Pac-12 Athlete Of The Week Goes To Trippas

SEATTLE – A Husky has earned Pac-12 Men’s Track Athlete of the Week honors for the second week in a row, as Ed Trippas today follows in the honored footsteps of Brian Fay who won the award a week ago. Trippas broke a 36-year-old Washington School Record in the 3,000-meter steeplechase with his victory last Friday at the Payton Jordan Invitational.
 

The 2020 Australian Olympian, in his first year at Washington, finally took down Dan Bell’s 1987 record of 8:32.27, as he rolled to a time of 8:31.40 at Stanford’s Cobb Track & Angell Field. That time for Trippas ranks him third in the NCAA this season. The transfer from Princeton was fifth in the NCAA steeplechase final last year.
 
Trippas raced for the Huskies during the fall cross country season, helping the team to a 14th-place NCAA finish. He competed unattached during the indoor track season, as he was out of indoor eligibility, but he progressed well in his indoor races to set himself up for a great start to the outdoor track season.
 
This is the fourth Pac-12 Athlete of the Week honor for UW this season, and the third men’s track award for UW in six weeks.
 
Pac-12 Track & Field Athletes of the Week