PULLMAN, Wash. — Washington State men’s and women’s outdoor track and field teams get set to send their top athletes to Boulder, Colo., this week for the 2024 Pac-12 Championships (May 10-12) at Potts Field. The Cougars have a pair of men in John Paredes (110m hurdles) and Jared McAlvey (400m hurdles) who each boast the top time in the conference in their respective events heading into the week, and 11 individuals ranking in the conference’s top-five as the teams look to make a final push for positioning at this year’s 2024 NCAA First and Second Rounds (May 22-25) in Fayetteville, Ark.
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Washington State will look to see an uptick in scoring at this year’s conference championships as 11 total individuals sit in the top-five of the conference event rankings heading into the weekend. The hurdles pair of John Paredes (110m hurdles) and Jared McAlvey (400m hurdles) each own the top spot in their respective events going into this year’s conference meet, with the latter looking to improve on a runner-up finish at last year’s Pac-12 Championships.
First-year distance phenom Zenah Cheptoo, the Cougars’ record holder in the 5,000m at 15:40.09, will aim to make her first big splash at the Pac-12 Championships following a stellar indoor campaign which she followed up with an equally impressive outdoor season. Cheptoo set indoor WSU women’s program records in both the mile (4:48.90) and 3,000m run (8:56.15) this Winter, and she ranks fifth in the conference going into this weekend’s conference meet in Boulder. Maribel Caicedo and Micaela De Mello will each hope to score for the Cougar women in the 100m hurdles, having each held the Cougars’ women’s school record during their respective careers. De Mello clocked a 12.98 at the 2022 Pac-12 Championships, a then-school-record time, while Caicedo has since lowered that mark twice in 2024 including a 12.85 to win the Cougar Classic late last month.
Washington State will also be sending five field athletes sitting in the top-five of the Pac-12 in their respective events to Colorado, led by Lee Walburn who put up a program-record 7,694 points at the Texas Relays decathlon to earn the second-best mark in the Pac-12 going…
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