Pac-12 Track & Field Weekly Awards – March 21, 2023

Men’s Track Athlete of the Week: Jared McAlvey, Jr., Washington State (Walla Walla, Wash.)

• Won the men’s 400m hurdles at the GCU Invitational in Phoenix, Ariz., with a time of 50.90, currently the top collegiate time in the nation.
• Set a meet record in the event and achieved a lifetime-best time by over half of a second (51.59).
• New personal best positions him just .01 seconds away from cracking Washington State’s top-10 all-time performance list in the 400m hurdles. 

ALSO NOMINATED: Carl Hicks, ARIZ; David Foster, CAL; Abdinasir Hussein, ORE; Meika Beaudoin-Rousseau, STAN.

Women’s Track Athlete of the Week: Alexa Rossum, Sr., Stanford (Atlanta, Ga.)

• Won the women’s 200m competition at the Cardinal Classic with a meet-record time of 23.37. 
• Her time is 10th-best in the nation this year and the No. 1 mark in the Pac-12 thus far.
• Also ran the second leg on Stanford's winning 4x400m relay team, which ranks No. 7 in the nation outdoors and No. 1 in the Pac-12 at 3:39.11.

ALSO NOMINATED: Talie Bonds, Arizona; Jada Hicks, CAL; Harper McClain, ORE; Adael Scatena, OSU; Jasneet Nijjar, WSU.

Men’s Field Athlete of the Week: Jordan Geist, Sr., Arizona (Saxonburg, Pa.)

• Won the men’s hammer throw competition at the Island Relays in Freeport, Bahamas with a lifetime-best mark of 73.94m (242-7).
• His mark set a new program record in the event, surpassing Israel Oloyede’s previous record of 73.22m (240-3) set in May 2021.
• Now the Arizona school record holder in the hammer and indoor and outdoor shot put.
• Currently owns the top collegiate mark in the nation in the hammer by over four meters.

ALSO NOMINATED: Kagan Schroeter, CAL; Garrett Brown, STAN; Ronald Grueso Mosquera, WSU.

Women’s Field Athlete of the Week: Amari Turner, Sr., California (Redondo Beach, Calif.)

• Won the women’s pole vault competition at the Cardinal Classic with a lifetime-best clearance of 4.27m (14-00.00).
• Set a new meet record and recorded the second-best pole vault mark in program history.
• Her performance currently ranks No. 2 in the nation.

ALSO NOMINATED: Ava David, ARIZ; Shelby Moran, ORE; Jade Whitfield, OSU; Laurel Wong, STAN; Nana Gyedu, WSU.

Pac-12 Track & Field Athletes of the Week