Thought I might as well start this thread, as the Championships are only a few days away. I'll add more details once things like the cubuffs.com preview article become available.
Best wishes to the 13 Buffs competing!
(I also pasted the below tweet in the prior thread for the NCAA Preliminaries thread, but obviously it is as much (if not more) applicable to this thread.)
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Some links -
Page with links to almost if not all of the resources below - http://www.rtspt.com/ncaa/d1outdoor19/
NCAA Homepage for the Championships - https://www.ncaa.com/championships/trackfield-outdoor/d1
Schedule of events - https://www.ncaa.com/championships/trackfield-outdoor/d1/events
(As was started a few years ago, the 4 days are broken out to 2 days each with only men and women competing (other than one of the men's and women's multi-event days overlapping). This year, the men's championships will be competed on Wednesday and Friday, the women on Thursday and Saturday.
Note- Haven't thought or read too much on whether this scheduling approach is overall a positive or negative thing. The one main negative I can think of is, especially for a distance school with some elite talent like CU has, it makes it tougher (but not impossible) for those distance runners to double, except for the 10K/ 5K. (These longest races are the only ones that don't have preliminary heats, and are late in the day on different days, so runners who do that double do get a day's rest between races (although of course coming back from a 10000M will have to have SOME effect on how well/ hard they can run the the 5000M). All the other running events have heats and then finals, which means anyone trying to double (or triple) will have at least 2 races in one if not both of their race days.)
Entries -
Men's - http://www.rtspt.com/ncaa/d1outdoor19/men_qualifiers.htm
Women's - http://www.rtspt.com/ncaa/d1outdoor19/women_qualifiers.htm
Heat sheets/ Start Lists -
Men's - http://www.rtspt.com/ncaa/d1outdoor19/men_start.htm
Women's - http://www.rtspt.com/ncaa/d1outdoor19/women_start.htm
Women's heptathlon - http://www.rtspt.com/ncaa/d1outdoor19/hep_start.htm
Live Video Coverage - Unlike cross country (which must be one of if not the only NCAA Championships in ANY sport competed that requires a premium paid website subscription to watch), have to give props to the NCAA and ESPN for these championships, as it looks like live coverage is extensive.
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Edit- wanted to add a couple things more in case anyone is interested:
Best wishes to the 13 Buffs competing!
(I also pasted the below tweet in the prior thread for the NCAA Preliminaries thread, but obviously it is as much (if not more) applicable to this thread.)
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Some links -
Page with links to almost if not all of the resources below - http://www.rtspt.com/ncaa/d1outdoor19/
NCAA Homepage for the Championships - https://www.ncaa.com/championships/trackfield-outdoor/d1
Schedule of events - https://www.ncaa.com/championships/trackfield-outdoor/d1/events
(As was started a few years ago, the 4 days are broken out to 2 days each with only men and women competing (other than one of the men's and women's multi-event days overlapping). This year, the men's championships will be competed on Wednesday and Friday, the women on Thursday and Saturday.
Note- Haven't thought or read too much on whether this scheduling approach is overall a positive or negative thing. The one main negative I can think of is, especially for a distance school with some elite talent like CU has, it makes it tougher (but not impossible) for those distance runners to double, except for the 10K/ 5K. (These longest races are the only ones that don't have preliminary heats, and are late in the day on different days, so runners who do that double do get a day's rest between races (although of course coming back from a 10000M will have to have SOME effect on how well/ hard they can run the the 5000M). All the other running events have heats and then finals, which means anyone trying to double (or triple) will have at least 2 races in one if not both of their race days.)
Entries -
Men's - http://www.rtspt.com/ncaa/d1outdoor19/men_qualifiers.htm
Women's - http://www.rtspt.com/ncaa/d1outdoor19/women_qualifiers.htm
Heat sheets/ Start Lists -
Men's - http://www.rtspt.com/ncaa/d1outdoor19/men_start.htm
Women's - http://www.rtspt.com/ncaa/d1outdoor19/women_start.htm
Women's heptathlon - http://www.rtspt.com/ncaa/d1outdoor19/hep_start.htm
Live Video Coverage - Unlike cross country (which must be one of if not the only NCAA Championships in ANY sport competed that requires a premium paid website subscription to watch), have to give props to the NCAA and ESPN for these championships, as it looks like live coverage is extensive.
- Evening (and partly afternoon on Saturday) running events (in addition to I assume some field and multi-event highlights) are being televised on ESPN or ESPN2:
- Wednesday, 6/5 (Men's semifinals and 10000M final) - ESPN2 - Starts 5:30 PM MT (scheduled to end at 9:00 PM MT)
- Thursday 6/6 (Women's semifinals and 10000M final; day one of men's decathlon) - (Edit) ESPNU - Starts at 6:00 PM MT, then moves over to ESPN2 at 7:00 PM MT (scheduled to end at 9:30 PM MT)
- Friday 6/7 (Men's finals; day one of women's heptathlon) - ESPN - Starts 6:30 PM MT (scheduled to end at 9:00 PM MT)
- Saturday 6/8 (Women's finals) - ESPN2 - Starts 2:30 PM MT (scheduled to end at 7:00 PM MT)
- In addition, there will be different streams for each of the individual field events, along with all the decathlon and heptathlon events not included in the regular TV broadcasts, with links to the streams available at https://www.ncaa.com/championships/trackfield-outdoor/d1/broadcast-info
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Edit- wanted to add a couple things more in case anyone is interested:
- As is I believe very common for team track meets, scoring for these championships is as follows, with the top 8 finishers earning points as follows 1st place - 10, then 8, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.
- In addition to points, assume it is an incredible honor to be named an All-American. All-American status in track is purely determined based on how an athlete finishes in these championships. The top 8 finishers earn 1st Team honors, 9-16 earn 2nd team honors, and 17-24 earning Honorable Mention.
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