Foerster, Green Win Pac-12 Track Weekly Awards
April 16, 2024 | Track & Field
SEATTLE – For the second time this season, the Huskies have captured multiple Pac-12 Athlete of the Week awards in one week. Coming off a pair of blazingly fast 1,500-meter runs at the Bryan Clay Invitational, Chloe Foerster has won Women's Track Athlete of the Week and Nathan Green has been named Men's Track Athlete of the Week.
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Foerster powered through a downpour to cross the line in Azusa, Calif. in 4:07.96, finishing with an identical time to Melissa Riggins of Georgetown. Riggins got an edge by .004 (four thousandths) of a second as she and Foerster now rank 1-2 in the NCAA this season. It also ranks Foerster 13th overall in NCAA history and second in UW history. She is just the second Husky to break 4:10 in the 1,500m, joining teammate Sophie O'Sullivan who did it multiple times in 2023.
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Green had a similar one-on-one battle in the top heat of the men's 1,500-meters, and though he was edged out by Colin Sahlman of Northern Arizona, their two times went to No. 2 and No. 4 in NCAA history for marks set during the collegiate season. Green, the defending NCAA Outdoor 1,500-meter champion, ran the fastest time of his career in 3:34.79.
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Green's time was just shy of Joe Waskom's school record of 3:34.64, which he ran in Europe last summer, but Green's time is the fastest ever run by a Dawg within the outdoor collegiate campaign. The only other Husky to go sub-3:35 was Sam Tanner, who went 3:34.72 in 2021 in a rarely contested indoor 1,500-meters.
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This is the first Pac-12 Athlete of the Week award for both Foerster and Green. Washington has now won five Pac-12 Athlete of the Week awards this season.
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The distance squad will be off this week, but UW's sprinters, jumpers and throwers are all headed to the Mt. SAC Relays in Walnut, Calif.
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Foerster powered through a downpour to cross the line in Azusa, Calif. in 4:07.96, finishing with an identical time to Melissa Riggins of Georgetown. Riggins got an edge by .004 (four thousandths) of a second as she and Foerster now rank 1-2 in the NCAA this season. It also ranks Foerster 13th overall in NCAA history and second in UW history. She is just the second Husky to break 4:10 in the 1,500m, joining teammate Sophie O'Sullivan who did it multiple times in 2023.
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Green had a similar one-on-one battle in the top heat of the men's 1,500-meters, and though he was edged out by Colin Sahlman of Northern Arizona, their two times went to No. 2 and No. 4 in NCAA history for marks set during the collegiate season. Green, the defending NCAA Outdoor 1,500-meter champion, ran the fastest time of his career in 3:34.79.
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Green's time was just shy of Joe Waskom's school record of 3:34.64, which he ran in Europe last summer, but Green's time is the fastest ever run by a Dawg within the outdoor collegiate campaign. The only other Husky to go sub-3:35 was Sam Tanner, who went 3:34.72 in 2021 in a rarely contested indoor 1,500-meters.
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This is the first Pac-12 Athlete of the Week award for both Foerster and Green. Washington has now won five Pac-12 Athlete of the Week awards this season.
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The distance squad will be off this week, but UW's sprinters, jumpers and throwers are all headed to the Mt. SAC Relays in Walnut, Calif.
2024 Pac-12 Track & Field Athletes of the Week
| Men's Track | Women's Track | Men's Field | Women's Field | |
| March 19 | Yan Vazquez, ARIZ | Maribel Caicedo, WSU | Mason Mangum, CAL | Amari Turner, CAL |
| March 26 | Trayvion White-Austin, ARIZ | Adriana Tatum, ASU | Sir Jonatham Sims, ARIZ | Temi Ojora, USC |
| April 2 | Evan Jenkins, WASH | Maddy Elmore, ORE | Trevontay Smith, WASH | Hana Moll, WASH |
| April 9 | Johnnie Blockburger, USC | Jadyn Mays, ORE | JC Stevenson, USC | Jaida Ross, ORE |
| April 16 | Nathan Green, WASH | Chloe Foerster, WASH | Mason Strunk, ORE | Shelby Moran, ORE |
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