MOSCOW, Idaho - On Monday, the Big Sky Conference announced its Track and Field Athletes of the Week. The latest edition of the awards included a near-sweep for Idaho, as the relay teams swept the track portion and heptathlete Hanna Tait secured the women's field nod, earning the black and gold three of four slots with the efforts of nine athletes.
Making her 2026 Outdoor debut, Tait earned personal bests in the 800m (2:23.92) and 100mH (13.99) and finished top-five in the javelin, 200m, and shot put to earn a total of 5,511 points in the heptathlon, also a PR, at the Bryan Clay Multis in Azusa. This award marks the second of the calendar year for the Australia native, who secured the same Field Athlete of the Week nod during the indoor season in February.
On the track at the Jeff Rahn Classic in Spokane, Alyssa Marsh, Jana Willems, Rhyan Madden, and Ashley Hollenbeck Willems let the 4x100 relay record they had just set last only a week before rewriting their own mark on the same track. The team of Vandals won the day on Whitworth's campus with a time of 44.90, more than three full seconds ahead of second place and well ahead of their previous top time of 45.16 the week prior.
The men's 4x100 relay team put up a similarly dominant performance in Spokane. The combination of JaRae Long, Cash Jones, Mateo Ganje, and Keenan Kuntz finished first overall with a 40.15-second outing, the ninth-fastest in school history and the second-fastest such time since 2002.
This marks five total Athlete of the Week honors for Idaho in the outdoor season, adding to Kuntz and Blake Sturgis' sweep of the men's awards in the opening weekend, and adds up to a total of eight weekly awards for the Vandals since the start of 2026. UI now joins Northern Arizona and Montana State as the only Big Sky schools to earn at least three of four awards in one week this year.
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Idaho will make its way to California for the three-day Bryan Clay Invite. The meet will be held from April 15-18.
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