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NCAA Championship Preview (pt. 2): Division II champs in Virginia Beach...

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NCAA Championship Preview (pt. 1): Division I champs in Fayetteville...

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Green and Houser secure world championships spots in the 1500m in Philadelphia...

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NCAA announces entries to Division I and II indoor championships...

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Kipchoge and Kurui of Washington State go 1-2 in 3000m on final day of MPSF champs...

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Washington alums Nathan Green & Luke Houser go 1-2 at USATF indoor 1500...

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February 28, 2026

Chloe Thomas''s third place finish in 3000 helps Huskies to a fifth place finish at B1G Tens...

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February 27, 2026

WSU Cougars head to Reno for Mountain Pacific Sports Federation championships...

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February 27, 2026

Huskies advance nine runners to Saturday's B1G Ten indoor finale...

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February 26, 2026

World leader Hana Moll keeps the indoor B1G Ten pole vault title in the family...

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February 26, 2026

Former WSU sprinter Louie Hinchliffe returns to NCAA competition...

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Mercanator: Seattle, WA, United States; Internationally respected track and field writer & photojournalist Paul Merca brings his take on the sport to paulmerca.blogspot.com. Paul was the assistant director of communications for the 1984 USA Women's Olympic Marathon Trials in Olympia, WA., and PR director for the 1999 USA Cross Country Championships in Tacoma, WA. The current public address announcer for the University of Washington's home track and field meets, Merca's been a media assistant to the USA national team (2001-11, 13, 15, 17, 19) at the World Athletics Cross Country Championships. His vast knowledge of the sport has been utilized by many of the country's sports television networks, and was a senior writer to Northwest Runner magazine. He's covered 15 World Athletics Track & Field Championships, and two Olympics. Merca graduated from Seattle's Franklin High School in 1977, and received his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Washington in 1981 in Communications. He competed in track and cross country at Franklin, and ran cross country at the University of Washington.

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