University of Washington Women's Cross Country

Powells' Vision To Serve Student-Athletes | Maurica Powell Is An 'In-The-Trenches' Coach Led UW to fourth-place finishes at 2025 NCAA Indoor and NCAA Outdoor T&F Championships Led UW to No. 2 in 2025 Program of the Year Rankings Has coached UW to 15 Top-25 team finishes at NCAA Championship meets 2023 Pac-12 Women's Cross Country Coach of the Year 2023 USTFCCCA West Region Women's XC Coach of the Year Maurica Powell took the helm at Washington along with her husband Andy in the summer of 2018 as the program’s first Director of Track & Field and Cross Country, specifically overseeing the UW women. The 2025 season was a new historic high-water mark for the women’s program, as Powell’s Huskies had matching fourth-place finishes at the NCAA Indoor and Outdoor Track Championships, and Washington finished No. 2 in the USTFCCCA Program of the Year Rankings. Powell oversees all facets of the Husky track program as well as coaching the women’s distance athletes in cross country and track, while Andy Powell works in concert as the Head Coach of Track & Field and Cross Country, focusing on the men’s team. The Powells each had their contracts extended through the 2029 season after their first four seasons on Montlake. Powell did wonders at her previous stop, turning the women’s distance program at the University of Oregon into a dominant powerhouse over twelve seasons in Eugene, with multiple NCAA team championships and record-breaking individual success on a year-in, year-out basis. Thr