Pat Licari Hometown: Sumner, Wash. Position: Assistant Coach, Vault/Jumps/Multi Experience: 12th Year

Twelve years into Pat Licari's tenure at Washington, and the veteran coach continues to churn out All-Americans on a yearly basis.

Over the past 11 seasons, Licari has developed some of the nation's premier vaulters, including one Olympian, two NCAA champions, two Pac-10 champions and eight different All-Americans.

The 2008 season may have been Licari's best yet. Indoors, senior Kelley DiVesta continued to improve all the way through her final national meet, as she set a lifetime-best at NCAA Indoors of 13-9 ¼ to earn her first All-American honor. In one of the year's most stunning success stories, junior Jared O'Connor raised his PR by nearly a foot at the final two outdoor meets, winning the NCAA West Regional title and then finishing in a tie for second at the NCAA Championships.

In 2007, Husky fans used to watching the nation's top vaulters were treated to the emergence of freshman Scott Roth under Licari's guidance. Roth picked up All-American honors both indoors (11th) and outdoors (8th), and captured gold at the 2007 Pan-American Junior Athletics Championships in São Paulo, Brazil. Roth's best indoor jump of 18-1 ¾ broke the UW freshman indoor record set by Olympian and World Champion Brad Walker.

Licari guided Walker to back-to-back NCAA indoor titles in 2003 and 2004, and a collegiate-best clearance of 19-0 1/4 that is a Pac-10 record, and the sixth-best mark ever by a collegiate vaulter. Licari continues to train Walker during the latter's professional career, guiding the former Husky to gold medals at the 2006 IAAF World Indoor Championships and 2007 IAAF World Outdoor Championships, as well as four U.S. National titles. In June of 2008, Walker cleared 19-9 ¾ at the Prefontaine Classic to break the American record which had stood for eight years. Walker would go on to represent the U.S.A. at the Beijing Olympic Games.

Licari has enjoyed equal success on the women's side. Washington in 2005 became the first school in America to qualify four women's vaulters for the NCAA Championships, doing so both indoors and out. Senior Kate Soma won the NCAA title outdoors -- Licari's third NCAA champion in as many years -- and was the national runner-up indoors, earning the fourth and fifth All-America honors of her collegiate career.

Carly Dockendorf (sixth outdoors) and Ashley Wildhaber (fifth indoors) also earned All-America honors at the NCAA meet, while Stevie Marshalek and Kelley DiVesta each earned NCAA Championships berths.

All five women's vaulters topped the 13-foot mark -- a feat never before accomplished by any women's collegiate vault unit -- while Soma's collegiate-best vault of 14-3 1/2 ranks seventh in collegiate history.

Licari has also had great success with his jumpers. Last season, Norris Frederick completed one of the greatest careers of any Husky in any event. Frederick was the only athlete in the NCAA who was an All-American in both the long jump and high jump, and he did that both indoors and out. The four All-American honors brought Frederick's career total to nine, tied for second-most ever at Washington. Frederick also set personal-bests in both events, and his 26-foot, 7 ¾-inch long jump to win the MPSF title was a school record. He went on to compete in the Olympic Trials.

In 2005, J.R. Wolfork was an NCAA long jumper qualifier and Frederick and Warren Eickhoff became the first Husky duo to top seven feet in the high jump since 1989.

Both Walker and Soma competed at the 2004 U.S. Olympic Trials, with Walker winning his second-straight NCAA indoor title, and Soma winning the Pac-10 title and finishing runner-up at NCAA Outdoors. Four Husky women's vaulters cleared 13 feet, while three earned NCAA Championships invitations.

In 2003, Walker earned his first NCAA indoor title while Soma placed sixth at the NCAA meet. Licari's most unlikely success, however, was converted gymnast Carly Dockendorf, who climbed into the top-10 in Canadian history after less than one full calendar year of work with Licari and would eventually earn All-America honors.

Walker won his first of two-straight Pac-10 titles in 2002, was runner-up at the NCAA Championships, and placed sixth at the U.S. Senior Nationals.

In all, Licari's athletes have combined for three NCAA titles, four Pac-10 titles, and 25 All-America awards during his 11 years at UW.

Licari was head cross country and track coach at Highline Community College from 1991-96 before coming to the UW in 1997.

A native of Sumner, Wash., Licari was a prep All-American and state pole vault champion at Sumner High School, and earned All-Pac-10 honors in the event at Washington State.

Licari and his wife, Jean -- the head track coach at Federal Way High School -- have two daughters, Katelin and Madison.