SEATTLE – Coming off the two best NCAA Track & Field Championship finishes in program history, added to another strong fall cross country campaign, the Washington women’s track & field and cross country program finished second overall in the USTFCCCA Terry Crawford Program of the Year rankings. This is the highest finish ever for the Huskies in the Program of the Year rankings, which began in 2008-09.
The UW men also had a top-10 finish, their third in the past four years, as they placed ninth in the John McDonnell Men’s Program of the Year final standings.
The Program of the Year rankings require teams to qualify and score at all three of the NCAA Championships in an academic year, starting with cross country in the fall, then indoor track & field in the winter, and outdoor track & field in the spring. Missing out on one of those three eliminates a program from contention.
The UW women finished No. 2 nationally this year, trailing only Oregon. The Huskies finished fourth at NCAA Outdoors and at NCAA Indoors, both easily the highest finishes in program history. In the fall, the women were 13th in cross country. Behind Oregon and Washington was Stanford at No. 3, then No. 4 BYU, and No. 5 Arkansas.
The women previously had a high of No. 3 in the 2011-12 season.
Arkansas won the men’s Program of the Year award, followed by Oklahoma State and BYU. Washington finished ninth. The men missed out in 2023-24, but were No. 3 in 2022-23 and No. 7 in 2021-22.
The men’s cross country team was 16th at nationals in the fall, then the Dawgs were 19th at the NCAA Indoor Championships, and 30th at NCAA Outdoors last week.
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