With the NCAA Indoor Track and Field & Cross Country Championships just completed within the last week (the later season re-scheduled from fall due to the pandemic), the track and field teams IMMEDIATELY switch to outdoor mode, with the 1st meet of the season (one of only two home meets this season - the Quiller Classic) scheduled this Friday and Saturday.
Best wishes to the men's and women's teams - hope they all stay healthy, run faster, jump longer and/ or higher and throw farther throughout the season!
As with the other "individual" sports, I plan on us using this thread to collect / report the results for and news regarding the team during the regular season, and then setting up individual Championships threads once the post-season begins (starting with the Pac 12 Championships scheduled to start May 14th).
Full Schedule
(Note- I'd say compared to ANY other Buff sport, the track and field teams' schedules are the most fluid, with it being common for meets in which the Buffs compete being added and dropped from the schedule even after it begins.):
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(Note- I just largely copied the below about qualifying for NCAA preliminaries from what I wrote/ quoted in 2019's outdoor T&F thread, with the main changes being updating the links to season's best to the current year's results.)
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- Not available as I type this.
Women's Heptathlon - https://www.tfrrs.org/lists/3191.html#event40
For other events (West region bests) -
Men's - https://www.tfrrs.org/lists/3193/2021_NCAA_Division_I_West_Outdoor_Qualifying/2021/o?gender=m
Women's - https://www.tfrrs.org/lists/3193/2021_NCAA_Division_I_West_Outdoor_Qualifying/2021/o?gender=f
Both genders events listed/ combined - https://www.tfrrs.org/lists/3193/2021_NCAA_Division_I_West_Outdoor_Qualifying/2021/o
(As I pasted this edit March 16th, 2021, 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 (or with 2020 cancelled, 2019) to get a ROUGH idea of what marks MIGHT be needed to qualify for regionals. 2019's marks for Western men can be found at https://www.tfrrs.org/archived_list...st_Outdoor_Qualifying_(FINAL)/2019/o?gender=m, while the women's is at https://www.tfrrs.org/archived_list...st_Outdoor_Qualifying_(FINAL)/2019/o?gender=f .)
Further note- The NCAA also allows a couple type of conversions be used to calculate the top marks-
Best wishes to the men's and women's teams - hope they all stay healthy, run faster, jump longer and/ or higher and throw farther throughout the season!
As with the other "individual" sports, I plan on us using this thread to collect / report the results for and news regarding the team during the regular season, and then setting up individual Championships threads once the post-season begins (starting with the Pac 12 Championships scheduled to start May 14th).
Full Schedule
(Note- I'd say compared to ANY other Buff sport, the track and field teams' schedules are the most fluid, with it being common for meets in which the Buffs compete being added and dropped from the schedule even after it begins.):
Date | Time | At | Opponent | Location | Tournament |
March 19, 2021 (Friday) | All Day | Home | Jerry Quiller Classic | Boulder, Colo. | |
March 20, 2021 (Saturday) | All Day | Home | Jerry Quiller Classic | Boulder, Colo. | |
April 2, 2021 (Friday) | All Day | Stanford Invitational | Stanford, Calif. | ||
April 3, 2021 (Saturday) | All Day | Colorado State Invitational | Fort Collins, Colo. | ||
April 9, 2021 (Friday) | All Day | Home | CU Invitational | Boulder, Colo. | |
April 10, 2021 (Saturday) | All Day | Home | CU Invitational | Boulder, Colo. | |
April 14, 2021 (Wednesday) | All Day | Mt. SAC / Bryan Clay Invitational | Azusa, Calif. | ||
April 15, 2021 (Thursday) | All Day | Mt. SAC / Bryan Clay Invitational | Azusa, Calif. | ||
April 16, 2021 (Friday) | All Day | Mt. SAC / Bryan Clay Invitational | Azusa, Calif. | ||
April 17, 2021 (Saturday) | All Day | Mt. SAC / Bryan Clay Invitational | Azusa, Calif. | ||
April 23, 2021 (Friday) | All Day | Doug Max Invitational | Fort Collins, Colo. | ||
April 30, 2021 (Friday) | All Day | West Coast Relays | Fresno, Calif. | ||
May 7, 2021 (Friday) | All Day | Payton Jordan Invitational | Stanford, Calif. | ||
May 8, 2021 (Saturday) | All Day | Air Force Twilight | USAFA, Colo. | ||
May 14, 2021 (Friday) | All Day | Pac-12 Championships - Day 1 | Los Angeles, Calif. | ||
May 15, 2021 (Saturday) | All Day | Pac-12 Championships - Day 2 | Los Angeles, Calif. | ||
May 16, 2021 (Sunday) | All Day | Pac-12 Championships - Day 3 | Los Angeles, Calif. | ||
May 27, 2021 (Thursday) | All Day | NCAA Preliminary Rounds | College Station, Texas | ||
May 28, 2021 (Friday) | All Day | NCAA Preliminary Rounds | College Station, Texas | ||
May 29, 2021 (Saturday) | All Day | NCAA Preliminary Rounds | College Station, Texas | ||
June 9, 2021 (Wednesday) | All Day | NCAA Outdoor Championships | Eugene, Ore. | ||
June 10, 2021 (Thursday) | All Day | NCAA Outdoor Championships | Eugene, Ore. | ||
June 11, 2021 (Friday) | All Day | NCAA Outdoor Championships | Eugene, Ore. | ||
June 12, 2021 (Saturday) | All Day | NCAA Outdoor Championships | Eugene, Ore. |
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(Note- I just largely copied the below about qualifying for NCAA preliminaries from what I wrote/ quoted in 2019's outdoor T&F thread, with the main changes being updating the links to season's best to the current year's results.)
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 marks*** , 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. (***Due to the pandemic, The NCAA initially announced only the top 32 marks in each individual event, only for 2021, would get to compete at each regional. However, on 4/29/2021 (see post #46), they announced they were reversing that change, and the normal 48 would get to compete.)
- 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- Not available as I type this.
Women's Heptathlon - https://www.tfrrs.org/lists/3191.html#event40
For other events (West region bests) -
Men's - https://www.tfrrs.org/lists/3193/2021_NCAA_Division_I_West_Outdoor_Qualifying/2021/o?gender=m
Women's - https://www.tfrrs.org/lists/3193/2021_NCAA_Division_I_West_Outdoor_Qualifying/2021/o?gender=f
Both genders events listed/ combined - https://www.tfrrs.org/lists/3193/2021_NCAA_Division_I_West_Outdoor_Qualifying/2021/o
(As I pasted this edit March 16th, 2021, 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 (or with 2020 cancelled, 2019) to get a ROUGH idea of what marks MIGHT be needed to qualify for regionals. 2019's marks for Western men can be found at https://www.tfrrs.org/archived_list...st_Outdoor_Qualifying_(FINAL)/2019/o?gender=m, while the women's is at https://www.tfrrs.org/archived_list...st_Outdoor_Qualifying_(FINAL)/2019/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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