CROSS COUNTRY CROSSES CASCADES FOR SUNDODGER INVITE
The Washington State men's and women's cross country teams will trek across the Cascades to compete in the University of Washington 25th Annual Sundodger Invitational Saturday, Sept. 17, at Lincoln Park in Seattle...the women's 6,000m race begins at 11 a.m. and the men's 8,000m race follows at 11:35 a.m...the course start and finish is on grass playing field with a mixture of grass, dirt, light gravel, and bark chips on the course...open races and high school races will take place before and after the invitational races...results will be available at wsucougars.com, when available postrace. 

WAYNE PHIPPS, DIRECTOR  WSU CROSS COUNTRY/TRACK & FIELD
Wayne Phipps (University of British Columbia '91) begins his third season with the Washington State cross country program...he became the 15th men's coach and the second coach for the combined men's and women's program at WSU on July 1, 2014, after 19 years at the University of Idaho...Phipps led the 2015 Cougar men's program to a sixth-place finish at the Pac-12 Championships, a fourth-place finish at the NCAA West Regionals, and an at-large berth to finish 26th out of 31 teams at the NCAA Championships...during the 2016 Track & Field season, a pair of Cougs earned second-team All-America honors...Cougars tallied 25 new entries into the WSU all-time top ten records...while at Idaho, Phipps was honored 14 times as a conference coach of the year and led the Vandals to a record 16 total conference titles.

ALLIX POTRATZ-LEE, ASSISTANT COACH
Allix Potratz-Lee joined the WSU track and field coaching staff in July 2014 after an outstanding career as a student-athlete and coach at the University of Idaho...member of the cross country/track and field coaching staff in 2010 as an assistant to Wayne Phipps, working with the distance corps...women's cross country team won WAC team titles in 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013.. she was a five-time WAC champion, a 10-time first-team all-WAC honoree and a two-time ESPN/CoSIDA Academic All-American...she helped Idaho cross country capture the 2005 and 2007 XC team titles,and claimed the 2008 individual WAC cross country crown.

COUGARS COMPETING AT THE SUNDODGER INVITATIONAL, SEPT. 17, LINCOLN PARK, SEATTLE
MEN      
Cameron Dean
Jake Finney
Jackson Haselnus
Justin Janke
Sam Levora
Kyler Little
Reid Muller
Paul Ryan
Kennan Schrag
Alex Simpson
Nathan Tadesse
Chandler Teigen
Isaac Wadhwani
Nathan Wadhwani
Michael Williams

Unattached: Andrew Cooper, John Whelan

 WOMEN
Brittany Aquino
Devon Bortfeld
Josie Brown
Katherine Dittmann
Alexys Garcia
Marie Gaudin
Melissa Hruska
Morgan Lash
Mallori Lindberg
Tracy Myers
Steffie Pavey
Elizabeth Perez-Bossut
Jenaya Pynn
Alexis Redfield
Desiree Stinger
Morgan Willson