2022 Championships thread - Indoor track & Field - 6 Buffs competing (Being held 3/11-12 in Birmingham, AL; ESPN3; Women tie for 11th)

[AztecBuff]

I will be adding more info to this thread, and post, as more information becomes available and the meet gets closer, but wanted to start the thread now as it was announced this past Wednesday that 6 individual Buffs (5 women and 1 men) had earned and accepted entry into the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships, scheduled to be held this coming Friday & Saturday in Birmingham, Alabama.

Live coverage is scheduled to be on ESPN3, with a replay (sounds like only a 2 hour "highlight" summary) on ESPNU Sunday night. (More details and links near the bottom of this post.)

Go Buffs!


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Specific schedule for the Buffs participating - Will be provided later. (Hope/ assume that cubuffs.com will provide something nice as they usually do that I can just copy and paste.)
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Various Meet info and links:

NCAA detailed Meet homepage (Source for some of the important links below.) - http://www.rtspt.com/ncaa/d1indoor22/

NCAA headline homepages:
Women's - https://www.ncaa.com/sports/trackfield-indoor-women/d1
Men's - https://www.ncaa.com/sports/trackfield-indoor-men/d1

Event schedule (Note - all times on this look to be Central Time.) - http://www.rtspt.com/ncaa/d1indoor22/schedule.pdf

Lists of accepted athletes:
Women - http://www.rtspt.com/ncaa/d1indoor22/women_entry.htm
Men - http://www.rtspt.com/ncaa/d1indoor22/men_entry.htm

Heat Sheets/ Start lists -
Friday:
Women's - http://www.rtspt.com/ncaa/d1indoor22/women_start_day1.htm
Men's - http://www.rtspt.com/ncaa/d1indoor22/men_start_day1.htm
Saturday:
Women's - http://www.rtspt.com/ncaa/d1indoor22/women_start_day2.htm
Men's - http://www.rtspt.com/ncaa/d1indoor22/men_start_day2.htm

Live results - https://flashresults.ncaa.com/Indoor/2022/index.htm

Live Video - ESPN3, which I assume can be accessed through either the ESPN app or link(s) at https://www.espn.com/watch/ .

(In general, looks like the meet is to be shown, hopefully all-inclusively, live on ESPN3, beginning at 9:00 AM MT on Friday and 9:30 AM MT on Saturday.

This is from info at https://www.ncaa.com/news/trackfiel...d-womens-indoor-track-and-field-championships, which states
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ESPN3 will stream the championships live starting at 11 a.m. Eastern time Friday, March 11 and starting at 11:30 a.m. Eastern time Saturday, March 12. A re-air of the championship will take place starting at 9:30 p.m. Eastern time Sunday, March 13 on ESPNU.
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[AztecBuff]

Preview now out for the Championships, now only a little over a day and a half away from starting -




Direct link - https://cubuffs.com/news/2022/3/9/track-and-field-colorado-set-for-ncaa-championships.aspx


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BOULDER – The University of Colorado track and field program sends six student-athletes to the 2022 NCAA Indoor Track and Field National Championships this Friday and Saturday in Birmingham, Ala.

The Buffs will send one male athlete, Eduardo Herrera, in the men's 3,000-meter run. The women's squad will send five: Rachel McArthur in the mile, Micaela Degenero in the mile, Madie Boreman in the mile, Emily Covert in the 5,000-meter run and Avery McMullen in the pentathlon. The five CU women competing at nationals in individual events is the most since 2001.
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Live coverage of the meet will be streamed on ESPN3 on Friday, Mar. 11 starting at 9 a.m, while streaming will begin Saturday at 9:30 a.m. The meet will be re-aired Sunday, Mar. 13 on ESPNU at 7:30 p.m. MT. Live results will be available here.

Day	Time (MT)	Athlete	Event
Friday, Mar. 11	9:20 AM	Avery McMullen	Pentathlon - 60 Hurdles
	10:30 AM	Avery McMullen	Pentathlon - High Jump
	12:30 AM	Avery McMullen	Pentathlon - Shot Put
	1:30 PM	Avery McMullen	Pentathlon - Long Jump
	2:40 PM	Avery McMullen	Pentathlon - 800-meter run
	6:00 PM	Rachel McArthur	Mile Semifinals
	6:00 PM	Madie Boreman	Mile Semifinals
	6:00 PM	Micaela Degenero	Mile Semifinals
	7:05 PM	Emily Covert	5,000-meter run Finals
Saturday, Mar. 12	4:00 PM	Eduardo Herrera	3,000-meter run Finals
	6:00 PM	Rachel McArthur	Mile Finals
	6:00 PM	Madie Boreman	Mile Finals
	6:00 PM	Micaela Degenero	Mile Finals

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[AztecBuff]

Looks like the 1st Buff competing has started off strong in her multi-event competition.







(At this point, the high jump is also complete, and Ms. McMullin sits in 3rd overall.)

 

[AztecBuff]

 

[AztecBuff]

VERY nice prelims in the women's mile as all THREE Buffs running qualify for tomorrow evening's finals.

 

[AztecBuff]

4 Buffs will be in action starting later today.

 

[chipwich]

Holy ****. What a move

 

[AztecBuff]

I'd say ALL 6 Buffs who competed all had VERY solid to great performances at the Championships, led by (grad student) transfer Micaela Degenero pulling an upset in the women's mile in dominating fashion (see @chipwich's post above for a full replay of the race), joined by her 2 teammates in the race also earning valuable points with 4th (McArthur) and 8th place (Boreman) finishes.

As noted below, the women ended up with 17 points, good for a 3 way tie for 11th in the country, while the men's team also earned points with its lone participant Eduardo Herrera also earning 1st Team All-American status with his 5th place finish in the 3000M. (5 of the 6 Buffs at the Championships earned 1st Team All-American Honors, with the 6th (and I believe one of the two youngest?) ending up 2nd Team.)

Article -



Direct link - https://cubuffs.com/news/2022/3/12/track-and-field-degenero-captures-mile-national-championship.aspx

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BIRMINGHAM – Colorado track and field senior Micaela DeGenero captured the mile national title here Saturday, storming from last to first in the final quarter-mile to close out the 2022 NCAA Indoor Track and Field National Championships on the highest of notes for the Buffs.

DeGenero fought with the 10-woman field throughout the first 1200-meters of the race but settled in the back to avoid the congestion. With 420 meters to go, DeGenero put on the burners and never looked back. She took the lead before she even crossed the line with two laps remaining and built a 10-meter lead by the time she rounded the curve to the backstretch. No one was able to match her move as she closed the final 400 in 61 seconds.

With the title, DeGenero joins an illustrious group of NCAA mile indoor champions with the 2013 champion Emma Coburn and last year's champion Sage Hurta. This is the first time in NCAA history a school has won back-to-back NCAA women's mile national titles with two different student-athletes. It is the second time a school has gone back-to-back since the first NCAA championship for the women in 1983, as Suzy Favor won her second and third NCAA mile national titles for Wisconsin in 1989 and 1990.

Originally scheduled to be a 12-woman final, CU entered the race with a quarter of the finalists with Madie Boreman and Rachel McArthur joining DeGenero. Oddly enough, DeGenero nearly didn't make the final as she was the final time qualifier out of the first heat, but thankfully Boreman led the second heat to a slower time to assist DeGenero to get into the final. DeGenero is the first NCAA women's mile champion that made it from the last chance time qualifier position since at least 2005.
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The women picked up 16 points in the event, tying them for the third-most in a single event at the NCAA championships. Florida and Ole Miss both picked up 18 points in the triple jump and weight throw, respectfully. Virginia Tech tied the Buffs by picking up 16 points in the pole vault.

Earlier in the evening, Eduardo Herrera picked up his first NCAA Indoor First Team All-America honor after finishing fifth in the men's 3,000-meter final in 8:00.58.
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Herrera's lone performance tied the Buffs for 41st in the team title while the women finished the meet with 17 points to finish tied for 11th. Texas took home the men's title with 47 points, beating North Carolina A&T by 11 points. Florida had the title wrapped up before the 4x400-meter relay ever started, finishing with 68 points over Texas' 56. The CU women finished tied with Oregon for 11th as the top women's teams from the Pac-12.

With the indoor season completed, the Buffaloes move outdoors and start their season at home for the 2022 Jerry Quiller Classic this upcoming Friday and Saturday.
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Full results - https://flashresults.ncaa.com/Indoor/2022/results.pdf

Highlight of the end of the women's mile and interview with winner DeGenero-




Longer interview (from letsrun.com)with Ms. Degenero -