The Washington State University track and field program had 19 individuals and three relays accepted into the preliminary round of the 2016 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track & Field Championships being held May 26-28, at Rock Chalk Park in Lawrence...WSU men will have 11 competitors and a relay team (14 entries)... WSU women have eight competitors and two relays (12 entries)...top 48 performers in each individual event and the top-24 relay teams in both relays were accepted to compete at each site (West and East Region) hosting the NCAA Preliminary Rounds for a total of 96 individuals and 48 relays competing nationwide...Liz Harper (heptathlon) and Dino Dodig (decathlon) are competing in the West Prelims and have also been accepted into the 24-competitor multi-events at the NCAA Championships in June...Live Results can be accessed on the schedule page at wsucougars.com Track & Field while live webcast can be accessed at http://kuathletics.com/watch/. 

Wayne Phipps (Univ. of British Columbia '91/Oregon '94) become the 15th coach to take the reins of the Washington State men's program and the second coach for the combined men's and women's program at WSU on July 1, 2014...Phipps had been the University of Idaho's Director and Track & Field/Cross Country from 2010 through 2014, and was a coach with the Vandals program for a total of 19 years...he served as co-head coach from 2000-09, after serving as an assistant coach from 1995-99... at Idaho, he was named conference Coach of the Year 14 times and led the Vandals to a record 16 conference titles.

WSU Track & Field coaching staff includes Associate Head Coaches Julie Taylor (throws), and  Yogi Teevens (sprints, relays and horizontal jumps)...Assistant Coaches are Brad Walker (vertical jumps), and Allix Potratz-Lee (distance)...Andrea Sabbatine is the Operations Coordinator...volunteeers working with the WSU track and field this year include: Jesse Jorgensen, Nigel Joseph, Hannah Kiser, Josiah Sims, Tim Taylor, and Liga Velvere.