Oregon Add 12 to 2015 Class
EUGENE, Ore. – The Oregon track and field team put the finishing touches on the 2015 recruiting class with the addition of 12 student-athletes, Thursday.
The incoming class supplements the previous five standout prep athletes who signed letters of intent earlier in 2015. A mix of high school and college transfers, the 12 additions consists of six northwest natives including four Oregonians. It is headlined by a group of transfers that includes three athletes with NCAA Championships experience: former Oklahoma All-American Hannah Cunliffe, Ole Miss All-American Brooke Feldmeier and Georgetown All-American Ryan Gil. The group of transfers also includes Harvard’s Ivy League Champion Danielle Barbian. Jessica Hull, Australia’s 1,500 meters and cross country junior champion, and Monique Stander, South Africa’s 800 meters junior champion with a 2:02.57 personal best, provide an international presence for the incoming class.
“Our coaching staff believes that we have found a group of newcomers who will make an immediate impact for our team at the NCAA level,” said Head Coach Robert Johnson. “We are excited about each of these individuals and can’t wait for them to get started with our team over the next couple weeks.”
Track and Field News Magazine has ranked Oregon’s women’s track and field recruiting class at the top of the country each of the last two years, and three of the last five. The men’s class has received top three ratings, including second in 2014 and first in 2013, during five of the last six years.
Danielle Barbian (Hamilton High School / Harvard / Sussex, Wis.)
Personal Bests: 100 Meters – 11.46; 200 Meters – 24.03
Transfer from Harvard with one year of outdoor eligibility remaining…named First Team All-Ivy League at 60 meters and 200 meters indoors and at 100 meters outdoors…set a school and Ivy league record of 7.40 in the 60 while winning the indoor Heps in 2015…set a school and conference record in the 200 while winning Heps in 24.03… outdoors she won the 100 conference title in 11.59.
Hannah Cunliffe (Federal Way High School / Oklahoma / Federal Way, Wash.)
Personal Bests: 60 Meters – 7.28; 100 Meters – 11.58
Transfer from Oklahoma with four years of eligibility remaining outdoors and three years of eligibility indoors…as a freshman she was the runner up in the 60 at the Big 12 Championships with a personal best of 7.28…second team All-American after finishing 12th in the event at the NCAA Indoor Championships…competed only at the 2015 Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays during the outdoor season, finishing the 100 in 11.74…in high school Cunliffe won Washington state titles in the 100, 200 and 4x100 as a senior in 2014…competed for Team USA at the 2013 World Junior Championships and finished fourth in the 200.
Brooke Feldmeier (Tumwater High School / Mississippi / Olympia, Wash.)
Personal Bests: 800 Meters – 2:03.13; 400 Meters – 54.74
Comes to Oregon after competing as a freshman at Mississippi…earned All-American status after scoring for the Tigers in the 800 indoors, finishing eighth (2:05.80)…runner up at the SEC Indoor Championships in the 800 with a time of 2:04.34…qualified for the 2015 NCAA Outdoor Championships in the 800…ran a personal best of 2:03.13 in the 800 at the NCAA East Preliminary Rounds…in high school Feldmeier was the Washington 2012 and 2013 heptathlon champion (2A)…as a junior and senior, she won state titles at 200 meters, 400 meters and in the 100 hurdles…holds Tumwater high school records in the 200, 400, 100 hurdles, 300 hurdles, high jump and heptathlon.
Ryan Gil (North Allegheny High School / Georgetown / Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Personal Bests: 3,000 Meter Steeplechase – 8:42.46; 1,500 – 3:46.48
Graduate transfer was the Big East champion in the steeplechase for Georgetown…U.S. Championships qualifier in the steeple…in 2015, won the Big East 3,000 meter steeplechase crown in 8:58.67…followed that with a personal best in the event of 8:42.46 at the NCAA East Regional, finishing third to advance to the NCAA Championships…was eighth at the NCAA meet in 8:46.62 to earn first team all-America honors…Big East scorer in the steeplechase at the 2013 league championships…placed 14th at the 2012 USA Junior Cross Country Championships…in high school, was the state champion in the 3,000 meters at the 2011 Pennsylvania Indoor State Track & Field Championships and the 2010 Pennsylvania State Cross Country Championships for North Allegheny High School…was the runner-up as a junior in the 3,200 meters at the 2010 Pennsylvania Outdoor State Track & Field Championships…finished 31st at the Footlocker Cross Country National Championships as a junior…placed sixth in the boy's 3,000-meter run at the 2011 Penn Relays.
Madi Greenleaf (Lakeridge High School / UCLA/ Lake Oswego, Ore.)
Personal Bests: 100 Hurdles – 14.65
Joins the Ducks after transferring from UCLA…finished second in the 100 and 300 hurdles at the OSAA 6A Championships in 2013.
EUGENE, Ore. – The Oregon track and field team put the finishing touches on the 2015 recruiting class with the addition of 12 student-athletes, Thursday.
The incoming class supplements the previous five standout prep athletes who signed letters of intent earlier in 2015. A mix of high school and college transfers, the 12 additions consists of six northwest natives including four Oregonians. It is headlined by a group of transfers that includes three athletes with NCAA Championships experience: former Oklahoma All-American Hannah Cunliffe, Ole Miss All-American Brooke Feldmeier and Georgetown All-American Ryan Gil. The group of transfers also includes Harvard’s Ivy League Champion Danielle Barbian. Jessica Hull, Australia’s 1,500 meters and cross country junior champion, and Monique Stander, South Africa’s 800 meters junior champion with a 2:02.57 personal best, provide an international presence for the incoming class.
“Our coaching staff believes that we have found a group of newcomers who will make an immediate impact for our team at the NCAA level,” said Head Coach Robert Johnson. “We are excited about each of these individuals and can’t wait for them to get started with our team over the next couple weeks.”
Track and Field News Magazine has ranked Oregon’s women’s track and field recruiting class at the top of the country each of the last two years, and three of the last five. The men’s class has received top three ratings, including second in 2014 and first in 2013, during five of the last six years.
Danielle Barbian (Hamilton High School / Harvard / Sussex, Wis.)
Personal Bests: 100 Meters – 11.46; 200 Meters – 24.03
Transfer from Harvard with one year of outdoor eligibility remaining…named First Team All-Ivy League at 60 meters and 200 meters indoors and at 100 meters outdoors…set a school and Ivy league record of 7.40 in the 60 while winning the indoor Heps in 2015…set a school and conference record in the 200 while winning Heps in 24.03… outdoors she won the 100 conference title in 11.59.
Hannah Cunliffe (Federal Way High School / Oklahoma / Federal Way, Wash.)
Personal Bests: 60 Meters – 7.28; 100 Meters – 11.58
Transfer from Oklahoma with four years of eligibility remaining outdoors and three years of eligibility indoors…as a freshman she was the runner up in the 60 at the Big 12 Championships with a personal best of 7.28…second team All-American after finishing 12th in the event at the NCAA Indoor Championships…competed only at the 2015 Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays during the outdoor season, finishing the 100 in 11.74…in high school Cunliffe won Washington state titles in the 100, 200 and 4x100 as a senior in 2014…competed for Team USA at the 2013 World Junior Championships and finished fourth in the 200.
Brooke Feldmeier (Tumwater High School / Mississippi / Olympia, Wash.)
Personal Bests: 800 Meters – 2:03.13; 400 Meters – 54.74
Comes to Oregon after competing as a freshman at Mississippi…earned All-American status after scoring for the Tigers in the 800 indoors, finishing eighth (2:05.80)…runner up at the SEC Indoor Championships in the 800 with a time of 2:04.34…qualified for the 2015 NCAA Outdoor Championships in the 800…ran a personal best of 2:03.13 in the 800 at the NCAA East Preliminary Rounds…in high school Feldmeier was the Washington 2012 and 2013 heptathlon champion (2A)…as a junior and senior, she won state titles at 200 meters, 400 meters and in the 100 hurdles…holds Tumwater high school records in the 200, 400, 100 hurdles, 300 hurdles, high jump and heptathlon.
Ryan Gil (North Allegheny High School / Georgetown / Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Personal Bests: 3,000 Meter Steeplechase – 8:42.46; 1,500 – 3:46.48
Graduate transfer was the Big East champion in the steeplechase for Georgetown…U.S. Championships qualifier in the steeple…in 2015, won the Big East 3,000 meter steeplechase crown in 8:58.67…followed that with a personal best in the event of 8:42.46 at the NCAA East Regional, finishing third to advance to the NCAA Championships…was eighth at the NCAA meet in 8:46.62 to earn first team all-America honors…Big East scorer in the steeplechase at the 2013 league championships…placed 14th at the 2012 USA Junior Cross Country Championships…in high school, was the state champion in the 3,000 meters at the 2011 Pennsylvania Indoor State Track & Field Championships and the 2010 Pennsylvania State Cross Country Championships for North Allegheny High School…was the runner-up as a junior in the 3,200 meters at the 2010 Pennsylvania Outdoor State Track & Field Championships…finished 31st at the Footlocker Cross Country National Championships as a junior…placed sixth in the boy's 3,000-meter run at the 2011 Penn Relays.
Madi Greenleaf (Lakeridge High School / UCLA/ Lake Oswego, Ore.)
Personal Bests: 100 Hurdles – 14.65
Joins the Ducks after transferring from UCLA…finished second in the 100 and 300 hurdles at the OSAA 6A Championships in 2013.
