As with other individual sports, I'm setting up this thread to cover all the news and action for the track and field Teams' regular outdoor season.
(Pac 12 Championships start May 5th, so this thread will cover the teams, both men's and women's, until then.)
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To start the season, one of only two Buff home meets for the season is tomorrow and Saturday.
Meet info - http://cubuffs.com/documents/2018/3/12//2018_Jerry_Quiller_Classic_PDF_Small.pdf
(From the (prelim) schedule, looks like tomorrow is only field events, which start at 3:00 with the hammer throw. Saturday's action, both on the track and in more field events, starts at 11:00.
Also, looks like there may be no live results. But assume, after the fact, "Results: Meet results will be posted at www.cubuffs.com , www.TFRRS.org and www.DirectAthletics.com ")
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Edit- Wanted to add links to the official webpages where season bests are kept. This is important because, as far I've read(***) -
For multi-events (National bests) -
Men's Decathlon- https://www.tfrrs.org/lists/2279.html?gender=m#39
Women's Heptathlon - https://www.tfrrs.org/lists/2279/2018_NCAA_Division_I_Outdoor_Qualifying_List/2018/o?gender=f#40
For other events (West region bests) -
Men's - https://www.tfrrs.org/lists/2281/2018_NCAA_Div._I_West_Outdoor_Qualifying_List/2018/o?gender=m
Women's - https://www.tfrrs.org/lists/2281/2018_NCAA_Div._I_West_Outdoor_Qualifying_List/2018/o?gender=f
(As I write this edit April 20th, the season is still relatively young as to athlete working towards their best marks, so it's often more helpful to look at LAST season's marks to get a ROUGH idea of what marks MIGHT be needed to qualify for regionals. Last year's marks for Western men can be found at https://www.tfrrs.org/lists/1926/2017_NCAA_Div._I_West_Outdoor_Qualifying_(FINAL)/2017/o?gender=m, while the women's is at https://www.tfrrs.org/lists/1926/2017_NCAA_Div._I_West_Outdoor_Qualifying_(FINAL)/2017/o?gender=f .)
(*** One thing that's confusing me is I've seen a couple tweets by Coach Lindsey Malone where she's indicated one or another of her athletes have qualified for regionals (believe in the high jump) based on a height, but that obviously contradict what I wrote above about it just being the top 48 in each region with no set height known yet.)
Further note- The NCAA also allows a couple type of conversions be used to calculate the top marks-
(Pac 12 Championships start May 5th, so this thread will cover the teams, both men's and women's, until then.)
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To start the season, one of only two Buff home meets for the season is tomorrow and Saturday.
Meet info - http://cubuffs.com/documents/2018/3/12//2018_Jerry_Quiller_Classic_PDF_Small.pdf
(From the (prelim) schedule, looks like tomorrow is only field events, which start at 3:00 with the hammer throw. Saturday's action, both on the track and in more field events, starts at 11:00.
Also, looks like there may be no live results. But assume, after the fact, "Results: Meet results will be posted at www.cubuffs.com , www.TFRRS.org and www.DirectAthletics.com ")
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Edit- Wanted to add links to the official webpages where season bests are kept. This is important because, as far I've read(***) -
- For multi-event athletes, the top 24 marks in the country by a designated date (usually right after conference championships complete for all the teams) for each gender get to go to the NCAA championships and
- For all other individual events, the top 48 times, distances or heights in each preliminary region (west and east) by athletes who accept entry for each event by a designated date (usually right after conference championships complete for all the teams) get to go to the NCAA preliminaries to try and qualify for the championships.
- For the 4X100M and 4X400 meter relays, it's the Top 24 times in each of the 2 regions that qualify for the preliminaries.
For multi-events (National bests) -
Men's Decathlon- https://www.tfrrs.org/lists/2279.html?gender=m#39
Women's Heptathlon - https://www.tfrrs.org/lists/2279/2018_NCAA_Division_I_Outdoor_Qualifying_List/2018/o?gender=f#40
For other events (West region bests) -
Men's - https://www.tfrrs.org/lists/2281/2018_NCAA_Div._I_West_Outdoor_Qualifying_List/2018/o?gender=m
Women's - https://www.tfrrs.org/lists/2281/2018_NCAA_Div._I_West_Outdoor_Qualifying_List/2018/o?gender=f
(As I write this edit April 20th, the season is still relatively young as to athlete working towards their best marks, so it's often more helpful to look at LAST season's marks to get a ROUGH idea of what marks MIGHT be needed to qualify for regionals. Last year's marks for Western men can be found at https://www.tfrrs.org/lists/1926/2017_NCAA_Div._I_West_Outdoor_Qualifying_(FINAL)/2017/o?gender=m, while the women's is at https://www.tfrrs.org/lists/1926/2017_NCAA_Div._I_West_Outdoor_Qualifying_(FINAL)/2017/o?gender=f .)
(*** One thing that's confusing me is I've seen a couple tweets by Coach Lindsey Malone where she's indicated one or another of her athletes have qualified for regionals (believe in the high jump) based on a height, but that obviously contradict what I wrote above about it just being the top 48 in each region with no set height known yet.)
Further note- The NCAA also allows a couple type of conversions be used to calculate the top marks-
- For a few distances on the track, marks in NCAA non-standard races are converted up or down to be used for qualifying purposes. (For example- times in mile races outdoor can be converted to 1500M times.) The conversion factors for this are at http://www.ncaa.org/sites/default/files/NCAA_Track_Event_Conversions.pdf .
- Also, the NCAA has a SEPARATE APP (see http://www.ustfccca.org/meets-results/ncaa-championship-qualifying-criteria#d1OTF for the link) that converts all track times for events competed at altitude to official "sea level" times. (It's the converted times that show up in the above linked-to tfrrs.org top marks lists.) In general, middle distance (800M) and longer races run at altitude calculate to FASTER "sea level" times, while shorter races (400M and less) at altitude calculate to SLOWER times at sea level.
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