A stellar group of six track and field athletes have arrived in Seattle over the past couple months to join the Husky program, bringing with them a wealth of championships and All-America honors, and seeking to add more at Washington.

Washington Director of Track & Field Maurica Powell and Head Coach Andy Powell today announced the new leadership for the Husky sprinters and hurdlers, as former U.S. 400-meter hurdles champion Jeshua Anderson has been named Assistant Coach and Anderson's longtime coach, Mark Macdonald, will stay on as a Volunteer Assistant.

Former Husky pole vaulter Kaitlin Zinsli has been named one of the two Washington recipients of the Pac-12 Postgraduate Scholarship today.

Washington placed an impressive fourteen student-athletes on the USTFCCCA All-Academic Team which was announced today, and both the men's and women's squads as units were named All-Academic Teams as well.

The Thorpe Cup is an annual competition between the United States and Germany in which decathletes and heptathletes from each country compete for gold.