Track opens season at UW Outdoor Preview

Contact: Erik Snyder (360) 867-6537
snydere@evergreen.edu
Sports Information Director
The Evergreen State College

April, 2005

The Evergreen State College track team participated in their first meet of the spring at the University of Washington Outdoor Preview.

The Evergreen runners are coming off a strong cross country that showed marked improvement in the team's performances and a berth in the National Championships for junior Josh Klimek.

The Geoducks are looking to continue the improvement they saw in the fall.

Freshman James Hudson pulled in a noteable result in the soggy men's 5,000 meters. His 16:39.28 (26th place) was the second fastest 5k time on record for Evergreen not counting Klimek's times under that mark.

Earlier in the day Hudson placed 27th (4:29.66) in the 1,500 meters in his first college race.

Rachel Williams set a personal best in the 3,000 meters of 12:16.52 in her first collegiate track and field race as well.

"We entered mostly freshmen or first-time track people this weekend," said head coach Craig Dickson. "We had modest results competitively but good results for them."

Full results for the University of Washington Outdoor Preview can be found at http://gohuskies.collegesports.com/sports/c-track/stats/2004-2005/outdoorpreview.html