Washington State University Women's Cross Country

Teevens coaches the Cougars sprinters, relays and horizontal jumpers. In her first two years at WSU, Teevens mentored veteran Cougars to outstanding performances and marks. In 2015 Briaúna Watley ran the second-best 200m dash (23.35) in WSU history and also ran the lead leg of the second-best womens 400m relay all-time (44.61). The womens 1600m relay also ran into the WSU all-time top 10 with the third-best time (3:35.66). In 2016, Dominique Keel ran the fourth-fastest 200m dash (23.55) and was a member of the 4x400m relay squad that ran the fourth-best time in school history: Regyn Gaffney, Keel, Christiana Ekelem and Liz Harper ran a time of 3:36.76 at the Mt. SAC Relays. Teevens spent four highly productive seasons as an assistant coach and recruiting coordinator at Utah State where she coached the sprinters, the long and triple jumpers, and the relay teams. While in Logan, Utah, Teevens mentored 28 competitors to Mountain West Conference titles, 118 student-athletes to All-MWC first team honors, 28 participants to NCAA West Region Preliminary Rounds, four to the NCAA Outdoor Championships, and saw eight school records broken. Recent Aggie highlights include Teevens coaching Chari Hawkins to back-to-back All-America honors in the heptathlon (2013, 2014) in addition to earning second team All-America honors in the pentathlon in 2014. Hawkins set the school and MWC pentathlon record with 4,173 points, earning MWC Indoor T&F Athlete of the Year. On the mens sprint side, Teevens mentored Nic Bowens to 2014 MWC 60m and 200m indoor titles, 100m and 200m outdoor titles, setting school records in all four events, as well as the 4x100m relay. Bowens was the MWC Outstanding Male Performer at both the indoor and outdoor championships. To complete the Aggie sprint sweep, Cole Lamborne won the 400m dash at the MWC outdoor meet, and the 1600m relay won the MWC title indoors and outdoors. This past season Teevens coached 26 All-MWC first team honorees, 13 in each the indoor and outdoor championships. Six student-athletes qualified for the 2014 NCAA West Region Prelims in 10 events. Not a stranger to the Palouse, Teevens spent 15 seasons at the University of Idaho (1996-2010), starting as the women's head coach but was promoted to co-head coach of the mens and womens program with Wayne Phipps for 11 years. Teevens focused on the sprints, jumps and multi-events areas during her Moscow coaching stint, and Vandal student-athletes broke school records 38 times, including some records multiple times. Teevens tenure at Idaho was marked with continual success including: two womens team and two mens team Big West Conference titles, 51 individual conference champions, four conference champion relays, six conference Athlete of the Year honorees, one conference Freshman of the Year award. Additionally, Vandals qualified for NCAA Championships 33 times and earned 16 All-America honors including Idahos first woman NCAA champion in Katja Schreiber (2000), and Olympian in Angela Whyte. During Teevens tenure, the UI womens track and field team finished 16th at the 2011 NCAA Championships which was the first time womens track finished in the NCAA top 25, and then took 20th in 2003. The mens team won the Big West T&F championships in 2000 and 2001, while the Idaho womens team captured BWC T&F titles in 2001 and 2003 as Teevens garnered Big West Womens Track & Field Coach of the Year honors both years. When UI moved to the WAC in 2005, Vandals thrived with 79 First Team All-WAC honors (top three finishers at conference meet), set six WAC championship meet records and three WAC all-time records. In her final season at Idaho, the womens team tallied 26 entries into the schools all-time top-10 performance lists. Academics was also a high priority for Teevens as Vandals racked up three CoSIDA Academic All-America honors, 17 USTFCCCA DI All-Academic honors, and a pair of WAC Stan Bates Award winners for top student-athletes among all conference sports. Carla Yogi Weigel was an outstanding three-sport athlete at Tulane University and was inducted into the Tulane Athletics Hall of Fame in 2001 for her accomplishments in basketball, volleyball and track and field. She had a notable career at Henderson County Junior College (Athens, Texas) and was recruited to Tulane to play basketball, but she found success on the volleyball court and also became an award-winning track and field competitor for the Green Wave. Teevens was a primarily a long and triple jumper but also competed in the heptathlon. She was ranked in the top 20 nationally in the triple jump as both a junior and senior. She left Tulane holding indoor and outdoor triple jump school records with her outdoor PR of 40-11 1/2, and her indoor mark of 39-0 3/4. Teevens was honored as Tulanes Female Athlete of the Year three times and was chosen twice to the All-Louisiana Division I Track and Field Team. Teevens started her coaching career in 1990 as an assistant coach at her alma mater, Tulane, where she coached for five years. She led the Green Wave to its first Metro Conference championship in 1995. After serving one year as the head coach for Wisconsin-Stout, Teevens moved to Idaho. Teevens has been involved with the USA Track and Fields youth and elite programs and helped coordinate the officials for the 1996 U.S. Olympic Track and Field Trials and at the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games. She is married to Sam Teevens and the couple has one son, Cody, and one daughter, Peyton.

Taylors throwers scored 15 points at the Pac-12 Track & Field Championships. In her second season, Taylor spent much of the outdoor season working on techniques with redshirt throwers but saw success in competition from transfer Katie Wardsworth, and returning throwers Kelsie Taylor, Brock Eager, Travis Pickett and Brad Stevens. Wardsworth had the fifth-best WSU throw in the hammer of 182-4 (55.58m), and eighth-best weight throw all-time of 54-0i (16.64m). Eager had a weight throw that was seventh-best in WSU records of 63-2 3/4i (19.27m) and then redshirted during the outdoor season. At the Pac-12 Championships, Taylor took fifth in the javelin while Stevens was sixth in the mens javelin and Pickett was eighth in the hammer. Taylor led the Idaho competitors to unprecedented levels of success in her 20 years as an assistant coach in charge of the Vandals throws program before being promoted to Head Track & Field Coach in 2011. A very accomplished thrower herself, Taylor held Idaho outdoor school records in both the shot put and discus when she graduated in 1986. Since that time, her student-athletes have broken and re-broken every Idaho throws record and Taylor saw her own name bumped out of the Idaho record book in 2011. She holds an incredible distinction in Idahos history in that she coached every single competitor who has made an entry in Idahos all-time top-10 in the womens shot put, discus, hammer throw and javelin throw. During Taylors time at Idaho, Vandal throwers qualified for the NCAA Championships 48 times and won two NCAA titles, 26 Western Athletic Conference titles, eight Big West Conference titles, nine Big Sky Conference titles and have claimed 28 All-America honors. At least one school record in the throws has fallen at Idaho in eight of her final nine seasons. Notable highlights from Taylors coaching career include the 2008 outdoor season when Idaho was the only mens NCAA program to have four competitors hit the 200-foot mark in the hammer throw. Taylors group of Marcus Mattox (208-2), James Rogan (203-2), Matt Wauters (203-1) and Russ Winger (202-3) all achieved the feat in one competition over the span of a couple hours in April of that year. The Vandal men won the team title at the 2012 WAC Outdoor Track & Field Championships with a contribution of three individual titles and 68 points from the mens throwers. Taylors top mens pupil was Winger, who competed from 2004-08 and was one of the most versatile collegiate throwers of his era. He is just the second man in NCAA history to hit 65 feet in both the shot put and weight throw in the same indoor season, achieving the feat in both 2007 and 2008. Additionally, in 2008 Winger was the only man to qualify for the NCAA Outdoor Championships in the shot put, discus throw and hammer throw, although he chose not to compete in the hammer to focus the other two events. Taylor also coached the first and only individual NCAA champion in Idaho womens athletics history, Katja Schreiber, who won the 2001 national title in the discus with a school-record heave of 197-11. As a standout thrower for the Vandals from 1983-86, Taylor, a native of Onaway, Idaho, broke both the shot put and discus school records and earned three All-Big Sky Conference honors. She scored points at every Big Sky meet during her career and still ranks 31st in Idaho history in all-time outdoor conference scoring at 28 points. Taylor is married to another all-time great Vandal thrower, Tim Taylor, who was a volunteer assistant throws coach at Idaho. They have one son, Alex, who is a thrower at the University of Idaho, and one daughter, Kelsey, who was an all-WAC performer for the Idaho volleyball team from 2007-10, and working as a physical therapist.

Whyte assists with coaching the hurdles, sprints and jumps. Whyte is a native of Edmonton, Alberta, and was a member of Team Canada at the 2004 and 2008 Olympic Games. At the 2004 Athens Games she finished sixth in the 100m hurdles final. Whyte has consistently ranked among the worlds top 100m hurdlers. She is one of just two women in the world to qualify for the IAAF World Championships in the 100m hurdles every year since 2001. Her 100m hurdles time of 12.66 seconds was ranked ninth-best in the 2013 world rankings. She won a silver and a bronze medal at the Pan-Am Games. Whyte is currently training for the 2015 World Championships this August in Beijing, and for the 2016 Rio Olympic Games. Whyte has not yet decided whether to compete in the hurdles or in the heptathlon. She was a four-time NCAA All-American and five-time Big West champion while competing for Idaho. She led the Vandal womens teams to the 2001 and 2003 Big West team titles, earning Female Athlete of the Year honors in 2001 and Womens Track Athlete of the Year in 2003 after scoring 46 points in the championship meet. She tallied 13 school records during her Idaho career and scored 81.5 points in conference meets in her two years at Idaho, surpassing any all other athletes including those who competed four years. Whyte began her collegiate track career at the University of New Mexico and in two seasons tallied five school records and earned All-Mountain West Conference honors in the 100m hurdles in 2000. Whyte is a 2003 Idaho graduate with a degree in crime and justice studies. She was inducted in the Vandal Athletics Hall of Fame in 2010. Whyte served as an assistant coach at the University of Idaho for six years, working with the sprints, hurdles and multi-events.

Potratz-Lee worked with the distance runners and specifically the womens distance runners during cross country and track and field seasons. Distance highlights included CharLee Linton breaking the school record in the 10,000m (34:03.69) and the indoor 5,000m record (16:34.89i), and Abby Regan breaking the school record in the mile (4:43.71i). Other notable accomplishments included Regan clocking the second-fastest 1500m in WSU all-time (4:17.52), Linton running the seventh-fastest 5000m outdoor time (16:31.43) and the eighth-fastest 3k time (9:35.49i), Morgan Willson running the sixth-fastest 10k time (36:06.48), Devon Bortfeld running the seventh-best steeplechase time (10:34.10), and Katherine Dittmann running the freshman school record 10k time, and eighth-fastest overall (36:33.54).   Potratz-Lee was a member of the Idaho cross country/track and field coaching staff starting in 2010 as an assistant to Wayne Phipps, working primarily with the distance corps. The Vandals womens cross country team won Western Athletic Conference team titles in 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013.   After an outstanding prep career in Moscow, Idaho, the former Allix Lee-Painter continued excelling collegiately at the University of Idaho. Potratz-Lee was a five-time WAC champion, a 10-time first-team all-WAC honoree and a two-time ESPN/CoSIDA Academic All-American. She helped Idaho cross country capture the 2005 and 2007 team titles, and claimed the 2008 individual WAC cross country crown.   Potratz-Lee put together a legendary performance at the 2010 WAC Outdoor Championships, as she scored 30 points by winning the 3000m steeplechase, 5000m and 10,000m at the meet. It was just the third such triple-crown in NCAA history and the first in WAC history.   She is the only woman in WAC history to be named WAC Athlete of the Year in three different sports. She was the 2008 WAC Womens Cross Country Athlete of the Year, 2009 WAC Womens Indoor Track Performer of the Year, the 2010 WAC Outdoor Womens Track Performer of the Year, as well as the 2010 WAC Womens High Point Award honoree. She was accorded the Stan Bates Award as the WACs top female student-athlete in 2010.   Potratz-Lee graduated from Idaho in 2010 with a degree in secondary education and English and went on to earn her masters degree in English in 2013. She is married to former Idaho track and field athlete Steve Potratz-Lee.

Phipps, 46, led the mens team to a fourth-place NCAA West Regional finish and an NCAA Cross Country Championships at-large berth in 2015. Junior John Whelan and sophomore Michael Williams had second and third-place finishes, respectively, at the West Regional meet, leading a team comprised mostly of freshmen recruited by Phipps. The Cougars went on to finish in 26th place at the national meet. The first season of mentoring competitors in track and field was also one of success for Phipps who coached the distance corps as well as the hurdlers and multi-events competitors. CharLee Linton ran the WSU womens record in the 10,000m (34:03.69) at Stanford Invite. At the Pac-12 Championships, Alissa Brooks-Johnson won the heptathlon title, Jesse Jorgensen won the mens 800m title, Dino Dodig finished fifth in the decathlon, and a trio of Cougars scored 12 points in the womens intermediate hurdles. During the 2015 indoor and outdoor seasons, 18 marks were either written into or moved up in the WSU all-time records top 10 lists. Phipps had been the University of Idahos Director and Track & Field/Cross Country from 2010 through 2014, and was a coach with the Vandals program for a total of 19 years. He served as co-head coach from 2000-09, after serving as an assistant coach from 1995-99. During that time, Phipps was honored 14 times as a conference coach of the year and led the Vandals to a record 16 total conference titles. From 2000, Phipps guided an Idaho track and field/cross country program that was highly successful at the conference level producing seven individual cross country champions, 52 indoor track and field champions, and 117 outdoor champions. The Vandals claimed 23 conference athletes of the year awards, broke 15 conference records, qualified for the NCAA Championships 79 times, earning 45 NCAA All-American awards including two individual NCAA champions, nine individual NCAA runner-ups, and six individual third-place finishes. During this time Idaho athletes set 30 indoor school records, 23 outdoor records, and at least one school record has fallen every year during Phipps tenure. As a team, Idaho finished in the top 25 in the nation 11 times in track & field including highs of 16th for the women and 17th for the men; and once in cross country. During Phipps head coaching tenure, the Vandals produced five Olympians, two World Track and Field Championship finalists, and one World Cross Country Championship participant. Phipps currently coaches former Vandal All-American Angela Whyte, who is a two-time Olympian, six-time World Championship participant and a two-time World Championship finalist. Whyte finished sixth at the 2004 Athens Olympic Games in the 100m hurdles and sixth at the 2013 World Track and Field Championships in the 100m hurdles. He has coached two-time Olympian and World Championship finalist Tawanda Chiwira, former WSU NCAA All-American and world-ranked hurdler Arend Watkins, and Olympian Sherwin James. Additionally, Idaho had a very strong academic reputation with yearly honorees among the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association Division I All-Academic Teams in both mens and womens cross country and track and field. Since 2005, five Idaho track and field athletes have earned the Western Athletic Conferences prestigious Stan Bates Award as the top male or female student-athlete in the conference, and the teams athletes have been recognized with a combined 490 WAC All-Academic honors. Phipps began his coaching career in his hometown of Prince George, British Columbia, with the Prince George Track and Field Club. During that time, he coached several provincial and national medalists and champions. As an athlete, Phipps was a three-year letterwinner in basketball and a four-year letterwinner in track and cross country at D.P. Todd Secondary. He also competed for the Prince George Track and Field Club where he was coached by his father, Ron. Phipps competed for the University of Montana and the University of British Columbia, where he graduated with a degree in exercise science in 1991. He earned his masters of science from the University of Oregon in exercise and movement science, with a sports medicine major and minors in biomechanics and exercise physiology. Team Conference Titles 2000 Big West Mens Outdoor Track & Field 2001 Big West Mens Outdoor Track & Field 2001 Big West Womens Outdoor Track & Field 2002 Big West Womens Cross Country 2003 Big West Womens Outdoor Track & Field 2005 WAC Womens Cross Country 2007 WAC Womens Cross Country 2010 WAC Womens Cross Country 2011 WAC Womens Cross Country 2012 WAC Men's Indoor Track & Field 2012 WAC Men's Outdoor Track & Field 2012 WAC Womens Cross Country 2013 WAC Womens Cross Country 2014 WAC Men's Indoor Track & Field 2014 WAC Mens Outdoor Track & Field 2014 WAC Womens Outdoor Track & Field Individual Coaching Honors 2000 Big West Mens Track & Field Coach of the Year 2001 Big West Mens Track & Field Coach of the Year 2002 Big West Womens Cross Country Coach of the Year 2005 WAC Womens Cross Country Coach of the Year 2007 WAC Womens Cross Country Coach of the Year 2010 WAC Womens Cross Country Coach of the Year 2011 WAC Womens Cross Country Coach of the Year 2012 WAC Men's Indoor Track & Field Coach of the Year 2012 WAC Men's Outdoor Track & Field co-Coach of the Year 2012 WAC Women's Cross Country Coach of the Year 2013 WAC Women's Cross Country Coach of the Year 2014 WAC Mens Indoor Track & Field Coach of the Year 2014 WAC Men's Outdoor Track & Field Coach of the Year 2014 WAC Women's Outdoor Track & Field Coach of the Year