Trio of distance talent to join Washington women's team...
The period between the end of the NCAA cross country championships and the start of the 2023-24 indoor track and field season is a little slow, but there is a significant announcement coming from the University of Washington.
The school announced that Wilma Nielsen (Paul Merca photo), an NCAA scorer at 800 meters for Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois, will join the team as a transfer student.
Nielsen, who is listed as a junior, finished seventh at the NCAA indoor championship meet in Albuquerque, where she ran 2:03.34.
Nielsen, a native of Gothenburg, Sweden, won the Missouri Valley Conference title, and has a personal best of 2:02.11, run in Rehlingen, Germany on May 28th. She was third in the European U23 Championships in 2021.
She won the Swedish national title at 800 meters in 2022, and is the reigning national indoor champion at that distance.
In the recently completed cross country season, Nielsen finished sixth in the Missouri Valley championships, and was 23rd at the NCAA Midwest Regional meet.
She is expected to join the Huskies in time for the indoor season.
Washington also announced that a pair of Ivy League runners will join the Dawgs fall 2024.
Maggie Liebich of Princeton via Boise, Idaho, the runner up in the Ivy League 1500 with a personal best of 4:15.66, along with Penn's Maeve Stiles from Norfolk, Virginia, will join the team next fall.
Stiles is the reigning Ivy League champion at 10000 meters, and qualified for the 2022 NCAA cross country championships for the Quakers, where she finished 60th.
NOTE: The University of Washington, Bradley University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Princeton University contributed to this report.
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