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Football
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![Dean Janikowski wearing cowboy hat at high school football game with his mom Heather.](https://s3.wp.wsu.edu/uploads/sites/902/2023/07/2023fall-janikowski-podcast-thumb-198x198.jpg)
More than a kick
Dean Janikowski is the kicker for Washington State University’s football team, a 2022 graduate and currently an MBA student at WSU. He also has a great time on Instagram and other social media with photos and videos playing football for the Cougs, riding dirt bikes, and kicking spicy Chicken McNuggets.
In this episode, Dean talks with Washington State Magazine writer Becky Kramer about raising money for the Heather Janikowski Foundation, a charity named for his mom, who died of cancer.
Dean also talks about how he started his sports career in soccer, NIL (name, image, and likeness), and his … » More …
![Detroit Lions kicker Jason Hanson on the field](https://s3.wp.wsu.edu/uploads/sites/902/2023/02/2023spring-hansen-video-thumb-198x198.jpg)
Quite the kicking career
Jason Hanson booted his way into football history over more than two decades on the gridiron.
He set college records as the Cougar placekicker at Washington State University, then went on to even more in professional football during his 21 years with the Detroit Lions.
By the numbers
WSU career:
57.1 percent of field goals completed from 50 yards or greater (remains a Pac-12 Conference record)
Most field goals from 50 yards or more (20), and 40 yards or more (39) in NCAA football
62-yard field goal against UNLV in 1991 is still a WSU and Pac-12 record
WSU records: Second … » More …
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Talkback for Winter 2022
![WSU head football coach Jake Dickert wearing W hat and headset](https://s3.wp.wsu.edu/uploads/sites/902/2022/10/2022winter-strength-numbers-thumb-198x198.jpg)
Strength in numbers
![Jayden de Laura, then WSU quarterback, waves the WSU flag in a crowd after 2021 Apple Cup victory](https://s3.wp.wsu.edu/uploads/sites/902/2022/01/2022spring-cup-runneth-1-198x198.jpg)
The Cup runneth over
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Stand-in fans at the 2020 home football game
Watch a slideshow of stand-in fans and the Cougs in action during 2020’s singular home football game versus Oregon.
Please note that Pac-12 radio highlights of the game will play with this slideshow if you allow your browser to auto-play sound.
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Steve Gleason receives Congressional Gold Medal
![Nick Rolovich claps at his introduction as the new football coach at WSU](https://s3.wp.wsu.edu/uploads/sites/902/2020/04/2020summer-rolovich-players-thumb-198x198.jpg)
Nick Rolovich gets creative with scholarship awards
In the ever-revolving carousel of college football, a team’s head coach is often the most permanent fixture of a program.
Whether engendering support with their winning records or quotable moments during press conferences, college coaches must become well known if they hope to maintain a supportive fan base and attract the next generation of standouts on the field.
WSU Head Football Coach Nick Rolovich has spent the past four months acquainting himself with Coug fans; in-person at spur of the moment fan meetups or with his deft use of social media. His love … » More …
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TalkBack for Winter 2018
Instrumental journey
The article written by Wenda Reed on the life of Gladys Jennings was excellent. I graduated in ’92, and had Gladys as an advisor in the Food Science & Human Nutrition Department. I transferred to WSU from the University of Alaska, Anchorage in the fall of ’89, and Gladys was instrumental in that process. After phone conversations and mailings, the transition from U of A to WSU was seamless. She would guide me in my course choices while in Alaska, and told me that these courses would directly transfer. She was instrumental in the success I had as a student at … » More …