Katie Mackey ninth at Stockholm Diamond League 1500; Amos Bartelsmeyer wins Festival of Miles...
Mackey, running her second 1500 meter race of the season, ran 4:14.19, as Great Britain’s Laura Muir won the race in 4:05.37.
Complete results of the Bauhaus Galan meet are available here.
In St.Louis, University of Washington volunteer coach Amos Bartelsmeyer won the featured elite men’s mile at the St.Louis Festival of Miles Thursday night at St.Louis University High School.
The Georgetown alum and St.Louis native, who represented Germany at the European Indoor championships this winter, ran a 55.91 last lap to cross the line in 3:58.18.
In the elite women’s 800 meters, Seattle resident Savannah Colón finished third in a time of 2:04.31, as Vancouver resident and 2017 Canadian world championships team member Lindsay Butterworth won in 2:02.63.
Complete results of the St.Louis Festival of Miles are available here.
CHANGES AT WASHINGTON STATE...
Over the last few days, there has been some movement within the college ranks:
Seattle native (Holy Names Academy) and Washington State University grad Aoife (pronounced EEF-FAA) Martin will complete her athletic eligibility at the University of Arizona.
This season, Martin finished eighth in the weight throw at the MPSF championships, throwing a personal best 58-8.5 (17.89m), and was tenth in the Pac-12 championships in the hammer, throwing 182-2 (55.52m).
Martin threw her personal best in the hammer at last week’s NCAA West Regional meet with a toss of 195-2 (59.50m).
Here’s the post from the University of Arizona announcing Martin’s impending enrollment in Tucson:
Another athlete who is leaving Washington State is distance runner Emma Jenkins, as the Camas native posted on her Instagram account that she is going to run close to home at the University of Portland.
Jenkins was the Cougars’ top runner in three out of five races in her only season, winning the Cougar Classic cross country meet, and leading the team at the Nuttycombe Invitational and the Pre-Nationals meets at the University of Wisconsin last fall.
On the track, Jenkins had the fastest time on the team in the 5000, running 16:48.06 at Stanford. Indoors, she ran 9:43.66 in the 3000, and 16:49.99 in the 5000, both of which were the top times on the team.
Jenkins joins Cougar javelin thrower Atina Kamasi, who announced last month that she was entering the NCAA transfer portal. Kamasi, a native of Serbia, did not compete for the Cougars in 2019 due to injuries.
Finally, numerous sources within the Pacific Northwest and national track and field community have told paulmerca.blogspot.com that Cougar assistant coach and two-time US Olympian Brad Walker will resign his position, though it is not known when the resignation takes effect.
Sources tell paulmerca.blogspot.com that Walker will attend chiropractic school in Georgia. He apparently will coach privately.
paulmerca.blogspot.com reached out to the Washington State sports information office for an official comment. As of now, there is no information on the WSU track & field web site confirming or denying Walker’s apparent resignation.
If indeed this is true, one of the biggest questions surrounds the status of incoming freshman and national high school record holder Chloe Cunliffe of West Seattle HS.
Cunliffe, the national leader at 14-9 (4.50m) had signed a national letter of intent to attend Washington State.
The other question is whether or not Walker would coach at next week’s NCAA championships in Austin, as he has two qualifiers for the national championships in high jumpers Peyton Fredrickson and Mitch Jacobson.
Walker’s apparent resignation (assuming its validity) would also affect pole vaulter Katie Nageotte, who has trained under him for almost two years. It is assumed that Nageotte, who has had success under Walker’s tutelage, would follow him.
NOTE: The IAAF, the sports information office of the University of Arizona, and the St.Louis Festival of Miles contributed to this report.
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