I will probably add more to this original post as I have the time, but a cubuffs.com preview is now out for the Multi-Event competitions (Decathlon for the men and heptathlon for the women) for the Pac 12 Outdoor Track and Field Championships, with I assume Tucson weather necessitating a relatively late start (5:00 & 5:30) for both.
As noted in the thread title, all the other (individual) track and field events will be contested next weekend.
Best of luck to the 5 Buffs competing at Pac 12's this weekend, as well as the throwers at the Air Force meet! (I assume the later are attempting to improve their season bests to get in better flights (is that what they're called?) next weekend.)
GO BUFFS!!!!!!!
Multi-events preview -
Direct link - https://cubuffs.com/news/2019/5/2/track-and-field-five-enter-pac-12-multi-championships.aspx
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BOULDER – The University of Colorado track and field program sends five individuals in the Pac-12 Championships heptathlon and decathlon this weekend in Tucson.
Three senior women will compete in their final Pac-12 Championships when Michaela Wenning, Maja Wichhart-Donzo and Drianna Mustin begin the heptathlon Saturday at 5 p.m (PT). Freshman Josh Farmer will compete in his first Pac-12 Championships in the decathlon which begins at 5:30 p.m. (PT) alongside Wyatt Rhoads.
Wenning and Wichart-Donzo are the 14th and 17th-ranked heptathletes in the nation right now with the top-24 heading straight to the NCAA National Championships. The duo both to remain in the standings and currently have a 230-point lead on 24th place after both had performance best performances at the Bryan Clay Invitational.
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Colorado will also send throwers to Air Force this weekend at the Air Force Twilight Open. Tyler Sconce will compete in the shot put, discus and hammer throw, while Brock Knechtel and Caleb Penner will both throw the hammer and discus. Henry Carlson will also compete in the discus and javelin. For the women, Mariah Walker will toss the shot and discus, while Elisa Grandemange will compete in the hammer and javelin.
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Pac 12 Championships Homepage - https://pac-12.com/track-field/championships
Overall schedule - http://static.pac-12.com.s3.amazonaws.com/sports/trackfield/pdf/2019/2019-TF-Champs-Schedule.pdf
Entries -
Multi Events - http://static.pac-12.com.s3.amazonaws.com/sports/trackfield/pdf/2019/19_Pac-12_multis_entries.pdf
Entries for all other events - http://static.pac-12.com.s3.amazona...ld/pdf/2019/2019_Pac-12_TF_Champs_entries.pdf
Heat sheets/ Start Lists for the 2nd weekend's events and races - http://static.pac-12.com.s3.amazonaws.com/sports/trackfield/pdf/2019/2019_Pac-12_TF_Champs_heats.pdf
Live Results:
Individual events - http://finishedresults.trackscoreboard.com/#/results/meet/8213 (Linked to from https://registration.finishedresults.com/meets/1213.)
Team Scores - http://finishedresults.trackscoreboard.com/#/results/meet/8213/score
Live Video Coverage (Looks like none for the Multi-event portion.) - From the Pac 12 homepage linked to above -
"Pac-12 Network will broadcast live starting at 7:30 p.m. PT/ 8:30 p.m. MT on May 11 and at 6 p.m. PT/ 7:30 p.m. MT on May 12."
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(Note - The below is just copied from the Regular Season thread, and is important in that Pac 12's is the last chance for the Buffs to improve their season's bests if they have aspirations of qualifying for NCAA Preliminaries and Championships.)
Edit- Wanted to add links to the official webpages where outdoor season bests are kept. This is important because, as from what I've read (see http://www.ustfccca.org/meets-results/ncaa-championship-qualifying-criteria#d1OTF for the full qualifying procedures.) -
For multi-events (National bests; since there are no multi-event marks yet as I type this in mid-March, the links are to the generic lists for all events for each gender as of now.) -
Men's Decathlon-
https://www.tfrrs.org/lists/2568/2019_NCAA_Division_I_Outdoor_Qualifying/2019/o?gender=m
Women's Heptathlon - https://www.tfrrs.org/lists/2568/2019_NCAA_Division_I_Outdoor_Qualifying/2019/o?gender=f
For other events (West region bests) -
Men's - https://www.tfrrs.org/lists/2570/2018_NCAA_Div._I_West_Outdoor_Qualifying_List/2019/o?gender=m
Women's - https://www.tfrrs.org/lists/2570/2019_NCAA_Div._I_West_Outdoor_Qualifying/2019/o?gender=f
Both genders events listed/ combined - https://www.tfrrs.org/lists/2570.html
(As I pasted this edit March 16th, 2019, the season is still very young as to athletes 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/2281/2018_NCAA_Div._I_West_Outdoor_Qualifying_List/2018/o?gender=m, while the women's is at https://www.tfrrs.org/lists/2281/2018_NCAA_Div._I_West_Outdoor_Qualifying_List/2018/o?gender=f .)
Further note- The NCAA also allows a couple type of conversions be used to calculate the top marks-
As noted in the thread title, all the other (individual) track and field events will be contested next weekend.
Best of luck to the 5 Buffs competing at Pac 12's this weekend, as well as the throwers at the Air Force meet! (I assume the later are attempting to improve their season bests to get in better flights (is that what they're called?) next weekend.)
GO BUFFS!!!!!!!
Multi-events preview -
Direct link - https://cubuffs.com/news/2019/5/2/track-and-field-five-enter-pac-12-multi-championships.aspx
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BOULDER – The University of Colorado track and field program sends five individuals in the Pac-12 Championships heptathlon and decathlon this weekend in Tucson.
Three senior women will compete in their final Pac-12 Championships when Michaela Wenning, Maja Wichhart-Donzo and Drianna Mustin begin the heptathlon Saturday at 5 p.m (PT). Freshman Josh Farmer will compete in his first Pac-12 Championships in the decathlon which begins at 5:30 p.m. (PT) alongside Wyatt Rhoads.
Wenning and Wichart-Donzo are the 14th and 17th-ranked heptathletes in the nation right now with the top-24 heading straight to the NCAA National Championships. The duo both to remain in the standings and currently have a 230-point lead on 24th place after both had performance best performances at the Bryan Clay Invitational.
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Colorado will also send throwers to Air Force this weekend at the Air Force Twilight Open. Tyler Sconce will compete in the shot put, discus and hammer throw, while Brock Knechtel and Caleb Penner will both throw the hammer and discus. Henry Carlson will also compete in the discus and javelin. For the women, Mariah Walker will toss the shot and discus, while Elisa Grandemange will compete in the hammer and javelin.
"
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Pac 12 Championships Homepage - https://pac-12.com/track-field/championships
Overall schedule - http://static.pac-12.com.s3.amazonaws.com/sports/trackfield/pdf/2019/2019-TF-Champs-Schedule.pdf
Entries -
Multi Events - http://static.pac-12.com.s3.amazonaws.com/sports/trackfield/pdf/2019/19_Pac-12_multis_entries.pdf
Entries for all other events - http://static.pac-12.com.s3.amazona...ld/pdf/2019/2019_Pac-12_TF_Champs_entries.pdf
Heat sheets/ Start Lists for the 2nd weekend's events and races - http://static.pac-12.com.s3.amazonaws.com/sports/trackfield/pdf/2019/2019_Pac-12_TF_Champs_heats.pdf
Live Results:
Individual events - http://finishedresults.trackscoreboard.com/#/results/meet/8213 (Linked to from https://registration.finishedresults.com/meets/1213.)
Team Scores - http://finishedresults.trackscoreboard.com/#/results/meet/8213/score
Live Video Coverage (Looks like none for the Multi-event portion.) - From the Pac 12 homepage linked to above -
"Pac-12 Network will broadcast live starting at 7:30 p.m. PT/ 8:30 p.m. MT on May 11 and at 6 p.m. PT/ 7:30 p.m. MT on May 12."
________________________________________________________________
(Note - The below is just copied from the Regular Season thread, and is important in that Pac 12's is the last chance for the Buffs to improve their season's bests if they have aspirations of qualifying for NCAA Preliminaries and Championships.)
Edit- Wanted to add links to the official webpages where outdoor season bests are kept. This is important because, as from what I've read (see http://www.ustfccca.org/meets-results/ncaa-championship-qualifying-criteria#d1OTF for the full qualifying procedures.) -
- 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 who accept entry in each of the 2 regions that qualify for the preliminaries.
For multi-events (National bests; since there are no multi-event marks yet as I type this in mid-March, the links are to the generic lists for all events for each gender as of now.) -
Men's Decathlon-
https://www.tfrrs.org/lists/2568/2019_NCAA_Division_I_Outdoor_Qualifying/2019/o?gender=m
Women's Heptathlon - https://www.tfrrs.org/lists/2568/2019_NCAA_Division_I_Outdoor_Qualifying/2019/o?gender=f
For other events (West region bests) -
Men's - https://www.tfrrs.org/lists/2570/2018_NCAA_Div._I_West_Outdoor_Qualifying_List/2019/o?gender=m
Women's - https://www.tfrrs.org/lists/2570/2019_NCAA_Div._I_West_Outdoor_Qualifying/2019/o?gender=f
Both genders events listed/ combined - https://www.tfrrs.org/lists/2570.html
(As I pasted this edit March 16th, 2019, the season is still very young as to athletes 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/2281/2018_NCAA_Div._I_West_Outdoor_Qualifying_List/2018/o?gender=m, while the women's is at https://www.tfrrs.org/lists/2281/2018_NCAA_Div._I_West_Outdoor_Qualifying_List/2018/o?gender=f .)
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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