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Towne, Wickman win D-II regional honors
Michael Wickman after being presented with the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association West Region Men's Track Athlete of the Year award.
5/18/2009 5:11:50 PM
NEW ORLEANS, La. – On the eve of the NCAA Division II Track & Field Championships, two Chico State representatives heading to San Angelo, Texas, can already call themselves winners. The U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) Monday named Wildcat Michael Wickman the D-II West Region Men's Track Athlete of the Year, while Gary Towne was selected as the Men’s Assistant Coach of the Year.
Wickman, who this week will compete for the national title in the 800- and 1,500-meter run, posted the fastest time in the 800-meters by any Division II runner this season with a time of 1:49.38 May 9 at the Occidental Invitational. The junior from Walnut Creek also registered the fifth-best time nationwide in the 1,500-meters (3:44.45) at the Oxy Invite. Wickman won both events at the recent California Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA) Track & Field Championships at Chico State’s University Stadium.
Chico State's Gary Towne was named USTFCCCA Men's Assistant Coach of the Year.
The USTFCCCA accolade is the latest in a long string of Coach of the Year awards for Towne, who last fall guided the Chico State men’s and women’s cross country teams to third and seventh place finishes, respectively, in the NCAA Division II Championships. This spring Towne has mentored seven Wildcats runners who will compete in distance events at this week’s D-II Track & Field Championships at Angelo State University’s LeGrand Sports Complex.
Three other CCAA representatives received West Region honors Monday from the USTFCCCA – UC San Diego’s Danielle Thu was named Female Athlete of the Year; Kendra Reimer of Cal State L.A. won the Women’s Assistant Coach of the Year award; and Darcy Ahner of UC San Diego was selected as Women’s Head Coach of the Year.
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Wildcats of the Week
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Men's Golf
Sylvester Gama carded three consecutive sub-par rounds and finished alone in second place at 7-under par at the Coyote Classic last Monday and Tuesday. Gama, competing as an individual, finished six strokes clear of third place in a standout performance that was bettered only by Cal State San Bernardino's Gene Webster, Jr.
Gama went 2-under in the opening round on the par-70 course at Arrowhead Country Club. He went 1-under in the afternoon. And on Tuesday, Gama's 66 was bettered only by Webster and matched his teammate Kyle Souza for the third lowest round of the tournament.
A 6-foot senior from Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara CC), Gama has now gone under par in eight of his 16 rounds of the 2009-10 season. His stroke average of 72.1 is second on the Wildcats as are his three top-five finishes.
Those efforts have made him easily the team's most improved player thus far this season. His stroke average was 75.3 last season and he had just one top-10 finish - an eighth-place finish at the CCAA Championships.
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Women's Track
There’s something about the annual Chico Multi that always brings out the best in heptathlete Kelly Clancey. For the second straight year, the junior from Modesto earned an NCAA Championships provisional bid in the heptathlon during the two-day Chico Multi, collecting 4,743 total points over the seven events, easily surpassing the 4,400 points needed to secure the provisional bid.
Clancey was the dominant athlete in the 12-person field, taking first place in four of the seven hepthatlon events. She took top honors in the high jump (5 feet, 3.25 inches), long jump (17 feet, 9.5 inches), 100-meter hurdles (15.42 seconds) and the 800-meter run (2 minutes, 20.25 second), while finishing second in the 200-meter dash (26.34 seconds), fourth in the shot put and sixth in the javelin throw.
Clancey, already well ahead of last season's schedule in which she scored a 4,400 in the Chico Multi and went on to post a career-best 4,811 at the CCAA Championships and advance to the NCAA Championships, will try to better her provisional mark March 24-25 at the California Multi, hosted by UC Berkeley.
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3.6.10 | Men's Track
TURLOCK – Clinton Hayes has had a successful collegiate career to this point, but in many respects he has waited in the shadows of the Chico State men’s distance program’s talented group. He’s ready to cast some shadows of his own. The senior from Oakland won the 800-meters, finished third in the 1,500, and anchored the Wildcats’ third-place team in the 4x400 relays to help lead the Wildcats to victory in their inaugural team event of 2009-10, Cal State Stanislaus’ Kim Duyst Invitational. The Wildcats scored 185 points to fend off Cal Poly Pomona (171) and Cal State Stanislaus (167) for the victory.
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3.5.10 | Men's Track
CHICO – Picking up where he left off after a strong performance Thursday, Chico State junior Talor Fulfer earned enough points with plenty to spare during Friday’s final day of the Chico Multi to grab an NCAA Championships provisional bid in the Decathlon. Fulfer racked up 3,220 points in the final five Decathlon events to finish the two-day competition in first place in the Decathlon Group A with 6,617 points – over 300 points more than he needed to win the provisional bid. In the Decathlon Group B, Wildcat freshman J. Patrick Smith led the field with 6,109 points over the 10 events.
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3.4.10 | Men's Track
CHICO – With five events down and five to go in the Decathlon, Chico State’s Talor Fulfer collected 3,397 points to lead the 11-man Group A, while Wildcat teammate J. Patrick Smith posted 3,379 in pacing the 10-man Group B field in Thursday’s first day of the Chico Multi at University Stadium.
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2.27.10 | Men's Track
CHICO – Manny Mejia, Clinton Hayes, Kyle Robinson and Michael Wickman teamed up to win the 4x800-meter relay and the distance medley to help the Chico State men’s track team edge Sacramento City 173.5-172.5 and claim the Wildcat Relays title to open the 2010 season Saturday at University Stadium. Chad McCammon, Jake Nelson, and Beau Rogers also claimed event titles for the Wildcats.
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2.26.10 | Men's Track, Women's Track
As we make our transition into the spring sports season, the Chico State track teams are looking to begin a very competitive 2010 season. Saturday, the Wildcats will be hosting the Wildcat Relays, an annual event that has women’s head coach Oliver Hanf excited.
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10.21.09 | Track and Field, Men's Track, Women's Track
The Chico State Track & Field Alumni and Friends Banquet, honoring the pioneers of women's track, has been scheduled for Feruary 6, 2010 at the Bell Memorial Union on campus. Save the date!
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7.9.09 | Men's Track, Men's Cross Country
KODIAK, Alaska – It’s possible that Miles Dunbar has never had more motivation. The Chico State distance runner was not only trying to hang onto the lead at the American Legion July Fourth 10K Run and Walk in Kodiak, Alaska – he was trying to make sure his brother or father didn’t take it from him. They didn’t. In fact, no one did.
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