Former UC Santa Barbara star Barbara Nwaba will begin two days of Heptathlon competition at the Rio Olympics on Friday. The event will include four events on Friday and three on Saturday.

UC Santa Barbara's Barbara Nwaba experienced her first Olympic Heptathlon and, in the end, finished in 12th-place.

UCSB assistant track and field coach Annett Fleming has been named the Head Coach for the German 2016 Thorpe Cup team. Fleming will lead a young squad of German heptathletes against a veteran US squad in the annual US vs. German dual meet which will be...

Barbara Nwaba, a former UCSB All-American won the 2016 Olympic Trials in the heptathlon at Oregon's Hayward Field on Sunday afternoon, qualifying her for the Rio Olympics. Nwaba's final score of 6494 was 71 points ahead of the nearest competitor. Nwaba...

Two UCSB freshman have qualified and are set to compete at the USA Track and Field Junior National Championships in Clovis, CA this Friday through Sunday at Buchanan High School. Hope Bender, a first year Gaucho from Newport Harbor goes into the meet r...

After winning 23 career collegiate meets in the high jump, back-to-back Big West titles and earning three trips to the NCAA First Round, UCSB senior Jessica Emde will conclude her outstanding UCSB run at Oregon's Histoic Hayward Field this Saturday at ...

UCSB senior Jessica Emde placed 21st at the 2016 NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships on Saturday in Eugene, Ore. Emde cleared her opening height of 5'8 before passing the next bar (5'10) and attempting 5'11.25. She had the chance to jump for fif...

Twelves UCSB track and field athletes have qualified for the NCAA First Round competition which will be held at the University of Kansas, Thursday-Saturday, May 26-28. Six men and six women are set to compete in individual events in search of a top-twe...

While the 2016 NCAA West Regional might make it's way into the record books for most weather delays and schedule changes in meet history, UCSB senior Jessica Emde was money in the bank, clearing her first three heights on first attempts, placing eighth...

UCSB T&F Seniors, Shyan Vaziri and Tori Tsolis claim this year's Big West Conference Track Athletes of the Year.