-Time Team Scores

Year (Team) 1979

Finish

Score

Men 22nd 8

1983

Men 41st 2

1988

Men 35th 4

1997

Men 58th 2

1998

Men 24th 8 Men

18th 13

Men 19th 8

2001

Men 28th 8

2002

Men 23rd 8

2003

Men 45th 2 Women 51st 1

2005

Women 27th 8

2006

Men 25th 8 Women 35th 6

2007

Men 19th 11 Women 50th 4

9th

2008

2009

11th

MEN:

Men

19th 11

Women 45th 4

2010

Women 46th 3

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Joachim Olsen (4)................................ Shot Put (1999) Shot Put (2000) Shot Put (2001) Shot Put (2002)

Russ Winger (3)................................... Shot Put (2006) Shot Put (2007) Shot Put (2008) Tawanda Chiwira (2)................................ 400m (1999) 4x400m Relay (1999)

Total.................................................................... 29

WOMEN:

Mykael Bothum (2)............................. Shot Put (2009) Shot Put (2010) K.C. Dahlgren....................................Pole Vault (2009) Hannah Kiser........................................ 3000m (2012)# Manuela Kurrat................................ Pentathlon (2005) Dee Olson.................................................... Mile (2006) Melinda Owen...................................Pole Vault (2007) Angela Whyte................................60m Hurdles (2003)

Total......................................................................8 # Second Team ^ Honorable Mention Event

Total NCAA Bids

Shot Put Pole Vault Long Jump Weight Throw High Jump 400m 800m 3000m 60m Hurdles 4x400m Relay Triple Jump 200m Mile 55m Hurdles Pentathlon Totals

Men Women Total 10 2 12 3 2 5 4 0 4 4 0 4 3 0 3 2 0 2 2 0 2 0 2 2 0 2 2 2 0 2 2 0 2 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 34 10 44

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Indoor All-Americans

2011-12 IDAHO TRACK & FIELD/CROSS COUNTRY YEARBOOK All-Time Indoor All-WAC Honorees 2005:

First Team

Ryan Lang............................. Heptathlon (1st)

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Second Team

Antwaun Sherman..........................60m (4th) Pat Ray............................................200m (4th) Marcus Luckstead............... Heptathlon (4th) Marcus Luckstead..................Pole Vault (5th)

2006:

First Team

Driss Yousfi..................................... 800m (1st) Kevin Friesen..............Distance Medley (1st) Kevin Pabst..................Distance Medley (1st) Mike Thompson..........Distance Medley (1st) Driss Yousfi..................Distance Medley (1st) Russ Winger.............................. Shot Put (1st) Matt Wauters................. Weight Throw (2nd) Kevin Friesen.............................. 3000m (3rd) Ian Snook................................Pole Vault (3rd)

Second Team

Kevin Friesen.................4x400m Relay (2nd) Jason Giuffre...................4x400m Relay (2nd) Kevin Pabst.....................4x400m Relay (2nd) Driss Yousfi.....................4x400m Relay (2nd) Jason Giuffre...................................400m (4th) Ryan Lang............................ Heptathlon (4th) David Holmon..................... High Jump (5th) Matt Wauters............................ Shot Put (5th) Russ Winger................... Weight Throw (5th) Herb Cash.........................................60m (6th) David Holmon....................Triple Jump (6th) Marcus Luckstead............... Heptathlon (6th)

2007:

First Team

Bastien Tardy.................................. 800m (1st) Russ Winger.............................. Shot Put (1st) Matt Wauters................... Weight Throw (1st) Diego Moreno............................ 3000m (2nd) Kevin Pabst.......................... Long Jump (2nd) Benjamin Mimoun....................... 200m (3rd) Kevin Friesen.............................. 5000m (3rd) Mike Carpenter......................Pole Vault (3rd) Russ Winger................... Weight Throw (3rd)

Second Team

Kevin Pabst................ Distance Medley (2nd) Kevin Potter............... Distance Medley (2nd) Bastien Tardy............. Distance Medley (2nd) Driss Yousfi................ Distance Medley (2nd) Mike Carpenter..............................200m (4th) Kevin Potter....................................800m (4th) Mike Thompson.............................. Mile (4th) Kevin Friesen.............................. 3000m (4th) Diego Moreno............................. 5000m (4th) Jonathan Marler................... High Jump (5th) Matt Wauters............................ Shot Put (5th) Ian Snook............................. Heptathlon (5th) Kevin Merkling............................... Mile (6th) Matt Racine................................. 3000m (6th) Matt Racine................................. 5000m (6th) David Holmon..................... High Jump (6th)

2008:

Men

First Team

Lucas Pope...............................Pole Vault (1st) Russ Winger.............................. Shot Put (1st) Cesar Barquero.............................800m (2nd) Paul Dittmer.....................60m Hurdles (2nd) Matt Wauters............................Shot Put (2nd) Matt Wauters................. Weight Throw (2nd) Elvie Williams.................. 60m Hurdles (3rd) Mike Carpenter......................Pole Vault (3rd) Elvie Williams......................Long Jump (3rd) James Rogan............................. Shot Put (3rd) Russ Winger................... Weight Throw (3rd) Mike Carpenter................... Heptathlon (3rd)

Second Team

Maurice Shaw....................60m Hurdles (4th) Jonathan Marler................... High Jump (4th) David Holmon..................... High Jump (5th) Elvie Williams...................... High Jump (5th) Marcus Mattox............... Weight Throw (5th) Kevin Merkling............................... Mile (6th) David Holmon....................Triple Jump (6th) James Rogan................... Weight Throw (6th)

2009:

First Team

Lucas Pope...............................Pole Vault (1st) James Rogan.............................. Shot Put (1st) Mike Carpenter.....................Pole Vault (2nd) Matt Wauters............................Shot Put (2nd) Ben Wood...................... Weight Throw (2nd) Mike Carpenter.................. Heptathlon (2nd) Josh Dalton.................................... 800m (3rd) James Clark...................................... Mile (3rd) Jeremy Klas.............................Pole Vault (3rd) James Rogan................... Weight Throw (3rd) Matt Grogan........................ Heptathlon (3rd)

Second Team

James Clark................ Distance Medley (2nd) Spencer Meinburg.... Distance Medley (2nd) Kevin Merkling......... Distance Medley (2nd) Steve Potratz.............. Distance Medley (2nd) Josh Dalton......................4x400m Relay (3rd) Spencer Meinburg..........4x400m Relay (3rd) Shane O’Connell.............4x400m Relay (3rd) Dominic Schmidt...........4x400m Relay (3rd) Steve Potratz.................................... Mile (4th) Markus Geiger............................ 5000m (4th) Maurice Shaw....................60m Hurdles (4th) Paul Dittmer......................60m Hurdles (5th) Jonathan Marler................... High Jump (5th) Matt Wauters.................. Weight Throw (5th) Ryan Bowen......................... Heptathlon (5th) Sam Michener..................................60m (6th) James Clark.....................................800m (6th) Kevin Merkling............................... Mile (6th) Ian Snook................................Pole Vault (6th) Andrew Blaser.....................Triple Jump (6th) Beau Whitney.......................... Shot Put (6th) Evan Ruud...................... Weight Throw (6th)

2010:

First Team

Jeremy Klas..............................Pole Vault (1st) Josh Dalton....................................800m (2nd) Paul Dittmer.....................60m Hurdles (2nd) Andrew Blaser..................... High Jump (2nd) Lucas Pope.............................Pole Vault (2nd) Eugenio Mannucci..................Shot Put (2nd) Beau Whitney............... Weight Throw (2nd) Mike Carpenter.................. Heptathlon (2nd) Princeton McCarty......................... 60m (3rd) Steve Potratz.................................... Mile (3rd) Mike Carpenter......................Pole Vault (3rd)

Second Team

Mike Carpenter...............4x400m Relay (3rd) Josh Dalton......................4x400m Relay (3rd) Spencer Meinburg..........4x400m Relay (3rd) Sam Michener.................4x400m Relay (3rd) Maurice Shaw....................60m Hurdles (4th) Ben Wood....................... Weight Throw (4th) Andrew Blaser..................... Heptathlon (4th) James Clark.....................................800m (5th) Jonathan Marler................... High Jump (5th) Colin Briggs.........................Triple Jump (5th) Beau Whitney.......................... Shot Put (5th) Ryan Bowen......................... Heptathlon (5th) Barry Britt.................................... 3000m (6th) Barry Britt.................................... 5000m (6th) Andrew Blaser...................60m Hurdles (6th) Colby Lee.............................. High Jump (6th) Andrew Blaser........................Pole Vault (6th) Jason Lorentz........................Long Jump (6th) Jason Lorentz.......................Triple Jump (6th)

2011:

First Team

Markus Geiger............................. 5000m (1st) Jeremy Klas..............................Pole Vault (1st) Eugenio Mannucci................... Shot Put (1st) Markus Geiger........................... 3000m (2nd)

Second Team

Jeff Osborn.................Distance Medley (3rd) Matt Robinson...........Distance Medley (3rd) Kyle Tylor....................Distance Medley (3rd) Andrew White...........Distance Medley (3rd) Jeremiah Dubie........................... 5000m (4th) Dylan Watts............................Pole Vault (4th) Andrey Levkiv.......................... Shot Put (4th) Jeremiah Dubie........................... 3000m (5th) Colin Briggs.........................Triple Jump (5th) Kyle Rothwell................. Weight Throw (5th) Colin Briggs..........................Long Jump (6th) Kyle Rothwell........................... Shot Put (6th) Donavon Cunningham........Wt. Throw (6th)

2012:

First Team

Josh Dalton..................................... 800m (1st) Andrew Blaser................... 60m Hurdles (1st) Ben Ayesu-Attah..............4x400m Relay (1st) Andrew Bloom.................4x400m Relay (1st) Josh Dalton.......................4x400m Relay (1st) Kyle Tylor..........................4x400m Relay (1st) Andrew Bloom............Distance Medley (1st) James Clark..................Distance Medley (1st) Stéphane Colle............Distance Medley (1st) Josh Dalton..................Distance Medley (1st) Andrew Blaser.......................High Jump (1st) Jeremy Klas..............................Pole Vault (1st) Jason Lorentz.........................Long Jump (1st) Rendel Jones........................ Triple Jump (1st) Andrew Blaser...................... Heptathlon (1st) Barry Britt................................... 3000m (2nd) Markus Geiger........................... 5000m (2nd) Matt Sullivan.........................Pole Vault (2nd) Kyle Rothwell................ Weight Throw (2nd) James Clark.................................... 800m (3rd) Jeff Osborn...................................... Mile (3rd) Markus Geiger............................ 3000m (3rd) Barry Britt.................................... 5000m (3rd) Tyler Bennett........................High Jump (3rd) Andrew Blaser........................Pole Vault (3rd) Dylan Watts............................Pole Vault (3rd) Andrew Blaser......................Long Jump (3rd) Kyle Rothwell........................... Shot Put (3rd) Jeremy Klas.......................... Heptathlon (3rd)

Second Team

Ben Ayesu-Attah............................400m (4th) Stéphane Colle................................ Mile (4th) Michael Bach........................Long Jump (4th) Donavon Cunningham........... Shot Put (4th) Donavon Cunningham........Wt. Throw (4th) Andrew Bloom...............................400m (5th) Colin Briggs.......................... High Jump (5th) Colin Briggs..........................Long Jump (5th) Jason Lorentz.......................Triple Jump (5th) Joseph Charles......................... Shot Put (5th) Joseph Charles............... Weight Throw (5th) Colin Briggs......................... Heptathlon (5th) Kyle Tylor........................................800m (6th) Colton Hastings.............................. Mile (6th) Stéphane Colle............................ 3000m (6th) Jesse Villines......................60m Hurdles (6th) Zach Trumbauer...................... Shot Put (6th) Zach Trumbauer............ Weight Throw (6th)

Andrew Blaser ended his career in 2012 with a school-record 10 indoor All-WAC honors.

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2011-12 IDAHO TRACK & FIELD/CROSS COUNTRY YEARBOOK All-Time Indoor All-WAC Honorees Melinda Owen...............................Pole Vault (1st) Manuela Kurrat............................ Pentathlon (1st) Mary Kamau..........................................Mile (2nd)

Second Team

Jenn Broncheau......................Weight Throw (5th) Dee Olson................................................Mile (6th) Tassie Souhrada...........................High Jump (6th)

2006:

First Team

Dee Olson.............................................3000m (1st) Mary Kamau...................... Distance Medley (1st) Alisha Murdoch................. Distance Medley (1st) Dee Olson........................... Distance Medley (1st) Vernee Samuel................... Distance Medley (1st) Melinda Owen...............................Pole Vault (1st) Dee Olson...............................................Mile (2nd) Bevin Kennelly...................................5000m (2nd) Mary Kamau.........................................800m (3rd) Bevin Kennelly....................................3000m (3rd) Mandy Macalister...............................5000m (3rd)

Second Team

K.C. Dahlgren............................... Pole Vault (4th) Alisha Murdoch....................................800m (5th) Mary Kamau...........................................Mile (5th) Tammy Stowe............................. Triple Jump (5th) Mandy Macalister...............................3000m (6th) Heather Bergland....................60m Hurdles (6th)

2007:

First Team

Heather Bergland.....................60m Hurdles (1st) Melinda Owen...............................Pole Vault (1st) Bevin Kennelly........................................Mile (3rd) Mykael Bothum...............................Shot Put (3rd)

Second Team

Breanna Chipney....................................Mile (4th) Christie Gordon.......................60m Hurdles (4th) Darcy Collins...............................Pentathlon (4th) Rhea Richter........................................5000m (5th) Melinda Ouwerkerk...............................Mile (6th) Melissa McFaddan..............................5000m (6th)

2008:

First Team

Heather Bergland.....................60m Hurdles (1st) Allix Lee-Painter....................................Mile (2nd) Alice Draser................................ Long Jump (2nd) Melissa McFaddan..............................5000m (3rd) Darcy Collins...............................Pentathlon (3rd)

Second Team

Breeana Chadez...........................High Jump (4th) Mykael Bothum...............................Shot Put (4th) Lindsey Goodman.......................Pentathlon (4th) Christie Gordon.......................60m Hurdles (5th) Darcy Collins...............................High Jump (5th) Alice Draser..................................Pentathlon (5th) Allix Lee-Painter.................................3000m (6th) Molly Burt....................................Pentathlon (6th)

2009:

First Team

Allix Lee-Painter..................................5000m (1st) K.C. Dahlgren................................Pole Vault (1st) Mykael Bothum................................Shot Put (1st) Allix Lee-Painter....................................Mile (2nd) Allix Lee-Painter................................3000m (2nd) Heather Bergland................... 60m Hurdles (2nd) Lindsey Goodman......................Pentathlon (2nd) Christie Gordon.......................60m Hurdles (3rd)

Second Team

Erica Digby....................... Distance Medley (2nd) Keli Hall............................ Distance Medley (2nd) Lauren Schaffer................ Distance Medley (2nd) Teegan Schoch................. Distance Medley (2nd) Alyssa Covington........................ Long Jump (4th) Lauren Schaffer.....................................800m (5th) Darcy Collins...............................High Jump (5th) Darcy Collins...............................Pentathlon (5th) Teegan Schoch....................................3000m (6th) Lindsay Beard............................... Pole Vault (6th) Ellen Rouse...................................Pentathlon (6th)

2011:

First Team

Liga Velvere............................................800m (1st) Hannah Kiser.......................................3000m (1st) Keli Hall.............................. Distance Medley (1st) Anna Kalbrener................. Distance Medley (1st) Hannah Kiser..................... Distance Medley (1st) Liga Velvere........................ Distance Medley (1st) Gabby Midles.........................Weight Throw (3rd)

Second Team

Kristine Leonard..............................Shot Put (6th)

2012:

First Team

Liga Velvere............................................800m (1st) Hannah Kiser...........................................Mile (1st) Hannah Kiser.......................................3000m (1st) Erica Digby......................... Distance Medley (1st) Hannah Kiser..................... Distance Medley (1st) Lauren Schaffer.................. Distance Medley (1st) Liga Velvere........................ Distance Medley (1st) Lauren Schaffer....................................800m (2nd) Erica Digby.........................................3000m (2nd) Alycia Butterworth............................5000m (2nd) Erica Digby..............................................Mile (3rd) Alycia Butterworth.............................3000m (3rd)

Second Team

Keli Hall..................................4x400m Relay (3rd) Kelly Jacka..............................4x400m Relay (3rd) Lauren Schaffer......................4x400m Relay (3rd) Liga Velvere............................4x400m Relay (3rd) Johanna Höcketstaller.................Pentathlon (4th) Keli Hall.................................................800m (5th) Cait Rowland............................60m Hurdles (5th) Zoe Timmers................................High Jump (5th) Alyssa Covington........................ Long Jump (5th) Gabby Midles.........................Weight Throw (6th)

2010:

First Team

Lauren Schaffer......................................800m (1st) K.C. Dahlgren................................Pole Vault (1st) Mykael Bothum................................Shot Put (1st) Ulrike Hartz................................. Pentathlon (1st) Kelly Jacka............................................200m (2nd) Gabby Midles........................Weight Throw (2nd) Lindsey Goodman......................Pentathlon (2nd)

Second Team

Junior distance runner Lauren Schaffer leads all Idaho women’s indoor track and field athletes with seven career All-WAC honors.

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Lindsey Goodman................ 4x400m Relay (2nd) Kelly Jacka............................. 4x400m Relay (2nd) AshLee Rey............................ 4x400m Relay (2nd) Lauren Schaffer..................... 4x400m Relay (2nd) Karlene Hurrel......................................200m (4th) Alyssa Covington........................ Long Jump (5th) Darcy Collins...............................Pentathlon (5th)

While only through her sophomore season, Hannah Kiser is undefeated in career WAC indoor track and field competitions. She has a program-best five WAC indoor titles and five First-Team All-WAC honors.

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First Team

Women

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BY SPENCER FARRIN

Idaho’s 2012 Western Athletic Conference outdoor men’s team title wasn’t nearly as nerve-wracking or stressful as the team’s indoor crown – but that didn’t make the team’s first indoor/outdoor sweep since 1997 any less sweet.

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The Vandals led from start to finish, won eight different individual WAC titles between seven athletes and claimed a combined 38 All-WAC honors, 22 of them First-Team accolades, en route to a team score of 219.5 and their first WAC outdoor conference crown. Senior Andrew Blaser paced Idaho with a school-record 44 points by virtue of his decathlon and 110m hurdles titles and six total First-Team All-WAC awards. His point total is 16 better than Idaho’s previous single-meet high, better than any WAC individual score on record and was the highest by any individual in the NCAA in 2012. He was honored at the conclusion of the meet as the WAC Men’s Outstanding Field Performer and claimed the WAC High Point Award. “Really, how can you argue with 44 points?” Idaho director of track and field/cross country Wayne Phipps said. “It’s a fifth of our team’s points and the incredible thing is that he was willing to do whatever event we needed. He was willing to put everything aside personally for us to win a team title.” While Blaser was the headliner, it was truly a team effort across the board that netted the team its first conference title sweep since taking the 1997 Mountain Pacific Sports Federation crown indoors and the Big West Conference title outdoors. Sixteen different Vandal men earned All-WAC First Team accolades at the meet and seven more went down as Second-Team All-WAC performers. That kind of balance led to Idaho’s 134.17-point improvement over its 2011 outdoor total, which was the best single-season point improvement by any team at any level of collegiate track and field – NAIA through NCAA Division I – in 2012. “I think the team was a lot more confident than the staff was,” Phipps said. “They had full expectation going in that they were going to win. It was just a matter of going in and doing what they’d done all year long – there was no doubt in their minds. They just walked into each event and did what they needed to do, and it went that way almost across the board.” That’s not to say the team went without any hiccups. With two-time WAC champion Barry Britt redshirting and two-time indoor WAC champion Andrew Bloom and indoor long jump champion Jason Lorentz going down in warm-ups there was adversity, but the Vandals were more than up to the challenge. Blaser bumped up to third in the long jump to make up that difference, while freshman Ben Ayesu-Attah ran a career-best by one full second in the 400m dash to take care of both Bloom’s and his own projected point totals. Senior James Clark provided the fireworks in the race of the meet when he barely out-leaned three other runners in a four-way photo finish for the 800m crown. Vandal throws took home titles in the shot put, hammer and javelin and scored a combined 68 points at the meet, while sophomore Dylan Watts became the third Vandal in the last three years to claim the men’s outdoor pole vault title – an event in which Idaho went first through third and scored a combined 25.5 points. For the team’s 10 outgoing seniors, it was the perfect send-off. With a 101-point contribution by the class, that group was a crucial component of the historic win. Phipps said he could think of no better reward to give them on their way out. “It’s always nice to send out your senior class with a championship,” Phipps said. “It can play on you a little bit going three or four years without winning a championship, and doing it your senior year makes it more exciting. “It was so important to those guys. They’ve worked so hard for a team title and it was extra special to see that group go out as champions.” Junior Mike Marshall’s Honorable Mention All-America selection after his NCAA Championships final round appearance in the javelin was the headline highlight of Idaho’s seven NCAA qualifiers in 2012, and the best part is that five of those athletes will return to Idaho again next year. “We strive as a team and individually to qualify for NCAAs,” Phipps said. “If you look at our numbers compared to the rest of the conference and a lot of other mid-majors, I think we stack up very, very well. “To have a good mix of senior and underclassmen is great, because you always want seniors to go out on a high note and then it’s a huge learning experience for the younger kids to do better things down the road.”

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2011-12 IDAHO TRACK & FIELD/CROSS COUNTRY YEARBOOK IDAHO’S WOMEN WRITE THEIR OWN ENDING

BY SPENCER FARRIN

University of Idaho women’s track and field could have let adversity define their 2012 outdoor season after a handful of injuries left the team short-handed headed into the Western Athletic Conference Championships.

Entering the conference championship meet without the services of All-American Hannah Kiser, multiple-time WAC champions Liga Velvere and Lauren Schaffer and multiple-time All-WAC honorees Karlene Hurrel and Julia Veseth, the Vandal women were projected on paper to finish sixth out of seven teams. On the heels of senior distance runner Erica Digby, the Vandal women won three WAC titles, earned 11 First-Team All-WAC honors and six more Second-Team accolades, and posted a second-place team score of 133.5 – just 15 points away from a team title. “There was obviously a lot of adversity that affected our team, but they competed very, very well,” Idaho director of track and field/cross country Wayne Phipps said. “For us to finish second in the conference, win as many events as we did, score as many points as we did and qualify as many people as we did to NCAAs was just an incredible accomplishment for the team. “It’s easy to just lie down and say, ‘Well, we weren’t expected to do much anyway,’ but they took the opposite approach, really got after it and competed the best I’ve seen a team compete in a long time.” Digby’s effort in particular stood out in the distance events. She ran the qualifying round of the 800m on Thursday, then the finals in the 800m, 1500m and 5000m on Friday – a triple Phipps said a Vandal athlete has not attempted in his time at Idaho. All she did was take fifth in the 800m and then sweep the 1500m and 5000m titles – a first in Idaho history. “It was a tough decision to redshirt her last year, but obviously it was a good decision giving her the opportunity to get a lot more training under her belt,” Phipps said of Digby. “We’ve not had someone try to do that triple on the same day before, and for her to do it at such a high level and finish it off with the big win in the 5k was just amazing.” The dominating 1-2 finishes by sophomores Alycia Butterworth and Holly Stanton in the 3000m steeplechase, junior Anna Kalbrener’s back-to-back runner-up finishes in the 800m and 1500m and both Butterworth and Stanton doubling back to score in the 5000m, and the Vandal women cleaned up on the track. Junior Kristine Leonard scored extra points in the shot put and discus, freshman Johanna Hocketstaller took second in the heptathlon to start the week and went on to score in the shot put, discus and javelin at the meet, while senior Gabby Midles and junior Sarah Nutsch both jumped up in the hammer to grab extra points in that event, as well. “It was shocking,” Phipps said. “We saw in the beginning that we had bumped up in a few events and thought that was great, but then as the meet went on, it kept happening.” In addition to the team’s WAC efforts, six Vandal women – Butterworth, Digby, Leonard, Midles, Nutsch and junior Ellen Rouse – qualified for the NCAA West Preliminary. As a team, the Vandal women finished the outdoor season with 15 entries into the Idaho all-time top-10 lists, 17 combined All-WAC honors and several personal bests and regionally-ranked marks across the board – many by freshmen and sophomores. With so many strong underclassmen performers and returning redshirts, Phipps said he and the team will enter 2013 with the expectations of bigger things – and the confidence to achieve them. “We met as a team right after the WAC meet and we as a staff let them know how proud we were of their accomplishments and that we have great expectations of them battling for a team title next year,” Phipps said. “I think the women seeing the men’s team win that title also adds a bit of a tangible element to it. They saw the people they train with every day having that success and they know they can do the same.”

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Erica Digby (R) and Anna Kalbrener (L) celebrate after their 1-2 finish in the 1500m at the WAC Outdoor Championships.

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Instead, the Vandal women will be remembered for how they responded.

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BEN AYESU-ATTAH MEN’S 400M - 46.86

ERICA DIGBY

WOMEN’S 1500M - 4:29.92

ANDREY LEVKIV

DYLAN WATTS

MEN’S POLE VAULT - 16-0¾

ANDREW BLASER

MEN’S SHOT PUT - 56-5¾

MEN’S 110M HURDLES - 13.98

KYLE ROTHWELL

MEN’S HAMMER THROW - 187-7

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ALYCIA BUTTERWORTH

WOMEN’S 3000M STEEPLECHASE - 10:42.59

ERICA DIGBY

WOMEN’S 5000M - 17:14.44

JAMES CLARK

MEN’S 800M - 1:52.23

ANDREW BLASER

MEN’S DECATHLON - 6,782

MIKE MARSHALL

MEN’S JAVELIN THROW - 218-10

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2011-12 IDAHO TRACK & FIELD/CROSS COUNTRY YEARBOOK 2012 Western Athletic Conference Outdoor Championships May 8-11, 2012 (Moscow, Idaho)

400m:

Idaho Men’s Scoring

Idaho Women’s Scoring

Ben Ayesu-Attah

1st

46.86 10

James Clark

1st

1:52.23 10

Stéphane Colle

2nd

3:53.44

Stéphane Colle Jeremiah Dubie Markus Geiger

4th 5th 6th

15:05.21 15:10.34 15:15.95

4 2 1

5000m:

Markus Geiger Jeremiah Dubie

2nd 3rd

31:04.00 31:12.56

8 6

3000m Steeplechase:

Andrew Blaser Jesse Villines

1st 5th

13.98 10 15.25 2

Andrew Blaser

3rd

52.52

Stéphane Colle Alex Brekke

3rd 6th

9:20.50 9:59.72

6 1

Dominic Schmidt Ben Ayesu-Attah Andrew Bloom Spencer Meinburg

3rd 3rd 3rd 3rd

42.58 42.58 42.58 42.58

1.5 1.5 1.5 1.5

800m:

1500m:

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800m:

5000m:

10,000m:

110m Hurdles: 400m Hurdles: 3000m Steeplechase: 4x100m Relay:

4x400m Relay:

Anna Kalbrener Erica Digby Keli Hall

2nd 5th 7th

2:12.25 2:13.21 2:17.22

Erica Digby Anna Kalbrener

1st 2nd

4:29.92 10 4:31.10 8

Erica Digby Alycia Butterworth Holly Stanton

1st 3rd 5th

17:14.44 10 17:27.58 6 17:51.68 4

Alycia Butterworth Holly Stanton Laurel Draper

1st 2nd 7th

10:42.59 10 10:50.18 8 11:23.53 2

Mercedes Blackwood Allee Cooper Emma Goode Kelly Jacka

4th 4th 4th 4th

46.87 1.25 46.87 1.25 46.87 1.25 46.87 1.25

Kelly Jacka Maggie Miller Keli Hall Emma Goode

5th 5th 5th 5th

3:50.99 3:50.99 3:50.99 3:50.99

Morgan Dunning

T-5th

11-2¼ 3.5

Alyssa Covington

7th

18-7¼

Kristine Leonard Johanna Höcketstaller

3rd 7th

48-0½ 46-0

6 2

Kristine Leonard Johanna Höcketstaller

4th 7th

159-2 145-6

5 2

Gabby Midles Sarah Nutsch

2nd 6th

190-10 180-9

8 3

1500m:

4x100m Relay:

4x400m Relay:

Pole Vault:

Long Jump:

8 4 2

4th 4th 4th 4th

3:19.30 3:19.30 3:19.30 3:19.30

1 1 1 1

Andrew Blaser Tyler Bennett

3rd 4th

6-4 6-4

6 4

Dylan Watts Matt Sullivan Andrew Blaser Jeremy Klas

1st 2nd 3rd T5th

16-0¾ 10 16-0¾ 8 16-0¾ 6 15-7 1.5

Andrew Blaser

3rd

22-9

Ellen Rouse Johanna Höcketstaller

3rd 5th

147-7 138-8

6 4

Rendel Jones

3rd

47-5

Johanna Höcketstaller

2nd

5,071

Andrey Levkiv Joseph Charles

1st 4th

56-5¾ 10 51-11 4

Donavon Cunningham Joseph Charles Andrey Levkiv Kyle Rothwell

2nd 3rd 4th 5th

162-9 158-1 152-5 149-6

Kyle Rothwell Andrey Levkiv Zach Trumbauer

1st 4th 5th

High Jump: Pole Vault:

Long Jump:

Triple Jump: Shot Put:

Discus Throw:

Hammer Throw:

Javelin Throw:

8 6 4 2

187-7 10 163-3 4 162-11 2

Mike Marshall Ugis Svazs

1st 2nd

218-10 10 218-0 8

Andrew Blaser Colin Briggs Jeremy Klas

1st 3rd 4th

6,782 10 5,928 6 5,609 4

Decathlon:

Team Total:

219.5

Discus Throw:

Hammer Throw: Javelin Throw: Heptathlon:

Team Total: 1. Idaho

Men’s Team Scores

2. Utah State 3. Fresno State 4. Louisiana Tech

Women’s Team Scores

1. Utah State

ANDREW BLASER

WAC Men’s High Point Award

1 1 1 1

Dominic Schmidt Spencer Meinburg Kyle Tylor Ben Ayesu-Attah

Shot Put:

WAC Men’s Outstanding Field Performer

ANDREW BLASER (44)

WAC Men’s co-Coach of the Year

133.5 WAYNE PHIPPS

219.5 200.5 137 84

WAC Women’s Freshman of the Year

148.5

2. Idaho

133.5

3. Louisiana Tech 4. Fresno State 5. Hawai`i 6. New Mexico State 7. Nevada

129 115 111.5 102 76.5

JOHANNA HÖCKETSTALLER

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2012 Individual Outdoor Season/Career Bests MEN Season Career

Ben Ayesu-Attah 200m 200m* 400m 800m

22.13 22.13 22.07w 22.07w 46.86 46.86 2:03.18 2:03.18

Michael Bach Long Jump

21-4¾

6-4

Tyler Bennett High Jump

Andrew Blaser

100m 11.05 11.01 400m 49.64 49.64 1500m 5:06.11 5:06.11 110m Hurdles 13.98 13.98 110m Hurdles* 13.84w 13.84w 400m Hurdles 52.52 52.52 Pole Vault 16-0¾ 16-0¾ High Jump 6-5 6-6 Long Jump 22-9¾w 22-10½ Shot Put 39-7¼ 39-7¼ Discus Throw 117-10 117-10 Javelin Throw 150-7 153-6 Decathlon 7,069 7,069

Andrew Bloom 200m 400m 800m

Alex Brekke 5000m 3k Steeplechase

22.17 22.17 48.16 48.16 2:03.10 2:03.10

16:25.54 15:38.77 9:46.80 9:19.37

Colin Briggs

100m 400m 1500m 110m Hurdles High Jump Pole Vault Long Jump Triple Jump Shot Put Discus Throw Javelin Throw Decathlon

11.72 11.72 54.60 54.60 5:29.65 5:29.65 16.42 16.42 6-0¾ 6-2 13-1½ 13-1½ 21-3½ 22-4¼ 43-8½ 45-11¼ 34-8½ 34-8½ 116-1 116-1 152-0 152-0 5,928 5,928

Adam Bunch Shot Put Discus Throw Hammer Throw

James Clark 800m

167-9 170-3

14:59.90 14:59.90 31:12.56 30:52.39

Markus Geiger 1500m 5000m 10,000m

3:59.02 3:59.02 14:45.96 14:21.83 30:40.67 30:40.67

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47-5

11.70 11.70 56.20 56.20 6:22.79 6:22.79 5-10 5-10 17-0¾ 17-2¾ 20-7¼ 20-7¼ 35-3¼ 35-3¼ 82-6 82-6 146-1 146-1 5,609 5,609

Andrey Levkiv Shot Put Discus Hammer

57-7¾ 57-7¾ 157-11 157-11 163-3 163-3

Jason Lorentz Long Jump

23-0

Mike Marshall Javelin

23-0

230-6 230-6

Spencer Meinburg 200m 400m 800m

Jeff Osborn 800m 1500m 5000m

23.92 22.87 52.18 49.51 2:03.53 1:56.40

1:54.25 1:54.25 3:54.85 3:54.85 15:36.73 15:36.73

Matt Robinson 800m 1500m

Kyle Rothwell Shot Put Discus Hammer

2:01.20 2:01.20 4:22.26 4:13.13 49-5½ 50-0 150-8 156-11 196-9 196-9

Dominic Schmidt 100m 200m

Ugis Svazs

Jeremiah Dubie 5000m 10,000m

100m 400m 1500m High Jump Pole Vault Long Jump Shot Put Discus Throw Javelin Throw Decathlon

53-1¾ 158-1 157-4

Donavon Cunningham

47-5

Jeremy Klas

53-1¾ 158-1 157-4

3:47.86 3:47.86 14:05.03 14:05.03 9:20.50 9:20.50

Discus

Triple Jump

Matt Sullivan

1:52.23 1:52.10

1:55.19 1:55.19 3:58.35 3:58.35 16:04.39 16:04.39

Rendel Jones

56.24

Stéphane Colle 1500m 5000m 3k Steeplechase

800m 1500m 5000m

57.90

400m Hurdles

Joseph Charles

Colton Hastings

Pole Vault

Javelin Throw

10.97 10.93 22.62 21.97

16-1¾

227-5

Zach Trumbauer Hammer Throw

Cayle Turpen 800m 1500m

Kyle Tylor 400m 800m

Jesse Villines 100m 110m Hurdles 400m Hurdles

Dylan Watts Pole Vault

162-11

Mercedes Blackwood 100m 200m

51.46 51.46 1:54.55 1:54.55 11.61w 11.61w 15.25 15.25 58.62 58.62 16-1¾

12.35 12.35 26.26 26.26

Alycia Butterworth

1500m 4:40.29 5000m 17:27.58 17:27.58 3k Steeplechase 10:18.78 10:18.78

Allee Cooper 100m 200m 400m

12.43 12.43 25.67 25.67 1:01.62 1:01.62

Alyssa Covington 400m Long Jump

1:01.74 1:01.74 18-7¼ 18-7¼

Megan Dempsey 800m

Erica Digby 800m 1500m 5000m

Laurel Draper 800m 3k Steeplechase

2:28.74 2:28.74

2:13.21 2:13.21 4:22.18 4:22.18 17:14.44 17:14.44 2:29.33 2:14.40 11:17.40 11:17.40

Morgan Dunning Pole Vault

Reba Eggert

200m 400m 800m 100m Hurdles Long Jump Shot Put Javelin Throw Heptathlon

11-2¼

11-10¾

28.51 28.51 1:08.17 1:08.17 2:42.68 2:42.68 17.13 17.13 15-3½ 15-3½ 37-6¾ 37-6¾ 94-11 94-11 3,113 3,113

Emma Goode

100m 12.77w 200m 25.54 25.54 200m* 25.18w 25.18w 400m 57.65 57.65

Keli Hall

400m 800m

58.63 56.39 2:14.18 2:11.94

Sara Hemenway Pole Vault

2:01.51 2:01.51 4:11.45 4:11.45

Season Career

10-2½

Johanna HÖcketstaller 200m 800m 100m Hurdles High Jump Long Jump Shot Put Discus Throw Javelin Throw Heptathlon

10-2½

26.71 26.71 2:36.04 2:36.04 15.36 15.36 4-11½ 4-11½ 18-5¾ 18-5¾ 49-6¼ 49-6¼ 155-8 155-8 141-10 141-10 5,071 5,071

Kelly Jacka

100m 12.04 200m 25.01 24.49 400m 57.95 57.77

Anna Kalbrener 800m 1500m

Hannah Kiser 1500m

Abby Larson 3000m 5000m 10,000m

2:12.25 2:12.25 4:30.11 4:30.11 4:27.46 4:26.30

11:11.58 11:11.58 18:52.98 18:52.98 39:47.69 39:47.69

Kristine Leonard Shot Put Discus Throw Hammer Throw

Katy Lutjens Discus Throw Hammer Throw

48-0½ 161-11 150-7

129-8 116-7

138-5 116-7

Ailene MacPherson 5000m 10,000m

Molly Meyers Shot Put Hammer Throw

Gabby Midles Hammer Throw

Maggie Miller 800m 1500m

Sarah Nutsch Hammer Throw

Emily Paradis 3k Steeplechase

20:10.02 20:10.02 42:16.84 42:16.84 41-10¾ 148-0

41-10¾ 148-0

190-10

194-6

2:15.38 2:15.38 4:55.17 4:55.17 187-9

187-9

11:31.60

Diana Rosslerova 3000m 5000m 10,000m

Ellen Rouse

Hammer Throw Javelin Throw

Cait Rowland 100m Hurdles 400m Hurdles

11:23.53 11:23.53 20:05.39 20:04.27 42:12.04 42:12.04 144-0 147-7

144-0 147-7

14.70 1:04.49

14.70 1:03.42

Holly Stanton

1500m 4:54.22 5000m 17:51.68 17:51.68 3k Steeplechase 10:50.18 10:50.18

Liga Velvere 400m 800m 400m Hurdles

57.43 55.47 2:09.78 2:08.75 1:00.35 58.61

16-1¾

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1997 Men

2000 Men

2001 Men

2001 Women

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2012 Men

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Individual Conference Award Winners

Big Sky Conference Men’s Outdoor Coach of the Year Mike Keller (1981) Mike Keller (1983) Mike Keller (1995) Mike Keller (1996) Big Sky Conference Outstanding Outdoor Athlete Steve Saras (1980) Francis DoDoo (1991)

Big Sky Conference Outstanding Outdoor Track Athlete Frank Bruder (1995) Paul Thompson (1996) Big West Conference Men’s Coach of the Year Mike Keller (1997) Wayne Phipps (2000) Wayne Phipps (2001) Big West Conference Women’s Coach of the Year Yogi Teevens (2001) Yogi Teevens (2003) Big West Conference Men’s Athlete of the Year Tawanda Chiwira (1997) Big West Conference Women’s Athlete of the Year Angela Whyte (2001)

Western Athletic Conference Men’s Coach of the Year Wayne Phipps (co) (2012)

Western Athletic Conference Women’s Outdoor Outstanding Track Performer Allix Lee-Painter (2010) Western Athletic Conference Men’s Outdoor Outstanding Field Performer Andrew Blaser (2012) Western Athletic Conference Women’s Outdoor Outstanding Field Performer Ulrike Hartz (2010)

Ulrike Hartz won the javelin and heptathlon, then scored in the 200m, long jump and 4x100m relay to earn the 2010 WAC Women’s Field Performer of the Year honor

Western Athletic Conference Men’s Outdoor High Point Award Andrew Blaser - 44 (2012) Western Athletic Conference Women’s Outdoor High Point Award Allix Lee-Painter - 30 (2010) Western Athletic Conference Men’s Outdoor Freshman of the Year Paul Dittmer (2008) Western Athletic Conference Women’s Outdoor Freshman of the Year Johanna HÖcketstaller (2012)

Allix Lee-Painter earned a historic triple with titles in the 3000m steeplechase, 5000m and 10,000m at the 2010 WAC Championships. It was the first such accomplishment in WAC and Idaho history and just the third in NCAA history.

Big West Conference Men’s Track Athlete of the Year Jan Eitel (2003) Big West Conference Women’s Track Athlete of the Year Angela Whyte (2003) Mary Kamau (2004) Big West Conference Men’s Field Athlete of the Year Russ Winger (2005) Tawanda Chiwira claimed 1997 Big West Athlete of the Year honors after claiming the 200m and 400m titles, and leading Idaho’s 4x100m and 4x400m relays to gold.

Mary Kamau was the Big West Women’s Track Athlete of the Year in 2004 after she doubled up with titles in the 800m and 1500m at the Big West Championships.

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2011-12 IDAHO TRACK & FIELD/CROSS COUNTRY YEARBOOK Individual Outdoor Conference Champions Men:

Two-Mile 1922 Two-Mile 1924 Two-Mile 1927 Two-Mile 1928 Javelin Throw 1936 One-Mile 1941 Pole Vault 1952 Pole Vault 1964 Discus Throw 1964 880 Yards 1965 Pole Vault 1965 Shot Put 1965 Discus Throw 1965 220 Yards 1966 High Jump 1966 Shot Put 1966 High Jump 1967 Discus Throw 1968 Discus Throw 1969 880 Yards 1971 Pole Vault 1973 Discus Throw 1973 Three-Mile 1975 Shot Put 1975 880 Yards 1976 Discus Throw 1976 Shot Put 1976 Triple Jump 1977 Shot Put 1977 Discus Throw 1977 Discus Throw 1978 High Jump 1979 Shot Put 1979 Discus Throw 1979 800m 1980 Shot Put 1980 Triple Jump 1980 800m 1981 1500m 1981 High Jump 1981 Triple Jump 1981 Discus Throw 1981 Decathlon 1981 800m 1982 1500m 1982 200m 1983 800m 1983 400m Hurdles 1983 Pole Vault 1983 Triple Jump 1983 Discus Throw 1983 Javelin Throw 1983 Decathlon 1983 100m 1984 200m 1984 400m 1984 100m 1985 200m 1985 400m 1985 Shot Put 1985 100m 1986 200m 1986 Discus Throw 1986 100m 1987 200m 1987 Long Jump 1987 110m Hurdles 1989 Long Jump 1989 100m 1990 200m 1990 100m 1991 100m 1992 110m Hurdles 1992 1500m 1994 Long Jump 1994 100m 1995 5000m 1995

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Frank Bruder Thad Hathaway Niels Kruller Tawanda Chiwira Tawanda Chiwira Paul Thompson Frank Bruder Thad Hathaway Oscar Duncan Tawanda Chiwira Tawanda Chiwira Shane O’Brien Frank Bruder Niels Kruller Chris Kwaramba Oscar Duncan Adekunle Adejuyigbe Derek Klinge Chris Kwaramba Jeff High Oscar Duncan Joachim Olsen Tawanda Chiwira Josh Muxen Joachim Olsen Nikela Ndebele Jan Eitel Joachim Olsen Joachim Olsen Jereme Richardson Nikela Ndebele Nikela Ndebele Ryan Jensen Joachim Olsen Joachim Olsen Jan Eitel Hugh Henry Jan Eitel Pat Ray Jan Eitel Jereme Richardson Pat Ray Russ Winger Russ Winger Jereme Richardson Driss Yousfi Russ Winger Bastien Tardy Paul Dittmer Lucas Pope Russ Winger Russ Winger Josh Dalton Paul Dittmer Lucas Pope Eugenio Mannucci Paul Dittmer Markus Geiger Jeremy Klas James Rogan Barry Britt Barry Britt Lucas Pope Eugenio Mannucci Andrew Blaser Ben Ayesu-Attah James Clark Andrew Blaser Dylan Watts Andrey Levkiv Kyle Rothwell Mike Marshall Andrew Blaser

3000m Steeplechase High Jump Long Jump 200m 400m 400m Hurdles 3000m Steeplechase High Jump Javelin Throw 200m 400m 800m 3000m Steeplechase Long Jump Triple Jump Javelin Throw 400m 800m Triple Jump Hammer Throw Javelin Throw Shot Put 400m 3000m Steeplechase Shot Put 100m 3000m Steeplechase Shot Put Discus Throw Decathlon 100m 200m 3000m Steeplechase Shot Put Discus Throw 5000m 110m Hurdles 3000m Steeplechase 200m 3000m Steeplechase Decathlon 200m Shot Put Discus Throw Decathlon 800m Shot Put 800m 110m Hurdles Pole Vault Shot Put Discus Throw 800m 110m Hurdles Pole Vault Shot Put 110m Hurdles 10,000m Pole Vault Hammer Throw 5000m 10,000m Pole Vault Shot Put Decathlon 400m 800m 110m Hurdles Pole Vault Shot Put Hammer Throw Javelin Throw Decathlon

Total:

1995 1995 1995 1996 1996 1996 1996 1996 1996 1997 1997 1997 1997 1997 1997 1997 1998 1998 1998 1998 1998 1999 2000 2000 2000 2001 2001 2001 2001 2001 2002 2002 2002 2002 2002 2003 2003 2003 2004 2004 2004 2005 2005 2005 2005 2006 2006 2007 2008 2008 2008 2008 2009 2009 2009 2009 2010 2010 2010 2010 2011 2011 2011 2011 2011 2012 2012 2012 2012 2012 2012 2012 2012

150

Women:

Allison Falkenberg-Ryan Sandy Kristjanson Sherri Crang Mary Bradford Sherry Schoenborn Sherri Crang Patsy Sharples Patsy Sharples Patsy Sharples Sherry Schoenborn Kirsten Jones Sherry Schoenborn Sherry Schoenborn Caryn Choate-Deeds Caryn Choate-Deeds Stacey Asplund Karen McCloskey Karen McCloskey Jackie Ross Jackie Ross Jackie Ross Jackie Ross Jackie Ross Jessica Puckett Angie Mathison Jill Wimer Jessica Puckett Jill Wimer Katie Tuttle Shana Ball Angela Whyte Angela Whyte Katja Schreiber Angela Whyte Angela Whyte Daniela Pogorzelski Letiwe Marakurwa Angela Whyte Letiwe Marakurwa Tammy Stowe Sarah Willette Mary Kamau Mary Kamau Letiwe Marakurwa Ina Reiber Mary Kamau Manuela Kurrat Dee Olson Bevin Kennelly Dee Olson Melinda Owen Jenn Broncheau Melinda Owen Melissa McFaddan Melinda Owen Lauren Schaffer Allix Lee-Painter Allix Lee-Painter Allix Lee-Painter K.C. Dahlgren Mykael Bothum Gabby Midles Ulrike Hartz Ulrike Hartz Lauren Schaffer Hannah Kiser Liga Velvere Gabby Midles Erica Digby Erica Digby Alycia Butterworth

800m 1500m 5000m 400m Hurdles Javelin Throw 1500m 3000m 5000m 10,000m Javelin Throw Long Jump Javelin Throw Javelin Throw 100m 100m High Jump 100m Hurdles 400m Hurdles Long Jump Triple Jump Triple Jump Heptathlon Triple Jump Javelin Throw 10,000m Discus Throw Javelin Throw Shot Put Shot Put Discus Throw 100m Hurdles Long Jump Discus Throw 100m 200m 1500m 10,000m 100m Hurdles 3000m Steeplechase Triple Jump Javelin Throw 800m 1500m 3000m Steeplechase Discus Throw 1500m Heptathlon 1500m 5000m 10,000m Pole Vault Hammer Throw Pole Vault 10,000m Pole Vault 800m 5000m 10,000m 3000m Steeplechase Pole Vault Shot Put Hammer Throw Javelin Throw Heptathlon 800m 5000m 400m Hurdles Hammer Throw 1500m 5000m 3000m Steeplechase

Total:

1983 1983 1983 1983 1983 1984 1984 1984 1984 1984 1985 1985 1986 1988 1989 1989 1990 1990 1990 1990 1991 1991 1993 1993 1995 1995 1995 1997 2000 2000 2001 2001 2001 2003 2003 2003 2003 2003 2003 2003 2003 2004 2004 2004 2004 2005 2005 2006 2006 2006 2006 2006 2007 2008 2008 2010 2010 2010 2010 2010 2010 2010 2010 2010 2011 2011 2011 2011 2012 2012 2012

2012 WESTERN ATHLETIC CONFERENCE MEN’S INDOOR AND OUTDOOR TRACK & FIELD CHAMPIONS

Gerald Gill Williams Donald Cleaver Donald Cleaver Don Johnson Phil Liebowitz Dave Martindale Jim Jackson Max Leetzow Nils Jebson Dwayne Turpin Ray McDonald Ray McDonald Joe McCollin Steve Brown Ray McDonald Steve Brown Rich Smith Rich Smith Jim Ferguson Mike Hamilton Steve Roe Rich Brooks Mark Crull Rick Bartlett Doug Fisher Mark Crull Osita Nsofor Steve Saras Doug Fisher Don Allemeersch Bob Peterson Steve Saras Chuck Schmoeger John Trott Steve Saras Neil Crichlow John Trott Ray Prentice Jim Sokolowski Francis DoDoo Mitch Crouser Jim Sokolowski Leroy Robinson John Trott Dave Smith Leroy Robinson Mike Kinney Eric VanZantan Neil Crichlow Craig Christianson Craig Christianson Trond Knaplund Dave Smith Dave Smith Sam Koduah Dave Smith Dave Smith Sam Koduah Tim Taylor Patrick Williams Patrick Williams Kurt Schneiter Patrick Williams Patrick Williams George Ogbeide Mike Davis Orde Ballantyne Patrick Williams Patrick Williams Eric Haynes Stephen Lewis Cristian Zarcu Ty Koellmann Niels Kruller Montrell Williams Frank Bruder

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Outdoor Conference Titles By Event Men

2011 WESTERN ATHLETIC CONFERENCE WOMEN’S CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONS

Men’s 4x100m Relay

(Wanliss, Smith, Benton, Harewood) 1983 (Knaplund, Koduah, Mitcham, Smith) 1984 (Wanliss, Koduah, Smith, Stokes) 1985 (Onanubosi, Stokes, Wanliss, Williams) 1986 (O’Garro, Williams, Onanubosi, Ogbeide) 1987 (Collins, Williams, Haynes, Lewis) 1990 (O’Garro, Haynes, Linley, Lewis) 1991 (Williams, Kruller, St. Hill, Kamangirira) 1995 (Chadband, St. Hill, Kamangirira, Chiwira) 1996 (Kruller, St. Hill, Chiwira, Kamangirira) 1997 (Ndebele, Aguilera, Chiwira, James) 2000 (Aguilera, James, Ndebele, McCrery) 2001 (Ndebele, McCrery, James, Aguilera) 2002 (Michener, Carpenter, Schmidt, Williams) 2010

Total:

Men’s 4x400m Relay

(Maier, Willson, Trott, Harewood) 1980 (Taylor, Mitcham, Smith, Koduah) 1984 (Smith, Wanliss, Koduah, Mitcham) 1985 (Chadband, Whalen, St. Hill, Kamangirira) 1995 (Chiwira, Whalen, St. Hill, Kamangirira) 1996 (Kunkel, Chiwira, St. Hill, Kamangirira) 1997 (Erickson, Clark, Guggenheimer, Ray) 2004

Total:

Shot Put 18 Discus Throw 16 200m 11 100m 10 800m 10 Pole Vault 10 3000m Steeplechase 8 400m 7 110m Hurdles 7 Decathlon 7 High Jump 6 Triple Jump 6 Javelin Throw 6 Long Jump 5 Two-Mile Run* 4 880 Yards* 3 1500m 3 5000m 3 Hammer Throw 3 10,000m 2 400m Hurdles 2 One-Mile Run* 1 220 Yards* 1 Three-Mile Run* 1

Total: 150 *Discontinued Event

Women’s 4x100m Relay

(Whyte, Dennis, Hoeck, Walsh) (Pater, Whyte, Hoeck, Samuel)

Total:

2001 2003

Women’s 4x400m Relay

1983 (Nipp, Dennis, Greenlee, Whyte) 2003

Total:

Idaho’s 2003 quartet of (L-R) Angela Whyte, Tanya Pater, Heather Hoeck and Vernee Samuel grabbed the Big West title in the 4x100m relay with a school-record time of 45.69.

(DT, SP, JT, HT)

Sprints 29 (100m-400m)

Jumps 27 (PV, HJ, LJ, TJ)

Distance 18 (3000m-10,000m)

Middle Distance (800m-Mile)

Hurdles 9 (110m-400m)

Multi-Events 7 (Decathlon)

Total: 150

Women’s By Event Type

Throws 18 (DT, SP, JT, HT)

Distance 17 (3000m-10,000m)

Jumps 12 (PV, HJ, LJ, TJ)

Middle Distance (800m-1500m)

Hurdles 6 (100m-400m)

Sprints 4

Women

Javelin Throw 8 1500m 7 10,000m 6 5000m 6 800m 4 3000m Steeplechase 4 Pole Vault 4 Triple Jump 4 Discus Throw 4 100m 3 100m Hurdles 3 400m Hurdles 3 Long Jump 3 Shot Put 3 Hammer Throw 3 Heptathlon 3 200m 1 3000m* 1 High Jump 1

Total: 71 *Discontinued Event

Men’s By Event Type

Throws 43

(100m-400m)

Multi-Events 3 (Heptathlon)

Total: 71

Sherrie Schoenborn was a four-time Big Sky Conference champion in the javelin throw from 1983-86, and also holds the Big Sky all-time record in the event (178-2).

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81 75 73.5 70.25 67.5 66.33 66 64.5 57.5 57 56.25 55.25 53 49 48 48 47 44.75 44 43.5 40 38.5 38 38 36.5 34 34 34 33.75 32 31.5 31.25 31 31 30.75 30 30 30 29.5 29.5 29 29 29 29 28.5 28 28 28 28 28 28 28 27.5 27 27 27 26 26 26 25 24.25 24 24 24 24 24 23.5 23.25 23 22.75 22.5 22.5 22 22 22 22 22

Jeremy Klas Josh Dalton Rick McCrery Collie Mack George Ogbeide Marcus Luckstead Joe McCollum Jim Sokolowski Gary Tyler Andrey Levkiv Kyle Rothwell Bastien Tardy Stephane Colle Tim Crater Mike Carpenter Anders Møller James Clark Marcus Mattox Scott McCarty Dana Perlman Sam Michener Hugh Henry Matt Elven Mike Marshall Kevin Friesen Diego Moreno-Guzman Ryan Lang Hugo Munoz Kevin Davis Ben Ayesu-Attah Benjamin Mimoun Driss Yousfi Dustin Erickson Jeremiah Dubie Kurt Gregg Geoff Judd Allen Kapofu Cesar Barquero Joseph Charles Dylan Watts Brandon Folk Derek Klinge Shane O’Brien Kyle Daley Antwuan Sherman Ugis Svazs Donavon Cunningham Matt Sullivan Ben Bithell Tyrone Dinneen Matthew Erickson Brandon Reiff Nick Smith Maurice Williams Colin Briggs Rendel Jones Jonathan Marler Ian Snook Jacob Boling Martijn Ungerer Matthew Erickson Ryan Lang Dominic Schmidt Alex Brekke Kyle Hook Jacob Anderson Blaine Maley Garth Chadband Jeff Aronson Ryan Bowen Kevin Merkling Maurice Shaw Ighe Evero Tyler Bennett Spencer Meinburg Steve Potratz Matt Racine Nate Rosenau

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21.5 21.5 21.25 20.75 20.5 20 20 20 20 19 19 19 18 18 17.5 16.5 16 16 16 16 15.5 15.25 15 14 14 14 14 13.5 13 12.5 12.5 12 12 12 11 11 11 10.5 10 10 10 10 10 9 9 8 8 8 8 8 7.5 7 7 6.25 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 5 5 5 5 5 5 4.5 4.5 4.5 4.5 4.5 4 4 4 4 4

Leonard Brittner Matt Rabe Mike Thompson Micah Clark Marwan Mossaad Tyrel Stevenson Luke Carrothers Steve Bluhm Jeff Reinhardt Ilija Gnjec Zach Trumbauer Andrew Bloom Jesse Villines Jason Lorentz Evan Ruud Daniel Benetka Dustin Gregston Matt Cram Kurt Wolf Brent Brown Jonathan Post Kyle Tylor Matthew Ricketts Cedric Thompson Tim Tate Isaac Jimenez

Women:

Angela Whyte Tanya Tesar Jill Wimer Jackie Ross Mary Kamau Allix Lee-Painter Letiwe Marakurwa Alohalani Santiago Caryn Choate-Deeds Cassie Greenlee Sherri Schoenborn Melinda Owen Karen McCloskey Mykael Bothum Sherrie Crang Mandy Macalister Tanya Pater Bevin Kennelly Dee Olson Jessica Puckett Katie Tuttle Lauren Schaffer Shana Ball K.C. Dahlgren Gabriella Midles Anna Kalbrener Dacia Fernandez Katja Schreiber Patsy Sharples Darcy Collins Ulrike Hartz Heather Dennis Erica Digby Christie Gordon Julie Helbling Jeannine Korus Tammy Stowe Vernee Samuel Angie Mathison Alycia Butterworth Katharine Hough Rebecca DaSilva Sarah Willette Heather Bergland Heather Hoeck Shauna Ostrem Zsanett Teveli Lindsey Goodman Alisha Murdoch

4 4 4 3.5 3 3 3 3 3 3 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 1.5 1.5 1.25 1 1

81.5 70 65 58 50 50 49 45 42 40.5 40 39.5 38 37 36 36 35 34 33 32 32 31.5 31 31 30 30 30 30 30 29 29 28.25 28 28 28 28 27.5 27.5 27 25 25 23 23 22.75 22 22 22 21.25 20.75

Molly Burt 20 Mylissa Coleman 20 Kirsten Jensen 20 Tania VanderMeulen 20 Bobbi Purdy 19 Pam Paudler 18 Jamie Stone 18 Julia Veseth 18 Ellen Rouse 17 Kate Buehler 17 Mary Ann Graves 17 Johanna Hocketstaller 16 Kristine Leonard 16 Stacey Asplund 16 Mary Bradford 16 Jennifer Broncheau 16 Manuela Kurrat 16 Tammi Lesh 16 Debbie Ogden 16 Humrei Thompson 16 Brooke Vogel 16 Holly Stanton 15 Cathy Schmidt 15 Sandy Kristjanson 14 Melissa McFaddan 14 Ina Reiber 14 Anne Scott 14 Alice Draser 13 Tassie Souhrada 13 Breeana Chadez 12.5 Annette Helling 12 Daniela Pogorzelski 12 Lisa Tylor 12 Liga Velvere 12 Cathy Wall 12 Keli Hall 11 Brenda Nipp 10.75 Chelsea Huffman 10.5 Jen Walsh 10.25 Jackie Blackett 10 Sarah DeBoer 10 Allison Falkenberg-Ryan 10 Hannah Kiser 10 Melanie Kreizenbeck 10 Teegan Schoch 10 Tara Gehrke 9 Katherine Kress 9 Shannon Russell-Shaw 9 Sarah Nutsch 8 Anne Barnett 8 Althea Belgrave 8 Colleen Case 8 Monica Langfeldt 8 Tia Taruscio 8 Kelly Jacka 7.75 Lindsay Beard 7 Lauri Thompson 7 AshLee Rey 6.25 Emily Dukes 6 Jessica Friend 6 Traci Hanegan 6 Rhea Richter 6 Anna Worland 6 Heidi Lambley 5 Andrea Lamont 5 Kari Alldredge 4 Brenda Beckles 4 Melanie Conlon 4 Jessica Draskau-Peterson 4 Karlene Hurrel 4 Amy Johnson 4 Anne Moore 4 Laura Moore 4 Paula Parsell 4 Sally Read 4 Angie Smith 4 Morgan Dunning 3.5 Meagan Garcia 3.5

Jamie Patten Janet Beaudry Kristi Becker Christi Bentley Maike Holthuijzen Candace Knuths Nikki Schiebe Dusty Schvaneveldt Amber Sielaff Emma Goode Alyssa Covington Laurel Draper Heidi Bodwell Mary Caruso Samantha Cooney Anna Foreman Tiffany Hagood Bethany Hopkins Lisa Kindelan Diane Knudson Molly Leonard Sam Nielson Emily Paradis Wendy Patrick Evelyn Toth Brittany Hodges Megan Poffenroth Mercedes Blackwood Allee Cooper Maggie Miller Misty Buffington Denise Bunch Martha Hale Kim Gillas Kris Kasper Shanna Lytle Debby McMillan Michelle Muzechenko Cassie Rohrbacher Tuelo Setswamorago Robyn Slate Amy Trott Steffani Patten Cindy Smith

3.5 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 2.25 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 1.75 1.5 1.25 1.25 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0.75 0.5

2012 WESTERN ATHLETIC CONFERENCE MEN’S INDOOR AND OUTDOOR TRACK & FIELD CHAMPIONS

Tawanda Chiwira Russ Winger Felix Kamangirira Dave Smith Patrick Williams Andrew Blaser Joachim Olsen Nikela Ndebele Jason St. Hill Stephen Lewis Niels Kruller Jereme Richardson Jan Eitel Neil Crichlow Frank Bruder Simon Stewart Eric Haynes Sam Koduah Ray McDonald John Trott Rich Smith Sherwin James Oscar Duncan Steve Saras Dave Harewood James Rogan Beau Whitney Doug Fisher Patrick Ray Leroy Robinson Paul Dittmer Everton Wanliss Ryan Jensen Dwayne Turpin Rick Bartlett Mark Crull Trond Knaplund Lucas Pope Dayo Onanubosi Josh Guggenheimer Matthew Wauters Errol Aguilera Craig Christianson J.R. Ruffin Scott Whalen Don Allemeersch Steve Brown Amukela Gwebu Mike Hamilton Thad Hathaway Chris Kwaramba Eugenio Mannucci Elvie Williams Adekunle Adejuyigbe Markus Geiger Josh Muxen Jeff High Eversley Linley Mike Martin Chris Stokes Paul Thompson Mitch Crouser Calvin Harris David Holmon Charlie Schmoeger Tim Taylor Curtis Kunkel Rob Demick Jim Jackson Jason Giuffre Al Ramach Montrell Williams Barry Britt Gary Gonser Mike Kinney Dan Nipp Bernd Schroeder

Outdoor Conference Championship Scoring (Since 1964)

2011-12 IDAHO TRACK & FIELD/CROSS COUNTRY YEARBOOK Idaho NCAA Outdoor Championships History NCAA Championships Competitors

1928

Donald Cleaver

1934

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William Squance William Squance

1936

Don Johnson

1937

Don Johnson

1939

Douglas Busby Phil Liebowitz

1940

Alfred Flechner Phil Liebowitz

1942

Vic Dyrgall

1945

John Taylor

1946

Paul Halloran Richard Dexter Theodore Lake Theodore Lake Robert Lattig

1948

Norman Farnham

1949

Dick Armstrong Warren Johnson

1952

Dave Martindale

1953

Lou Gourley

1954

Lou Gourley

1957

Buck MacGillivray

1959

Frank Wyatt

1962

Bob Ruby

1963

Robert Johnson Robert Johnson

1965

Nils Jebsen Ray McDonald Ray McDonald

1966

Ray McDonald Ray McDonald

1967

Steve Brown

1968

Steve Brown Richard Smith

1975

Doug Fisher

1977

Doug Fisher Two-Mile

120-yd Hurdles - 220-yd Hurdles -

2nd -

Javelin

207-11½ 3rd

120-yd Hurdles - 880 Yards -

4th

High Jump One-Mile

- -

3rd 6th

Two-Mile

4th

120-yd Hurdles -

5th

880 Yards Two-Mile 120-yd Hurdles 220-yd Hurdles Pole Vault

- - - - -

5th -

800m

440 Yards One-Mile

- -

1979

John Trott Gary Gonser Bob Peterson

1980

Steve Saras Steve Saras

1981

Kole Tonnemaker Francis DoDoo Mitch Crouser

1982

John Trott Leroy Robinson

1983

Dave Harewood Mike Kinney Neil Crichlow Craig Christianson

1984

Trond Knaplund Dave Smith Sam Koduah

1985

Dave Smith Dave Smith Sam Koduah Chris Stokes Sam Koduah Everton Wanliss Dave Smith

Pole Vault

13-9

1st

1986

Two-Mile

9:18.6

4th

1987

Two-Mile

9:41.8

7th

440 Yards

49.9

Three-Mile

Triple Jump

100 Yards 220 Yards

9.6 -

880 Yards Shot Put Discus

1:50.3 15th 55-4½ 16th 177-3½ 3rd

Shot Put Discus

57-3¾ 160-9

9th -

High Jump

7-1½

1st

High Jump Discus

7-0 165-10

4th -

Discus

171-3

16th

18th 8th

Everton Wanliss Patrick Williams Patrick Williams

1990

Patrick Williams Patrick Williams

1991

Stephen Lewis Eric Haynes Stephen Lewis Eric Haynes

1992

Stephen Lewis

1995

Montrell Williams Frank Bruder

MEN: Discus

172-0

24th

800m 1:49.59 16th 3k Steeplechase 9:12.2 38th High Jump 6-11 27th Shot Put Hammer

58-11 163-5

14th 20th

10,000m Triple Jump Shot Put

31:29.8 28th 51-10 10th 60-3¼ 10th

800m 800m

1:48.54 1:49.06

400m 400m Hurdles Triple Jump Javelin

47.10 52.13 52-0¾w 234-3

16th 32nd 22nd 18th

Decathlon 200m 200m

7,657 21.13 21.56

5th 31st 40th

100m 200m 400m 4x100m Relay 4x100m Relay 4x100m Relay 4x100m Relay

11.35 20.39* 45.58 39.48* 39.48* 39.48* 39.48*

29th 10th -

100m

10.67

24th

100m 200m

10.69 21.53

21st 24th

100m 200m

10.27 21.24

8th 8th

100m 100m 200m 200m

10.39 10.58 21.05 21.72

15th 21st 11th 23rd

100m

10.4h

35th

4th 6th

200m 21.35 19th 3k Steeplechase 8:46.03 6th

1996

Tawanda Chiwira Felix Kamangirira Paul Thompson Frank Bruder Oscar Duncan

1997

Tawanda Chiwira Frank Bruder Chris Kwaramba Oscar Duncan

1998

Hugo Muñoz Chris Kwaramba Oscar Duncan

1999

Tawanda Chiwira Joachim Olsen

2000

Nikela Ndebele Tawanda Chiwira Joachim Olsen

2001

Joachim Olsen Simon Stewart Joachim Olsen

2002

Joachim Olsen Simon Stewart Joachim Olsen

2003

Hugh Henry Jan Eitel Jereme Richardson

2004

Jereme Richardson

2005

Pat Ray Russ Winger Russ Winger

2006

Russ Winger Russ Winger

2008

Elvie Williams Russ Winger Russ Winger Marcus Mattox

2009

Paul Dittmer James Rogan

2010

Jeremy Klas Eugenio Mannucci Beau Whitney James Rogan

2011

Eugenio Mannucci

2012

Mike Marshall

400m 400m 400m Hurdles 3k Steeplechase Javelin

45.55 46.04 51.28 9:06.42 208-9

4th 16th 12th 12th 11th

400m 3k Steeplechase Triple Jump Javelin

46.04 10th 8:31.93 2nd 51-5¾ 8th 210-9 11th

High Jump Triple Jump Javelin

7-0½ 54-0 219-7

10th 3rd 15th

400m Shot Put

46.37 63-10

10th 3rd

100m 400m Shot Put

FS 45.90 66-5¾

14th 1st

Shot Put Shot Put Discus

67-0½ 59-4¾ 193-6

2nd 14th 6th

Shot Put Shot Put Discus

70-9¼ 63-11 197-5

2nd 3rd 6th

110m Hurdles FS 3k Steeplechase 8:47.94 18th Decathlon DNF Decathlon

7,548

9th

200m Shot Put Discus

21.28 62-5¼ 175-7

21st 5th 20th

Shot Put Discus

59-3½ 179-11

14th 14th

Long Jump Shot Put Discus Hammer

25-7½ 64-8¾ 187-7 214-6

4th 3rd 5th 9th

110m Hurdles Hammer

14.07 199-10

17th 17th

Pole Vault Shot Put Hammer Hammer

16-4¾ 16th 56-9½ 21st 201-4 19th 193-11 22nd

Shot Put

57-11

15th

Javelin

224-9

17th

Steve Brown, the 1967 NCAA high jump champion, was one of the first Americans to clear the 7-foot barrier.

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2011-12 IDAHO TRACK & FIELD/CROSS COUNTRY YEARBOOK Idaho NCAA Outdoor Championships History WOMEN:

Sherrie Crang 5000m Sherrie Schoenborn Javelin Mylissa Coleman Javelin

1984

Sherrie Crang Patsy Sharples Mylissa Coleman Sherrie Schoenborn

3000m 10,000m Javelin Javelin

1985

Mylissa Coleman Javelin Sherrie Schoenborn Javelin

16:55.47 24th 155-0 12th 142-3 19th 9:47.5 30th 33:49.8 12th 157-2 9th 152-8 19th 153-2 152-8

16th 18th

Mylissa Coleman was a three-time NCAA qualifier and a 1984 All-American in the javelin throw.

1986

Sherrie Schoenborn Javelin

1990

Jackie Ross

1997

Jill Wimer

2000

Shana Ball Katja Schreiber Shana Ball

2001

Angela Whyte Katja Schreiber

2003

Angela Whyte Letiwe Marakurwa Angela Whyte Dacia Fernandez

2004

Mary Kamau Letiwe Marakurwa Tassie Souhrada Ina Reiber Katie Tuttle

2005

Mary Kamau Tassie Souhrada Manuela Kurrat

2006

Dee Olson Bevin Kennelly

2007

Melinda Owen

2010

Mykael Bothum Gabby Midles Ulrike Hartz

156-8

15th

Triple Jump

41-5½*

Shot Put

49-0¾

Shot Put Discus Discus

46-10¾ 19th 177-3 4th 163-6 12th

100m Hurdles Discus

12.82 197-10

100m Hurdles 3k Steeplechase Heptathlon Heptathlon

13.07 7th 9:52.98 4th 5,745 3rd 4,779 25th

1500m 3k Steeplechase High Jump Discus Discus

DNF DNF 5-7 182-0 165-2

1500m High Jump Heptathlon

4:22.22 19th 5-9¾ 16th 5,714 4th

14th

3rd 1st

25th 4th 19th

1500m 4:18.84 6th 3k Steeplechase 10:27.78 19th Pole Vault

DNS

Shot Put Hammer Heptathlon

51-4¼ 185-1 DNF

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MEN:

Joachim Olsen (6)................................ Shot Put (1999) Shot Put (2000) Shot Put (2001) Discus (2001) Shot Put (2002) Discus (2002) Oscar Duncan (3)....................................Javelin (1996) Javelin (1997) Javelin (1998) Russ Winger (3)................................... Shot Put (2005) Shot Put (2008) Discus (2008) Steve Brown (2)................................ High Jump (1967) High Jump (1968) Frank Bruder (2).............. 3000m Steeplechase (1995) 3000m Steeplechase (1997) Lou Gourley (2)................................. Two-Mile (1953) Two-Mile (1954) Don Johnson (2)......................................Javelin (1936) Javelin (1937) Chris Kwaramba (2).......................Triple Jump (1997) Triple Jump (1998) Patrick Williams (2)................................. 100m (1990) 200m (1990) Donald Cleaver.................................. Two-Mile (1928) Alfred Flechner................................ High Jump (1940) Phil Liebowitz.................................... One-Mile (1940) Vic Dyrgall......................................... Two-Mile (1942) John Taylor............................... 120-yd Hurdles (1945) Richard Dexter................................... Two-Mile (1946) Dave Martindale................................Pole Vault (1952) Robert Johnson.................................. 220 Yards (1963) Ray McDonald.........................................Discus (1965) John Trott.................................................. 800m (1982) Leroy Robinson......................................... 800m (1982) Trond Knaplund............................... Decathlon (1984) Tawanda Chiwira...................................... 400m (1996) Simon Stewart...................................... Shot Put (2002) Jereme Richardson........................... Decathlon (2004) Elvie Williams..................................Long Jump (2008) Marcus Mattox.....................................Hammer (2008) Eugenio Mannucci............................ Shot Put (2011)# Mike Marshall....................................... Javelin (2012)^

Total......................................................43

WOMEN:

Angela Whyte (3)...................... 100m Hurdles (2001) 100m Hurdles (2003) Heptathlon (2003) Katja Schreiber (2)...................................Discus (2000) Discus (2001) Mylissa Coleman.....................................Javelin (1984) Letiwe Marakurwa.......... 3000m Steeplechase (2003) Ina Reiber.................................................Discus (2004) Manuela Kurrat............................... Heptathlon (2005) Dee Olson................................................ 1500m (2006)

Total......................................................10

# Second Team ^ Honorable Mention

Event

Total NCAA Bids

Shot Put Discus Javelin 220y/200m 440y/400m 100y/100m 3000m Steeplechase 880y/800m High Jump 120y/110m Hurdles Triple Jump Hammer Two-Mile Pole Vault Heptathlon 1500m Decathlon One-Mile 10,000m 100m Hurdles 220-yd Hurdles 400m Hurdles 3000m 5000m Three-Mile 4x100m Relay Long Jump Totals

Year 1928 1936 1937 1940 1942 1945 1946 1951 1952 1953 1965 1967 1968 1982 1983 1984 1990 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2008

Men Women Total 15 3 18 10 5 15 7 7 14 10 0 10 9 0 9 9 0 9 5 3 8 7 0 7 5 2 7 6 0 6 5 1 6 5 1 6 5 0 5 3 1 4 0 4 4 0 3 3 3 0 3 2 0 2 1 1 2 0 2 2 2 0 2 2 0 2 0 1 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 114 35 149

NCAA Team Finishes Men (Pts) 17th (8) 25th (4) 24th (8) 21st (7) 26th (4) 23rd (2) 34th (2) 27th (4) 28th (6) 30th (4) 35th (6) 19th (10) 38th (4) 30th (16) - 48th (8) 64th (2) 59th (3) 50th (5) 33rd (9) 38th (6) 32nd (6) 21st (10) 23rd (11) 17th (17) - - 46th (4) - 18th (15)

Women (Pts) 58th (1) 57th (5) 45th (5) 16th (16) 20th (13) 41st (5) 47th (5) 58th (3) -

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NCAA Championships Competitors Outdoor All-Americans

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Men’s NCAA West Preliminary Qualifiers

BEN AYESU-ATTAH

ANDREW BLASER

MIKE MARSHALL

KYLE ROTHWELL

2010 Jeremy Klas

ANDREY LEVKIV

UGIS SVAZS

2011 17-2¾

12th

Eugenio Mannucci Shot Put

58-6½

9th

Sam Michener

100m

10.82

James Rogan

Hammer Throw

214-11

4th

Beau Whitney

Discus Throw

161-5

Beau Whitney

Hammer Throw

202-11

Pole Vault

STÉPHANE COLLE

2012

Barry Britt

5000m

14:17.45

47th

Ben Ayesu-Attah

400m

47.61

31st

Andrew Blaser

110m Hurdles

14.79

41st

Andrew Blaser

110m Hurdles

13.84

14th

9th

Stéphane Colle

5000m

14:37.29 23rd

T16th

Andrey Levkiv

Shot Put

55-5¾

32nd

33rd

Mike Marshall

Javelin Throw

222-11

12th

11th

Kyle Rothwell

Hammer Throw

Foul

Ugis Svazs

Javelin Throw

216-5

42nd

Eugenio Mannucci Shot Put

58-10¾

Lucas Pope

16-6¾

Pole Vault

14th

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Women’s NCAA West Preliminary Qualifiers

ERICA DIGBY

KRISTINE LEONARD

GABBY MIDLES

SARAH NUTSCH

ELLEN ROUSE

2010

2011

2012

Mykael Bothum

Shot Put

52-2½

10th

Alycia Butterworth 3k Steeplechase

10:39.71

Mykael Bothum

Discus Throw

144-9

37th

Hannah Kiser

5000m

K.C. Dahlgren

Pole Vault

12-9½

23rd

Gabby Midles

Christie Gordon

100m Hurdles

13.73

25th

Lauren Schaffer

Ulrike Hartz

200m

25.03

47th

Liga Velvere

Ulrike Hartz

Javelin Throw

149-11

18th

Gabby Midles

Hammer Throw

188-6

9th

Allix Potratz-Lee

5000m

DNS

Allix Potratz-Lee

3k Steeplechase

10:26.55

14th

Lauren Schaffer

800m

2:09.31

29th

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Alycia Butterworth 3k Steeplechase

10:57.20

37th

16:53.10 32nd

Erica Digby

1500m

4:30.46

25th

Hammer Throw

184-0

19th

Kristine Leonard

Discus Throw

147-1

40th

800m

2:07.38

17th

Gabby Midles

Hammer Throw

182-11

34th

400m Hurdles

1:00.55

25th

Sarah Nutsch

Hammer Throw

174-5

44th

Ellen Rouse

Javelin Throw

136-6

35th

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ALYCIA BUTTERWORTH

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First Team

Driss Yousfi..................................... 800m (1st) Russ Winger.............................. Shot Put (1st) Kevin Friesen.............................. 5000m (3rd) Josh Guggenheimer....... 400m Hurdles (3rd) David Holmon....................Triple Jump (3rd) Matt Wauters............................ Shot Put (3rd) Matt Wauters........................... Hammer (3rd)

Second Team

Jason Giuffre...................4x400m Relay (2nd) Josh Guggenheimer.......4x400m Relay (2nd) Kevin Pabst.....................4x400m Relay (2nd) Driss Yousfi.....................4x400m Relay (2nd) Jason Giuffre...................................400m (4th) David Holmon..................... High Jump (4th) Marcus Mattox............ Hammer Throw (4th) Kevin Pabst......................400m Hurdles (5th) Russ Winger.............................Hammer (5th) Antwaun Sherman........................100m (6th) Antwaun Sherman........................200m (6th) Matt Brady...........................Triple Jump (6th) Jake Boling................................Hammer (6th)

2007:

First Team

Bastien Tardy.................................. 800m (1st) Diego Moreno...................Steeplechase (2nd) David Holmon...................Triple Jump (2nd) Benjamin Mimoun....................... 100m (3rd) Benjamin Mimoun....................... 200m (3rd) Diego Moreno............................. 1500m (3rd) Mike Carpenter......................Pole Vault (3rd) Beau Whitney............................. Discus (3rd) James Rogan............................ Hammer (3rd) Ian Snook...............................Decathlon (3rd)

Second Team

Matt Racine.............................. 10,000m (4th) Mike Thompson.................Steeplechase (4th) Jake Boling................................Hammer (4th) Nate Rosenau...............................Discus (4th) Kyle Hook.....................................Javelin (4th) David Holmon..................... High Jump (5th) James Rogan.................................Discus (5th) Brandon Folk...............................Javelin (5th) Jonathan Marler................... High Jump (6th) Beau Whitney.......................... Shot Put (6th)

Beau Whitney was a nine-time All-WAC honoree for Idaho in the shot put, discus throw and hammer throw from 2007-09.

2008:

Men

First Team

Paul Dittmer.................... 110m Hurdles (1st) Lucas Pope...............................Pole Vault (1st) Russ Winger.............................. Shot Put (1st) Russ Winger................................. Discus (1st) Bastien Tardy.................................800m (2nd) Mike Carpenter.....................Pole Vault (2nd) Cesar Barquero............................. 800m (3rd) Beau Whitney............................. Discus (3rd) Marcus Mattox........................ Hammer (3rd)

Second Team

Maurice Shaw..................110m Hurdles (4th) Elvie Williams......................Long Jump (4th) Matt Wauters............................Hammer (4th) Josh Dalton.....................................800m (5th) Elvie Williams.................110m Hurdles (5th) David Holmon....................Triple Jump (5th) Beau Whitney.......................... Shot Put (5th) James Rogan.................................Discus (5th) Kevin Merkling........................... 1500m (6th) Tim Tate.................................... 10,000m (6th) Elvie Williams...................... High Jump (6th) Matt Wauters................................Discus (6th) Russ Winger.............................Hammer (6th) Kyle Hook.....................................Javelin (6th)

2010:

First Team

Markus Geiger.......................... 10,000m (1st) Paul Dittmer.................... 110m Hurdles (1st) Jeremy Klas..............................Pole Vault (1st) James Rogan............................. Hammer (1st) Josh Dalton....................................800m (2nd) Eugenio Mannucci..................Shot Put (2nd) Sam Michener............................... 100m (3rd)

Second Team

Jonathan Marler................... High Jump (4th) James Rogan............................. Shot Put (4th) Beau Whitney..............................Discus (4th) Kevin Merkling........................... 1500m (5th) Barry Britt.................................... 5000m (5th) Beau Whitney..........................Hammer (5th) Ryan Bowen........................... Decathlon (5th) Alex Brekke........................Steeplechase (6th) Jeff Aronson.........................Long Jump (6th) Jason Lorentz.......................Triple Jump (6th) Beau Whitney.......................... Shot Put (6th)

2009:

Second Team

Sam Michener................................100m (4th) Cesar Barquero..............................800m (4th) Steve Potratz.......................Steeplechase (4th) James Rogan............................. Shot Put (4th) Matt Wauters............................Hammer (4th) Markus Geiger............................ 5000m (5th) Alex Brekke........................Steeplechase (5th) Jonathan Marler................... High Jump (5th) Elvie Williams...................... High Jump (5th) Evan Ruud....................................Discus (5th) Jake Boling................................Hammer (5th) Ryan Bowen........................... Decathlon (5th) Kevin Merkling........................... 1500m (6th)

Ben Ayesu-Attah............................ 400m (1st) James Clark..................................... 800m (1st) Andrew Blaser................. 110m Hurdles (1st) Dylan Watts.............................Pole Vault (1st) Andrey Levkiv........................... Shot Put (1st) Kyle Rothwell........................... Hammer (1st) Mike Marshall...............................Javelin (1st) Andrew Blaser........................Decathlon (1st) Markus Geiger........................ 10,000m (2nd) Matt Sullivan.........................Pole Vault (2nd) Donavon Cunningham..............Discus (2nd) Ugis Svazs....................................Javelin (2nd) Jeremiah Dubie........................ 10,000m (3rd) Andrew Blaser................ 400m Hurdles (3rd) Stéphane Colle.................. Steeplechase (3rd) Andrew Blaser......................High Jump (3rd) Andrew Blaser........................Pole Vault (3rd) Andrew Blaser......................Long Jump (3rd) Rendel Jones........................Triple Jump (3rd) Joseph Charles............................ Discus (3rd) Colin Briggs...........................Decathlon (3rd)

Second Team

First Team

Josh Dalton..................................... 800m (1st) Paul Dittmer.................... 110m Hurdles (1st) Mike Carpenter................4x100m Relay (1st) Sam Michener..................4x100m Relay (1st) Dominic Schmidt............4x100m Relay (1st) Elvie Williams..................4x100m Relay (1st) Lucas Pope...............................Pole Vault (1st) Eugenio Mannucci................... Shot Put (1st) Elvie Williams..................... Long Jump (2nd) Elvie Williams....................Triple Jump (2nd) James Clark.................................. 1500m (3rd) Markus Geiger......................... 10,000m (3rd) Jeremy Klas.............................Pole Vault (3rd) Beau Whitney.......................... Shot Put (3rd) Beau Whitney............................. Discus (3rd) James Rogan............................ Hammer (3rd)

2012:

First Team

Paul Dittmer was the first man in WAC history to claim three-consecutive conference crowns in the 110m hurdles from 2008-10 for Idaho.

2011:

Ben Ayesu-Attah.............4x400m Relay (3rd) Andrew Bloom................4x400m Relay (3rd) Spencer Meinburg..........4x400m Relay (3rd) Dominic Schmidt...........4x400m Relay (3rd) Stéphane Colle............................ 1500m (4th) Stéphane Colle............................ 5000m (4th) Tyler Bennett........................ High Jump (4th) Joseph Charles......................... Shot Put (4th) Andrey Levkiv..............................Discus (4th) Andrey Levkiv..........................Hammer (4th) Jeremy Klas............................ Decathlon (4th) Jeremiah Dubie........................... 5000m (5th) Jesse Villines....................110m Hurdles (5th) Jeremy Klas.............................Pole Vault (5th) Kyle Rothwell...............................Discus (5th) Zach Trumbauer......................Hammer (5th) Markus Geiger............................ 5000m (6th) Alex Brekke........................Steeplechase (6th)

First Team

Barry Britt..................................... 5000m (1st) Barry Britt.................................. 10,000m (1st) Lucas Pope...............................Pole Vault (1st) Eugenio Mannucci................... Shot Put (1st) Andrew Blaser........................Decathlon (1st) Andrew Blaser................ 110m Hurdles (3rd) Kyle Rothwell.......................... Hammer (3rd)

Second Team

Jeremiah Dubie........................ 10,000m (4th) Andrew Blaser...................... High Jump (4th) Pole Vault................................Pole Vault (4th) Mike Marshall..............................Javelin (4th) Sam Michener................................100m (5th) Jeff Aronson.........................Long Jump (5th) Alex Brekke........................Steeplechase (6th) Andrey Levkiv.......................... Shot Put (6th) Kyle Rothwell...............................Discus (6th)

Markus Geiger finished his career in 2012 as a threetime First-Team All-WAC honoree in the 10,000m, which included a 2010 WAC title in the event.

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Second Team

Tanya Pater............................................100m (5th) Alisha Murdoch....................................800m (5th) Mary Kamau.......................................1500m (5th) Mandy Macalister...............................5000m (5th) Tammy Stowe............................. Triple Jump (5th) Kate Buehler........................................ Javelin (5th) Heather Bergland..................100m Hurdles (6th)

2007:

First Team

Melinda Owen...............................Pole Vault (1st) Mandy Macalister...........................10,000m (2nd) Christie Gordon....................100m Hurdles (2nd) Bevin Kennelly.........................Steeplechase (2nd) Mykael Bothum..............................Shot Put (2nd) Rhea Richter.....................................10,000m (3rd) Heather Bergland..................100m Hurdles (3rd) Allix Lee-Painter.......................Steeplechase (3rd) Molly Burt...................................Heptathlon (3rd)

Second Team

K.C. Dahlgren............................... Pole Vault (4th) Mykael Bothum..................................Discus (4th) Darcy Collins..............................Heptathlon (4th) Bevin Kennelly....................................5000m (5th) Molly Burt..............................400m Hurdles (5th) Breeana Chadez...........................High Jump (5th) Lindsey Goodman......................Heptathlon (5th) Alisha Murdoch..................................1500m (6th)

2008:

First Team

Melissa McFaddan............................10,000m (1st) Melinda Owen...............................Pole Vault (1st) Allix Lee-Painter......................Steeplechase (2nd) K.C. Dahlgren.............................. Pole Vault (2nd) Alice Draser................................ Long Jump (2nd) Mykael Bothum..............................Shot Put (2nd) Darcy Collins.............................Heptathlon (2nd) Christie Gordon.....................100m Hurdles (3rd) Molly Burt...................................Heptathlon (3rd)

Second Team

Heather Bergland..................100m Hurdles (4th) Anne Barnett....................................... Javelin (4th) Alice Draser.................................Heptathlon (4th) Allix Lee-Painter.................................1500m (5th) Mandy Macalister............................10,000m (5th) Molly Burt..............................400m Hurdles (5th)

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Lindsey Goodman......................Heptathlon (5th) Darcy Collins...............................High Jump (6th) Kate Buehler........................................ Javelin (6th)

2009:

First Team

Lauren Schaffer....................................800m (2nd) Lindsay Beard.............................. Pole Vault (2nd) Darcy Collins.............................Heptathlon (2nd) Heather Bergland..................100m Hurdles (3rd)

Second Team

Teegan Schoch....................................1500m (4th) Ellen Rouse..................................Heptathlon (4th) Breeana Chadez...........................High Jump (5th) Darcy Collins...............................High Jump (6th) Anne Barnett....................................... Javelin (6th)

2010:

First Team

Lauren Schaffer......................................800m (1st) Allix Lee-Painter..................................5000m (1st) Allix Lee-Painter...............................10,000m (1st) Allix Lee-Painter........................Steeplechase (1st) K.C. Dahlgren................................Pole Vault (1st) Mykael Bothum................................Shot Put (1st) Gabby Midles...................................Hammer (1st) Ulrike Hartz.........................................Javelin (1st) Ulrike Hartz.................................Heptathlon (1st) Christie Gordon....................100m Hurdles (2nd) Mykael Bothum..................................Discus (3rd) Lindsey Goodman......................Heptathlon (3rd)

Second Team

Lindsey Goodman................ 4x100m Relay (2nd) Ulrike Hartz.......................... 4x100m Relay (2nd) Karlene Hurrel...................... 4x100m Relay (2nd) Kelly Jacka............................. 4x100m Relay (2nd) Lindsey Goodman.................4x400m Relay (3rd) Kelly Jacka..............................4x400m Relay (3rd) AshLee Rey.............................4x400m Relay (3rd) Lauren Schaffer......................4x400m Relay (3rd) Julia Veseth.......................................10,000m (4th) Breeana Chadez...........................High Jump (4th) Ulrike Hartz..........................................200m (5th) Anna Kalbrener....................................800m (5th) Anna Kalbrener..................................1500m (5th) Erica Digby..........................................1500m (6th) Maike Holthuijzen...........................10,000m (6th) Ulrike Hartz................................ Long Jump (6th) Sarah Nutsch................................... Hammer (6th)

2011:

First Team

Lauren Schaffer......................................800m (1st) Hannah Kiser.......................................5000m (1st) Liga Velvere.............................400m Hurdles (1st) Gabby Midles...................................Hammer (1st) Alycia Butterworth..................Steeplechase (2nd) Keli Hall.................................................800m (3rd) Anna Kalbrener..................................1500m (3rd)

Second Team

Keli Hall................................. 4x400m Relay (2nd) Karlene Hurrel...................... 4x400m Relay (2nd) Lauren Schaffer..................... 4x400m Relay (2nd) Liga Velvere........................... 4x400m Relay (2nd) Julia Veseth..........................................5000m (4th) Julia Veseth.......................................10,000m (4th) Kristine Leonard..............................Shot Put (4th) Holly Stanton............................Steeplechase (6th)

2012:

First Team

Erica Digby...........................................1500m (1st) Erica Digby...........................................5000m (1st) Alycia Butterworth....................Steeplechase (1st) Anna Kalbrener...................................800m (2nd) Anna Kalbrener.................................1500m (2nd) Holly Stanton...........................Steeplechase (2nd) Gabby Midles................................. Hammer (2nd) Johanna Höcketstaller...............Heptathlon (2nd) Alycia Butterworth.............................5000m (3rd) Kristine Leonard..............................Shot Put (3rd) Ellen Rouse..........................................Javelin (3rd)

Second Team

Kristine Leonard.................................Discus (4th) Erica Digby............................................800m (5th) Holly Stanton......................................5000m (5th) Morgan Dunning.......................... Pole Vault (5th) Sarah Nutsch................................... Hammer (6th)

Allix Potratz-Lee (Lee-Painter) leads all Vandal women with six career All-WAC honors. She performed the unprecedented triple crown with 5000m, 10,000m and 3000m steeplechase titles at the 2010 WAC Championships - the third such triple in NCAA history.

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Wayne Phipps

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Director of Track & Field/Cross Country

• 2000 Big West Men’s Track & Field Coach of the Year • 2001 Big West Men’s Track & Field Coach of the Year • 2002 Big West Women’s Cross Country Coach of the Year • 2005 WAC Women’s Cross Country Coach of the Year • 2007 WAC Women’s Cross Country Coach of the Year • 2010 WAC Women’s Cross Country Coach of the Year • 2011 WAC Women’s Cross Country Coach of the Year • 2012 WAC Men’s Indoor Track & Field Coach of the Year • 2012 WAC Men’s Outdoor Track & Field co-Coach of the Year

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British Columbia, ‘91 Oregon, ‘94 Sprints

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The 2012 season marked Wayne Phipps’ second season as Idaho’s Director of Track & Field/Cross Country and his 16th overall year with the program. He served as co-head coach from 2000-09 and was an assistant before that from 1995-99. In his time at Idaho, he has been honored nine times as a conference coach of the year and has led the Vandals to 11 total conference titles. Since 2000, Phipps has overseen an Idaho track and field/cross country program that has produced four individual cross country champions, 46 indoor track and field champions and 103 outdoor champions. Vandals have claimed 18 conference athlete of the year awards, broken 15 conference records and qualified for the NCAA Championships 79 times. Since 2000, Vandal athletes have broken 30 indoor school records and 23 outdoor records, and at least one school record has fallen every year at Idaho during his tenure. Additionally, Idaho has a very strong academic reputation as regular honorees among the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association Division I All-Academic Teams in both men’s and women’s cross country and track and field. Since 2005, five Idaho track and field athletes have earned the Western Athletic Conference’s prestigious Stan Bates Award as the top male or female student-athlete in the conference, and the team’s athletes have been recognized with a combined 442 WAC All-Academic honors. The 2011-12 season for Idaho featured a laundry list of team and individual accomplishments. Phipps’ Vandals claimed the 2011 women’s cross country crown - the team’s second in a row and fourth in seven tries - and sophomore Hannah Kiser became the team’s first individual NCAA Cross Country Championships qualifier since 2004. The Vandal men claimed Idaho’s first men’s WAC title in any sport with a dramatic win at the 2012 WAC Indoor Championships, then made it a sweep three months later on their home track at the WAC Outdoor Championships. In the 2012 track and field seasons alone, Vandals combined for three All-America honors, four school records, three WAC records, 21 individual WAC titles and three WAC relay titles, 88 men’s All-WAC honors, 43 women’s AllWAC accolades, 23 WAC Athlete of the Week awards and 97 WAC All-Academic honors. Success is a staple under Phipps, and it began with his very first year at the position, when, in 2000, the Vandal men won the Big West title and Phipps was honored as 2000 Big West Men’s Track and Field Coach of the Year. In 2001, both the men and women won Big West titles and Phipps was chosen Big West Men’s Track and Field Coach of the Year once again. In each of his first three years at Idaho, the men’s team finished in the top 30 in the nation both indoors and outdoors to make Idaho one of only nine schools in the nation to do so. Phipps’ success wasn’t limited to track and field, as he also led the Vandal women to a 2002 Big West Cross Country title and earned Big West Cross Country Coach of the Year honors. In 2003, the women’s track and field team took home the Big West title. Phipps led the Vandals to uncharted territory in 2004 when the women’s cross country team qualified for the NCAA Championships for the first time in the program’s history and finished 25th overall. The 2005 cross country season saw even more success, as the women’s team took home the University of Idaho’s first Western Athletic Conference title. Four Vandal runners finished in the top five and Dee Olson earned the individual title, as well as WAC Athlete of the Year and Phipps earned his fourth career Coach of the Year honor. In 2006, the second straight Phipps-coached athlete won the WAC as freshman Rhea Richter took home the women’s cross country individual title. In 2007, Phipps led the women to their second cross country title in three years as four runners finished in the top 10. In 2008, he coached yet another WAC Champion, as Allix Lee-Painter won the women’s cross country title and the women finished second as a team. In 2010, Idaho claimed its third WAC title in five years, as the team put five runners in the top 15 to claim the crown. Making that title especially sweet was the fact that it was held in Moscow, and was Idaho’s first time hosting a WAC Championship event. He currently coaches Olympian and assistant coach Angela Whyte and has coached two-time Olympian and World Championship finalist Tawanda Chiwira, NCAA All-American and world-ranked hurdler Arend Watkins, and Olympian Sherwin James. Phipps began his coaching career in his hometown of Prince George, British Columbia, with the Prince George Track and Field Club. During that time, he coached several provincial and national medalists and champions. As an athlete, Phipps was a three-year letterwinner in basketball and a four-year letterwinner in track and cross country at D.P. Todd Secondary. He also competed for the Prince George Track and Field Club, where he was coached by his father, Ron, and was a provincial champion and medalist in events ranging from the 100m to the 1500m and cross country. He also competed in both the cross country and track and field national championships in Canada. Phipps competed for the University of Montana and the University of British Columbia, where he graduated with a degree in exercise science in 1991. Phipps earned his master’s of science from the University of Oregon in exercise and movement science, with a sports medicine major and minors in biomechanics and exercise physiology.

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Julie Taylor

Idaho, ‘86 Throws Julie Taylor was promoted to Head Track & Field Coach at Idaho in 2011 after serving 20 years as an assistant coach with the program. She has led the Idaho throws program to unprecedented levels of success in her two-plus decades of coaching. When she graduated from Idaho in 1986, Taylor held both Idaho outdoor school records in the shot put and discus. Since that time, her athletes have broken and re-broken every Idaho throws record. Taylor saw her name officially bumped out of the Idaho record book in 2011, but she still holds an incredible distinction in Idaho’s history. She coached every single athlete who has made an entry in Idaho’s all-time top-10 in the women’s shot put, discus, hammer throw and javelin throw. Since Taylor became throws coach at Idaho, Vandal throws have qualified for the NCAA Championships 47 times and won two NCAA titles, 22 Western Athletic Conference titles, eight Big West Conference titles, nine Big Sky Conference titles and have claimed 28 All-America honors. At least one school record in the throws has fallen at Idaho in eight of the last nine seasons. When the Vandal men claimed the team title at the 2012 WAC Outdoor Track & Field Championships, they did so with a contribution of three individual titles and 68 total points from the men’s throws. Taylor’s group comprised eight of the 13 Idaho NCAA qualifiers who competed at the NCAA West Preliminary meet, and Idaho’s lone finalist, Mike Marshall in the javelin who walked away an Honorable Mention All-American. In the 2012 outdoor season alone, Vandal throwers made 11 entries into the Idaho all-time top-10 lists. In the 2008 outdoor season, Idaho was the only men’s NCAA program to have four men hit the 200-foot mark in the hammer throw. Not only that, on April 26, 2008, Taylor’s group of Marcus Mattox (208-2), James Rogan (203-2), Matt Wauters (203-1) and Russ Winger (202-3) all achieved the feat in one competition over the span of a couple hours. Taylor’s top men’s pupil is Winger, who went down as one of the most versatile collegiate throwers ever from 2004-08. He is just the second man in NCAA history to hit 65 feet in both the shot put and weight throw in the same indoor season, and he achieved the feat in both 2007 and 2008. Dan Taylor of Ohio State was the first man to hit that double. Additionally in 2008, Winger was the only man to qualify for the NCAA Outdoor Championships in the shot put, discus throw and hammer throw (he scratched from the hammer to focus on his two primary events). Taylor also coached the first and only individual NCAA champion in Idaho women’s athletics history in Katja Schreiber, who won the 2001 national title in the women’s discus with a schoolrecord heave of 197-11. As a standout thrower for the Vandals from 1983-86, Taylor broke both the shot put and discus school records and earned three All-Big Sky Conference honors. She scored points at every Big Sky meet during her career and still ranks 31st in Idaho history in all-time outdoor conference scoring at 28 points. She is married to another all-time great Vandal thrower, Tim Taylor, who is a volunteer assistant throws coach at Idaho. They have one son, Alex, who is a thrower at Community Colleges of Spokane, and one daughter, Kelsey, who was an all-WAC performer for the Idaho volleyball team from 2007-10.

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Head Track & Field Coach

2011-12 IDAHO TRACK & FIELD/CROSS COUNTRY YEARBOOK

Jason Graham

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Assistant Coach

Idaho, ‘94 Pole Vault

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Jason Graham was hired as assistant track and field coach in 2011 after 14 years as a volunteer assistant at Idaho. As a volunteer coach, Graham worked primarily with the pole vaulters, as well as jumpers and multi-athletes and helped build Idaho’s vaults program into one of the nation’s best. Since 2005, Graham’s vaulters have claimed 19 individual Western Athletic Conference titles, including the last five consecutive indoor and outdoor men’s crowns. In 2012, Graham led the Vandal jumps to new heights. For the first time in school history, Idaho men’s jumps swept every event at the 2012 WAC Indoor Championships and scored a combined 77.5 points to lead the Vandals to their first men’s WAC title in any sport. Most impressive is that among the four disciplines (high jump, long jump, triple jump and pole vault) were four different winners at the meet. The team also added the individual champion and 20 points in the men’s heptathlon at the meet. On the women’s side, he coached the first 12-foot, 13-foot and 14-foot vaulter in Vandal history, Melinda Owen. Undefeated headto-head versus WAC competition for her career, Owen claimed a record six WAC pole vault titles and walked away with the WAC’s all-time outdoor record in the vault at 14-5¼ (4.40m), which was also the best mark in the nation in 2008. After her graduation in 2008, Owen was invited to the USA Track & Field Olympic Training Center. Following Owen was K.C. Dahlgren, a 2009 indoor All-American, two-time NCAA qualifier and three-time WAC champion who left the school ranked second all-time in the vault. Graham’s men’s vaulters have also taken the program to new heights. Mike Carpenter became the first Vandal to crack the 17-foot barrier outdoors in 2008, then was followed by Jeremy Klas in 2010 and Lucas Pope in 2011. Pope and Klas became the first two Vandals to break 17 feet indoors in 2010, and Klas became Idaho’s first and only NCAA qualifier and All-American in the indoor pole vault the same year. Pope, who graduated in 2011 with five career WAC titles and Idaho’s outdoor school record (17-3) in his possession, was never beaten head-to-head by a non-Idaho WAC pole vaulter. Klas, a threetime All-American who owns four career WAC golds and has qualified for four NCAA Championship meets, is Idaho’s indoor school record holder (17-9¾) and is the only man in Idaho history to qualify for three-consecutive NCAA meets in the vault. Graham has been a Vandal since 1988 when he came to Idaho as a studentathlete. He competed in the hurdles and the decathlon for Idaho and earned three Big Sky All-Academic honors from 1988-92. Graham earned his B.S. in Secondary Mathematics and Physics Education from Idaho in 1994 and his M.S. in Secondary Science and Technology Education from Idaho in 1997. His wife’s name is Aimee and the couple has a daughter, Logan (1).

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2011-12 IDAHO TRACK & FIELD/CROSS COUNTRY YEARBOOK Potratz-Lee joined the Idaho staff in 2011 following a standout running career at Idaho. She was a five-time Western Athletic Conference champion, a 10-time first-team Idaho, ‘10 all-WAC honoree and a two-time ESPN Academic All-American. She earned the Assistant Coach 2010 Stan Bates Award as the WAC’s top female student-athlete. She helped Idaho (Distance) cross country take the 2005 and 2007 team titles, and claimed the 2008 individual WAC cross country title. She put together a legendary performance at the 2010 WAC Outdoor Championships, as she scored 30 points by winning the 3000m steeplechase, 5000m and 10,000m at the meet. It was just the third such triple crown in NCAA history and the first in WAC history. She is the only woman in WAC history to be named WAC Athlete of the Year in three different sports. She was the 2008 WAC Women’s Cross Country Athlete of the Year, 2009 WAC Women’s Indoor Track Performer of the Year and 2010 WAC Outdoor Women’s Track Performer of the Year, as well as the 2010 WAC Women’s High Point Award honoree. Potratz-Lee graduated from Idaho in 2010 with a degree in Secondary Education. Formerly Allix Lee-Painter, she married former Idaho track and field athlete Steve Potratz in 2010.

Allix Potratz-Lee

Tim Taylor has been a part of the Vandal family since 1982 when he came to Idaho as a student-athlete. A standout thrower for the Vandals, he took the 1985 Big Sky title in the shot put and qualified for the NCAA Championships, where he Idaho, ‘85 finished 18th. His personal-best shot put of 60-0 ranks sixth all-time at Idaho. He Volunteer Assistant Coach also has a career-best throw of 196-4 in the discus. (Throws) Taylor joined the Idaho track and field program in 1989 as a throws coach. Since then, he has coached some of the most successful athletes in Idaho history. He coached 10-time NCAA All-American, 2000 NCAA shot put champion and 2004 Olympic bronze medalist Joachim Olsen, as well as three-time NCAA AllAmerican Simon Stewart. He also coached NCAA provisional qualifiers Jeff High and T.J. Crater. Since he became a throws coach at Idaho, every men’s throwing record has been broken multiple times. Taylor graduated from Idaho in 1985. He is married to Julie Taylor, Idaho’s head track & field coach and also a standout Vandal thrower. They have one son, Alex, who is a thrower at Community Colleges of Spokane, and one daughter, Kelsey, who was an all-Western Athletic Conference volleyball player for Idaho from 2007-10.

Tim Taylor

Assistant coach Angela Whyte knows all about college track and field success. Whyte was a four-time NCAA All-American and five-time Big West champion at Idaho, where she helped lead the women’s team to 2001 and 2003 Big West team championships. She also earned Big Idaho, ‘03 West Female Athlete of the Year honors in 2001 and Big West Women’s Track Athlete of the Volunteer Assistant Coach Year honors in 2003. Whyte has been a Vandal assistant for six years and helps coach the (Sprints/Hurdles) sprints and hurdles as well as the multi-events. Whyte’s athletic résumé is very impressive. At Idaho, Whyte’s name is etched in 13 school records and she is Idaho’s all-time top scorer with 81.5 career points at outdoor conference meets. Whyte also spent two seasons at the University of New Mexico and left a lasting impression with five school records and All-Mountain West Conference honors in the 100m hurdles in 2000. Whyte’s athletic career hasn’t slowed down after college. Since graduating, Whyte has made herself known on the international track and field stage. She has represented Canada in the Olympic Games twice in 2004 and 2008. In her first Olympics appearance in 2004, she finished sixth overall in the 100m hurdles. Whyte has consistently ranked among the world’s top 100m hurdlers. She is one of just two women in the world to qualify for the IAAF World Championships in the 100m hurdles every year since 2001.Whyte is a 2003 graduate of the University of Idaho with a degree in Crime and Justice Studies. She is a Class of 2010 inductee into the Vandal Athletics Hall of Fame.

Angela Whyte

Chris Campbell Ohio, ‘06; ‘08 Volunteer Assistant Coach (Throws)

Chris Campbell is in his third season as a volunteer assistant at Idaho. He assists primarily with the hammer throw. He was a four-year letterwinner at Ohio University in the throws.

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Michener was a WAC champion, two-time First-Team All-WAC honoree and four-time Second-Team All-WAC honoree from 2006-11. Idaho, ‘11 He ran the leadoff leg of Idaho’s 2009 WAC champion 4x100m relay that Assistant Coach posted a time of 40.65 that was an NCAA Regional Qualifying mark, but the (Sprints) team was unable to advance to the meet because of an injury. Michener finished his Idaho career with bests of 10.59 in the 100m and 21.53 in the 200m outdoors. He had a career best of 6.87 in the indoor 60m dash and a best of 21.81 in the indoor 200m dash. Michener graduated from Idaho in 2011 with a bachelor’s degree in Exercise Science and Health.

Sam Michener

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2011-12 IDAHO TRACK & FIELD/CROSS COUNTRY YEARBOOK Mercedes

Junior

BLACKWOOD

Sprints ◆ Twin Falls, Idaho ◆ Utah State

WAC Scorer ■ All-Time Top-10

Alycia

BUTTERWORTH

Sophomore Distance ◆ Parksville, British Columbia ◆ Ballenas Secondary

2x NCAA Qualifier ■ WAC Champion ■ 6x First-Team All-WAC ■ All-Time Top-10

2011 Cross Country: Butterworth earned First-Team All-WAC honors after finishing as Idaho’s third scorer at fifth overall to help the Vandals win their second consecutive WAC Championship (18:36.6) … took fourth in the junior women’s 5k race with a time of 18:52 at the Canadian Cross Country Championships … Idaho’s second finisher at eighth overall at the Sundodger Invitational (21:28.69) … Idaho’s second finisher and 21st overall at the Santa Clara Bronco Invitational with a time of 17:37.6 … Idaho’s third finisher after placing 31st overall at the Dellinger Invitational with a time of 17:30.95 … took ninth with a 14:42.5 at the Inland Northwest Cross Country Classic … placed 84th overall in 22:01 at the NCAA West Region Cross Country Championships … Fall WAC All-Academic honoree. 2012 Indoor: Butterworth earned a pair of First-Team All-WAC honors with a runner-up finish in the 5000m and a third-place 3000m result at the WAC Indoor Championships … ran a 17:17.78 in her first-ever 5000m at the WAC Championships, then followed it up with a 9:48.58 to complete a 1-2-3 Idaho finish in the 3000m at the meet … ran a career-best 9:47.62 in the 3000m at the Husky Classic on Feb. 11 … won the mile run at the Vandal Indoor with a career-best 4:57.06 … Winter WAC All-Academic honoree. 2012 Outdoor: Butterworth was an NCAA quarterfinalist in the 3000m steeplechase for the second year in a row as a sophomore … earned her first career conference title with a time of 10:42.59 in the 3000m steeplechase at the WAC Outdoor Championships and added a third-place finish in the 5000m (17:27.58) for First-Team All-WAC honors in both … ran a career-best 10:17.18 in the steeplechase at the Oregon Twilight on May 5 to move into third all-time at Idaho in the event … finished 37th at the NCAA West Preliminary Round in the steeplechase with a time of 10:57.20 … Spring WAC All-Academic honoree.

Allee

COOPER

Sophomore / RS Freshman Sprints ◆ Eagle, Idaho ◆ Eagle HS

All-Time Top-10 ■ 3x WAC All-Academic

2012 Indoor: Cooper set career bests in the 60m and 200m as a sophomore … finished 14th at the WAC Indoor Championships in the 60m with a time of 7.92 … had highest career finish in best career time at the Vandal Collegiate on Feb. 18 with a 7.90 and fourth-place finish in the 60m … also ran a career-best 26.29 in the 200m and finished seventh at the same meet … Winter WAC All-Academic honoree. 2012 Outdoor: Cooper made an Idaho record book entry as a member of Idaho’s 4x100m relay … ran the second leg of Idaho’s fourth-place 4x100m relay that ran a 46.87 and moved into ninth all-time at Idaho in the event … ran a career-best 12.43 in the 100m at the WAR V dual on April 7 … ran a wind-aided time of 12.32 in a third-place finish in the 100m at the Vandal Jamboree … ran a career-best 25.67 and finished sixth in the 200m at the WAR V dual … won the 100m at the Sam Adams Classic on March 31 with a time of 12.74 … Spring WAC All-Academic honoree.

Alyssa

COVINGTON

Junior Multi-Events ◆ Boise, Idaho ◆ Borah HS

3x Second-Team All-WAC

2012 Indoor: Covington scored five points and earned one Second-Team All-WAC honor as a junior … tied her career best and finished fifth in the long jump at the WAC Indoor Championships with a leap of 18-9 (5.71m) for All-WAC honors … also scored one point in an eighthplace finish in the indoor pentathlon with a career-best score of 3,219 … finished sixth in her first career indoor pentathlon at the Cougar Indoor on Jan. 27 with a score of 3,053 … set a career best of 18-9 (5.71m) in the long jump after finishing second in her flight at the Husky Classic on Feb. 11 … ran a career-best 9.33 in the 60m hurdles for 10th place at the Vandal Indoor on Feb. 3. 2012 Outdoor: Covington set a career best in the long jump and was a WAC scorer in the event as a junior … finished seventh in the long jump at the WAC Championships with a mark of 18-7.25 (5.67m) to score two team points … won the long jump at the Cougar Indoor on April 21 with a mark of 18-1.75 (5.53m) and won the Duane Hartman Invitational one week later with an identical mark … also won the long jump in her season opener with a 17-8.25 (5.39m) into a strong negative wind at the Buc Scoring Invitational on March 24.

Megan

DEMPSEY

Sophomore Distance ◆ Spokane, Wash. ◆ Eastern Washington

2012 Indoor: Dempsey competed in the middle distance for Idaho in her first season … improved her 800m time in every meet which she competed … ran a career-best 2:24.52 to finish sixth in the event at the Vandal Collegiate on Feb. 18. 2012 Outdoor: Dempsey competed in the middle distance for Idaho in her first season with the team … ran a career-best 2:28.74 and finished fifth in the 800m at the Buc Scoring Invitational on March 24 … ran a 2:33.81 and took 22nd in the 800m at the WAR V dual meet on April 7.

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2012 Indoor: Blackwood competed in the sprints her first season at Idaho … posted a top time of 7.96 in the 60m dash in the preliminary round at the Idaho Indoor Open … finished eighth at the Vandal Indoor in the 60m with a time of 8.06. 2012 Outdoor: Blackwood scored as a member of Idaho’s 4x100m relay at the WAC Outdoor Championships … ran the opening leg of the 4x100m relay that took fourth in a time of 46.87, which ranks ninth all-time at Idaho … also finished 13th in the 100m dash at the WAC Championships with a career-best time of 12.35 … top finish of the season was a runner-up race at the Sam Adams Classic on March 31 in the 100m at 12.86 … ran a 26.26 in the 200m at the WAR V dual on April 7.

2011-12 IDAHO TRACK & FIELD/CROSS COUNTRY YEARBOOK Erica

Senior

DIGBY

Distance ◆ Vancouver, British Columbia ◆ Kitsilano Secondary

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NCAA Qualifier ■ 3x WAC Champion ■ 9x All-WAC ■ WAC Record Holder ■ All-Time Top-10

2012 Indoor: Digby earned three First-Team All-WAC honors, won her first career WAC title and helped set a WAC Championship meet record as a senior … ran the lead-off leg of Idaho’s WAC champion distance medley relay, which posted a meet-record 11:41.67 … finished second in the 3000m with a career-best 9:45.46 to help a 1-2-3 Idaho sweep in the event … took third in the mile run with a time of 4:49.84 … earned First-Team All-WAC honors in each event which she competed at the WAC Championships … ran a career-best 4:46.44 in an eighth-place finish in the mile run at the UW Final Qualifier on Mar. 3 … finished third in the 800m at the Vandal Indoor on Feb. 3 with a career-best 2:11.22 … finished the season ranked 95th in the NCAA in the mile run … Winter WAC

All-Academic honoree. 2012 Outdoor: Digby had a breakout senior season with a pair of WAC titles and an NCAA bid in the distance events … led Idaho’s women with 24 team points at the WAC Outdoor Championships … won her first career outdoor WAC title with a 4:29.92 in the 1500m, then followed it up with a career-best 17:14.44 in the 5000m for her second career WAC crown … became the first woman in Idaho history to sweep the 1500m and 5000m titles at a single conference championship meet … her 5000m time ranks ninth all-time at Idaho … finished fifth in the 800m with a career-best time of 2:13.21 at the WAC Outdoor Championships … was a First-Team All-WAC honoree in the 1500m and 5000m and a Second-Team honoree in the 800m … earned an NCAA bid in the 1500m and finished 25th at the NCAA West Preliminary with a time of 4:30.46 … earned first career WAC Track Athlete of the Week honor on April 9 … took third in her heat of the 1500m at the Stanford Invitational on April 6 with a career-best time of 4:22.18, which ranks third all-time at Idaho … Spring WAC All-Academic honoree.

Laurel

Junior

DRAPER

Distance ◆ Victoria, British Columbia ◆ Oak Bay Secondary

WAC Scorer ■ 9x WAC All-Academic

2011 Cross Country: Draper finished 40th at the WAC Championships with a time of 20:16.1 and helped Idaho’s women claim a secondconsecutive team title … took 30th at the Inland Northwest Cross Country Classic with a time of 15:55.1 … placed 76th at the Dellinger Invitational with a time of 18:46.26 … Fall WAC All-Academic honoree. 2012 Indoor: Draper competed in the middle distance for Idaho as a junior … finished 10th in the 800m at the WAC Indoor Championships with a time of 2:16.56 … ran a career-best 2:13.74 in the 800m to finish second in her heat at the Husky Classic on Feb. 11 … took sixth in the 800m at the Vandal Indoor on Feb. 3 with a time of 2:15.79 … Winter WAC All-Academic honoree. 2012 Outdoor: Draper scored two points for Idaho at the WAC Outdoor Championships as a junior … ran an 11:23.53 and took seventh in the 3000m steeplechase at the WAC meet … also competed in the 800m, where she ran a 2:29.33 and finished 19th … ran a careerbest 11:17.40 in the steeplechase at the Duane Hartman Invitational on April 28 and finished third … posted a runner-up finish in the steeplechase at the Buc Scoring Invitational on March 24 with a time of 11:49.78 … Spring WAC All-Academic honoree.

Morgan

DUNNING

Senior Pole Vault ◆ Spokane, Wash. ◆ East Valley HS

Second-Team All-WAC ■ 8x WAC All-Academic ■ All-Time Top-10

2012 Indoor: Dunning scored one point for Idaho at the WAC Indoor Championships as a senior … finished eighth in the pole vault at the WAC Championships after clearing a season-best 11-3 (3.43m) … finished ninth in the pole vault at the UW Open on Feb. 12 with a height of 11-0.25 (3.36m) … finished eighth in the pole vault at the Vandal Indoor with a height of 10-11.75 (3.35m) … Winter WAC All-Academic honoree. 2012 Outdoor: Dunning earned her first career All-WAC honor as a senior … finished fifth in the pole vault at the WAC Outdoor Championships after clearing a season-best 11-2.25 (3.41m) for a Second-Team All-WAC honor … won the vault at the Sam Adams Classic in her season opener with a height of 10-6 (3.20m) on March 31 … finished fourth at the Duane Hartman Invitational on April 28 with a height of 11-1.75 (3.40m) … Spring WAC All-Academic honoree.

Reba

EGGERT

RS Freshman Multi-Events ◆ Waldport, Ore. ◆ Waldport HS

2x WAC All-Academic

2012 Indoor: Eggert competed in the multi-events for Idaho as a redshirt freshman … finished 15th in the indoor pentathlon at the WAC Championships with a career-best score of 2,675 … hit career-best marks in four of the five disciplines in the pentathlon at the WAC meet with a 36-3.5 (11.06m) in the shot put, 14-8 (4.47m) in the long jump, 4-7.5 (1.41m) in the high jump and 2:45.55 in the 800m … ran a careerbest 10.43 in the 60m hurdles on Feb. 4 at the Idaho Indoor Open … finished ninth with a score of 2,438 in her first career indoor pentathlon at the Cougar Indoor on Jan. 27 … Winter WAC All-Academic honoree. 2012 Outdoor: Eggert set several career bests in her first season of competition … finished ninth in the heptathlon at the WAC Outdoor Championships despite suffering a no-height in the high jump … scored 3,113 at the meet, which included career-best marks in the 100m hurdles (17.13) and shot put (37-6.75) … finished fifth in the long jump at the Duane Hartman Invitational with a career-best 15-3.5 (4.66m) on April 28 … Spring WAC All-Academic honoree.

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GOODE

Junior / Senior Sprints ◆ Klamath Falls, Ore. ◆ Treasure Valley CC

WAC Scorer ■ All-Time Top-10 ■ 4x WAC All-Academic

Keli

Junior

HALL

Middle Distance ◆ Lakeview, Ore. ◆ Lakeview HS

WAC Champion ■ All-Time Top-10 ■ 2x First-Team All-WAC ■ 4x Second-Team All-WAC

2012 Indoor: Hall earned a pair of Second-Team All-WAC honors at the WAC Indoor Championships as a junior … finished fifth in the 800m with a time of 2:12.92 at the WAC Championships and ran the second leg of Idaho’s third-place 4x400m relay that posted a 3:44.76 … posted the top qualifying time in the 800m at the WAC Championships with a career-best time of 2:11.72 … won the 600m at the WSU Open on Jan. 14 with a time of 1:37.33 … finished third in the 400m at the Idaho Indoor Open on Feb. 4 with a career-best time of 56.87 … took fourth in the 800m at the Vandal Indoor on Feb. 3 with a time of 2:12.77. 2012 Outdoor: Hall was a scorer in a pair of events for Idaho as a junior … finished seventh in the 800m at the WAC Outdoor Championships with a time of 2:17.22 and ran the third leg of Idaho’s fifth-place 4x400m relay that ran a 3:50.99 … ran a season-best 2:14.18 in the preliminary round of the 800m at the WAC Championships … posted a season-best 58.63 in the 400m at the Beach Invitational on April 21.

Sara

HEMENWAY

Sophomore Pole Vault ◆ Spokane, Wash. ◆ Central Valley HS

All-Time Top-10 ■ 4x WAC All-Academic

2012 Indoor: Hemenway competed in the pole vault for Idaho as a sophomore … finished 10th in the vault at the WAC Indoor Championships with a height of 10-3.25 (3.13m) … cleared a career-best 10-4 (3.15m) to finish sixth in her season opener at the WSU Open on Jan. 14 … took 11th and cleared 10-1.5 (3.09m) at the Vandal Collegiate on Feb. 18 … Winter WAC All-Academic honoree. 2012 Outdoor: Hemenway competed in the pole vault for Idaho as a sophomore … set a career best at the WAC Outdoor Championships with a height of 10-2.5 (3.11m), which ranks seventh all-time at Idaho, in a 10th-place finish … took second in the vault in her season opener at the Buc Scoring Invitational on March 24 after clearing 9-6.25 (2.90m) … cleared 10-0 (3.05m) and finished seventh in the vault at the WAR V dual meet on April 7 … Spring WAC All-Academic honoree.

Taylor

HEWETT

Freshman Multi-Events ◆ Culdesac, Idaho ◆ Culdesac HS

2012 Indoor: Hewett performed well in the multi-events as a true freshman before sustaining a season-ending knee injury at the Husky Classic on Feb. 11 … finished fourth in her first career indoor pentathlon at the Cougar Indoor with a score of 3,251 on Jan. 27 … cleared a career-best 5-2.5 (1.59m) and finished seventh in the high jump at the Vandal Indoor on Feb. 3 … also ran a career-best 9.57 and finished 11th in the 60m hurdles at the Vandal Indoor. 2012 Outdoor: Hewett redshirted the 2012 outdoor season while rehabilitating a knee injury.

Johanna

HÖCKETSTALLER

Freshman Multi-Events ◆ Eiselfing, Germany ◆ Lutpoid-Gymnasium Wasserburg

WAC Freshman of the Year ■ All-Time Top-10 ■ First-Team All-WAC ■ Second-Team All-WAC

2012 Indoor: Hocketstaller earned Second-Team All-WAC honors and scored five points in her first career WAC Indoor Championships meet as a freshman … finished fourth in the indoor pentathlon with a score of 3,323 at the WAC Championships … also finished 10th in the shot put at 42-11.75 (13.10m) and 16th in the long jump at 16-4.25 (4.98m) at the meet … posted a career-best 44-9 (13.64m) in the shot put at the Husky Classic on Feb. 11 … finished second at the Vandal Collegiate on Feb. 18 with a career-best 18-3 (5.56m) in the long jump … took third in her heat and ran a career-best 9.51 in the 60m hurdles at the Husky Classic on Feb. 11. 2012 Outdoor: Hocketstaller made history in Idaho as a true freshman … voted WAC Women’s Outdoor Freshman of the Year after scoring 16 points across four different events and earning a pair of All-WAC honors at the WAC Outdoor Championships … at the WAC meet, finished second in the heptathlon with a career-best score of 5,071, fifth in the javelin (138-8) and seventh in both the shot put (46-0) and discus (145-6) … made four entries into Idaho’s all-time top-10 lists and became the only Vandal woman to hold spots on the shot put, discus and javelin all-time lists … moved into fourth all-time in the shot put (49-6.25), sixth in the heptathlon (5,071), seventh in the discus (155-8) and eighth in the javelin (141-10) … won the discus throw at the Sam Adams Classic on March 31 with a career-best throw of 155-8 (47.46m) … posted a winning shot put mark of 45-5.25 (13.85m) at the WAR V dual meet on April 7 … Spring WAC All-Academic honoree.

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2012 Indoor: Goode competed in the sprints for Idaho as a junior … ran a career-best 58.31 in the 400m to finish 12th at the WAC Indoor Championships … opened her season with a career-best 25.73 (converted for track size) in the 200m at the Cougar Indoor on Jan. 28 … finished third in the 400m (58.48) and fifth in the 200m (25.78) in the 200m at the Vandal Collegiate on Feb. 18 … Winter WAC All-Academic honoree. 2012 Outdoor: Goode made an entry in Idaho’s all-time top 10 and set two more personal bests as a senior … ran the third leg of Idaho’s fourth-place 4x100m relay that posted a 46.87 and moved into ninth all-time at Idaho at the WAC Outdoor Championships … ran the anchor leg of Idaho’s fifth-place 4x400m relay that posted a 3:50.99 and also finished 11th in the 400m at the WAC meet with a time of 57.69 … set a pair of career bests at the Cougar Invitational on April 21 when she finished fourth in the 400m (57.65) and ninth in the 200m (25.54) … won the 400m in her season opener with a 59.03 at the Buc Scoring Invitational on March 24 … Spring WAC All-Academic honoree.

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JACKA

Sophomore Sprints ◆ Federal Way, Wash. ◆ Bellarmine Prep

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First-Team All-WAC ■ 4x Second-Team All-WAC ■ All-Time Top-10 ■ 4x WAC All-Academic

2012 Indoor: Jacka returned to action after 2011 hip surgery and opened her year with a meet-record 24.89 in the 200m at the WSU Open on Jan. 14 … earned Second-Team All-WAC honors as the opening leg of Idaho’s third-place 4x400m relay at the WAC Indoor Championships … ran a season-best 24.68 in a ninth-place finish in the 200m at the WAC meet and missed finals by just .05 seconds … ran a career-best 56.69 in a fourth-place finish in the 400m at the UW Open on Feb. 12 … Winter WAC All-Academic honoree. 2012 Outdoor: Jacka made her sixth career all-time Idaho top-10 entry as a sophomore … ran the anchor leg of Idaho’s fourth-place 4x100m relay that posted a time of 46.87 and moved into ninth all-time at Idaho at the WAC Outdoor Championships … also scored for Idaho in the 4x400m at the WAC Championships as the anchor leg of a group that finished fifth in 3:50.99 … ran a season-best 25.01 in the 200m at the Beach Invitational on April 21 … finished ninth in the 400m at the Mondo Mid-Major Challenge on April 14 with a season-best time of 57.95 … Spring WAC All-Academic honoree.

Anna

KALBRENER

Senior / Senior / Junior Sprints ◆ Federal Way, Wash. ◆ Bellarmine Prep

WAC Champion ■ 4x First-Team All-WAC ■ 3x Second-Team All-WAC ■ All-Time Top-10

2011 Cross Country: Kalbrener helped lead Idaho to a second-consecutive women’s WAC team title … earned Second-Team All-WAC honors after finishing eighth overall at the WAC Championships with a time of 18:57.3 … placed 95th in 22:08 at the NCAA West Region Cross Country Championships … Idaho’s second finisher at 8th overall with a time of 14.38.4 at the Inland Northwest Cross Country Classic … finished 24th with a time of 22:21.45 at the Sundodger Invitational … took 42nd at the Dellinger Invitational with a time of 17:50.15 … Fall All-Academic honoree. 2012 Indoor: Kalbrener was a WAC finalist in the mile run indoors as a senior … took eighth and scored one point in the mile with a time of 5:04.60 at the WAC Indoor Championships … ran a career-best 4:55.52 in the mile in a third-place finish at the UW Open on Feb. 12 … took second in her heat of the mile at the UW Final Qualifier on March 3 with a time of 4:56.37 … ran a career-best 2:10.65 and finished second in the 800m at the Vandal Indoor on Feb. 3 … Winter WAC All-Academic honoree. 2012 Outdoor: Kalbrener scored 16 points and earned a pair of First-Team All-WAC honors for Idaho at the WAC Outdoor Championships … ran a career-best 2:12.95 to take a runner-up finish in the 800m at the WAC Championships, then followed it up with a second runner-up finish in the 1500m in 4:31.10 … moved up to seventh all-time at Idaho in the 1500m on April 20 with a 4:30.11 in a sixth-place finish at the Bryan Clay Invitational … posted a second-place finish in the 1500m at the Mondo Mid-Major Challenge on April 14 with a time of 4:30.19 … earned her second-place finishes at the WAC Championships despite entering the meet seeded outside the top 10 in the conference in the 800m and seeded fourth in the 1500m.

Hannah

KISER

Sophomore Distance ◆ Wenatchee, Wash. ◆ Wenatchee HS

All-American ■ 3x NCAA Qualifier ■ 6x WAC Champion ■ USTFCCCA Cross Country All-Region WAC Record Holder ■ Idaho School Record Holder ■ Academic All-American

2011 Cross Country: Kiser qualified for her first career NCAA Championships meet, where she placed 85th with a time of 20:54, Idaho’s second-highest individual finish in school history … was the first Vandal woman to qualify for the NCAA Championships in cross country since 2004 … USTFCCCA All-Region honoree after an 18th-place finish at the NCAA West Region Championships … earned First-Team All-WAC honors after finishing second overall at the WAC Championships with a time of 17:55.8 … led Idaho to its second straight WAC team championship … a three-time Verizon WAC Women’s Cross Country Athlete of the Week selection … the top collegiate finisher in the Santa Clara Bronco Invitational (16:55.3), the Dellinger Invitational (16:45.71), the Sundodger Invitational (20:58.43) and the Inland Northwest Cross Country Classic (14:11.3) … USTFCCCA Division I All-Academic Team and Fall WAC All-Academic honoree. 2012 Indoor: Kiser had a breakout sophomore season indoors … earned USTFCCCA Second-Team All-America honors in the 3000m after finishing 13th at the NCAA Indoor Championships with a time of 9:26.88 … broke the Idaho school record and WAC all-time record on Feb. 11 at the Husky Classic with a time of 9:07.23 in the 3000m and in doing so, became just the second Vandal woman to achieve the NCAA indoor automatic qualifying standard … by qualifying for the NCAA Indoor Championships, Kiser became just the second woman in Idaho history to qualify for the NCAA Championships in cross country, indoor track and field and outdoor track and field … won the WAC title in the 3000m with a WAC Championship meet-record time of 9:45.11 … won the women’s mile at the WAC Championships with a time of 4:45.67 … ran the anchor leg of Idaho’s first-place and WAC Championship meet-record-setting distance medley relay that posted an 11:41.67 and won by a 35-second margin … opened her season on Jan. 28 with a meet-record time of 4:42.41 in the mile at the Cougar Indoor … ran a career-best 2:10.65 in a second-place finish in the 800m at the Vandal Jamboree on Feb. 3 … Winter WAC All-Academic honoree. 2012 Outdoor: Kiser competed just once for Idaho as a sophomore before illness shortened her season … ran a 4:27.46 at the Stanford Invitational on April 6 … suffered a respiratory infection during the season and will pursue a medical redshirt.

Abby

LARSON

Freshman Distance ◆ Boise, Idaho ◆ Capital HS

WAC All-Academic

2012 Indoor: Larson competed in the distance events for Idaho as a true freshman … ran a career-best 11:19.08 in the 3000m and finished 12th in the event at the Vandal Collegiate on Feb. 18. 2012 Outdoor: Larson competed in the distance events for Idaho as a true freshman … finished 10th in the 10,000m at the WAC Outdoor Championships with a career-best time of 39:47.69 and 20th in the 5000m with a time of 19:58.28 … won the 10,000m at the Sam Adams Classic with a time of 40:13.26 on March 31 … took second in the 5000m on March 24 at the Buc Scoring Invitational with a time of 19:17.79 … finished 17th and ran a career-best 18:52.98 in the 5000m at the WAR V dual meet … Spring WAC All-Academic honoree.

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2011-12 IDAHO TRACK & FIELD/CROSS COUNTRY YEARBOOK Kristine

LEONARD

Junior Throws ◆ Rathdrum, Idaho ◆ Concordia University (Ore.)

NCAA Qualifier ■ 4x All-WAC ■ All-Time Top-10 ■ 4x WAC All-Academic

Katy

LUTJENS

Senior Throws ◆ Vale, Ore. ◆ Treasure Valley CC

2x WAC All-Academic

2012 Indoor: Lutjens did not compete indoors while rehabilitating a hip injury. 2012 Outdoor: Lutjens competed in the throws before a hip injury cut her season short … finished third in the discus at the Buc Scoring Invitational on March 24 with a throw of 129-8 (39.53m) … took fifth in the discus at the Sam Adams Classic on March 31 with a mark of 127-0 (38.72m).

Ailene

MACPHERSON

Sophomore Distance ◆ Deary, Idaho ◆ Deary HS

5x WAC All-Academic

2011 Cross Country: MacPherson posted a career-best 57th overall finish at the Inland Northwest Cross Country Classic with a time of 17:12.9 … Fall WAC All-Academic honoree. 2012 Indoor: MacPherson competed in the distance events for Idaho as a sophomore … finished eighth in the 3000m at the WSU Open on Jan. 14 with a time of 11:55.74, converted for track size … posted a career-best 11:42.26 in the 3000m with a 16th-place finish at the Vandal Collegiate on Feb. 18 … Winter WAC All-Academic honoree. 2012 Outdoor: MacPherson competed in the distance events for Idaho as a sophomore … won the 5000m at the Vandal Jamboree on May 5 with a career-best time of 20:10.02 … finished sixth in the 10,000m at the Buc Scoring Invitational on March 24 with a career-best time of 42:16.84 … ran a 20:11.87 and finished 29th in the 5000m at the WAR V dual meet on April 7 … Spring WAC All-Academic honoree.

Molly

MEYERS

RS Freshman Throws ◆ North Bend, Wash. ◆ Mount Si HS

2x WAC All-Academic

2012 Indoor: Meyers competed in the throws for Idaho as a redshirt freshman … finished 15th in the shot put at 37-10 (11.53m) and 16th in the weight throw at 41-11.5 (12.79m) at the WAC Indoor Championships … threw a career-best 39-5 (12.01m) in a seventh-place finish in the shot put at the Idaho Indoor Open on Feb. 4 … finished eighth with a career-best 44-2.75 (13.48m) in the weight throw at the Vandal Collegiate on Feb. 18 … Winter WAC All-Academic honoree. 2012 Outdoor: Meyers competed in the throws for Idaho as a redshirt freshman and set personal bests in a pair of events … finished 12th in both the shot put (38-2.25) and hammer throw (139-1) at the WAC Outdoor Championships … hit a career-best 41-10.75 (12.77m) in a fifth-place finish in the shot put at the Vandal Jamboree on May 5 … finished sixth in the hammer throw at the Cougar Invitational on April 21 with a career-best toss of 148-0 (45.11m) … posted a runner-up finish in the shot put at the Buc Scoring Invitational on March 24 with a toss of 40-9.5 (12.43m) … Spring WAC All-Academic honoree.

Gabby

MIDLES

Senior Throws ◆ Camas, Wash. ◆ Camas HS

3x NCAA Qualifier ■ 2x WAC Champion ■ 6x All-WAC ■ Idaho School Record Holder

2012 Indoor: Midles was a Second-Team All-WAC honoree in the weight throw as a senior … finished sixth in the weight throw at the WAC Indoor Championships with a mark of 57-0 (17.37m) … posted three individual victories in the weight throw during the season … won the event at the WSU Open on Jan. 13 with a toss of 54-7.5 (16.65m), then hit 56-10.75 (17.34m) to win the Idaho Indoor Open and 56-3.75 (17.16m) to claim victory at the UW Open on Feb. 12 … Winter WAC All-Academic honoree. 2012 Outdoor: Midles was an NCAA qualifier in the hammer throw for a third consecutive year as a senior … finished 34th in the hammer at the NCAA West Preliminary with a mark of 182-11 (55.76m) … battled a back injury much of the season, but still posted a season-best 190-10 (58.18m) and finished second in the hammer at the WAC Outdoor Championships for her third-consecutive First-Team AllWAC honor in the event … posted five individual victories in the hammer during the season, including back-to-back wins at the Duane Hartman Invitational (183-10) on April 28 and the Vandal Jamboree (177-7) on April 4 … Spring WAC All-Academic honoree.

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2012 Indoor: Leonard competed in the throws for Idaho as a junior … finished eighth and scored one point for the Vandal women in the shot put at the WAC Indoor Championships with a mark of 43-11.75 (13.40m) … also competed in the weight throw at the WAC meet, but fouled … threw a season-best 44-8 (13.61m) in a second-place finish in the shot put at the Vandal Indoor on Feb. 3 … finished second at the Vandal Collegiate on Feb. 18 with a career-best 55-10.5 (17.03m) in the weight throw … competed twice in the indoor discus throw at home meets and won both times at the Vandal Indoor on Feb. 3 (158-3) and Vandal Collegiate on Feb. 18 (156-10) … Winter WAC All-Academic honoree. 2012 Outdoor: Leonard was an NCAA qualifier in the discus throw in her second year as a Vandal … finished 40th in the discus at the NCAA West Preliminary with a mark of 147-1 (44.84m) … earned First-Team All-WAC honors in the shot put with a third-place finish and a careerbest mark of 48-0.5 (14.64m) at the WAC Outdoor Championships, then added Second-Team All-WAC honors with a fourth-place discus mark of 159-2 (48.51m) … won the shot put at the Duane Hartman Invitational on April 28 with a toss of 47-9.75 (14.57m) … posted a winning discus throw mark of 153-4 (46.73m) at the WAR V dual meet on April 7 … set a career best with a second-place heave of 161-11 (47.83m) in the discus at the Duane Hartman Invitational … moved into sixth all-time at Idaho in the discus throw and ninth in the shot put during the season … Spring WAC All-Academic honoree.

2011-12 IDAHO TRACK & FIELD/CROSS COUNTRY YEARBOOK Maggie

MILLER

Senior Distance ◆ Anchorage, Alaska ◆ College of Idaho

Second-Team All-WAC ■ 2x WAC All-Academic

2011 WESTERN ATHLETIC CONFERENCE WOMEN’S CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONS

2012 Outdoor: Miller competed in the middle distance and scored on a relay in her first outdoor season for Idaho … scored for Idaho as the second leg of Idaho’s fifth-place 4x400m relay that ran a 3:50.99 at the WAC Outdoor Championships … also finished 10th at the WAC meet in the 800m with a career-best time of 2:15.38 … posted runner-up finishes in the 800m at the Sam Adams Classic (2:20.11) on March 31 and the Duane Hartman Invitational (2:20.30) on April 28 … Spring WAC All-Academic honoree.

Sarah

NUTSCH

Junior Throws ◆ Jerome, Idaho ◆ Jerome HS

NCAA Qualifier ■ 2x Second-Team All-WAC ■ All-Time Top-10 ■ WAC All-Academic

2012 Indoor: Nutsch set a new career best in the weight throw for Idaho as a junior … finished ninth at the WAC Indoor Championships with a career-best mark of 54-3.75 (16.55m) in the weight throw … posted top-three finishes three times in the event during the season … took third in the season opener at the WSU Open with a toss of 49-3.75 (15.03m), then took second at the Idaho Indoor Open with a mark of 52-6.5 (16.01m) – her first career throw over 16 meters … finished third at the Vandal Collegiate on Feb. 18 with a toss of 51-9.25 (15.78m). 2012 Outdoor: Nutsch climbed Idaho’s all-time lists and earned a first career NCAA bid in the hammer throw as a junior … finished 44th in the hammer at the NCAA West Preliminary with a toss of 174-5 (53.16m) … earned Second-Team All-WAC honors with a sixth-place finish in the hammer at the WAC Outdoor Championships after a toss of 180-9 (55.09m) … moved into third all-time at Idaho with a career-best throw of 187-9 (52.23m) and a second-place finish at the Bryan Clay Invitational on April 19 … earned her first career event victory with a 163-0 (49.69m) in the hammer at the Sam Adams Classic on March 31 … Spring WAC All-Academic honoree.

Emily

PARADIS

Sophomore Middle Distance ◆ Moscow, Idaho ◆ Moscow HS

First-Team All-WAC

2011 Cross Country: Paradis earned First-Team All-WAC honors as a sophomore … was Idaho’s second finisher with a career-best fourth overall placing (18:29.5) at the WAC Cross Country Championships … helped Idaho win the WAC Championship for the second-consecutive year … the second Idaho finisher at 58th overall with a time of 21:39 at the NCAA West Region Cross Country Championships … the third Vandal finisher at 24th overall at the Santa Clara Bronco Invitational with a time of 17:39.5 … Idaho’s second finisher at 22nd overall at the Dellinger Invitational with a 17:24.64 … Idaho’s second finisher after placing 10th overall in 21:40.55 at the Sundodger Invitational … took 14th at the Inland Northwest Cross Country Classic with a time of 14:51.6. 2012 Indoor: Paradis redshirted the 2012 indoor season. 2012 Outdoor: Paradis competed once for Idaho, but missed the remainder of the season with injury … ran an 11:31.60 to win the 3000m steeplechase at the Buc Scoring Invitational on March 24.

Diana

ROSSLEROVA

Senior Distance ◆ Chocen, Czech Republic ◆ Wuerzburg American HS

6x WAC All-Academic

2011 Cross Country: Rosslerova set a career best with a 39th overall finish at the Inland Northwest Cross Country Classic (16:20.3) … Took 58th at the Sundodger Invitational with a time of 24:13.68 … Fall WAC All-Academic honoree. 2012 Indoor: Rosslerova competed in the distance events for Idaho as a senior … posted her top finish of the season in her opener at the Cougar Indoor at 12th overall in the 3000m with a converted time of 11:40.91 … posted a career-best 11:28.48 in the 3000m in a 14th-place finish at the Vandal Collegiate … Winter WAC All-Academic honoree. 2012 Outdoor: Rosslerova competed in the distance events for Idaho as a senior … finished fifth with a career-best time of 42:12.04 in the 10,000m at the Buc Scoring Invitational on March 24 … ran a season-best 20:05.39 in the 5000m at the Duane Hartman Invitational on April 27 … finished ninth in the 3000m at the Cougar Invitational on April 21 with a career-best 11:31.60 … Spring WAC All-Academic honoree.

Ellen

ROUSE

Junior Throws ◆ Orofino, Idaho ◆ Orofino HS

NCAA Qualifier ■ 3x All-WAC ■ All-Time Top-10 ■ 5x WAC All-Academic

2012 Indoor: Rouse did not compete indoors while rehabilitating a hand injury. 2012 Outdoor: Rouse earned her first career NCAA bid and First-Team All-WAC honor as a junior … finished 35th in the javelin throw at the NCAA West Preliminary with a mark of 136-6 (41.62m) … took third at the WAC Outdoor Championships in the javelin with a career-best mark of 147-7 (44.98m), which ranks sixth all-time at Idaho … won the javelin throw at the Duane Hartman Invitational on April 28 with a mark of 147-0 (44.81m) … hit 145-8 (44.40m) in the javelin to finish second at the Mondo Mid-Major Challenge on April 14 … also competed in the hammer during the season and posted a best of 144-0 (43.89m) in a ninth-place finish at the WAR V dual meet on April 7 … Spring WAC All-Academic honoree.

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2011-12 IDAHO TRACK & FIELD/CROSS COUNTRY YEARBOOK Cait

ROWLAND

Sophomore Hurdles ◆ Gig Harbor, Wash. ◆ Gig Harbor HS

Second-Team All-WAC

Lauren

SCHAFFER

Senior / Junior / Senior Middle Distance ◆ Boise, Idaho ◆ Timberline HS

NCAA Qualifier ■ 4x WAC Champion ■ 7x First-Team All-WAC ■ 6x Second-Team All-WAC ■ WAC Record Holder ■ Idaho School Record Holder ■ 9x WAC All-Academic

2011 Cross Country: Schaffer took 25th at the WAC Championships with a time of 19:40.3 to help the Vandals win their second-consecutive conference title … finished 74th at the Dellinger Invitational with a time of 18:41.15 … Fall WAC All-Academic honoree. 2012 Indoor: Schaffer earned a trio of All-WAC honors for Idaho as a junior … earned the third WAC gold medal of her career as the third leg of Idaho’s WAC Championship meet-record-setting distance medley relay that won in 11:41.67 … was the WAC runnerup in the 800m with a time of 2:10.12 to earn First-Team All-WAC honors and grabbed a Second-Team award as a leg of Idaho’s third-place 4x400m relay … ran a career-best 2:09.83 in a sixth-place finish in the 800m at the UW Final Qualifier on March 3 … won her heat of the 800m at the Husky Classic on Feb. 11 with a time of 2:10.79 … Winter WAC All-Academic honoree. 2012 Outdoor: Schaffer redshirted the 2012 outdoor season.

Holly

STANTON

Sophomore Distance ◆ Crestview, Fla. ◆ Fort Walton Beach HS

First-Team All-WAC ■ 2x Second-Team All-WAC ■ All-Time Top-10 ■ 6x WAC All-Academic

2011 Cross Country: Stanton was the fifth Idaho scorer at the WAC Championships with a 19th overall finish (19:23.5) … helped the Vandals win the WAC team title for the second year in a row … took 17th overall in 14:59.7 at the Inland Northwest Cross Country Classic … came in 19th overall at 21:59.52 at the Sundodger Invitational … took 55th overall with a time of 18:12.3 at the Santa Clara Bronco Invitational … placed 71st overall with a time of 18:26.01 at the Dellinger Invitational … Fall WAC All-Academic honoree. 2012 Indoor: Stanton competed in the distance events for Idaho as a sophomore … finished 12th in the 5000m with a time of 18:48.58 and 16th in the 3000m with a time of 10:36.88 at the WAC Indoor Championships … ran a career-best 18:09.96 in a 12th-place finish in her heat of the 5000m at the Husky Classic on Feb. 11 … posted a season-best 10:32.50 at the Husky Classic to finish 14th in her heat of the 3000m … finished 10th at the Vandal Indoor with a 5:23.06 in the mile run … Winter WAC All-Academic honoree. 2012 Outdoor: Stanton earned a pair of All-WAC honors, including her first career First Team accolade, as a sophomore … took second in the 3000m steeplechase at the WAC Outdoor Championships with a career-best time of 10:50.18, which ranks eighth all-time at Idaho … added a fifth-place tally in the 5000m at the WAC meet with a career-best 17:51.68 … in six steeplechase competitions during the season, she finished first twice and second three times … won the steeplechase at the Sam Adams Classic (11:22.99) on March 31 and the Mondo Mid-Major Challenge (10:56.08) on April 14 … posted her first career sub-11 steeple race at the WAR V dual on April 7 with a time of 10:58.40 … Spring WAC All-Academic honoree.

Zoe

TIMMERS

Senior Jumps ◆ Perth, Australia ◆ University of Western Australia

Second-Team All-WAC

2012 Indoor: Timmers was a Second-Team All-WAC honoree for Idaho in her first season with the team … gutted through an ankle injury to clear a career-best 5-6 (1.68m) and finish fifth in the high jump for Idaho at the WAC Indoor Championships … won her flight of the high jump at the Husky Classic on Feb. 11 with a height of 5-5.75 (1.67m). 2012 Outdoor: Timmers redshirted the 2012 outdoor season.

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2012 Indoor: Rowland picked up the 60m high hurdles in her second year as a Vandal and was an All-WAC honoree in the event … finished fifth at the WAC Indoor Championships in the 60m hurdles with a career-best-tying 8.99 to earn her first career Second-Team All-WAC honor … ran a career-best 8.99 in the preliminary round of the 60m hurdles at the WAC Indoor Championship for her first career race under 9.00 seconds … ran a career-best 25.79 in the 200m at the UW Open on Feb. 12 … won her heat of the 60m hurdles at the Husky Classic on Feb. 11 with a time of 9.21. 2012 Outdoor: Rowland was a WAC scorer in both hurdles events for Idaho as a sophomore … picked up the 100m hurdles this season and finished eighth in the event with a 14.77 at the WAC Outdoor Championships … took seventh in the 400m hurdles at the WAC meet with a time of 1:06.63 … ran a career-best 14.70 in the 100m hurdles preliminary round at the WAC Championships and a season-best 1:04.49 in the 400m hurdles preliminary … posted three individual wins in the 100m hurdles during the season and two more in the 400m hurdles … ran her first career sub-15 race in the 100m hurdles at the Beach Invitational on April 21 when she posted a 14.79.

2011-12 IDAHO TRACK & FIELD/CROSS COUNTRY YEARBOOK Liga

VELVERE

Junior Sprints/Hurdles ◆ Saldus, Latvia ◆ Latvian Academy of Sport Education

2011 WESTERN ATHLETIC CONFERENCE WOMEN’S CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONS

NCAA Qualifier ■ 5x WAC Champion ■ 5x First-Team All-WAC ■ 2x Second-Team All-WAC WAC Record Holder ■ Idaho School Record Holder ■ 4x WAC All-Academic

2012 Indoor: Velvere won a pair of WAC titles for Idaho as a junior … claimed the individual title in the 800m with a time of 2:09.05 at the WAC Indoor Championships … ran the second leg of Idaho’s first-place and WAC Championship meet-record-setting distance medley relay that posted a time of 11:41.67 … ran the anchor leg of Idaho’s third-place 4x400m relay to earn Second-Team All-WAC honors … broke the Idaho school record in the 800m at the Vandal Indoor on Feb. 3 with a winning time of 2:07.63 … won the 800m at the Vandal Collegiate on Feb. 18 with a time of 2:08.46 … won the 400m in her season opener at the WSU Open on Jan. 14 with a converted time of 55.53 … Winter WAC All-Academic honoree. 2012 Outdoor: Velvere had a promising start to her season, but suffered a knee injury late in the season … ran a WAC-leading 2:09.78 in the 800m at the Stanford Invitational on April 7 to finish 24th overall … posted a season-best 1:00.35 in a runner-up finish in the 400m hurdles at the Mondo Mid-Major challenge, which was the WAC’s second-fastest time on the year … clipped a hurdle and injured her knee at the Duane Hartman Invitational on April 28 … Spring WAC All-Academic honoree.

Julia

VESETH

Senior Distance ◆ Moscow, Idaho ◆ Moscow HS

3x Second-Team All-WAC ■ All-Time Top-10 ■ WAC All-Academic

2011 Cross Country: Veseth took 38th overall with a time of 20:09.9 to help Idaho win its secondconsecutive WAC Championship … fifth Idaho finisher with a 22:18 and 108th overall finish at NCAA West Region Cross Country Championships … Idaho’s fourth finisher at 13th overall with a 14:50.8 at the Inland Northwest Cross Country Classic … Idaho’s fourth finisher at 14th overall with a time of 21:47.51 at the Sundodger Invitational … the fourth Idaho finisher at 50th overall with a 18:09.2 at the Santa Clara Bronco Invitational … the fifth Idaho finisher at 46th overall with a 17: 56.48 at the Dellinger Invitational … Fall WAC All-Academic honoree. 2012 Indoor: Veseth competed in the distance events for Idaho as a senior … finished 11th in the 5000m at the WAC Indoor Championships with a time of 18:39.62 and took 15th in the 3000m with a season-best time of 10:31.15 … ran a season-best 18:30.27 in the 5000m at the Husky Classic on Feb. 10 … took 12th in the mile run at the Vandal Indoor on Feb. 3 with a career-best time of 5:29.61 … Winter WAC All-Academic honoree. 2012 Outdoor: Veseth redshirted the 2012 outdoor season with a leg injury.

2011-12 REDSHIRTS

Karlene HURREL

Diana KELLER

Alaena WILFONG

Junior Sprints Edmonton, Alberta Holy Trinity

Sophomore Hurdles Snoqualmie, Wash. Mt. Si HS

Freshman Throws Newberg, Ore. Newberg HS

Ariel WILLIAMS

Brianna WILLIAMS

Freshman Sprints Middleton, Idaho Middleton HS

Sophomore Sprints Middleton, Idaho College of Idaho

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2011-12 IDAHO TRACK & FIELD/CROSS COUNTRY YEARBOOK Benjamin

AYESU-ATTAH

Freshman Sprints ◆ Coquitlam, British Columbia ◆ Heritage Woods Secondary

NCAA Qualifier ■ 2x WAC Champion ■ 4x All-WAC ■ All-Time Top-10

Michael

Freshman

BACH

Jumps ◆ Priest River, Idaho ◆ Priest River Lamanna HS

Second-Team All-WAC

2012 Indoor: Bach was a Second-Team All-WAC honoree in his first season as a Vandal … finished fourth in the long jump at the WAC Indoor Championships with a career-best mark of 21-8.25 (6.61m) to score four team points … posted a 7.56 in the 60m dash at the Cougar Indoor on Jan. 28 … finished sixth in the long jump at the Vandal Collegiate with mark of 21-1.5 (6.44m) on Feb. 18. 2012 Outdoor: Bach opened his season with a 21-4.75 (6.52m) in the long jump at the Buc Scoring Invitational on March 24 … suffered a knee injury and missed the remainder of the season.

Tyler

BENNETT

Sophomore Jumps ◆ Anchorage, Alaska ◆ Dimond HS

First-Team All-WAC ■ Second-Team All-WAC ■ 4x WAC All-Academic

2012 Indoor: Bennett was a First-Team All-WAC performer in the high jump in his second year at Idaho … cleared a career-best 6-4.25 (1.94m) at the WAC Indoor Championships to take third place for his first career All-WAC honor and first career conference points … finished eighth after clearing 6-3.25 (1.91m) at the Cougar Indoor on Jan. 28 … Winter WAC All-Academic honoree. 2012 Outdoor: Bennett set a new outdoor career best and earned Second-Team All-WAC honors for Idaho as a sophomore … cleared 6-4 (1.93m) in the high jump and finished fourth at the WAC Outdoor Championships for his first career outdoor points … finished second in his season opener at the Buc Scoring Invitational with a height of 6-2.75 (1.90m) on March 24 … Spring WAC All-Academic honoree.

Andrew

BLASER

Senior Multi-Events ◆ Meridian, Idaho ◆ University of Louisville

2x NCAA Qualifier ■ 6x WAC Champion ■ 14x First-Team All-WAC ■ 4x Second-Team All-WAC ■ 2x WAC Outstanding Field Performer ■ 2x WAC High Point Award ■ All-Time Top-10

2012 Indoor: Blaser had one of the great performances in Idaho and WAC history as a senior in 2012 … scored a school-record 40 points at the WAC Indoor Championships to lead the Vandal men to their first WAC title … won the heptathlon (5,324), high jump (6-4.25) and 60m hurdles (8.03) at the WAC Indoor Championships and finished third in the long jump (22-6.25, 6.86m) and pole vault (15-7) to earn First-Team All-WAC honors in five different events … became the second Vandal man to win three titles at a single conference championship meet and the first since 1990 (Patrick Williams) … posted career bests in the 100m (7.14), 60m hurdles (8.03), pole vault (16-0.75), long jump (22-6.25), shot put (40-7.75) and heptathlon (5,324) during the season … his score in the heptathlon is also second-best in school history … Winter WAC All-Academic honoree. 2012 Outdoor: Blaser had the best conference championship performance in Idaho history and was an NCAA qualifier for a second year in a row as a senior … finished 14th in the NCAA Quarterfinal Round of the 110m hurdles with an all-conditions career-best time of 13.84 … earned the WAC Men’s Outstanding Field Performer honor and the WAC Men’s High Point Award after scoring a school-record 44 points at the WAC Outdoor Championships … his individual point total was the highest by any NCAA competitor at a conference championship meet in 2012 and was 16 points better than Idaho’s previous individual scoring record … won individual titles in the decathlon (6,782) and 110m hurdles (13.98) at the WAC Outdoor Championships … also finished third in the 400m hurdles (52.52), high jump (6-4), pole vault (16-0.75) and long jump (22-9) for a combined six First-Team All-WAC honors at the meet … during the season, moved into third all-time at Idaho in the 110m hurdles (13.98), fifth in the decathlon (7,069), seventh in the 400m hurdles (52.52) and seventh in the pole vault (16-0.75) … Idaho’s alltime leader with eight First-Team All-WAC honors and 10 total All-WAC awards … WAC Men’s Field Athlete of the Week for the week of March 26-April 1 … Spring WAC All-Academic honoree.

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2012 Indoor: Ayesu-Attah broke out for the Vandals as a freshman and provided the enduring image of Idaho’s first indoor WAC team title as the anchor leg of the team’s title-clinching 4x400m relay … won gold and earned First-Team All-WAC honors as the fourth leg of Idaho’s 4x400m relay that won the WAC title in a time of 3:14.62 … earned All-WAC Second Team honors with a fourth-place finish in the 400m dash in a career-best time of 48.12 … set the WSU Open meet record with a 49.15 in his first career competition as a Vandal on Jan. 14 … ran a career-best 22.53 in a fourth-place finish in the 200m at the Idaho Indoor Open on Feb. 4 … took second in the 400m at the Vandal Collegiate on Feb. 18 with a time of 48.75. 2012 Outdoor: Ayesu-Attah had a standout freshman season for Idaho in 2012 … was an NCAA qualifier in the 400m and finished 31st at the NCAA West Preliminary in the event with a time of 47.61 … won his first career individual conference title at the WAC Outdoor Championships with a time of 46.86, which was a career-best time by more than one full second and ranks ninth all-time at Idaho … also earned Second-Team All-WAC honors as a member of Idaho’s third-place 4x100m relay that posted a 42.58 and anchored Idaho’s fourth-place 4x400m relay (3:19.30) … won the 200m (22.24) and 400m (48.59) at the Sam Adams Classic on March 31 in his outdoor debut for Idaho … finished 21st in the 400m at the Mt. SAC Relays in 47.89 for his first career sub-48 race.

2011-12 IDAHO TRACK & FIELD/CROSS COUNTRY YEARBOOK Andrew

BLOOM

Sophomore Sprints ◆ Walla Walla, Wash. ◆ Walla Walla HS

2011 WESTERN ATHLETIC CONFERENCE WOMEN’S CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONS

2x WAC Champion ■ 2x First-Team All-WAC ■ 2x Second-Team All-WAC

2012 Indoor: Bloom earned a pair of WAC relay golds for Idaho as a sophomore … ran the opening leg of Idaho’s team-title-clinching 4x400m relay that won the WAC title with a time of 3:14.62 and also ran the third leg of Idaho’s WAC champion distance medley relay that posted a 9:56.87 … earned First-Team All-WAC honors in both relays – the first of his career … was a Second-Team All-WAC honoree in the 400m dash at the WAC Championships with a career-best time of 48.18 and a fifth-place finish … ran a career-best 22.26 in a fourth-place finish in the 200m at the Vandal Collegiate on Feb. 18 … won his heat of the 400m at the Husky Classic on Feb. 11 with a time of 49.43 … ran the second leg of Idaho’s winning 4x400m relay (3:18.21) at the Vandal Indoor on Feb. 3. 2012 Outdoor: Bloom was an All-WAC honoree in the relays for Idaho before his WAC meet was cut short by injury … ran the third leg of Idaho’s third-place 4x100m relay that went 42.58 and claimed Second-Team All-WAC honors at the WAC Outdoor Championships … aggravated a hamstring strain during the warmup for the 400m dash finals at the WAC meet and was forced to withdraw … ran a career-best 48.16 in a second-place finish in the 400m at the Mondo Mid-Major Challenge on April 14 … won the 400m at the WAR V dual meet with a time of 48.39 and set a career-best in the 200m with a thirdplace 22.17 at the meet … finished second in the 400m at the Duane Hartman Invitational on April 28 with a time of 49.10.

Alex

BREKKE

Senior Distance ◆ Bozeman, Mont. ◆ Bozeman HS

4x Second-Team All-WAC ■ 9x WAC All-Academic

2011 Cross Country: Brekke placed 33rd at the WAC Championships with a time of 28:02.4 … Idaho’s fifth finisher at 34th at the Inland Northwest Cross Country Classic (19:47.1) … finished 38th at the Sundodger Invitational with a time of 25:46.46 … placed 67th at the Bill Dellinger Invitational (25:58.67) …Fall All-WAC Academic honoree. 2012 Indoor: Brekke competed in the distance events for Idaho as a senior … battled injury during the year, but posted a season-best 4:33.12 in the mile run at the Vandal Collegiate on Feb. 18 … finished 33rd in the mile run at the Idaho Indoor Open on Feb. 4. 2012 Outdoor: Brekke was an All-WAC honoree for the fourth year in a row in the steeplechase as a senior … bothered with injury throughout the year, but came back and ran a 9:59.72 to finish sixth and earn Second-Team All-WAC honors in the 3000m steeplechase at the WAC Outdoor Championships … also competed in the 5000m at the WAC meet, where he took 17th in 16:25.54 … ran a season-best 9:46.80 in the steeplechase at the Oregon Twilight on May 5 … finished fourth in the steeplechase at the Cougar Invitational on April 21 with a time of 9:55.11 … Spring WAC All-Academic honoree.

Colin

BRIGGS

Junior Multi-Events ◆ Culver, Ore. ◆ Culver HS

First-Team All-WAC ■ 6x Second-Team All-WAC ■ 5x WAC All-Academic

2012 Indoor: Briggs picked up the multi-events as a junior and made an immediate impact as a Second-Team All-WAC honoree in the heptathlon … finished fifth with a career-high score of 4,573 in the heptathlon at the WAC Indoor Championships to claim All-WAC Second Team honors … was also a Second-Team honoree in both the high jump (5-10.5) and long jump (21-6.25) after fifth-place finishes in each … also took seventh in the triple jump with a mark of 44-2.75 (13.48m) … finished eighth at the Cougar Indoor with a score of 4,402 in his first career heptathlon … ran a career-best 8.92 in the 60m hurdles at the Vandal Collegiate on Feb. 18 … set a career best by nearly one full foot in the heptathlon pole vault at the WAC meet with a height of 13-9.25 (4.20m) … Winter WAC All-Academic honoree. 2012 Outdoor: Briggs competed in the decathlon for the first time in his career as a junior and earned All-WAC honors in the event … scored 5,928 points and took third in his first career decathlon at the WAC Outdoor Championships for his first career First-Team All-WAC honor … also took seventh in the high jump (5-10.75) and eighth in the long jump (20-6.5) and triple jump (41-11.25) at the WAC Championships … finished ninth in the javelin throw at the Cougar Invitational on April 21 with a career-best mark of 152-0 (46.32m) … took sixth in the long jump at the WAR V dual meet on April 7 with a season-best leap of 21-3.5 … Spring WAC All-Academic honoree.

Barry

BRITT

Junior / Senior Distance ◆ Hampton, New Brunswick ◆ Georgia State University

NCAA Qualifier ■ 2x WAC Champion ■ 6x First-Team All-WAC ■ 3x Second-Team All-WAC

2011 Cross Country: Britt earned First-Team All-WAC honors after finishing second overall at the WAC Championships with a time of 25:16.4 … took second overall with a time of 32:49 in the men’s 10k senior national race in the Canadian Cross Country Championships at Vancouver, B.C. … took 30th overall out of 172 runners with a time of 30:12 at the NCAA West Region Championships … Idaho’s top finisher at the Sundodger Invitational after placing third with a time of 24:14.36 … Idaho’s top finisher at the Santa Clara Bronco Invitational after a 16th place finish, 15th among collegians, with a time of 24:21.5 … placed 11th with a time of 18:57.9 at the Inland Northwest Cross Country Classic to help the Vandals take second as a team … placed 17th overall at the Dellinger Invitational with a time of 24:11.8. 2012 Indoor: Britt had a standout junior season in the distance events … broke his own New Brunswick provincial record in the 3000m with a time of 8:07.02 at the Husky Classic on Feb. 11 … that time is the former Idaho school record in the event and ranks second in school history … earned First-Team All-WAC honors in a pair of events and scored 14 points at the WAC Indoor Championships … was the WAC runner-up in the 3000m with a time of 8:19.66 and took third in the 5000m at 14:41.86 to help lead the Vandal men to a WAC team title … set a career best in the mile run at the UW Open on Feb. 12 with a second-place time of 4:12.78. 2012 Outdoor: Britt redshirted the 2012 outdoor season.

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2011-12 IDAHO TRACK & FIELD/CROSS COUNTRY YEARBOOK Adam

BUNCH

Sophomore Hurdles ◆ Boise, Idaho ◆ Borah HS

Joseph

CHARLES

Junior Throws ◆ Bronx, N.Y. ◆ Bronx CC

First-Team All-WAC ■ 3x Second-Team All-WAC

2012 Indoor: Charles earned a pair of All-WAC honors in his first season as a Vandal … took fifth in the shot put at the WAC Indoor Championships with a mark of 42-11.75 (13.10m) and added a fifth-place weight throw of 53-2.75 (16.22m) to earn Second-Team All-WAC in both … hit a career-best 52-8 (16.05m) in a fifth-place finish in the shot put at the UW Open on Feb. 12 … hit a career-best 54-4.5 (16.57m) in the weight throw at the Vandal Indoor on Feb. 3. 2012 Outdoor: Charles earned a pair of All-WAC honors and set several career bests during his first outdoor season at Idaho … earned his first career First-Team All-WAC honor in the discus throw at the WAC Outdoor Championships with a career-best 158-1 (48.18m) and a third-place finish, then added a Second-Team honor with a fourth-place mark of 51-11 (15.82m) in the shot put … also finished seventh at the WAC meet in the hammer throw at 143-6 (43.73m) … hit a career-best 157-4 (47.95m) in the hammer at the Sam Adams Classic on March 31 … finished second at the Vandal Jamboree on May 5 with a career-best 53-1.75 (16.20m) in the shot put and added a third-place toss of 154-10 (47.20m) in the discus throw at the meet.

James

CLARK

Senior Distance ◆ Maple Ridge, British Columbia ◆ Thomas Haney Secondary

2x WAC Champion ■ 5x First-Team All-WAC ■ 3x Second-Team All-WAC ■ 8x Academic All-WAC

2011 Cross Country: Clark was Idaho’s third scorer at the Santa Clara Bronco Invitational after placing 103rd with a time of 25:52.6 … placed 25th overall at the Sundodger Invitational with a time of 25:14.51 … finished 39th overall with a time of 19:55.3 at the Inland Northwest Cross Country Invitational … WAC Fall All-Academic honoree. 2012 Indoor: Clark won his first career WAC title and earned a pair of First-Team All-WAC honors for the Vandals indoors … ran the opening leg of Idaho’s winning distance medley relay that posted a time of 9:56.87 at the WAC Indoor Championships and also took third in the 800m with a time of 1:53.25 … ran a career-best 1:51.55 and finished second in his heat of the 800m at the UW Final Qualifier on March 3 … took second in his heat in the 800m at the Husky Classic on Feb. 11 with a time of 1:51.59 … Winter WAC All-Academic. 2012 Outdoor: Clark battled kidney problems during the year, but came up huge in his first and only competition of the season … won one of the closest races in WAC Outdoor Championship history when he out-leaned three other runners for the 800m title – the first of his career – in a time of 1:52.23 … in that race, .003 seconds separated first from second place, and 0.11 seconds separated first from fourth … posted a 1:53.66 in the preliminary round of the event.

Stéphane

COLLE

Senior Distance ◆ St-Eustache, Quebec ◆ Concordia University

NCAA Qualifier ■ WAC Champion ■ 2x First-Team All-WAC ■ 4x Second-Team All-WAC Idaho School Record Holder ■ 3x WAC Athlete of the Week ■ 3x WAC All-Academic

2011 Cross Country: Colle was Idaho’s second finisher at the NCAA West Region Cross Country Championships after taking 75th overall with a time of 30:59 … Finished 21st overall at the WAC Championships with a time of 26:45.3 … Named the Verizon WAC Cross Country Athlete of the Week after finishing as Idaho’s top scorer and placing 14th overall (24:06.45) at the Dellinger Invitational … finished 13th overall in the men’s senior race in the Canadian Cross Country Championships with a time of 34:02 … took fourth at the Sundodger Invitational with a time of 24:18.02 … was the second Vandal finisher at the Inland Northwest Cross Country Classic after taking 10th overall with a time of 18:56.5 …Took 20th with a time of 24:26.6 at the Santa Clara Bronco Invitational ... Fall WAC All-Academic honoree. 2012 Indoor: Colle won his first career WAC gold and scored in three different events for Idaho in his first season … provided one of the meet’s most dramatic moments as the anchor leg of Idaho’s distance medley relay … after being passed with 100 meters remaining, he came back on the final stretch and out-leaned a Utah State runner at the finish line to win the relay title with a time of 9:56.87 … added a pair of Second-Team All-WAC honors with a fourth-place finish in the mile (4:18.91) and a sixth-place finish in the 3000m (8:39.85) … broke the Idaho school record in the 3000m at the UW Final Qualifier on March 3 with a time of 8:05.39 ... Winter WAC All-Academic honoree. 2012 Outdoor: Colle was an NCAA qualifier and key cog in Idaho’s team title with All-WAC honors in three different events and 18 points in his first year with the program … finished 23rd in the 5000m at the NCAA West Preliminary with a time of 14:37.29 … earned a pair of FirstTeam All-WAC honors at the WAC Outdoor Championships with a second-place finish in the 1500m at 3:53.44 and a third-place tally in the 3000m steeplechase at 9:20.50 … added a Second-Team All-WAC honor in the 5000m in his third distance event in two days with a 15:05.21 … finished 11th in the 5000m at the Mt. SAC Relays on April 20 with a time of 14:05.03, which moved him to second all-time at Idaho in the event … ran a career-best 3:47.86 and finished eighth in his heat of the 1500m at the Payton Jordan Cardinal Invitational on April 29 to move into ninth all-time at Idaho … a two-time WAC Track Athlete of the Week during the season … Spring WAC All-Academic honoree.

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2012 Indoor: Bunch competed in the sprints for Idaho as a sophomore … posted a career-best time of 23.80 in a seventh-place finish in the 200m at the Cougar Indoor on Jan. 28 … ran a season-best 52.39 in the 400m at the Vandal Collegiate on Feb. 18. 2012 Outdoor: Bunch competed in the intermediate hurdles for Idaho as a sophomore … posted a season-best time of 57.90 in the 400m hurdles on April 21 at the Cougar Invitational … finished second in the 400m hurdles at the Vandal Jamboree on May 5 in 58.01 and also at the Buc Scoring Invitational on March 24 with a time of 58.02.

2011-12 IDAHO TRACK & FIELD/CROSS COUNTRY YEARBOOK Donavon

CUNNINGHAM

Senior Throws ◆ Vancouver, Wash. ◆ College of the Siskiyous

2011 WESTERN ATHLETIC CONFERENCE WOMEN’S CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONS

First-Team All-WAC ■ 3x Second-Team All-WAC

2012 Indoor: Cunningham was an All-WAC honoree in a pair of throwing events for Idaho … took fourth in both the indoor shot put and weight throw to score eight points and earn Second-Team All-WAC honors in both … hit a career-best 55-5 (16.89m) in the weight throw and 44-5.25 (13.54m) in the shot put at the WAC Indoor Championships … competed in the indoor discus at the Vandal Collegiate on Feb. 18 and finished third with a throw of 161-11 (49.36m) … took sixth in the weight throw at the Idaho Indoor Open on Feb. 4 with a throw of 52-1.75 (15.89m). 2012 Outdoor: Cunningham joined Vandal track after spring football and was an immediate contributor … earned First-Team All-WAC honors for the first time in his career with a runner-up finish in the discus throw at the WAC Outdoor Championships and a mark of 162-9 (49.62m) … hit a season-best 167-9 (51.14m) to win the discus throw at the Duane Hartman Invitational on April 28 … finished second in the discus at the Vandal Jamboree on May 5 with a toss of 160-10 (49.02m).

Josh

DALTON

Senior Middle Distance ◆ Deary, Idaho ◆ Deary HS

NCAA Regional Qualifier ■ 4x WAC Champion ■ 7x First-Team All-WAC 3x Second-Team All-WAC ■ 3x WAC All-Academic

2012 Indoor: Dalton won three WAC golds in his senior season at Idaho … took the men’s 800m crown at the WAC Indoor Championships with a time of 1:52.54 … added a pair of WAC titles in the relays as the second leg of the first-place distance medley relay that posted a 9:56.87 and ran the second leg of Idaho’s WAC title-clinching 4x400m relay that won with a time of 3:14.62 … ran a career-best 1:50.52 in the 800m at the UW Final Qualifier on March 3.

Jeremiah

DUBIE

Senior Distance ◆ Charlestown, N.H. ◆ Kearsage HS

2x First-Team All-WAC ■ 4x Second-Team All-WAC ■ All-Time Top-10 ■ 6x WAC All-Academic

2011 Cross Country: Dubie earned First-Team All-WAC honors as a senior …Idaho’s third finisher at the WAC Championships at seventh overall with a time of 25:52.9 … finished 76th at the NCAA West Region Cross Country Championships with a time of 31:00 … finished ninth at the Sundodger Invitational with a time of 24:33.80 … went 24th overall with a 24:23.23 at the Dellinger Invitational … was Idaho’s third finisher after taking 35th at the Santa Clara Bronco Invitational with a 24:39.3 … finished 26th with a time of 19:30.7 at the Inland Northwest Cross Country Classic … WAC Fall All-Academic honoree. 2012 Indoor: Dubie competed in the distance events for Idaho before suffering a leg injury late in the season … finished fifth in the 3000m at the UW Open with a career-best time of 8:33.16 on Feb. 12 … was unable to start in the 3000m at the WAC Indoor Championships after injuring his leg during warm-ups … Winter WAC All-Academic. 2012 Outdoor: Dubie claimed a pair of All-WAC honors and scored eight points for Idaho in his senior season … finished third in the 10,000m at the WAC Outdoor Championships with a time of 31:12.56 to earn his first career First-Team All-WAC honor in track and field … added a Second-Team All-WAC award in the 5000m with a fifth-place finish and a time of 15:10.34 … ran a career-best 14:59.90 in a secondplace finish in the 5000m at the CSULA Twilight Open on April 19 … Spring WAC All-Academic honoree.

Markus

GEIGER

Senior Distance ◆ Bad Neustadt, Germany ◆ Rhoen-Gymnasium Bad Neustadt

2x WAC Freshman of the Year ■ WAC Outstanding Track Perfomer ■ 2x WAC Champion 11x First-Team All-WAC ■ 3x Second-Team All-WAC ■ All-Time Top-10 ■ 12x WAC All-Academic

2011 Cross Country: Geiger was Idaho’s second finisher and a First-Team All-WAC selection after taking third at the WAC Championships with a time of 25:26.0 … in doing so, became the first Vandal to earn First-Team All-WAC in cross country four years in a row … finished 92nd at the NCAA West Region Cross Country Championships … Idaho’s top finisher at the Inland Northwest Cross Country Classic after taking fifth overall with a time of 18:34.8 … Idaho’s third finisher after taking 18th at the Dellinger Invitational with a time of 24:14.63 … the third Vandal finisher at the Sundodger Invitational after placing seventh overall with a time of 24:32.39 … took 46th overall with a time of 24:54.9 at the Santa Clara Bronco Invitational … WAC Fall All-Academic honoree. 2012 Indoor: Geiger earned a pair of First-Team All-WAC honors for Idaho as a senior … took second in the 5000m at the WAC Indoor Championships with a time of 14:35.02 and added a third-place finish in the 3000m in 8:28.31 … ran a career-best 4:20.30 in an eighth-place finish in the mile at the Vandal Indoor on Feb. 3 … finished 12th in his heat with a career-best time of 8:25.24 in the 3000m at the Husky Classic on Feb. 11 … Winter WAC All-Academic. 2012 Outdoor: Geiger capped off his career with a pair of All-WAC honors to help lead the Vandal men to the team title … finished second in the 10,000m at the WAC Outdoor Championships with a time of 31:04.00 to earned First-Team All-WAC, then took sixth in the 5000m in 15:15.95 for a Second-Team accolade … ran a career-best 30:40.67 in the 10,000m at the Mt. SAC Relays to finish 12th and move into eighth all-time at Idaho in the event … finished seventh in a career-best time of 3:59.02 in the 1500m at the Sam Adams Classic on March 31 … Spring WAC All-Academic honoree.

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2011-12 IDAHO TRACK & FIELD/CROSS COUNTRY YEARBOOK Colton

HASTINGS

Freshman Distance ◆ Colville, Wash. ◆ Colville HS

Second-Team All-WAC ■ WAC All-Academic

Eric

HOLMBERG

Sophomore Middle Distance ◆ Scio, Ore. ◆ Scio HS

2012 Indoor: Holmberg competed in the middle distance for Idaho as a freshman … posted a career-best 2:04.27 in the 800m at the Vandal Collegiate on Feb. 18 … had a career-best 11th-place finish in the 800m at the Cougar Indoor on Jan. 28 with a time of 2:05.75. 2012 Outdoor: Holmberg redshirted the 2012 outdoor season.

Rendel

JONES

Senior Jumps ◆ Everett, Wash. ◆ Central Washington University

WAC Champion ■ 2x First-Team All-WAC

2012 Indoor: Jones won his first career WAC crown as a senior … hit a career-best 47-7 (14.50m) in the triple jump to claim the title at the WAC Indoor Championships and earn his first career First-Team All-WAC honor in the process … won the triple jump at the Vandal Collegiate on Feb. 18 with a leap of 44-7 (13.59m) … opened his season with a second-place finish and a jump of 45-0.5 (14.03m) at the WSU Open on Jan. 14 … finished third at the Vandal Indoor on Feb. 3 with a leap of 45-6.25 (13.87m). 2012 Outdoor: Jones set a career best and earned his first career outdoor All-WAC honor as a senior in 2012 … posted a career-best mark of 47-5 (14.45m) and finished third in the triple jump at the WAC Outdoor Championships to take First-Team All-WAC honors … won the triple jump at the Duane Hartman Invitational on April 28 with a leap of 45-5 (13.84m) … finished second in the triple jump at the Vandal Jamboree with a mark of 49-9.25 (13.85m) … also posted individual wins in the triple jump at the Buc Scoring Invitational (45-1.5) and WAR V dual meet (45-9.25).

Jeremy

KLAS

Senior / Junior Pole Vault ◆ Moscow, Idaho ◆ Moscow HS

3x All-American ■ 4x WAC Champion ■ 7x First-Team All-WAC ■ 2x Second-Team All-WAC Idaho School Record Holder ■ 3x Division I All-Academic ■ 2x Academic All-District

2012 Indoor: Klas was an All-American in the pole vault for a third year in a row as a senior … finished 11th in the pole vault at the NCAA Indoor Championships with a height of 17-4.5 (5.30m) to earn USTFCCCA Second-Team All-America honors … won an unprecedented third-consecutive WAC pole vault title with a height of 17-4.5 (5.30m) … broke his own previous Idaho school record in the pole vault at the Husky Classic on Feb. 11 after clearing 17-9.75 (5.43m) … .set the meet record at the WSU open on Jan. 14 with a first-place height of 17-4.5 (5.30m) … earned First-Team All-WAC honors after taking third in the heptathlon at the WAC Indoor Championships for the second year in a row with a score of 4,951 … won six of his 10 pole vault competitions and cleared at least 17-1.75 (5.23m) in every meet during the season … Winter WAC All-Academic. 2012 Outdoor: Klas earned a pair of All-WAC honors for Idaho in 2012 as a junior … qualified for the NCAA West Preliminary with a season-best pole vault mark of 17-0.75 (5.20m) at the Texas Relays on March 29, but did not compete because of injury … earned Second-Team All-WAC honors in the decathlon with a fourth-place finish and a score of 5,609 at the WAC Outdoor Championships in his first career outdoor multi-event … finished tied for fifth in the pole vault at the WAC Championships with a mark of 15-7 (4.75m) and earned another SecondTeam honor … finished sixth in the vault at the Beach Invitational on April 21 after clearing 16-9.5 (5.12m) … Spring WAC All-Academic honoree.

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2011 Cross Country: Hastings took 63rd at the Inland Northwest Cross Country Classic with a time of 20:33.2. 2012 Indoor: Hastings was an All-WAC performer for Idaho in the distance events as a true freshman … took sixth in the mile run at the WAC Indoor Championships with a time of 4:21.75 to score his first career point and take Second-Team All-WAC honors … also finished 13th in the 3000m at the WAC meet with a time of 9:01.36 … ran a career-best mile of 4:19.10 to finish 11th at the UW Open on Feb. 12. 2012 Outdoor: Hastings competed in the distance events for Idaho as a true freshman … competed in three distance events at the WAC Outdoor Championships with an eighth-place 1500m (4:00.19), ninth-place 800m (1:55.19) and a 15th-place 5000m (16:04.39) … ran a career-best 3:58.35 and finished fifth in the 1500m at the Cougar Invitational on April 21 … took 24th in the 1500m at the Oregon Twilight on May 5 with a 3:59.13 … Spring WAC All-Academic honoree.

2011-12 IDAHO TRACK & FIELD/CROSS COUNTRY YEARBOOK Andrey

LEVKIV

Sophomore Throws ◆ Renton, Wash. ◆ Hazen HS

2011 WESTERN ATHLETIC CONFERENCE WOMEN’S CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONS

NCAA Qualifier ■ WAC Champion ■ 5x All-WAC ■ All-Time Top-10 ■ 3x WAC All-Academic

2012 Indoor: Levkiv did not compete during the 2012 indoor season. 2012 Outdoor: Levkiv claimed his first career WAC title and NCAA bid as a sophomore … qualified for the NCAA West Preliminary round and finished 32nd in the shot put with a mark of 55-5.75 (16.91m) … at the WAC Outdoor Championships, hit 56-5.75 (17.21m) to claim the shot put crown and a First-Team AllWAC honor … at the WAC meet, also took fourth in both the discus throw at 152-5 (46.47m) and hammer throw with a career-best 163-3 (49.77m) to finish with 18 points and two more Second-Team All-WAC honors … finished second in the shot put at the Beach Invitational on April 21 with a career-best mark of 57-7.75 (17.57m) that ranks ninth all-time at Idaho and was the best in the WAC in 2012 … took fourth in the discus throw at the WAR V dual meet on April 7 with a career-best toss of 157-11 (48.13m) and won the shot put at the same meet with a mark of 55-3.5 (16.85m) … posted a win in the shot put at the Duane Hartman Invitational on April 28 with a mark of 51-2.75 (15.61m) … a two-time WAC Field Athlete of the Week honoree … Spring WAC All-Academic honoree.

Jason

LORENTZ

Junior Jumps ◆ Grangeville, Idaho ◆ Grangeville HS

WAC Champion ■ First-Team All-WAC ■ 4x Second-Team All-WAC ■ 6x WAC All-Academic

2012 Indoor: Lorentz won his first career conference title and First-Team All-WAC honor as a junior indoors … jumped from third to first place on his sixth and final attempt to win the men’s long jump crown at the WAC Indoor Championships with a mark of 22-9.75 (6.95m) … earned Second-Team All-WAC honors in the triple jump with a fifth-place finish and a career-best mark of 45-3.75 (13.81m) at the WAC meet … won his flight of the long jump with a career-best 23-0.5 (7.02m) at the Husky Classic on Feb. 11 … Winter WAC All-Academic. 2012 Outdoor: Lorentz won four of his six long jump competitions in 2012 and set a new career best, but had bad luck at the WAC Outdoor Championships … tweaked his hamstring during long jump warm-ups at the WAC meet and was unable to compete … won the long jump at the WAR V dual meet on April 7 with a career-best 23-0 (7.01m) mark … also won the long jump at the Buc Scoring Invite on March 24 (21-11.5), the Mondo Mid-Major Challenge on April 13 (22-11) and the Vandal Jamboree on May 5 (22-4.25) … Spring WAC AllAcademic honoree.

Mike

MARSHALL

Junior Throws ◆ Yakima, Wash. ◆ Yakima Valley CC

All-American ■ NCAA Qualifier ■ WAC Champion ■ 2x All-WAC ■ All-Time Top-10

2012 Outdoor: Marshall was an All-America honoree, an NCAA finalist and a WAC champion in his second season at Idaho … finished 17th at the NCAA Outdoor Championships in the javelin throw with a mark of 224-9 (68.52m) to earn USTFCCCA Honorable Mention AllAmerica honors … took 12th at the NCAA West Preliminary in the javelin at 222-11 (67.96m) … won his first career WAC title and earned his first All-WAC First Team honor in the javelin with a throw of 218-10 (66.71m) at the WAC Outdoor Championships … moved into third in Idaho history with a career-best, winning throw of 230-6 (70.26m) at the Vandal Jamboree on May 5 … also won the javelin at the WAR V dual meet at 207-5 (63.22m) on April 7 and the Mondo Mid-Major Challenge on April 14 at 217-9 (66.38m) … eclipsed the 200-foot barrier in nine of his 10 competitions during the year and threw at least 215 feet six times, including each of his final five meets … Spring WAC All-Academic honoree.

Spencer

MEINBURG

Senior Sprints ◆ Meridian, Idaho ◆ Meridian HS

4x Second-Team All-WAC ■ 8x WAC All-Academic

2012 Indoor: Meinburg competed in the sprints for Idaho as a senior … finished seventh in the 60m dash at the WAC Indoor Championships with a time of 7.48, took ninth in the 400m at 52.64 and was disqualified for stepping over his lane line in the 200m … finished ninth with a season-best 1:59.94 in the 800m at the Vandal Indoor on Feb. 3 … ran the opening leg of Idaho’s first-place 4x400m relay at the Vandal Indoor … Winter WAC All-Academic honoree. 2012 Outdoor: Meinburg was an All-WAC honoree and scored in both relays for Idaho as a senior … ran the anchor leg of Idaho’s third-place 4x100m relay at the WAC Outdoor Championships that posted a time of 42.58 … ran the third leg of Idaho’s fourth-place 4x400m relay that registered a time of 3:19.30 … posted a season-best time of 52.18 in a third-place finish in the 400m at the Vandal Jamboree on May 5 … finished eighth in the 400m at the Duane Hartman Invitational on April 28 with a time of 52.41 … Spring WAC All-Academic honoree.

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OSBORN

Junior Distance ◆ Gig Harbor, Wash. ◆ Gig Harbor HS

First-Team All-WAC ■ Second-Team All-WAC ■ 9x WAC All-Academic

Matt

ROBINSON

Senior Distance ◆ Boise, Idaho ◆ Borah HS

Second-Team All-WAC ■ 5x WAC All-Academic

2011 Cross Country: Robinson took 44th overall at the Sundodger invitational with a time of 26:19.23 … placed 56th at the Inland Northwest Cross Country Classic with a 20:22.7 … finished 73rd at the Dellinger Invitational with a time of 26:40.42 … WAC Fall All-Academic honoree. 2012 Indoor: Robinson competed in the distance events for Idaho … ran a season-best 2:01.80 in the 800m at the Vandal Collegiate on Feb. 18 … posted a 4:41.48 in the mile run at the Idaho Indoor Open on Feb. 4. 2012 Outdoor: Robinson competed in the distance events for Idaho in 2012 … set a career best in the 800m at the Sam Adams Classic on March 31 with a time of 2:01.20 in a 19th-place finish … took fourth in his heat of the 800m at the WAR V dual meet with a time of 2:01.60 on April 7 … finished seventh overall in the 800m at the Vandal Jamboree … set a season-best time of 4:22.46 in the 1500m at the Buc Scoring Invitational on March 24 … Spring WAC All-Academic honoree.

Kyle

ROTHWELL

Sophomore Throws ◆ Eagle, Idaho ◆ Eagle HS

NCAA Qualifier ■ WAC Champion ■ 4x First-Team All-WAC ■ 4x Second-Team All-WAC

2012 Indoor: Rothwell earned his first career indoor All-WAC First Team honors as a sophomore … posted a 57-8.25 (17.58m) to take runner-up honors in the weight throw at the WAC Indoor Championships … added a third-place finish in the shot put at the WAC meet with a season-best toss of 48-2.5 (14.69m) … won the weight throw at the Vandal Collegiate with a career-best 58-11.5 (17.97m) on Feb. 18 … took sixth in the weight at the Husky Classic on Feb. 11 with a toss of 55-9.25 (17.00m). 2012 Outdoor: Rothwell was a WAC champion and NCAA qualifier for Idaho as a sophomore … qualified for the NCAA West Preliminary in the hammer throw, but fouled on his three attempts at the meet … took home the hammer throw title at the WAC Outdoor Championships with a mark of 187-7 (57.18m) for his second career outdoor First-Team All-WAC honor … added a Second-Team All-WAC accolade with a mark of 149-6 (45.56m) and a fifthplace finish in the discus throw … also finished seventh in the shot put with a season-best mark of 49-5.5 (15.07m) at the WAC meet … took fourth in the hammer at the Mt. SAC Relays with a career-best mark of 196-9 (59.98m) … including his WAC title performance, won the hammer throw at six different meets and broke the 190-foot barrier five times during the year … hit a season-best 150-8 (45.93m) in a sixth-place finish in the discus throw at the WAR V dual meet on April 7.

Dominic

SCHMIDT

Senior Sprints ◆ Lewiston, Idaho ◆ Lewiston HS

WAC Champion ■ First-Team All-WAC ■ 2x Second-Team All-WAC

2012 Outdoor: Schmidt returned from two tours with the Army in Iraq to compete in his final season at Idaho … earned Second-Team All-WAC honors as the leadoff leg of Idaho’s third-place 4x100m relay that posted a 42.68 at the WAC Outdoor Championships … also ran the second leg of Idaho’s fourth-place 4x400m relay that went 3:19.30 … finished 10th in the 100m (10.97) and 11th in the 200m (22.62) at the WAC Championships.

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2011 Cross Country: Osborn placed 137th overall with a time of 32:17 at the NCAA West Region Cross Country Championships … finished 29th overall at the WAC Championships with a time of 25:02.4 … had a career-best 26th overall finish at the Sundodger Invitational with a time 25:16.33 … finished 38th at the Inland Northwest Cross Country Classic with a time of 19:54.8 … took 64th overall at the Dellinger Invitational with a 25:44.41 … WAC Fall All-Academic honoree. 2012 Indoor: Osborn took First-Team All-WAC honors for the first time in his career during his junior season indoors … finished third in the mile run at the WAC Indoor Championships with a time of 4:18.75 … also took 14th in the 3000m at the WAC meet with a time of 9:23.52 … ran a career-best 4:17.53 in the mile run and finished eighth in his heat at the Husky Classic on Feb. 11 … took ninth in the 800m on Jan. 28 at the Cougar Indoor with a time of 1:59.89 … Winter WAC All-Academic honoree. 2012 Outdoor: Osborn set three personal bests during his junior season at Idaho … at the WAC Outdoor Championships, finished seventh in the 1500m (3:59.93), eighth in the 800m (2:05.54) and 18th in the 5000m (16:33.23) … ran a career-best 3:54.85 in a 13th-place finish in the 1500m at the Oregon Twilight on May 5 … posted a career-best 800m time of 1:54.25 in the preliminary round at the WAC Championships … finished sixth in the 5000m at the Buc Scoring Invitational on March 24 with a career-best time of 15:36.73 … took fourth in the 800m at the Duane Hartman Invitational on April 28 with a time of 1:54.45 … Spring WAC All-Academic honoree.

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SULLIVAN

Freshman Pole Vault ◆ Caldwell, Idaho ◆ Caldwell HS

2x First-Team All-WAC ■ All-Time Top-10

2012 Indoor: Sullivan went higher than any freshman in Idaho history and earned First-Team All-WAC honors in his first season as a Vandal … cleared 16-0.75 (4.90m) in the pole vault at the WAC Indoor Championships for a runner-up finish and All-WAC First Team accolade … tied for the win in his heat of the vault at the Husky Classic on Feb. 11 with a mark of 16-2 (4.93m), which is the best ever by an Idaho freshman in the event … took second in the pole vault at the UW Open on Feb. 12 with a height of 15-11 (4.85m). 2012 Outdoor: Sullivan climbed the Idaho charts and earned First-Team All-WAC honors in his first season as a Vandal … took runner-up honors in the pole vault at the WAC Outdoor Championships with a mark of 16-0.75 (4.90m) … moved into a tie for fourth all-time at Idaho in the vault on May 5 at the Vandal Jamboree with a career-best height of 16-1.75 (4.92m) and a second-place finish … tied teammate Dylan Watts for his career victory on April 7 at the WAR V dual meet when they both cleared 15-11 (4.85m) … took third at the Bryan Clay Invitational on April 20 with a height of 16-0.75 (4.90m).

Ugis

SVAZS

Sophomore Throws ◆ Kuldiga, Latvia ◆ Murjanu Sport Gymnasium

NCAA Qualifier ■ First-Team All-WAC ■ All-Time Top-10 ■ WAC All-Academic

2012 Outdoor: Svazs posted WAC runner-up honors and was an NCAA qualifier in the javelin throw in his first season as a Vandal … threw 216-5 (65.96m) and finished 14th at the NCAA West Preliminary in the javelin throw … finished second at the WAC Outdoor Championships with a mark of 218-0 (66.45m) to earn his first career First-Team All-WAC honors … set a career best and moved into fourth all-time at Idaho in the javelin with a 227-5 (69.32m) in a second-place finish at the Duane Hartman Invitational on April 28 … earned his first career individual victory on March 24 with a mark of 209-11 (63.98m) at the Buc Scoring Invitational … finished second at the Vandal Jamboree on May 5 with a mark of 217-3 (66.23m) … broke 200 feet in the javelin in all nine of his competitions and hit 215 feet or better in six of those meets … Spring WAC All-Academic honoree.

Luke

TONNEMAKER

Senior Distance ◆ Royal City, Wash. ◆ Royal HS

5x WAC All-Academic

2011 Cross Country: Tonnemaker took 56th at the Sundodger Invitational with a time of 27:03.19 … finished 68th with a time of 21:03.4 at the Inland Northwest Cross Country Classic … Fall WAC All-Academic honoree.

Zach

TRUMBAUER

RS Freshman Throws ◆ Seattle, Wash. ◆ Bishop Blanchet HS

3x Second-Team All-WAC

2012 Indoor: Trumbauer was an All-WAC performer in a pair of throwing events for Idaho as a redshirt freshman … hit a career-best 51-9.75 (15.79m) to take sixth in the weight throw at the WAC Indoor Championships, then added a sixth-place toss of 40-8.25 (12.40m) in the shot put for his first career points and Second-Team All-WAC honors … hit a career-best 44-6.25 (13.57m) in the shot put at the UW Open on Feb. 12 … cracked the 50-foot barrier in the weight throw for the first time with a toss of 50-0 (15.24m) at the Vandal Collegiate on Feb. 18. 2012 Outdoor: Trumbauer was an All-WAC honoree in his first outdoor season as a Vandal … set a career best by nearly 12 feet in the hammer throw at the WAC Outdoor Championships to finish fifth with a mark of 162-11 (49.66m) and earned Second-Team All-WAC honors … took ninth in the hammer at the Vandal Jamboree on May 5 with a mark of 152-0 (46.32m) … improved his career best in the hammer by nearly 20 feet over his two final meets of the season … took third in his heat of the hammer at the WAR V dual meet on April 7 with a mark of 143-1 (43.62m).

Cayle

TURPEN

Freshman Distance ◆ Richland, Wash. ◆ Richland HS

NCAA Qualifier ■ First-Team All-WAC ■ All-Time Top-10 ■ WAC All-Academic

2011 Cross Country: Turpen posted his best finish of the season after taking 49th at the Sundodger Invitational with a time of 26:39.16 … finished 62nd at the Inland Northwest Cross Country Classic with a time of 20:32 ... Fall WAC All-Academic. 2012 Indoor: Turpen competed in the distance events for Idaho as a freshman … ran a career-best 4:33.15 in the mile run at the Idaho Indoor Open on Feb. 4, where he finished 23rd … took 11th in his first career race with a mile time of 4:38.64 at the Cougar Indoor on Jan. 28 … finished 17th in the mile run at the Vandal Collegiate on Feb. 18 with a time of 4:36.59 … Winter WAC All-Academic. 2012 Outdoor: Turpen competed in the distance events for Idaho as a true freshman … finished 10th and posted a career-best time of 4:11.45 in the 1500m at the Buc Scoring Invitational on March 24 … took seventh in the 1500m at the Duane Hartman Invitational on April 28 with a time of 4:12.67 … ran a career-best 2:01.51 in a fifth-place finish in the 800m at the Vandal Jamboree on May 5 … finished 29th in the 1500m at the Sam Adams Classic on March 31 with a time of 4:13.67 … Spring WAC All-Academic honoree.

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TYLOR

Junior Middle Distance ◆ Puyallup, Wash. ◆ Puyallup HS

WAC Champion ■ First-Team All-WAC ■ 2x Second-Team All-WAC ■ WAC All-Academic

Jesse

VILLINES

Freshman Hurdles ◆ Soda Springs, Idaho ◆ Home School (Soda Springs HS)

2x Second-Team All-WAC

2012 Indoor: Villines was a scorer for Idaho in the hurdles as a true freshman … ran a career-best 8.64 in the 60m hurdles for a sixth-place finish and Second-Team All-WAC honor at the WAC Indoor Championships in his first career meet as a Vandal. 2012 Outdoor: Villines was an All-WAC performer for Idaho in the hurdles as a true freshman … ran a careerbest 15.25 in the 110m hurdles to finish fifth and earn Second-Team All-WAC honors at the WAC Outdoor Championships … ran a career-best 58.62 and finished fifth in the 400m hurdles at the Cougar Invitational on April 21 … took third at the Duane Hartman Invitational on April 28 with a time of 15.86 in the 110m hurdles … at the Vandal Jamboree on May 5, finished second in the 100m at 11.61, third in the 110m hurdles at 15.43 and fourth in the 400m hurdles at 59.85.

Dylan

WATTS

Sophomore Pole Vault ◆ Boise, Idaho ◆ Centennial HS

WAC Champion ■ 3x All-WAC ■ All-Time Top-10 ■ 4x WAC All-Academic

2012 Indoor: Watts earned First-Team All-WAC honors for the first time in his career as a sophomore … took third in the pole vault at the WAC Indoor Championships after clearing a height of 15-7 (4.75m) … set a career best in the vault with a height of 16-6.75 (5.05m) in a third-place finish at the Vandal Collegiate on Feb. 17 … tied for the win in his flight of the pole vault at the Husky Classic on Feb. 11 with a height of 16-2 (4.93m) … cleared 16 feet for the first time in his career on Feb. 3, when he took fifth at the Vandal Indoor with a height of 16-1.75 (4.92m) … Winter WAC All-Academic honoree. 2012 Outdoor: Watts claimed his first career WAC title for Idaho as a sophomore … won four of his seven pole vault competitions during the year, including the WAC Outdoor Championships, where he cleared 16-0.75 (4.90m) … won the vault at the Vandal Jamboree on May 5 with a career-best mark of 16-1.75 (4.92m), which moves him into a tie for fourth all-time at Idaho in the event … also won the vault in his season opener at the Sam Adams Classic on March 31 at 15-9 (4.80m) and tied for the win at the WAR V dual with teammate Matt Sullivan on April 7 after clearing 15-11 (4.85m) … finished fifth in his section of the vault at the Mt. SAC Relays with a height of 16-0.75 (4.90m) … Spring WAC All-Academic honoree.

2011-12 REDSHIRTS Ryan BOWEN

Kasey HATTRUP

Adam STOREY

Junior Multi-Events Lewiston, Idaho Lewiston HS

Freshman Distance Kent, Wash. Kentwood HS

Freshman Distance Moscow, Idaho Moscow HS

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2012 Indoor: Tylor earned his first career WAC gold and First-Team All-WAC honor as a junior … ran the third leg of Idaho’s WAC champion, team title-clinching 4x400m relay that posted a 3:14.62 at the WAC Indoor Championships … added a Second-Team All-WAC honor with a sixth-place finish in the 800m in a time of 1:55.38 at the WAC meet … took fifth in the 800m at the Vandal Indoor on Feb. 3 at the Vandal indoor with a career-best time of 1:52.84 … ran a career-best 50.45 in the 400m at the Idaho Indoor Open on Feb. 4 … Winter WAC All-Academic. 2012 Outdoor: Tylor was a WAC scorer in the relays and competed in the middle distance events for Idaho as a junior … ran the third leg of Idaho’s fourth-place 4x400m relay at the WAC Outdoor Championships that posted a time of 3:19.30 … finished seventh in the 800m at the WAC meet with a time of 1:57.92 … ran a career-best time of 1:54.55 in the preliminary round of the 800m at the WAC Championships … took eighth in the 800m at the Duane Hartman Invitational on April 28 with a time of 1:55.48 … finished fifth in the 800m at the Mondo Mid-Major Challenge in 1:56.28 on April 14 … finished second in the 400m at the Vandal Jamboree on May 5 with a career-best time of 51.46.

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2011-12 IDAHO TRACK & FIELD/CROSS COUNTRY YEARBOOK Indoor School Records

Men

Women

Mark Name

Year

Event

Mark Name

Year

55 Meters

6.19

Patrick Williams

1990

55 Meters

7.01

Angela Whyte

2001

60 Meters

6.70

Nikela Ndebele

2003

60 Meters

7.44

Angela Whyte

2003

200 Meters

21.15%

Tawanda Chiwira

1996

200 Meters

24.33

Angela Whyte

2001

400 Meters

45.82

Tawanda Chiwira

1998

300 Meters

40.52

Vernee Samuel

2003

800 Meters

1:48.58

Eversley Linley

1992

400 Meters

55.46

Liga Velvere

2011

1 Mile

4:03.48

John Trott

1982

500 Meters

1:13.9%

Mary Bradford

1984

3000 Meters

8:05.39

Stéphane Colle

2012

600 Meters

1:33.9

Allison Falkenberg-Ryan

1982

5000 Meters

14:01.76

Bernardo Barrios

1990

800 Meters

2:07.63

Liga Velvere

2012

55m Hurdles

7.24

Dan O’Brien

1989

1000 Meters

2:54.37

Daniela Pogorzelski

2003

60m Hurdles

7.84

Paul Dittmer

2009

1500 Meters

4:32.5

Patsy Sharples

1980

4x400 Relay

3:07.51(a) 1998 Kamangirira, Kunkel, Adejuyigbe, Chiwira

1 Mile

4:40.60

Dee Olson

2006

3:06.38(b) 1998 Kamangirira, St. Hill, Adejuyigbe, Chiwira

3000 Meters

9:07.23#

Hannah Kiser

2012

5000 Meters

16:23.8

Patsy Sharples

1982

55m Hurdles

7.48

Angela Whyte

2003

60m Hurdles

8.07

Angela Whyte

2003

3:49.76 (a)

Distance Medley 9:54.16(a)

1997 Maley, Karrer, O’Brien, Bruder

9:54.16(a) 1997 Schroeder, Kamangirira, O’Brien, Bruder

4x400 Relay

Long Jump

26-2¼

George Ogbeide

1988

Triple Jump

53-5¾

Chris Kwaramba

1998

High Jump

7-3¾

Hugo Munoz

1999

Distance Medley 11:35.32#

Pole Vault

17-9¾

Jeremy Klas

2012

Shot Put

70-5½

Joachim Olsen

2002

Long Jump

19-11¾

Angela Whyte

2003

Discus

192-7

Russ Winger

2008

Triple Jump

42-0

Jackie Ross

1990

35 lb. Weight

70-9

Matthew Wauters

2008

High Jump

5-10

Stacey Asplund

1990

Heptathlon

5,346

Jereme Richardson

2004

Pole Vault

13-9¼

Melinda Owen

2007

Shot Put

56-5¼

Mykael Bothum

2010

Discus

183-5

Katja Schreiber

2001

20 lb. Weight

61-3

Alohalani Santiago

2003

Pentathlon

4,140

Manuela Kurrat

2005

1997 Ogden, Fife, Jennings, Korus

3:43.48 (b)

2001

DaSilva, Dennis, Greenlee, Whyte 2006 Kamau, Samuel, Murdoch, Olson

2012 Record Book Entries % - Big Sky Conference Championship Record # - Western Athletic Conference All-Time Record (a) - Flat 200m Track (b) - Banked or Oversized Track

Senior Jeremy Klas cleared 17-9¾ (5.43m) to break his own Idaho school record in the pole vault in 2012. In his indoor career, Klas won an unprecedented three consecutive WAC titles in the pole vault, was the first Idaho man to qualify for the NCAA Championships in the event and earned three USTFCCCA All-America honors.

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Event

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1 2 3 4 5 6 6 8 9 10

Patrick Williams (1990) Nikela Ndebele (2000) Stephen Lewis (1992) Martijn Ungerer (1999) Dave Smith (1985) Everton Wanliss (1985) Dayo Onanubosi (1987) Chris Stokes (1985) Eric Haynes (1988) Dan O’Brien (1989)

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Dave Smith (1985) Patrick Williams (1990) Tawanda Chiwira (1999) Montrell Williams (1995) Stephen Lewis (1992) Sam Koduah (1985) Patrick Ray (2004) Chris Stokes (1985) Jason St. Hill (1995) Martijn Ungerer (1999) Tawanda Chiwira (2000)

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

200 Meters

400 Meters

Tawanda Chiwira (1997) Sam Koduah (1985) Dave Harewood (1983) Felix Kamangirira (1996) Adekunle Adejuyigbe (1998) Eversley Linley (1992) Dave Smith (1983) Ben Omodiale (1977) Ben Ayesu-Attah (2012) Calvin Harris (1992)

800 Meters

Driss Yousfi (2006) Leroy Robinson (1982) John Trott (1982) Rob Demick (1989) Eversley Linley (1992) Rick Bartlett (1977) Derek Klinge (1998) Shane O’Brien (1997) Nils Jebsen (1965) Mike Rousseau (1984)

1500 Meters

John Trott (1982) James Tennant (1988) Bernd Schroeder (1998) Ray Prentice (1981) Andy Harvey (1981) Doug Beckman (1979) Frank Bruder (1997) Gaydon Pihlaja (1978) Stéphane Colle (2012) Mark Olden (1991)

5000 Meters

Andy Harvey (1982) Stéphane Colle (2012) Barry Britt (2011) Frank Bruder (1997) Mark Olden (1991) Rick Brooks (1976) Markus Geiger (2011) Steve Ortiz (1977) Bernardo Barrios (1989) Kole Tonnemaker (1979)

Men’s Outdoor Records

10,000 Meters

%10.06 10.24 #10.26 10.30 10.35 10.38 10.38 10.40 10.42 10.44

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Kole Tonnemaker (1981) Mike Smith (1980) Bernardo Barrios (1990) Jason Uhlman (1994) Barry Britt (2011) Gary Gonser (1978) Derek Shirley (1978) Markus Geiger (2012) Rick Ward (1972) Jeremiah Dubie (2011)

#20.34 20.61 20.79 20.83 20.84 20.86 20.94 20.98 21.03 21.06 20.69w

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Hugh Henry (2003) Paul Dittmer (2009) Andrew Blaser (2012) Dan O’Brien (1989) Jereme Richardson (2001) Trond Knaplund (1983) Mike Davis (1989) Mike Kinney (1983) Christian Zarcu (1992) Jay Wheeler (1972)

1 2 3 4 5 5 7 8 8 10

Paul Thompson (1996) Mike Kinney (1983) Scott Whalen (1996) Josh Guggenheimer (2001) Dustin Ainsworth (1992) Glenn Mitcham (1984) Andrew Blaser (2012) Jay Collins (1972) Mario Peschiera (1983) Owen Vassell (1992)

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Frank Bruder (1997) Jan Eitel (2001) Gary Gonser (1979) Josh Muxen (2000) Diego Moreno (2007) Mike Smith (1980) Ryan Jensen (2003) Kienan Slate (1994) Kole Tonnemaker (1980) Mike Thompson (2007)

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Stokes, Wanliss, Smith, Koduah (1985) Ndebele, Aguilera, Chiwira, James (2000) Onanubosi, Stokes, Wanliss, Williams (1989) Ndebele, Aguilera, Chiwira, Ungerer (1999) Kruller, St. Hill, Chiwira Kamangirira (1997) Haynes, Collins, Lewis, Williams (1990) Wanliss, Smith, Benton, Harewood (1983) Ndebele, McCrery, James, Aguilera (2002) Onanubosi, Ogbeide, O’Garro, Williams (1988) O’Garro, Williams, Onanubosi Ogbeide (1987)

45.26 %45.58 #45.76 45.95 46.09 46.55 46.81 46.82 46.86 47.00 1:47.11 1:47.16 #1:47.2 1:48.08 1:48.58 1:48.6 1:49.32 1:49.81 1:49.6 1:49.99 3:43.4 3:44.5 3:45.08 3:45.29 3:45.6 3:45.9 3:47.24 3:47.3 3:47.86 3:48.01 14:03.29 14:05.03 14:08.90 14:11.19 14:16.64 14:17.0 14:21.83 14:23.0 14:27.2 14:28.0

29:22.6 30:16.0 30:17.91 30:21.09 30:24.99 30:29.5 30:39.6 30:40.67 30:41.1 30:52.39

110-Meter Hurdles

400-Meter Hurdles

13.80 13.85 13.98 14.06 14.09 14.23 14.24 14.27 14.29 14.30 %50.16 50.54 51.35 51.98 52.24 52.24 52.52 53.00 53.00 53.03

3000 Meter Steeplechase

4x100 Meter Relay

8:31.93 8:43.91 8:50.40 8:50.90 8:51.12 8:56.4 8:58.48 9:01.07 9:05.90 9:12.15 39.48 39.90 40.01

4x400 Meter Relay

1 Kunkel, Adejuyigbe, St. Hill, Kamangirira (1998) 2 Kunkel, Chiwira, St. Hill, Kamangirira (1997) 3 Chiwira, Whalen, St. Hill, Kamangirira (1996) 4 Giuffre, Ray, Ruffin, Erickson (2004) 5 (1983) 6 Ndebele, Kunkel, Adejuyigbe, Chiwira (1999) 7 Smith, Wanliss, Koduah, Mitcham (1985) 8 Williams, Adejuyigbe, Aguilera, Chiwira (2000) 9 Linley, Harris, Ainsworth, Whalen (1992) 10 Taylor, Mitcham, Smith, Koduah (1984) Hugo Munoz (1999) Bob Peterson (1979) Steve Brown (1967) Thad Hathaway (1995) Geoffrey Judd (1997) Trond Knaplund (1984) Jim Sokolowski (1981) Rob Kelly (1983) Dwain Fagerberg (1986)

1 2 3 4 4 5 7 7 9 10

Lucas Pope (2011) Jeremy Klas (2010) Mike Carpenter (2008) Matt Sullivan (2012) Dylan Watts (2012) Eric Van Zantan (1984) Steve Ott (1985) Andrew Blaser (2012) Mitch Wolfe (1984) Jarred Lee (2002)

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

George Ogbeide (1988) Elvie Williams (2008) Niels Kruller (1997) Dan O’Brien (1989) Mike Davis (1989) Orde Ballantyne (1989) Sherwin James (2000) Trond Knaplund (1984) Neil Crichlow (1983) Mike Martin (1979)

1 2 3 4 5 6 8 9 10

Chris Kwaramba (1998) Neil Crichlow (1983) Francis DoDoo (1981) George Ogbeide (1987) Marvin Wadlow (1981) David Holmon (2008) Osita Nsofor (1977) Elvie Williams (2009) Allen Kapofu (2003) Amukela Gwebu (1998)

40.04 40.08 40.11 40.12 40.13 40.19 40.22

High Jump

1 2 3 4 5 7

Pole Vault

Long Jump

Triple Jump

3:07.19 3:07.65 3:08.34 3:10.53 3:10.3 3:10.59

Joachim Olsen (2002) Russ Winger (2008) Mitch Crouser (1981) Simon Stewart (2002) Steve Saras (1980) Eugenio Mannucci (2011) Tim Taylor (1985) Ray McDonald (1966) Andrey Levkiv (2012) Mark Crull (1975)

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Russ Winger (2008) Joachim Olsen (2001) Mitch Crouser (1981) Charlie Schmoeger (1980) Daniel Benetka (1999) Craig Christianson (1983) Ray McDonald (1966) Rich Smith (1969) Kurt Schneiter (1986) Doug Fisher (1975)

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

James Rogan (2010) Marcus Mattox (2008) Matthew Wauters (2008) Beau Whitney (2010) Simon Stewart (2002) Russ Winger (2008) Evan Ruud (2009) Jeff High (1999) Kyle Daley (1997) Jacob Boling (2007)

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Oscar Duncan (1996) Stefan Wikstrom (1986) Mike Marshall (2012) Ugis Svazs (2012) Tom Erickson (1986) Brandon Folk (2004) Kevin Davis (1999) Kyle Hook (2008) Eamonn Torgison (2006) Danny Fredrickson (1995)

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Dan O’Brien (1989) Trond Knaplund (1984) Jereme Richardson (2004) Pat McFadden (1994) Andrew Blaser (2012) Robert Thomas (1992) Ken Hobart (1983) Rick Wassenaar (1995) Kurt Gregg (2002) Jim Sokolowski (1981)

3:10.97 3:11.26 3:11.34 3:12.05

7-3¾ 7-3 7-1½ 7-1 7-0½ 7-0½ 7-0 7-0 7-0 17-3 17-2¾ 17-1 16-1¾ 16-1¾ 16-1 16-0¾ 15-9 16-0 15-11 %26-8½ 26-0¾ 25-11 25-6 25-2 24-7¼ 24-5½ 24-2½ 24-1¾ 24-1 54-0 52-8 52-4 51-10 51-4½ 51-1 51-1 50-3¼ 49-11 49-6

Shot Put

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

70-9¼ 68-5¼ 64-5¾ 63-11 61-6½ 60-5¾ 60-0 57-10¼ 57-7¾ 56-9

Discus

199-6 197-6 195-7 184-8 183-6 182-0 181-8 181-2 181-1 180-7

Hammer Throw

221-7 217-2 210-0 205-1 203-4 202-3 200-9 200-1 197-2 197-0

Javelin

Decathlon

238-6 231-0 230-6 227-5 225-0 217-1 209-3 206-0 203-9 202-7 %7988 7658 7548 7141 7069 7022 7018 6984 6966 6947

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Angela Whyte (2003) Tanya Pater (2004) Humrei Thompson (1998) Vernee Samuel (2004) Katharine Hough (1998) Caryn Choate-Deeds (1989) Heather Dennis (2001) Traci Hanegan (1994) Jennifer Walsh (2001) Kelly Jacka (2010)

1 2 3 4 5 5 7 8 9 10 10

Angela Whyte (2003) Humrei Thompson (1998) Katharine Hough (1998) Tanya Pater (2004) Ulrike Hartz (2010) Vernee Samuel (2002) Heather Dennis (2001) Kelly Jacka (2010) Traci Hanegan (1994) Caryn Choate-Deeds (1989) Jeannine Korus (2000) Karlene Hurrel (2011)

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

200 Meters

400 Meters

Jeannine Korus (2000) Liga Velvere (2011) Lauren Schaffer (2011) Heather Dennis (2003) Amy Johnson (1995) Heather Hoeck (2004) Debbie Ogden (1998) Brenda Nipp (2002) Angie Smith (1994) AshLee Rey (2010)

5000 Meters

1 Sherrie Crang (1984) 2 Allix Lee-Painter (2010) 3 Patsy Sharples (1981) 4 Hannah Kiser (2011) 5 Letiwe Marakurwa (2003) 6 Pam Paudler (1984) 7 Caroline Crabtree (1982) 8 Zsanett Teveli (2001) 9 Erica Digby (2012) 10 Cathy Wall (1986)

Hurrel, Hall, Schaffer, Velvere (2011) Nipp, Ogden, Dallas, Korus (2000) DaSilva, Ogden, Dennis, Korus (1999) Rey, Hartz, Schaffer, Jacka (2010) Nipp, Walsh, Hoeck, Samuel (2002) Ogden, Dallas, Deery, Korus (1998) Fife, Ogden, Belgrave, Korus (1997) Hoeck, Samuel, Pater, Patten (2004)

1 2 3 4 4 5 5 5 8 8 8 8

Tassie Souhrada (2004) Stacey Asplund (1989) Sarah DeBoer (2002) Darcy Collins (2009) Tanya Tesar (1994) Breeana Chadez (2008) Rhonda James (1982) Kari Alldredge (2000) Bobbi Purdy (1986) Tiffany Hagood (2000) Dacia Fernandez (2003) Angela Whyte (2003)

3000-Meter Steeplechase

1 2 3 4 5 6

Melinda Owen (2008) K.C. Dahlgren (2008) Lindsay Beard (2009) Morgan Dunning (2010) Christi Bentley (2002) Ashley Godsey (2008)

4x100 Meter Relay

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 8 10

Alice Draser (2008) Jackie Ross (1990) Tanya Tesar (1992) Chelsea Huffman (2004) Angela Whyte (2001) Cassie Greenlee (2001) Ulrike Hartz (2010) Kirsten Jensen (1985) Tammy Stowe (2006) Tammi Lesh (1987)

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Jackie Ross (1990) Tammy Stowe (2003) Tanya Tesar (1992) Katie Kress (2001) Mel Kreizenbeck (2001) Sam Nielson (2010) Chelsea Huffman (2002) Ali Middleton (2010) Melanie Conlon (1998) Jennifer Walsh (2001) Ali Middleton (2010)

Patsy Sharples (1981) Zsanett Teveli (2001) Diane Knudson (1991) Sherrie Crang (1985) Mandy Macalister (2007) Karen Voss (1983) Dee Olson (2007) Julia Veseth (2011) Angie Mathison (1995) Allix Lee-Painter (2010)

23.74 24.04 24.09 24.28 24.29 24.29 24.37 24.49 24.52 24.57 24.57 24.36w

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 8 10

Angela Whyte (2003) Christie Gordon (2010) Heather Bergland (2007) Ulrike Hartz (2010) Cassie Greenlee (2000) Karen McCloskey (1992) Bobbi Purdy (1989) Colleen Williams (1982) Manuela Kurrat (2005) Rebecca DeSilva (2000) Christie Gordon (2010)

54.77 55.47 55.75 55.89 55.94 55.98 56.01 56.03 56.22 56.28

800 Meters

Mary Kamau (2004) Dee Olson (2006) Erica Digby (2012) Daniella Pogorzelski (2003) Hannah Kiser (2011) Sherrie Crang (1985) Anna Kalbrener (2012) Sandy Kristjanson (1983) Letiwe Marakurwa (2003) Patsy Sharples (1981)

3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Lauren Schaffer (2011) ^2:04.53 Mary Kamau (2005) 2:05.96 Dee Olson (2006) 2:08.64 Liga Velvere (2011) 2:08.75 Daniella Pogorzelski (2003) 2:09.42 Allison Falkenberg-Ryan (1983) 2:09.44 Althea Belgrave (1997) 2:09.53 Manuela Kurrat (2005) 2:09.89 Helen Waterhouse (1981) 2:10.6 Jeannine Korus (1997) 2:11.38

1500 Meters

10,000 Meters

11.57 11.71 11.78 11.89 11.90 11.93 11.97 11.99 12.02 12.04

4:17.19 ^4:18.58 4:22.18 4:25.70 4:26.30 4:28.06 4:30.11 4:31.05 4:31.30 4:31.6 16:10.53 16:25.09 16:25.88 16:36.12 16:41.93 16:48.0 16:52.5 16:57.11 17:14.44 17:15.0

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100-Meter Hurdles

400-Meter Hurdles

Colleen Williams (1982) Liga Velvere (2011) Angela Whyte (2001) Cassie Greenlee (2001) Mary Bradford (1983) Rebecca DeSilva (2000) Karen McCloskey (1990) Tara Gehrke (1996) Molly Burt (2008) Jamie Patten (2005)

33:34.85 34:38.15 35:19.2 35:28.76 35:30.40 35:42.9 35:43.13 36:02.05 36:08.47 36:16.67 12.78 13.37 13.92 13.95 14.07 14.16 14.18 14.23 14.23 14.26 13.34w 57.94 58.61 58.74 59.80 1:00.42 1:00.73 1:00.78 1:01.21 1:02.14 1:02.56

Letiwe Marakurwa (2003) @9:52.98 Bevin Kennelly (2006) 10:15.77 Alycia Butterworth (2012) 10:18.78 Allix Lee-Painter (2010) 10:19.15 Tanya VanderMuelen (2004) 10:27.04 Daniella Pogorzelski (2003) 10:32.59 Jaime Stone (2001) 10:38.28 Holly Stanton (2011) 10:50.18 Brooke Vogel (2002) 10:58.71 Tuelo Setswamorogo (2003) 11:13.26

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Pater, Whyte, Hoeck, Samuel (2003) Whyte, Dennis, Hoeck, Walsh (2001) Pater, Samuel, Hoeck, Walsh (2002) Pater, Whyte, Samuel, Dennis (2003) Goodman, Hurrel, Hartz, Jacka (2010) Blackett, Thompson, Ogden, Hough (1998) Gillas, Purdy, Scott, Choate-Deeds (1989) Samuel, Pater, Hoeck, Patten (2004) Blackwood, Cooper, Goode, Jacka (2012) Ogden, Walsh, Greenlee, Dennis (2000)

1 2

Nipp, Dennis, Greenlee, Whyte (2001) Rey, Goodman, Schaffer, Jacka (2010)

4x400 Meter Relay

45.69 45.81 46.21 46.32 46.35 46.55 46.74 46.77 46.87 47.19

3:43.87 3:44.28

High Jump

Pole Vault

Long Jump

Triple Jump

Shot Put

3:44.82 3:46.10 3:46.24 3:46.32 3:46.78 3:47.16

Katja Schreiber (2001) 197-11 Ina Reiber (2004) 182-9 Katie Tuttle (2004) 174-8 Shana Ball (2000) 173-6 Mykael Bothum (2010) 166-0 Kristine Leonard (2012) 161-11 Johanna HÖcketstaller (2012) 155-8 Alohalani Santiago (2001) 155-7 Cathy Schmidt (2003) 155-4 Jill Wimer (1997) 154-5½

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Gabby Midles (2011) Jennifer Broncheau (2006) Sarah Nutsch (2012) Alohalani Santiago (2001) Heidi Lambley (2004) Lauren Bronson (2002) Amber Sielaff (1998) Molly Leonard (2000) Mary Caruso (2002) Shanna Lytle (2004)

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Sherrie Schoenborn (1986) Mylissa Coleman (1985) Jessica Puckett (1995) Jill Wimer (1995) Lauri Thompson (1997) Shauna Ostrem (1989) Kellee Knowles (1983) Bethany Hopkins (1995) Misty Buffington (1995) Kelly Hunt (1998)

3:47.38 3:47.90

5-10¾ 5-10½ 5-8¾ 5-8 5-8 5-7 5-7 5-7 5-6 5-6 5-6 5-6 #14-5¼ 13-3¾ 12-3½ 11-10¾ 11-9¾ 11-1¾ 19-9¾ 19-7½ 19-6 19-5½ 19-5¼ 19-3¼ 19-1½ 18-10½ 18-10½ 18-10 41-11½ 41-6½ 40-7 39-10 39-6½ 38-11 38-5 38-4 37-8 37-5 ½ 38-7¾w

1 Mykael Bothum (2010) 52-8¼ 2 Shana Ball (2000) 51-2¾ 3 Jill Wimer (1997) 50-4½ 4 Johanna HÖcketstaller (2012) 49-6¼ 5 Alohalani Santiago (2003) 49-5 6 Katja Schreiber (2000) 49-3 7 Katie Tuttle (2000) 48-11¾ 7 Ina Reiber (2004) 48-11¾ 9 Kristine Leonard (2012) 48-0½ 10 Shanna Lytle (2006) 45-11¼

Discus

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Hammer Throw

Javelin (Old Rule)

194-6 190-10 187-9 180-9 178-0 162-0 160-2 158-2 156-10 156-7 %178-2 173-10 158-7 156-11 147-8 147-2 146-8 143-0 139-11 138-0

Javelin (New Rule)

1 Ulrike Hartz (2010) 168-9 2 Manuela Kurrat (2005) 159-1¾ 3 Sarah Willette (2003) 151-6 4 Kate Buehler (2006) 150-10 5 Cathy Schmidt (2003) 148-4 6 Ellen Rouse (2012) 147-7 7 Anne Barnett (2008) 142-10 8 Johanna HÖcketstaller (2012) 141-10 9 Colleen Case (2001) 139-0 10 Melinda Owen (2006) 136-5

Heptathlon

1 Angela Whyte (2003) 2 Manuela Kurrat (2005) 3 Ulrike Hartz (2010) 4 Dacia Fernandez (2003) 5 Tanya Tesar (1994) 6 Johanna HÖcketstaller (2012) 7 Rhonda James (1982) 8 Darcy Collins (2008) 9 Lindsey Goodman (2010) 10 Tammi Lesh (1986)

5,745 5,714 5,601 5,189 5,131 5,071 4,986 4,951 4,924 4,864

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Women’s Outdoor Records

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2006:

2007:

2009:

2008:

2010:

Matt Wauters...................................................Apr. 24-30

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David Holmon......................................... Apr. 30-May 6

Diego Moreno-Guzman...............................Sept. 24-30

Markus Geiger........................................Aug. 30-Sept. 6 Barry Britt................................................ Sept. 28-Oct. 3

RUSS WINGER

Russ Winger (Field)................................Mar. 31-Apr. 6 Mike Carpenter (Field)..................................Apr. 14-20 Russ Winger (Field).......................................Apr. 21-27 Paul Dittmer (Track)............................... Apr. 28-May 4 Elvie Williams (Field)............................. Apr. 28-May 4 Bastien Tardy (Track).....................................May 12-18 Russ Winger (Field).......................................May 12-18

MEN’S INDOOR TRACK & FIELD

2009:

Dee Olson................................................ Sept. 27-Oct. 2

James Rogan (Field).......................................Apr. 13-19

2006:

Russ Winger.....................................................Jan. 16-22 Russ Winger.................................................... Feb. 13-19

2007:

Russ Winger.....................................................Jan. 15-21 Matt Wauters................................................... Feb. 12-18

2008:

Russ Winger (Field)........................................Jan. 14-20 Paul Dittmer (Track).................................Jan. 28-Feb. 3 Russ Winger (Field)..................................Jan. 28-Feb. 3 Bastien Tardy (Track)....................................... Feb. 4-10 Russ Winger (Field)....................................... Feb. 11-17

2009:

Matt Wauters (Field).......................................Jan. 18-25 Paul Dittmer (Track).......................................... Feb. 2-8 Matt Wauters (Field).......................................... Feb. 2-8 James Rogan (Field)......................................... Feb. 9-15 Paul Dittmer (Track)...................................... Feb. 16-22

2010:

Lucas Pope (Field)...........................................Jan. 25-31

2011:

Jeremy Klas (Field)..........................................Jan. 17-23

2012:

Ben Ayesu-Attah (Track)..................................Jan. 9-15 Jeremy Klas (Field)............................................Jan. 9-15 Andrew Blaser (Field).....................................Jan. 23-29 Barry Britt (Track).....................................Jan. 30-Feb. 5 Jeremy Klas (Field)....................................Jan. 30-Feb. 5 Jeremy Klas (Field)........................................... Feb. 6-12

TOTAL..........................................................22

2010:

Mykael Bothum (Field)..................................Jan. 18-25 Christie Gordon (Track)................................ Feb. 16-22 Martha Hale (Field)........................................ Feb. 16-22

2010:

Mykael Bothum (Field)..................................Jan. 18-24 Lauren Schaffer (Track)..................................... Feb. 1-7 Mykael Bothum (Field)..................................... Feb. 1-7

2012:

Andrew Blaser (Field).............................Mar. 26-Apr. 1 Andrey Levkiv (Field)........................................ Apr. 2-8 Mike Marshall (Field)......................................Apr. 9-15 Stéphane Colle (Track)..................................Apr. 16-22 Andrey Levkiv (Field)....................................Apr. 16-22 Stéphane Colle (Track)..................................Apr. 23-29 Ugis Svazs (Field)...........................................Apr. 23-29

TOTAL..........................................................26

WOMEN’S OUTDOOR TRACK & FIELD

2007:

Melinda Owen................................................Apr. 23-29 Heather Bergland.................................... Apr. 30-May 6

2008:

Mykael Bothum (Field).................................Apr. 21-27 Melinda Owen (Field)............................. Apr. 28-May 4 Melinda Owen (Field)....................................May 12-18

2010:

TOTAL..........................................................12

WOMEN’S CROSS COUNTRY

2007:

Mandy Macalister..........................................Sept. 24-30 Allix Potratz-Lee................................................Sept. 1-7 Allix Potratz-Lee..................................... Sept. 30-Oct. 5 Allix Potratz-Lee.............................................Oct. 13-19

2009:

Teegan Schoch........................................ Sept. 29-Oct. 4

2010: 2011:

Hannah Kiser.................................................Sept. 12-18 Hannah Kiser.......................................... Sept. 26-Oct. 2 Hannah Kiser..................................................Oct. 10-16

TOTAL..........................................................10

Men:

BY THE NUMBERS

Russ Winger................................................................................. 9 Jeremy Klas................................................................................... 6 Paul Dittmer................................................................................. 5 Matt Wauters................................................................................ 4 Barry Britt..................................................................................... 3 Stéphane Colle............................................................................. 3 James Rogan................................................................................. 3 Andrew Blaser.............................................................................. 2 Markus Geiger............................................................................. 2 Andrey Levkiv.............................................................................. 2 Bastien Tardy................................................................................ 2 Ben Ayesu-Attah.......................................................................... 1 Mike Carpenter............................................................................ 1 Josh Dalton................................................................................... 1 David Holmon............................................................................. 1 Mike Marshall.............................................................................. 1 Sam Michener.............................................................................. 1 Diego Moreno-Guzman............................................................. 1 Lucas Pope.................................................................................... 1 Ugis Svazs..................................................................................... 1 Beau Whitney.............................................................................. 1 Elvie Williams.............................................................................. 1 TOTAL...............................................................................52

Women:

Liga Velvere (Track).........................................Apr. 4-10 Lauren Schaffer (Track).................................Apr. 11-17 Alycia Butterworth (Track)...............................May 2-8

2012:

Erica Digby (Track)............................................ Apr. 2-8 Alycia Butterworth (Track).................... Apr. 30-May 6

TOTAL..........................................................15

2012:

Kristine Leonard (Field)...................................Jan. 9-15 Hannah Kiser (Track).....................................Jan. 23-29 Liga Velvere (Track)..................................Jan. 30-Feb. 5 Hannah Kiser (Track)...................................... Feb. 6-12

2005:

Julia Veseth.............................................. Sept. 28-Oct. 3

Markus Geiger (Track)................................. Mar. 21-27 Barry Britt (Track)..........................................Apr. 11-17

2011:

2009:

TOTAL............................................................4

2011:

2008:

Mykael Bothum (Field)..................................Jan. 14-20

Stéphane Colle........................................ Sept. 26-Oct. 2

2008:

Dee Olson........................................................ Feb. 13-19

WOMEN’S INDOOR TRACK & FIELD

2006:

2011:

Josh Dalton (Track)....................................... Mar. 22-28 Paul Dittmer (Track)...............................Mar. 29-Apr. 4 Jeremy Klas (Field)...........................................Apr. 5-11 Beau Whitney (Field).....................................Apr. 19-25 James Rogan (Field)................................ Apr. 26-May 2 Sam Michener (Track).......................................May 3-9 Jeremy Klas (Field).............................................May 3-9

Ulrike Hartz (Field).................................Mar. 29-Apr. 4 Gabby Midles (Field).......................................Apr. 5-11 Allix Potratz-Lee (Track)...............................Apr. 12-18 Gabby Midles (Field).....................................Apr. 12-18 K.C. Dahlgren (Field)........................................May 3-9

MEN’S CROSS COUNTRY

MYKAEL BOTHUM

Mykael Bothum........................................................................... 5 Hannah Kiser............................................................................... 5 Allix Potratz-Lee.......................................................................... 4 Melinda Owen............................................................................. 3 Alycia Butterworth...................................................................... 2 Gabby Midles............................................................................... 2 Dee Olson..................................................................................... 2 Lauren Schaffer............................................................................ 2 Liga Velvere.................................................................................. 2 Heather Bergland........................................................................ 1 K.C. Dahlgren.............................................................................. 1 Erica Digby................................................................................... 1 Christie Gordon........................................................................... 1 Martha Hale................................................................................. 1 Ulrike Hartz................................................................................. 1 Kristine Leonard.......................................................................... 1 Mandy Macalister........................................................................ 1 Teegan Schoch............................................................................. 1 Julia Veseth................................................................................... 1 TOTAL...............................................................................37

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Big Sky Outdoor Championship Meet 100m 200m 400m 800m 400m Hurdles 4x100m Relay

10.26 20.34 45.76 1:47.2h 50.16 39.61

1992 1984 1983 1982 1996 1985

Javelin (old rule)

177-10

1986

Big Sky All-Time Outdoor

Patrick Williams Sam Koduah Paul Thompson Chris Stokes, Sam Koduah Everton Wanliss, Dave Smith George Ogbeide Sherry Schoenborn Dan O’Brien

Tawanda Chiwira Felix Kamangirira Dave Smith Mary Bradford Idaho # Oversized Track

Angela Whyte Letiwe Marakurwa Joachim Olsen Manuela Kurrat

Angela Whyte Letiwe Marakurwa Frank Bruder Joachim Olsen

100m 400m 400m Hurdles 4x100m Relay

10.06 45.58 50.16 39.48

1990 1985 1996 1985

Long Jump Javelin (old rule) Decathlon

26-8½ 178-2 7,988

1988 1986 1989

Big Sky Indoor Championship Meet 200m 400m 400m 500m 4x400m Relay

21.15 46.72 46.40# 1:16.45 3:09.61

Big West Outdoor Championship Meet 100m Hurdles 3k Steeplechase Shot Put Heptathlon

13.11 10:24.72 69-8 5,614

Big West All-Time Outdoor 100m Hurdles 3k Steeplechase 3k Steeplechase Shot Put

13.06 9:52.98 8:31.93 70-9¼

Western Athletic Indoor Championship Meet

Hannah Kiser Erica Digby, Liga Velvere, Lauren Schaffer, Hannah Kiser

Hannah Kiser

Lauren Schaffer Dee Olson

Melinda Owen

3000m Distance Medley Relay

9:45.11 11:41.67

Western Athletic All-Time Indoor 3000m

9:07.23

Western Athletic Outdoor Championship Meet 800m 1500m

2:04.53 4:22.03

Western Athletic All-Time Outdoor

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Pole Vault

4.40m

Letiwe Marakurwa ran a meet-record 10:24.72 to win the women’s 3000m steeplechase at the 2003 Big West Outdoor Championships. Later that year at the NCAA Outdoor Championships, she broke the Big West all-time record with a 9:52.98 in a fourth-place national finish for All-America honors.

1996 1996 1984 1984 1996

2003 2003 2002 2005

At the 1996 Big Sky Indoor Championships, Tawanda Chiwira won the 200m with a meet-record 21.15, then ran a leg of the meet-record-breaking 4x400m relay that posted a 3:09.61.

2003 2003 1997 2002

2012 2012

Melinda Owen is the only WAC woman to win three consecutive titles in the pole vault. As a senior in 2008, she led the NCAA and broke the WAC all-time record after clearing 14-5¼ (4.40m) in the event at the Vandal Jamboree in her final home meet at Idaho.

2012

2011 2006

2008

Erica Digby, Liga Velvere, Lauren Schaffer and Hannah Kiser teamed up to post an 11:41.67 and break the WAC Championship meet record in the distance medley relay in 2012.

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Stephen Lewis Dave Smith Dave Harewood John Trott Paul Thompson Chris Stokes, Sam Koduah Everton Wanliss, Dave Smith Sherry Schoenborn

2011-12 IDAHO TRACK & FIELD/CROSS COUNTRY YEARBOOK Women’s WAC All-Academic Honorees

2011 WESTERN ATHLETIC CONFERENCE WOMEN’S CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONS

2011-12:

Cross Country: Alycia Butterworth, Laurel Draper, Anna Kalbrener, Hannah Kiser, Ailene MacPherson, Diana Rosslerova, Lauren Schaffer, Holly Stanton, Julia Veseth Indoor Track & Field: Alycia Butterworth, Allee Cooper, Megan Dempsey, Erica Digby, Laurel Draper, Morgan Dunning, Reba Eggert, Emma Goode, Sara Hemenway, Taylor Hewett, Johanna Höcketstaller, Kelly Jacka, Anna Kalbrener, Hannah Kiser, Abby Larson, Kristine Leonard, Ailene MacPherson, Molly Meyers, Gabby Midles, Diana Rosslerova, Lauren Schaffer, Holly Stanton, Zoe Timmers, Liga Velvere, Julia Veseth Outdoor Track & Field: Alycia Butterworth, Allee Cooper, Erica Digby, Laurel Draper, Morgan Dunning, Reba Eggert, Emma Goode, Sara Hemenway, Johanna Höcketstaller, Kelly Jacka, Abby Larson, Kristine Leonard, Ailene MacPherson, Molly Meyers, Gabby Midles, Maggie Miller, Diana Rosslerova, Ellen Rouse, Holly Stanton, Liga Velvere

2010-11:

Cross Country: Alycia Butterworth, Laurel Draper, Anna Kalbrener, Hannah Kiser, Maggie Miller, Lauren Schaffer, Holly Stanton, Julia Veseth Indoor Track & Field: Alycia Butterworth, Laurel Draper, Morgan Dunning, Emma Goode, Sara Hemenway, Karlene Hurrel, Anna Kalbrener, Hannah Kiser, Kristine Leonard, Katy Lutjens, Ailene MacPherson, Ali Middleton, Gabby Midles, Holly Stanton, Liga Velvere Outdoor Track & Field: Alycia Butterworth, Laurel Draper, Morgan Dunning, Emma Goode, Sara Hemenway, Karlene Hurrel, Anna Kalbrener, Hannah Kiser, Kristine Leonard, Katy Lutjens, Ailene MacPherson, Ali Middleton, Gabby Midles, Diana Rosslerova, Lauren Schaffer, Holly Stanton, Liga Velvere, Julia Veseth

2009-10:

Cross Country: Laurel Draper, Maike Holthuijzen, Anna Kalbrener, Melissa McFaddan, Lauren Schaffer, Teegan Schoch, Julia Veseth Indoor Track & Field: Darcy Collins, K.C. Dahlgren, Laurel Draper, Morgan Dunning, Lindsey Goodman, Maike Holthuijzen, Kelly Jacka, Melissa McFadden, Ali Middleton, Gabby Midles, Sam Nielson, Diana Rosslerova, Ellen Rouse, Lauren Schaffer, Julia Veseth Outdoor Track & Field: Darcy Collins, K.C. Dahlgren, Laurel Draper, Morgan Dunning, Lindsey Goodman, Christie Gordon, Ulrike Hartz, Maike Holthuijzen, Kelly Jacka, Anna Kalbrener, Allix Lee-Painter, Melissa McFaddan, Ali Middleton, Gabby Midles, Sam Nielson, Ellen Rouse, Lauren Schaffer, Julia Veseth

2008-09:

Cross Country: Jamie Christensen, Erica Digby, Maike Holthuijzen, Anna Kalbrener, Allix Lee-Painter, Melissa McFaddan, Diana Rosslerova, Lauren Schaffer, Teegan Schoch, Tessa Scott, Julia Veseth Indoor Track & Field: Heather Bergland, Darcy Collins, K.C. Dahlgren, Erica Digby, Morgan Dunning, Lindsey Goodman, Christie Gordon, Sherica Holmon, Allix Lee-Painter, Gabby Midles, Ellen Rouse, Lauren Schaffer, Teegan Schoch, Julia Veseth Outdoor Track & Field: Justine Belliveau, Heather Bergland, Darcy Collins, Morgan Dunning, Lindsey Goodman, Ellen Rouse, Lauren Schaffer, Teegan Schoch, Julia Veseth

2007-08:

Cross Country: Breanna Chipney, Allix Lee-Painter, Mandy Macalister, Melissa McFaddan Track & Field: Nikita Amy, Heather Bergland, Breanna Chipney, Darcy Collins, K.C. Dahlgren, Meagan Garcia, Lindsey Goodman, Christie Gordon, Allix Lee-Painter, Mandy Macalister, Melissa McFaddan, Gabby Midles, Melinda Owen

2006-07:

Cross Country: Shawna Carlson, Breanna Chipney, Melissa McFaddan, Allix Lee-Painter, Melinda Ouwerkerk, Rachel Toldness Track & Field: Anne Barnett, Kate Buehler, Shawna Carlson, Breeana Chadez, Breanna Chipney, Darcy Collins, K.C. Dahlgren, Meagan Garcia, Lindsey Goodman, Christie Gordon, Bevin Kennelly, Emily Kling, Allix Lee-Painter, Mandy Macalister, Melissa McFaddan, Alisha Murdoch, Melinda Ouwerkerk, Melinda Owen, Rhea Richter, Amanda Robinson

2005-06:

Cross Country: Bevin Kennelly, Amanda Macalister, Alisha Murdoch, Melinda Ouwerkerk Track & Field: Brooke Anderson, Kate Buehler, K.C. Dahlgren, Marie Errecart, Jessica Friend, Megan Garcia, Eva Gut, Becky Horace, Bevin Kennelly, Emily Kling, Allix Lee-Painter, Mandy Macalister, Alisha Murdoch, Melinda Ouwerkerk, Melinda Owen, Tanya Pater, Stefani Patten, Kelcie Robinson, Vernee Samuel, Tammy Stowe, Rachel Toldness

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2011-12 IDAHO TRACK & FIELD/CROSS COUNTRY YEARBOOK Men’s WAC All-Academic Honorees 2011-12:

2010-11:

Cross Country: Alex Brekke, James Clark, Jeremiah Dubie, Markus Geiger, Jeff Osborn, Matt Robinson, Luke Tonnemaker Indoor Track & Field: Tyler Bennett, Alex Brekke, Colin Briggs, James Clark, Jeremiah Dubie, Markus Geiger, Jeremy Klas, Andrey Levkiv, Jason Lorentz, Eugenio Mannucci, Mike Marshall, Spencer Meinburg, Jeff Osborn, Matt Robinson, Luke Tonnemaker, Dylan Watts, Andrew White Outdoor Track & Field: Tyler Bennett, Andrew Blaser, Alex Brekke, James Clark, Josh Dalton, Markus Geiger, Andrey Levkiv, Jason Lorentz, Mike Marshall, Eugenio Mannucci, Spencer Meinburg, Jeff Osborn, Matt Robinson, Luke Tonnemaker, Dylan Watts, Andrew White

2009-10:

Cross Country: Alex Brekke, James Clark, Markus Geiger, Lars Lunstrum, Jeff Osborn Indoor Track & Field: Andrew Blaser, Alex Brekke, Colin Briggs, Josh Dalton, Paul Dittmer, Markus Geiger, Jeremy Klas, Jason Lorentz, Eugenio Mannucci, Jonathan Marler, Spencer Meinburg, Jeff Osborn, Steven Potratz, Dominic Schmidt, Ben Wood Outdoor Track & Field: Alex Brekke, Colin Briggs, Josh Dalton, Paul Dittmer, Jeremiah Dubie, Markus Geiger, Jeremy Klas, Dustin Kreger, Jason Lorentz, Eugenio Mannucci, Jonathan Marler, Jeff Osborn, Steve Potratz, James Rogan, Ben Wood

2008-09:

Cross Country: Alex Brekke, James Clark, Markus Geiger, Steve Potratz, Matt Racine, Luke Tonnemaker Indoor Track & Field: Alex Brekke, Paul Dittmer, Markus Geiger, Jeremy Klas, Adam Leschber, Jonathan Marler, Spencer Meinburg, Shane O’Connell, Steve Potratz, Matt Racine, James Rogan, Dominic Schmidt, Matthew Wauters Outdoor Track & Field: Cesar Barquero, Alex Brekke, Bill Brewer, James Clark, Paul Dittmer, Markus Geiger, Jeremy Klas, Dustin Kreger, Adam Leschber, Jonathan Marler, Spencer Meinburg, Shane O’Connell, Steve Potratz, Matthew Racine, James Rogan, Dominic Schmidt, Matt Wauters, Ben Wood

2007-08:

Cross Country: Kevin Friesen, Matt Racine, Tim Tate Track & Field: Bill Brewer, Paul Ditmer, Adam Leschber, Heath Low, Jonathan Marler, Marcus Mattox, Spencer Meinburg, Matt Racine, James Rogan, Tim Tate, Matt Wauters, Ben Wood

2006-07:

Cross Country: Ian Chestnut, Derek Laughlin, Kevin Potter, Matt Racine, Tim Tate Track & Field: Derek Laughlin, Adam Leschber, Heath Low, Matt Racine, James Rogan, Tim Tate

2005-06:

Cross Country: Ian Chesnut, Peter Degner, Dale Engler, Derek Laughlin, Kevin Potter Track & Field: Tony Bates, Ian Chestnut, Kevin Friesen, Jason Guiffre, Josh Guggenheimer, Wes Hendricks, Derek Laughlin, Jeff Luckstead, Kevin Pabst, Kevin Potter, Matt Racine, James Rogan

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2012 WESTERN ATHLETIC CONFERENCE MEN’S INDOOR AND OUTDOOR TRACK & FIELD CHAMPIONS

Cross Country: Alex Brekke, James Clark, Stéphane Colle, Jeremiah Dubie, Markus Geiger, Jeff Osborn, Matt Robinson, Luke Tonnemaker, Kyle Tylor, Cayle Turpen Indoor Track & Field: Tyler Bennett, Andrew Blaser, Colin Briggs, James Clark, Stéphane Colle, Jeremiah Dubie, Markus Geiger, Jeremy Klas, Andrey Levkiv, Jason Lorentz, Spencer Meinburg, Jeff Osborn, Kyle Tylor, Cayle Turpen, Dylan Watts Outdoor Track & Field: Tyler Bennett, Andrew Blaser, Alex Brekke, Colin Briggs, Stéphane Colle, Jeremiah Dubie, Markus Geiger, Colton Hastings, Jeremy Klas, Andrey Levkiv, Jason Lorentz, Mike Marshall, Spencer Meinburg, Jeff Osborn, Matt Robinson, Ugis Svazs, Cayle Turpen, Dylan Watts

2011-12 IDAHO TRACK & FIELD/CROSS COUNTRY YEARBOOK National/Regional/Conference Academic Awards CoSIDA Academic All-America

2011 WESTERN ATHLETIC CONFERENCE WOMENâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONS

2012 Second Team: Hannah Kiser 2010 Second Team: Allix Potratz-Lee, James Rogan 2009 Second Team: Allix Potratz-Lee 2009 Third Team: Jonathan Marler 2008 Third Team: Melinda Owen 1996 Third Team: Frank Bruder 1995 Third Team: Angie Mathison

CoSIDA Academic All-District

2012 First Team: Hannah Kiser 2011 Second Team: Jeremiah Dubie, Markus Geiger, Jeremy Klas, Eugenio Mannucci 2010 First Team: K.C. Dahlgren, Paul Dittmer, Maike Holthuijzen, Allix Potratz-Lee, Jonathan Marler, James Rogan 2010 Second Team: Markus Geiger, Jeremy Klas 2009 First Team: Paul Dittmer, Allix Potratz-Lee, Jonathan Marler 2009 Second Team: K.C. Dahlgren, Christie Gordon, Adam Leschber 2008 First Team: Melinda Owen 2008 Second Team: Mandy Macalister, Melissa McFaddan, Jonathan Marler

USTFCCCA Division I All-Academic

2012: Hannah Kiser 2011: Jeremy Klas, Eugenio Mannucci 2010: K.C. Dahlgren, Paul Dittmer, Christie Gordon, Ulrike Hartz, Jeremy Klas, Allix Potratz-Lee Eugenio Mannucci, Gabby Midles, James Rogan 2009: K.C. Dahlgren, Paul Dittmer, Christie Gordon, Jeremy Klas, James Rogan 2008: K.C. Dahlgren, Christie Gordon, Allix Potratz-Lee, Gabby Midles, Melinda Owen, James Rogan 2007: K.C. Dahlgren, Christie Gordon, Bevin Kennelly, Allix Potratz-Lee, Melinda Owen, James Rogan

Western Athletic Conference Stan Bates Award (Top Student-Athlete) 2011: Eugenio Mannucci 2010: Jonathan Marler, Allix Lee-Painter 2007: Melinda Ouwerkerk 2006: Jason Guiffre

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