text:  Good news and bad news for former Boise State athletes Thursday at the U.S. Olympic team qualifying trials in Eugene, Oregon. The good news, Marissa Howard, who started her Bronco career as Marissa Vandermal and has been a Boise State coach and a nurse in the Boise School District, finished third in the women's 3,000-meter steeplechase with a time of 9 minutes and 7.14 seconds and will be competing next month at the Olympic Games in Paris at the age of 31.