Paul Merca

Publisher Paul Merca receives an award from world record holder in the high jump Javier Sotomayor of Cuba at last year's world championships in Budapest. Dear readers, First of all, a warm welcome to those readers who are discovering this site for the first time in advance of the next sixteen days of competition in Paris. Since I started paulmerca.blogspot.com in 2007 as an extension of my writing for the defunct Northwest Runner magazine, the mission has, and always will be, to make this site the go-to site for information on the state's collegiate (NCAA Division I and II), and professional track and field athletes. This site has prided itself on providing independent coverage of the state's nine Division I and II programs, as well as the professional track and field athletes and clubs that train in the state of Washington, along with pros who have a connection with this state who are now training in other parts of the country. In our existence, we've been one of the f