Young Tabbed Pac-10 Men's Field Event Athlete of Week

WALNUT CREEK, Calif . ? The Pacific-10 Conference announced Monday afternoon that University of Oregon redshirt junior Andy Young was tabbed Men’s Field Event Athlete of the Week.

Last Thursday-Friday, April 21-22, the Newberg, Ore., native won the Oregon Invitational decathlon with an NCAA provisional score of 7,329 points. He notched a season best in eight of the 10 events, and only five collegians had scored higher decathlon totals than Young before last weekend.

Young was an NCAA decathlon competitor for the Ducks in 2004 (13th - 3 places higher than his seed), and is a two-time Pac-10 top-five finisher in (third in '04, fifth in '03).

The other men’s honor from the track event category went to Arizona State sophomore Aaron Aguayo who placed fourth in the Oregon Invitational 5,000 (13:49.11) last Saturday. Aguayo finished less than a second ahead of Duck freshman Galen Rupp (fifth, 13:50.10) who fell mid-race but still got up to run one of UO’s fastest all-time frosh 5Ks in his collegiate debut.

On the women’s side, Washington sophomore Ashley Lodree won the track honor for her league-leading time and win in the Oregon Invite 400 hurdles (59.65), and UCLA senior Jessica Cosby was decorated for her wins in the shot put (55-11 1/2 ? U.S. leader) and discus (206-11) in the UC San Diego Triton Invite.

Looking ahead, the Duck men’s and women’s teams will send 13 men’s and 11 women’s individual entries from the sprints, jumps and throws units to the Drake Relays, in Des Moines, Iowa, Fri.-Sat., April 29-30. More meet info including Ducks entries are available at the www.drakerelays.org website.

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Young Tabbed Pac-10 Men's Field Event Athlete of Week