COUGS COMPETE AT PAC-12 COMBINED EVENTS CHAMPIONSHIPS
The Pac-12 Conference Track & Field Combined Events Championships are Saturday and Sunday, May 6 & 7, at Oregon State's Whyte Track & Field Center in Corvallis, which opened in 2012...Washington State student-athletes competing in the Combined Events are Alissa Brooks-Johnson, Liz Harper and Lindsey Schauble in the heptathlon...there are 14 women competing this year...Brooks-Johnson won the Pac-12 Heptathlon in 2015 and Harper finished third in 2016...more info on pages 2 & 3...events begin at Noon Saturday and 10:30 a.m. Sunday...Live Results can be viewed at www.pac-12.org...individual events and team relays at Pac-12 T&F Championships take place May 13-14, but at Oregon's Hayward Field in Eugene.

WAYNE PHIPPS, DIR. OF WSU CROSS COUNTRY/TRACK & FIELD
Wayne Phipps (University of British Columbia '91) is in his third season with the Washington State track and field 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 Cougar men's cross country program back-to-back NCAA Championships at-large berth appearances with a 14th-place finish in 2016: the highest in 32 years after the entire 2015 team that placed 26th returned for the 2016 season....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 conference coach of the year 14 times, and led the Vandals to a record 16 conference titles.

COUGAR TRACK & FIELD COACHING STAFF
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), Allix Potratz-Lee (distance) and Ryan Grinnell (multis and horizontal jumps)...Andrea Sabbatine is the Operations Coordinator...volunteers this year include: Jesse Jorgensen, CharLee Linton, Tim Taylor and Kayla Warren.

2017 WSU TEAM CAPTAINS
Track - CJ Allen (M), Liz Harper (W)
Distance - John Whelan (M), Devon Bortfeld (W)
Field - Travis Pickett (M), Katie Wardsworth (W)

WSU WOMEN ENTERED AT PAC-12 HEPTATHLON CHAMPIONSHIPS

ALISSA BROOKS-JOHNSON, Redshirt Junior, Doty, Washington
Lifetime-best 5,803 points at 2015 Pac-12 Championships (1st place)
PR Heptathlon marks (PRs non-Hept marks if better): 100mH - 13.96;
HJ - 1.70m/5-7; SP - 11.41m/35-7 1/4 (12.07m/39-7 1/4); 200m - 24.91;
LJ - 5.77m/18-11 1/4; Jav - 44.75m/146-10; 800m - 2:13.94 (2:12.60).
2017 - 4th overall finisher, 2nd collegian at Mt. SAC Relays Heptathlon with
    5,616 points - 1st in Pac-12 / t10th in NCAA
2016 - competed in two early meets then took medical redshirt
2015 Pac-12 Championships: Heptathlon - 1st; 400m Hurdles - 7th
    NCAA West Prelims - 400m Hurdles - 13th
    NCAA Championships - Heptathlon -18th
2014 Pac-12 Championships: Heptathlon - 2nd
    NCAA West Prelims - 400mH - 9th (58.81)
> 5,803 points is 4th-best heptathlon in WSU all-time records
> 400m hurdles PR 58.81 is 7th-best in WSU all-time records

LIZ HARPER, Senior, Missoula, Montana
Lifetime-best of 5,564 points at 2016 Pac-12 Championships (3rd)
2017 - 7th overall finisher at Mt. SAC Relays Heptathlon with 5.420 points -
    3rd in Pac-12 / 22nd in NCAA
PR Heptathlon marks (PRs non-Hept marks if better): 100mH - 14.02 (13.80); HJ - 1.78m/5-10; SP - 10.34m/33-11 1/4 (11.49m/37-8); 200m - 24.82 (24.61); LJ - 5.80m/19-0 (6.01m/19-8 3/4); Jav - 27.28m/89-6 (34.50m/113-2); 800m - 2:16.23 (2:14.03).
2016 Pac-12 Championships: Heptathlon - 3rd; High Jump - 4th; 
    4x100m Relay - 4th; 4x400m Relay - 4th 
    NCAA West Prelims: High Jump - 11th; 4x400m Relay - 18th
    NCAA Championships: Heptathlon - 16th; High Jump - NH
2015 Pac-12 Championships: 400m Hurdles - 4th; 4x400m Relay - 5th
    NCAA West Prelims: 400m Hurdles - 9th; 4x400m relay 12th
    NCAA Championships: 400m Hurdles - 19th; 4x400m Relay - 21st
2014 Pac-12 Championships: 100m Hurdles - 14th; 400m Hurdles - 11th
> 5,564 points is 7th-best heptathlon in WSU all-time records
> 400m hurdles PR time of 57.31 was 4th at 2015 Pac-12 Champs
> 400m hurdles time is 2nd-fastest in WSU all-time records

LINDSEY SCHAUBLE, Sophomore, Kennewick, Washington
Heptathlon debut of 4,650 points at 2016 California Invitational (30th)
PR Heptathlon marks (2017 non-Hept marks if better): 
100mH - 15.48(14.96); HJ - 1.57m/5-1 3/4 (1.66m/5-5 1/4); SP - 10.02m/33-10 1/2 (10.51m/34-5 3/4); 200m - 26.29w (26.08); LJ - 5.32m/17-5 (5.43m/17-9 3/4); Jav - 29.27m/96-0 (34.50m/113-2); 800m - 2:25.07.
2017 - Competed at California Invitational Heptathlon: DNF -Fouled javelin
2016 Pac-12 Championships: Heptathlon - 10th