WSU Athletics announced that two track and field athletes, Elise Unrah-Thomas and Lee Walburn, were named January’s Academic Services Student Athletes of the Month Monday.

Unrah-Thomas is a graduate student who has run with WSU since 2019. Throughout her time with the Cougs, she has found herself within the top 10 all-time program records for the outdoor 200-meter, outdoor 100-meter, indoor 60-meter and indoor 300-meter. Additionally, her 4×400 relay team from 2022 sits at No. 8 in the WSU record book.

A senior humanities major and multi Coug, Walburn has “played a major role on Washington State’s Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC), contributing to conversations regarding the future of conference options for WSU athletes,” according to a WSU Athletics press release.

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Both athletes have enjoyed success and respectively made progress in the indoor season thus far. Umrah-Thomas’ best result thus far is marked by her second-place finish in the finals of the 200-meter at the Inland Northwest Invitational Jan. 27. Walburn’s tallied three PRs in the 60-meter (6.98), long jump (6.69m/21′ 11.5″) and shot put (14.83m/48′ 8″) in his recent heptathlon showcase at the New Mexico Collegiate Classic Feb. 2-3.