Jason Schutz on the move to Duke University as its new throws coach...
While we were away at the world championships in Tokyo, here's some stuff that we missed:
The University of Washington will begin the academic year, that starts Wednesday, looking for a new throws coach.
Saturday, Duke University announced that Jason Schutz (center/UW Athletics photo) has been hired as its new throws coach.
"Coach Jason Schutz transitions to Duke after a stellar career at the University of Washington and I am confident that he will continue to recruit and produce that same level of talent here at Duke," said head coach Shawn Wilbourn. "Our throwers are in good hands. Jason is a great coach and an even better person, and I'm very excited to bring him onto our staff."
Schutz joins Duke following his second stint on Montlake. In his seven combined seasons at Washington (2016-18 and 2021-25), his throwers earned 13 All-America accolades – including six first-team honors – while five student-athletes broke school records.
"I am incredibly excited to be joining Duke track and field," Schutz said. "Coach Wilbourn and the staff he's assembled are moving the program in a fantastic direction and I'm excited for Duke throws to play an integral role in the success of the program in the coming years. My family and I are very thankful for the opportunity to be moving to the Durham area and to be a part of the future success of Blue Devil track and field."
This past season, Kaia Tupu-South extended her own school records in the shot put, as she launched PRs of 57-9 (17.60m) indoors and 56-10.25 (17.33m) outdoors. Her indoor mark ranked 18th in the country, just three centimeters away from making NCAAs. Tupu-South also qualified for the world indoor championships in March as a member of New Zealand's national team.
UW had a stellar javelin crew, as Ashley Schroeder and Leonie Troeger both were Big Ten finalists and threw over 160-feet, while newcomer Carson Olmstead blew away his old PR in his first year with Schutz, throwing 222-8 (67.86m) and scoring at Big Tens, with senior Jack Olsen also earning a career-best toss of 218-6 (66.60m).
There had been rumblings, particularly in the local throws community over the summer, that Schutz might be on the move.
Kaia Tupu-South's decision to finish out her collegiate career at Louisville may have played a part in Schutz' decision to move on, as well as by redshirt freshman hammer thrower Miles Clark to transfer to Cal, though as of present, Clark's name is not on the Cal roster.
Over the weekend, the only one of the nine Washington Division I/II schools in action was Central Washington's women's team.
The Wildcats finished sixth at the Pacific Lutheran University Invitational on the PLU campus course Saturday, scoring 159 points.
Alauna Carstens of Evergreen State was the women's winner, running the 6k course in 21:20.
Helayna Bonilla was Central's top runner in 26th in 23:57.
NOTE: The sports information offices of the University of Washington, Duke University, and Central Washington contributed to this report.
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