GIVE TO TRACK & FIELD AND CROSS COUNTRY
Track & Field and Cross Country funding goal for the 2025-26 academic year: $35,000
Team mission: Develop young men and women of excellence, integrity, character and boldness through the venue of Track & Field and Cross Country. Our teams provide unique opportunities for student-athletes to compete as individuals yet work closely within the team context as they seek to push past barriers, which they had thought were unsurmountable. Student-athletes who exceed these barriers gain lifelong skills that enable them to find fulfillment and achieve excellence as parents, employees, business owners, and community members.
Team needs for 2025-26:
$10,000 for replacement hammer cage net. The current net is severely deteriorating. We can't host a meet until this is replaced.
$5,000 for team travel for track and field athletes to participate in NAU indoor meets. Indoor meets are important overnight trips in the experience and development of track and field athletes. Indoor meets have different events, different strategies and a different track size and type. It is a big part of the track and field collegiate experience.
$3,500 for track and field cross country record boards. These boards would be installed up at the stadium. We currently do not have a record board for cross country or track and field.
$5,000 for rain sweats in addition to the lightweight sweats that are provided by the college. These are very important for the days with inclement weather, and we attend meets that keep us outside all day.
$5,000 Cross Country camp. This is important as an essential training tool as well as a team bonding experience, it is a hallmark of the cross country experience.
Men's Highlights:
- 2025 Team placed 8th in SCIAC and fielded a team for the first time in 7 years!
- Cameron Riccio SCIAC 2nd team All-Conference 2024
- Two CSC Academic All-District recipients in 2023
- Mateo Gomez SCIAC Newcomer of the Year 2022
- Garrett Silva SCIAC Field Athlete of the Year 2022
- Garrett Silva Pole Vaulting All-American in 2022
- Benjamin White Division III Track & Field All-American 2022 (10,000 m)
- Benjamin White Division III XC All-American Cross Country in 2021
- -Benjamin White three-time SCIAC XC Athlete of the week in 2021
Women's Highlights:
- Four CSC Academic All-District recipients in 2023
- Jasmyn Crawford First Individual Women’s Track All-American in School History (100 meters)
- Jasmyn Crawford 2023 Division III West Region Outdoor Track Athlete of the Year
- Jasmyn Crawford 2023 SCIAC Track Athlete of the Year
- SCIAC champion 4x100 team had fourth fastest time in SCIAC history in 2023 (Jasmyn Crawford, Mackenzie Reed, Talia Johnson, Rhe Nae Leach)
- 2021 4x100 team Division III All-Americans (Jasmyn Crawford, Rhe Nae Leach, Mackenzie Reed, Gabriella Torres Joubert)
- Whittier has the SCIAC Javelin Champion each of the last three years (Jillian Weber 2022, Natalia Williams 2023 and 2024)
- Rhe Nae Leach SCIAC Newcomer of the Year 2022
Director of Track & Field and Cross Country: Kathy Graham
Assistant Coaches: Stirley Jones (sprints, recruitment), Paul White (distance), Jim Pendleton (throws) Christina Gonzalez (throws), David Bean (Pole Vault) Destinee Unabia (jumps)
