Huskies sweep Redhawks in season opening dual meet at Magnuson Park...
As expected, the nation’s number three ranked NCAA Division I team scored easy 15-50 victories over the Redhawks on a roughly 800 meter loop around the grass soccer fields at Warren G. Magnuson Park in the Sand Point neighborhood.
The Huskies, who just reported for fall practice earlier this week, treated this meet as a tempo workout.
In the opening women’s 3 mile race, Husky senior Katie Rainsberger (left/photo by Paul Merca) pulled away on the final lap to score a 3 second win over Allie Schadler, crossing the line in 16:28 to 16:31.
Pac-12 steeple scorer Shona McCullough was third in 16:32, while cross country All-American Lilli Burdon was fourth in 16:52. Madison Heisterman was Washington’s final scorer in 16:58.
Olivia Stein was the Redhawks’ first runner across the line in ninth in 17:36, followed by Delaney Griffin finishing 12th in 17:48.
Closing out SeattleU’s scorers were Courtney Gelmini in 14th (18:10), Rachel Kastama in 15th (18:19), and Ellie Postma in 16th (18:20).
The men’s 4 mile race was more of the same, with only Seattle University’s Nathan Pixler going with the group of eight Huskies for the first half of the race.
Pixler was the top Redhawk in ninth at 20:55. Following Pixler was Kyle Kennedy in 11th (20:58), Andrew Ayers in 12th (21:19), Lance Slichko in 13th (21:21), and Ansel Pendley-Griffin in 14th (21:28).
The Washington women leave for their pre-season training camp in Colorado on Sunday, while the men’s training camp will be in Leavenworth.
Both the University of Washington and Seattle University competed for the first time wearing uniforms from adidas, as a result of a multi-year sports marketing agreement covering all sports negotiated by both schools with the German sportswear firm.
Complete results are available below.
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BRANNON KIDDER GETS WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS BERTH IN 800M, COURTESY DONAVAN BRAZIER…
Thursday, Donavan Brazier of the Nike Oregon Project won the men’s 800 meters at the Zürich Weltklasse meet, which was one of the two final meets of the IAAF Diamond League tour.
Brazier ran a personal best 1:42.70, which is the second best time in American history, to beat Nijel Amos of Botswana and the Nike Oregon TC Elite (1:42.98) and Brandon McBride of Canada (1:43.51).
Brazier had already qualified to go to the world championships by winning the national championship a few weeks ago in Des Moines, Iowa.
By winning the 800 in Zürich, Brazier got a wild card spot in the world championships, meaning the USA is eligible to send four athletes in that event instead of three.
With Clayton Murphy in second and Bryce Hoppel in third already holding the world championship standard, Kidder, who finished sixth at nationals, was the highest finisher in the men’s 800 at the national championships who held the Doha standard of 1:45.80, after running 1:45.39 in Azusa on July 9th.
Kidder becomes the 11th athlete with Washington ties to earn a spot in next month’s world championships. He also becomes the third member of the Seattle based Brooks Beasts to go to Doha, joining Allie Ostrander and Josh Kerr.
German national 1500m champ Amos Bartelsmeyer, who is a volunteer coach at the University of Washington, is currently waiting until the September 6th deadline to find out whether or not he gets into Doha.
Results of the Zürich Weltklasse meet are available here.
NOTE: The sports information office of the University of Washington, and the IAAF Diamond League contributed to this report.
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