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The Washington State women's golf team had three golfers finish in a tie for 18th on the player leaderboard at the 2022 Fresno State Classic, as the Cougars concluded the tournament in a tie for seventh with a three-round score of 893 (+29).
Junior Jiye Ham, redshirt freshman Jinyu Wu and freshman Sarah Skovgaard-Bils each carded 6-over par; 222 during their third-round stay at the Belmont Country Club to finish tied for 18th. It is Wu's third-straight top-25 finish to open the spring, while it is Ham's second time placing inside the top-25 in a spring tournament. It is also Skovgaard-Bils' first top-20 finish in her WSU career.
Wu posted the second-best par-5 score through 54 holes of play at the Fresno State Classic, as the Shanghai, China native carded 3-under on par-5 holes. Ham finished the tournament at 1-under on par-3 scoring, which was the eighth-best par-3 score in the field.
"We had a solid first two rounds in Fresno and although we didn't have the final round we wanted," WSU Head Coach Kelli Kamimura. "We have a lot of positives to build on as we head into our final regular-season tournament of the season."
Wazzu finished the tournament tied with Sacramento State for seventh on the team leaderboard. The Cougars concluded the Fresno State Classic by carding 17-over in the third round to finish with a score of 893 (+29).
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Washington State track and field freshman hurdler Micaela De Mello was named the Pac-12 Women's Track Athlete of the Week by the league offices Tuesday, March 22. It is the first time that De Mello has earned the distinction in her WSU career.
The freshman from Palhoca, Brazil broke Washington State's 100m hurdles record this past Saturday, March 19, at the Baldy Castillo Invitational in Tempe, Arizona. De Mello clocked in at 13.08 seconds to win the 100m hurdles. She broke Diana Pickler's previous program record by 0.17 seconds, which was set back in 2007 in Sacramento.
De Mello's time is currently the fastest clocked timed in the 100m hurdles in the NCAA this season, while it is the fourth-fastest recorded time in the world this year. The freshman from Brazil becomes the first Washington State track and field student-athlete to be named a Pac-12 Track Athlete of the Week since May 1, 2018, when Alissa Brooks-Johnson earned the distinction.
Go Cougs!!!
- It seems fitting to put together a list of coaches who branch off of the Mike Leach coaching tree. Perspective on his football genius can easily be determined by a cursory glance:
Dave Aranda/Baylor head coach – Graduate assistant coach under Leach from 2000-02 at Texas Tech
Neal Brown/West Virginia head coach – Played under Leach in 1998 when Leach was offensive coordinator at Kentucky
Sonny Cumbie/Louisiana Tech head coach – Played under Leach at Texas Tech from 2000-03 and later served as a graduate assistant coach under Leach
Sonny Dykes/TCU head coach – Coached wide receivers and later was the co-offensive coordinator at Texas Tech under Leach from 2000-06
Josh Heupel/Tennessee head coach – Played under Leach at Oklahoma in 1999 when Leach was the offensive coordinator for the Sooners
Dana Holgorsen/Houston head coach – Coached alongside Leach as assistants at Valdosta State from 1993-95, then served as a wide receivers coach and offensive coordinator under Leach from ...
- The news of former WSU Coach Mike Leach passing at the young age of 61 is very, very sad. I had the pleasure of writing about the Cougs when Leach was at the helm. To say that he was a unique person doesn't begin to describe the multi-faceted dimension of the man.
In terms of coaching football, Leach led his teams in a way that had most other coaches scratching their heads. His offensive creativity gave a multitude of defensive coordinators ulcers. To say that his techniques for molding student-athletes into football players were unusual would be accurate. Making guys run sprints in a sand pit named "Leach Beach" is a prime example. Crazy as that sounds, his players had fewer ankle injuries over the course of the season than any team in football. Only Mike Leach could get players to hit the beach. And if you look at the coaching tree that branches out from Leach, you'd find a myriad of men who owe him for their start in the profession.
When you examine the way Leach represented the schools ...
- Close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades, so Wazzu's loss yesterday to UNLV by a score of 74-70 was just that, a loss. However, there were plenty of reasons to applaud both the performance and the progress the Cougs are making over the past few games. Let's get the bad observation out of the way. WSU turned the ball over a ridiculous 22 times. No one is going to beat many teams with such wreckless play, especially against a team that posted a 9-0 record going into the contest. Some of those errors might be attributed to Coach Kyle Smith going with a different lineup almost every game because of player injuries. Facts are facts and when there isn't a steady lineup, players struggle to play team ball. On the bright side, Wazzu shot a respectable 54.2% from the field, coupled with a very nice 56.5% from behind the arc. On defense, WSU held UNLV to just 30.4% from behind the arc and 50.9% overall. The Cougs outrebounded the Rebels by a margin of 33-20. Despite being down by ...
