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June 8-11 | Eugene, Ore. | Hayward Field
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Saturday, June 11
Women’s Events
10:30 am – Heptathlon Long Jump – Ida Eikeng
11:45 am – Heptathlon Javelin – Ida Eikeng
2:05 pm – Discus – Beatrice Asomaning
4:13 pm – Heptathlon 800m – Ida Eikeng
EUGENE, Ore. – Joe Waskom put his name into the history books for Husky Track and Field today, as the Snoqualmie, Wash. product captured the NCAA 1,500-meter title at Hayward Field. Waskom led three Dawgs who all finished in the top-seven as the Huskies earned five podium finishes today to power the men’s team to a 12th-place finish, the best since 1979.
Waskom, who won the Pac-12 1,500-meter title on the same track just last month, used a similar strategy today where he kicked hard early and made it stand up. A slow pace through the first couple laps made it so several men had a lot left at the finish but none could track down Waskom, the third-year sophomore. He won in a time of 3:45.58.
“I wasn’t even here at this meet last year,” Waskom first said while being interviewed on the track after his win. “I was running the steeplechase. Things weren’t going too well at the beginning of the season, so I had a talk with my coach (Andy Powell) and decided we’d move down to the 15. I just started finding my groove again, and got really confident. I’ve been closing all my races really good … I really, really wanted this one.”
Close behind Waskom was Woodinville, Wash. native Luke Houser, who placed fifth overall in 3:46.13. And then freshman Nathan Green took seventh in 3:46.26, as the Huskies piled up sixteen team points in the single race. Green, the Boise, Idaho native, becomes the first UW true freshman to score at NCAAs in a running event since Ja’Warren Hooker in the 100-meters in 1998.
“I knew if I went with three-hundred (meters) to go that I’d at least get to the lead. I didn’t know if I’d hold it. I did everything I could today, with the help of these boys (Green and Houser). These boys are why I won today. I believe in them, they believe in me. There’s a reason there’s three of us out here today.”
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