Huskies Set To Defend Home Turf Against Cougars

Sunday, April 23

Seattle, Wash.

10:00 AM

University of Washington

UW-WSU Dual

April 20, 2017 | Track & Field

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By: UW Athletic Communications

Washington Track & Field Alumni Gathering

SEATTLE - One of the highlights of track and field in the Pacific Northwest, the annual Dual Meet between Washington and Washington State, returns to Seattle this Sunday, April 23. A tradition that is going on its second century, the UW-WSU Dual is one of the most storied head-to-head track meets in NCAA Division-I. The Dual is also Washington's first outdoor home meet of the season. Admission is free for all spectators.

The battle for the state officially gets underway at 10 a.m. at Husky Track, and the Pac-12 Networks will join the action live for the final two hours of the meet, from 3 p.m. until 5 p.m. The first four hours of the Dual Meet will have one field event going on a time, starting with the hammer throw at 10 a.m., women going first followed by the men. The women's javelin starts at 12 noon then the men's javelin at 1 p.m. At 1:30 p.m. the women's pole vault starts, then the first track event goes off at 2 p.m. At 2:30 p.m., four more field events start at once, making for plenty to watch.

The Pac-12 Networks will join the mix at 3 p.m. starting with the 4x100-meter relays. Jim Watson will call the action along with Tom Feuer, Dwight Stones, and Elizabeth Moreau.

The scoring format awards 5 points for 1st-place, 3 for 2nd-place, and 1 for 3rd-place in every individual event. Relays are big as the winning team gets 5 points with zero for second.

This is the 98th overall Dual on the men's side, and the 38th Dual between the women's teams. Washington State holds the lead on the men's side, 58-38-1. The Huskies hold the edge in the women's race, 20-17, dating back to 1979.

Washington and Washington State's first track meet came in 1900, in a tri-meet that included Idaho. The first head-to-head meeting came the next year in 1901 which the Huskies won in Seattle, 96 to 26. The UW men won 14 of the first 16 Duals, but the Cougars dominated a 20 year stretch from 1976 to 1995, winning 19 men's duals in a row. The Husky men have now won four in a row, their longest streak since winning 11 straight from 1915-32. On the women's side, the Dawgs won the first six dual meets, and 15 of the first 18, before WSU won 10 of the next 11. The teams have split the past eight meetings, but UW is on a two-year win streak.

Washington has swept the past two Dual Meets, with none of the four victories being closer than 27 points. Sunday the Huskies will be aiming for a third-straight sweep, which would be a program record.

The intensity of the Dual Meet competition annually results in some of the best marks of the season for the Huskies. Husky athletes recorded 38 season-bests last season in the Dual in Pullman.

WOMEN'S ENTRIES: The women's sprinters are coming off a record setting week at the Mt. SAC Relays, and will be a big part of the Husky women's run at a third straight Dual win. Senior Kennadi Bouyer won the 100m and 200m last year and will look to repeat in her final Dual. Cydnicia Wade, and Sarah Stavig, taking on her former team, will both go in the short sprints as well. At 400-meters, Laura Anuakpado will be a heavy favorite coming off a 54.25 time at Mt. SAC and anchoring the Husky school-record 4x400m relay which ran 3:36.50 last week. Whitney Diggs and Imani Apostol, two of the other three legs on that record-setting relay, will also be in the 400-meters.

The fourth member of the 4x400m record-setters, Darhian Mills, will have a big challenge in the 400m hurdles against WSU's Liz Harper and Alissa Brooks-Johnson, who have faster PRs, but Mills' 58.89 is the best this season. Mills will also run the 100m hurdles along with sophomore Carly Lester.

All-American Amy-Eloise Neale will be a big favorite in the 1,500-meters, where she ranks fourth in the NCAA this season with a PR of 4:13.81. Neale is also entered at 800-meters, where Hannah Derby comes in with the top seed time of 2:07.13. Izzi Batt-Doyle, Emily Hamlin, Katie Knight, Josephine Bosserman, and Micaela Kostecka are all entered in the 1,500-meters as well. Knight, freshman Kaitlyn Neal, and senior Kaylee Flanagan will lead the charge in the 3,000-meters, with Batt-Doyle entered there as well. Senior Grace Hodge will look to score in the steeplechase.

The women's pole vault will feature three Pac-12 Champions, in 2016 champ Elizabeth Quick, 2015 champ Kristina Owsinski, and 2013 champ Kristine Felix of WSU. Owsinski and Quick are coming off big season-bests of 14-3 1/4 last week in Long Beach. Quick will also high jump along with Mayson Douglass. In the long jump, Bouyer is scheduled to jump for the first time this season, joined by senior Kate Adler, and multi-eventers Elinor Jones Toutant and Ericka Budinich. Senior Alannan Coker could give UW a boost if she can pick up points in the triple jump.

The first event of the day should be one of the best battles, as Onyie Chibuogwu looks to get a repeat win in the hammer throw agaisnt WSU's Katie Wardsworth. Chibuogwu just threw a school record 198-11 but Wardsworth has a strong season-best of 191-3. Freshman Angel Nkwonta will look to make an impact, coming off a major shot put PR of 48-6 last week. Freshman, Emmy Engle, and sophophomore Katherine Taylor will try to knock off some favored Cougars in the javelin.

MEN'S ENTRIES: Starting with the sprints, the men's 100-meters and 200-meters will certainly be races to watch, as WSU's Ja'Maun Charles has the top times in both events, but ever so slightly over a pair of Huskies. Charles has run 10.43 in the 100m compared to UW senior Lucas Strong's 10.44, and Charles' 21.24 in the 200m is just ahead of Jacopo Spano's season-best 21.30. Freshmen Khalil Winfrey and Jordan Lucas will shoot for some PRs in the short sprints as well. At 400-meters, sophomore Ryan Croson is coming off a PR of 47.54 seconds last week and looks for his first Dual win, joined by Michael Thomas and freshmen Jason Palmer and Walker Flynn.

Junior Eric Simpson and junior Josh Gordon go in the 110m hurdles against a talented Cougar squad with four hurdlers having run under 14.50 this season. WSU's Pac-12 Champion C.J. Allen will be a huge favorite in the 400m hurdles after a 49.99 time last week, but freshman Oscar Herrera, Simpson, and Gordon will try to steal some points. The relays should be evenly matched as well, as the teams are within .04 seconds this season in the 4x100m relay, while the Dawgs own the better 4x4 time, coming off a 3:08.45 run at Mt. SAC with Strong, Thomas, Spano, and Croson.

The mid-distance events should also be extremely competitive on Sunday. In the 800-meters, Connor Morello, Mason Fletcher, and Jonathon Cantle will all go for the Dawgs along with senior Blake Nelson in his first 800m of the year in what shapes up as a key event. Nelson will also race at 1,500-meters, coming off a strong 3:43.89 run last week, and he'll be joined by junior Johnathan Stevens, and All-American Colby Gilbert, entered in his first 1,500-meters since last year's Pac-12 final where he ran a 3:40.99. Two Cougars with 3:47 season-bests should make it tough on the Dawgs.

Gilbert, who won both the 1,500m and 3,000m at last year's Dual, will lead the Dawgs in the men's 3k late in the meet, with redshirt freshman Charlie Barringer, sophomore Mahmoud Moussa, and Stevens doubling back to battle a solid Cougar squad. Moussa, redshirt freshmen Andy Snyder and Julius Diehr, are all entered in the steeplechase in what would be the first of their careers, along with junior Keith Williams.

The Dawgs will try to deliver a sweep in the men's pole vault, where four Huskies have cleared 17-feet this season: Chase Smith, Blaise Black, Lev Marcus, and Zach Shugart, while multi-eventer Cole Jensen also has a 16-4 3/4 best. Jensen and fellow decathlete Josh Gordon will be looked to in the high jump, while Gordon will try to win the men's long jump for the second year in a row. Expected to aid the cause in the long jump is football standout Dante Pettis, who jumped for UW at the Trojan Invitational before focusing on spring football. Football wraps up on Saturday, giving Pettis a chance to move from Husky Stadium to Husky Track. Junior Casey Burns has the best triple jump mark in the meet by a wide margin and will aim for a third-consecutive Dual win in that event.

In the throws, Husky freshman Jose Padilla has the best seed mark in the shot put coming in at 56-2, and he'll also throw the discus. Senior Dan Boyden looks for a discus win but will battle WSU senior Adam Mahama who has thrown three-feet farther this season. Junior Carey Campbell will look to break up a talented group of Cougars in the men's hammer throw along with senior Kyle White. The men's javelin has two Huskies and two Cougars, and any of the four could take the title. Senior Carson Fuller opened his season last week with a 204-foot toss but has a career-best of 241-feet, while sophomore Denham Patricelli has a season-best of 212-5, one inch better than WSU's Brad Stevens at 212-4, and a couple feet shy of WSU's Cole Smith whose season-best is 216-7.