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T&F Represented at Summer National Championships

PULLMAN, Wash. -- Track and field competitors with ties to Washington State University are scheduled to compete at the USA Track & Field Outdoor Championships and Junior Championships at Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon, June 25-28. Athletes will earn spots on the 2015 IAAF World Championships team set for August 22-30 in Beijing, China, as well as on the Pan Am Games, Thorpe Cup, Pan Am Juniors and NACAC Championships teams.

Two Cougar alums will race Thursday in the men’s 800m: Jesse Jorgensen, the 2015 Pac-12 Champion, has a PR time of 1:46.49, and Joe Abbott, a 2012 Pac-12 runner-up and a professional runner for the past three years, has a PR time of 1:47.