So, looks like the Buffs finished with a solid 5th place finish for the women (same as last year), while the men accomplish a MPSF best ever finish of 6th. Now, time for those who qualified for NCAA's to get ready for that, while for the rest of the team members, I assume it's time to prepare to welcome the sun- it's only a couple weeks until OUTDOOR season starts.
Also, congrats to John Dressel- he contributed with another CU individual win!
Article on today's action -
http://www.cubuffs.com/news/2017/2/...e-out-mpsf-championships-with-two-titles.aspx
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SEATTLE, WASH. — The University of Colorado track team claimed the men's mile and the men's 3,000 meter titles with
Ben Saarel and
John Dressel, here Saturday at the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Indoor Track and Field Championships.
TEAM SCORES
The men recorded their highest MPSF finish in school history as they came in sixth overall. The highest previous finish in the MPSF by the men was 10th from last season. The Colorado women tied their highest finish in the MPSF Championships in fifth place. Last season the Buffs finished fifth as well.
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QUOTABLE (Head Coach Mark Wetmore)
Both teams were a little higher in team scores than I expected. We were higher in team points and quite a bit higher in our placement than I expected. Overall I am pretty pleased.
We started the day with points in the men's heptathlon,
Andrew Ghizzone has always had a great second day and today he moved himself up into seventh place overall. For him, he had a really good hurdles and as usual a good vault and then he won the 1,000 meters to move himself from 13th place to seventh place.
We had some good points in the mile with
Ben Saarel adding another victory for us. We swept the distance events on the men's side with the mile, 3,000 and 5,000.
Kaityln Benner was a big point scorer for us in the 3,000 meters, finishing second with a time that will end up in the top six or eight all-time for CU.
Lots of small points which is great to go along with the big distance points adding up to team finishes that I am really happy with. And we added a few people who will go to Nationals so I am overall pretty pleased.
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