Championship week begins Wednesday with Big Sky multis in Pocatello...
Championship week begins Wednesday for eight of the nine Washington Division I and II schools, as the Eagles of Eastern Washington kicks it off with the Big Sky Combined Events Championship meet that runs through Thursday in Pocatello, Idaho, hosted by Idaho State University.
The combined events are a prelude to the main portion of the meet, which begins Friday and runs through Saturday.
Wednesday the meet begins at 9 a.m. Pacific Time with the decathlon (100-meter, long jump, shot put, high jump, and 400-meter). Then the heptathlon starts at 9:30 a.m. PT with the 100-meter hurdles, high jump, shot put, and 200-meter.
Thursday the combined events championship resumes at 9 a.m. PT with the decathlon (110-meter hurdles, discus, pole vault, javelin, and 1,500-meter). Then the heptathlon commences at 9:30 a.m. PT with the long jump, javelin, and 800-meter.
Eastern Washington has Maggie Nelson (photo courtesy EWU Athletics), who is ranked third in the Big Sky and Hayden McAuliff entered in the heptathlon, while Race Treat, Chris Homen, Elijah Conley, Parker Linhart-Wubbena, and Quintin Porterfield are the Eagle entries in the decathlon.
The school's preview of the Big Sky Championship meet is available here.
UW'S CARLEY THOMAS NAMED PAC-12 FEMALE TRACK ATHLETE OF THE WEEK...
Carley Thomas was named the Pac-12 Women's Track Athlete of the Week, the first honor of her career and the third Athlete of the Week honor this season for the Husky program.
The Sydney, Australia product posted her best 800-meters time in two years last Friday at the Sound Running Track Meet in San Juan Capistrano, CA. She came across the line in 2:03.58, the fastest time in the Pac-12 this season and the 14th-fastest time in the NCAA this year.
Thomas continues to get closer in range to her personal-bests from 2019 and 2020, when she was one of the best juniors in the world, competing at the 2019 World Championships in Doha during what was supposed to be her first week of class at the UW. She suffered a broken leg in the summer of 2020 but was able to return to running by the winter and amazingly was back to run at the 2021 Pac-12 Championships.
The Washington release is available here.
NOTE: The sports information office of Idaho State, Eastern Washington, the University of Washington, and the Pac-12 Conference contributed to this report.
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