Three Dawgs named Pac-12 Athletes of the Week; WWU women in USTFCCCA top-25...
SAN RAMON, California--For the first time in school history, Washington Track & Field took three of the four Pac-12 Athlete of the Week awards. Two in one week was the biggest haul previously, but Tuesday Washington won Women’s Field Athlete of the Week (Hana Moll), Men’s Track Athlete of the Week (Evan Jenkins), and Men’s Field Athlete of the Week (Trevontay Smith).
All are first-year competitors for the Huskies, and all are Washington natives.
Freshman Trevontay Smith (photo courtesy UW Athletics) from Yelm unleashed the biggest jump of his young career at Stanford on Saturday to win the triple jump and shoot up the Husky top-10 list. Smith, who had a best indoors of 49-3.5 (15.02m), flew more than two feet past that mark today, going 51-6.25 (15.70m) on his sixth and final jump. That ranks Smith eighth nationally thus far and first in the Pac-12.
Hana Moll (Olympia), the reigning NCAA indoor champion, opened her outdoor season with a clearance of 14-9 (4.50m) in the elite section of the Texas Relays on Saturday. Moll goes straight to the top spot in the Division-I rankings this outdoor season with that make.
Jenkins (Camas) leads the NCAA descending order list in the 10000-meters after his outdoor debut at the Stanford Invitational. Jenkins took down an elite field of some of the most decorated distance runners in the NCAA, breaking the UW school record by seven seconds with a time of 28:04.58.
VIKINGS ENTER DIVISION II TOP 25...
The Western Washington women's team enter the top 25 in the USTFCCCA Division II National Outdoor Track and Field rating index after a strong at the Stanford Invitational and Mike Fanelli Track Classic over the weekend in the Bay Area.
The Vikings are ranked number 21, thanks to a pair of top ten performances in the steeplechase by Ila Davis and Ashley Reeck.
Davis' time of 10:11.97, set at Stanford, leads Division II, while Reeck's 10:34.38 is the seventh fastest time so far this season.
Western is the only GNAC team in the national top 25.
The nation's top 5 D2 squads are in order: Pittsburg State, Grand Valley State, Adams State, West Texas A&M, and Azusa Pacific.
No GNAC teams are in the men's national D2 top 25.
NOTE: The USTFCCCA, Pac-12 Conference, and the sports information offices of the University of Washington and Western Washington University contributed to this report.
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