Nathan Green's winning anchor legs at Penn Relays earns USTFCCCA D1 National AOW honors...
Green ran the anchor leg on the Huskies' distance medley relay and 4 x one mile relay teams that won the prestigious Penn Relays Championship of America Wheels Friday and Saturday in Philadelphia.
In Friday's distance medley relay, Green ran a split of 3:55.14 over 1600 meters, motoring past Texas A&M's Cooper Cawthra and Oregon's Rheinhardt Harrison over the last 300 meters to win the Huskies' first ever Penn Relays Wheel.
Under rainy skies on Saturday, Green took the Huskies to its second straight Penn Relays Wheel by anchoring the 4 x mile to victory in a tactical affair involving Ethan Strand, the NCAA mile record-holder for North Carolina, Virginia's Gary Martin, the number two miler in NCAA history behind Strand, and Liam Murphy, the NCAA 1,500m record-holder for Villanova.
Green outkicked all of them on the final lap, crossing the line in 16:24.61, with Villanova (16:24.92), North Carolina (16:25.19) and Virginia (16:25.40) in his wake.
This marks the first time a Husky male has been named USTFCCCA National Athlete of the Week during the outdoor season.
CENTRAL'S EMY NTEKPERE & JOSH BOAST LEAD GNAC COMBINED EVENTS AFTER DAY ONE...
In Bellingham, Central Washington's Emy Ntekpere and Josh Boast are the first day leaders in the Great Northwest Athletic Conference heptathlon and decathlon competition at Civic Stadium Monday.
Ntekpere holds a 132 point lead after four events over teammate Carley Huber with 2928 points to Huber's 2796.
The sophomore, who won the NCAA indoor triple jump title last month, started her day with a time of 15.03 in the 100 hurdles to take the event victory.
In the high jump, where she finished sixth at the NCAA indoor championships, she won her second straight event, clearing 5-8 (1.73m). In the shot put, she set a personal best, throwing 26-4.25 (8.03m), but was eleventh.
Ntekpere won her third event of the day, taking the 200 in a personal best 25.99.
Huber, who was sixth in last year's GNAC heptathlon, had her best events in the 100 hurdles, where she was second overall in 15.14, and in the 200, where she also was second in 26.27.
Defending champion Vivien Lissfeld of Alaska Anchorage stands fifth at the break with 2707 points, while 2025 conference leader Macy Clemens of Western Oregon is third with 2783 points, 145 points off Ntekpere's lead.
Nicole Avery of Western Washington stands seventh with 2459 points.
In the decathlon, Central's Josh Boast has a lead of 225 points over Alaska Anchorage's Tobin Schmidtke, the 2025 GNAC leader.
Boast scored 3329 to Schmidtke's 3104 points. Western Washington's Kaden Miller is close behind in third with 3093 points.
Boast won the 100 in 11.17, as well as the 400 in 50.65.
He got a mark of 20-7.75 (6.29m) in the long jump, threw the shot 31-5.75 (9.59m), and high jumped 5-10 (1.78m), all good for fourth place finishes.
Western Washington's Owen Windrope is fifth with 2979, followed by a trio from Central Washington--Matthew Bender (2871), Reilly Williams (2723), and Christopher Hines (2661), in positions 6-7-8.
Tuesday's competition starts at 9:30 am with the decathlon 110 hurdles, and 10:30 with the heptathlon long jump.
All team points scored in the GNAC Combined Events meet will go towards the outdoor conference championships, which will be contested next weekend in Bellingham.
NOTE: The USTFCCCA and the sports information offices of Western Washington, Central Washington, and the Great Northwest Athletic Conference contributed to this report.
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