From Track & Field to Gymnastics to Basketball, your Huskies outdid themselves this season
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Senior Jax Thoirs soared to his first national championship in the pole vault at the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships.
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Men’s Track placed 6th overall — the best in school history — and Women’s Track placed 13th — their second-best finish ever — at the NCAA Indoor Championships. It’s the first time both teams have finished top-20 in the same year, let alone top-15. Jax Thoirs took home the individual NCAA title for the men’s pole vault.
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Senior Andrew Andrews netted 47 points against Washington State on Senior Night, the second-highest single game point total ever by a Husky Men’s Basketball player.
1st and 2,418 (and counting)
Junior guard Kelsey Plum became the Huskies’ all-time leading scorer in Women’s Basketball and became the first WBCA All-American in UW history, one of just 10 players selected to what is considered the most prestigious All-American team in the women’s game.
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At this time, Husky Athletics is ranked No. 10 in the 2016-17 Learfield Directors’ Cup, measuring athletic performance of all NCAA programs.
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The Gymnastics team placed third in NCAA regional competition. Allison Northey and Joslyn Goings were named to the All-PAC-12 First Team as all-arounders and Kaitlyn Duranczyk earned All-Pac-12 Second Team honors on bars.
