Mountain Pacific Sports Federation
Al Beaird • Executive Director
530.669.7600 • 530.304.3889 cell
[email protected]
www.mpsports.org
2017 MPSF INDOOR TRACK AND FIELD CHAMPIONSHIP PREVIEW
Championship Information: http://www.gohuskies.com/sports/2013/4/18/208218572.aspx
Live Results: http://static.gohuskies.com/custompages/trackresults/022417/index.htm
Live Video Stream (Flotrack): http://bit.ly/2ihUQR0
Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Indoor Track and Field celebrates its 25th year of competition with the 2017 championship meet at the
University of Washington’s Dempsey Indoor Facility for the 15th consecutive season, Friday and Saturday (Feb. 24-25). Friday begins at 12 noon
(PT) with the women’s weight throw and concludes at 7:25 p.m. with the men’s Distance Medley Relay. The first event Saturday takes off at
10:30 a.m. with the men’s heptathlon 60-meter hurdles. The men’s 4 X 400 meter relay will end this year’s championship meet at 2:40 p.m. The
2017 MPSF Championship features 20 universities comprised from members of the Pac-12, Big West, and West Coast Conferences. A total of
35 teams will compete for a conference title, 20 for the women and 15 for the men. Joining the MPSF for the first time will be the men and women
from UC Riverside.
In 2016, the Oregon women took back the conference crown after a two-year run by USC. The Ducks proceeded to win their sixth national title in
the last seven years. The Oregon men have won the last three NCAA Championships, though USC won its first MPSF title last year. The 2017
NCAA Men’s and Women’s Indoor Track and Field Championships will be contested March 10 and 11, at Gilliam Indoor Track in College Station,
TX. The MPSF has produced eight of the last 10 NCAA women’s champions and 10 all-time, while the MPSF men own five total.
On the women’s side, six-time NCAA Champion Oregon is the nation’s No. 1 ranked team (244.40 points). USC is fifth (119.70), BYU is 17th
(43.16), Arizona No. 20 (33.78), Colorado No. 22 (31.24), and Stanford No. 23 (30.98). BYU’s ranking is its first in the four-year tenure of Head
Coach Ed Eyestone….Oregon men rank third nationally (105.79), along with Colorado No. 7 (79.44), USC No. 17 (50.97), Washington No. 19
(49.98), and Stanford No. 22 (45.03). Across the nation, the MPSF as a conference holds a No. 2 index rating for both the men and women.
Rankings are as of February 20, 2017, provided by www.ustfccca.org and www.tfrrs.org.
MPSF CHAMPIONSHIP SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24
12:00 pm:
12:15 pm:
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5:40 pm:
6:00 pm:
6:20 pm:
6:45 pm:
7:10 pm:
7:25 pm:
Women’s Weight Throw – FINAL
Pent: Women’s 60m Hurdles
Pent: Women’s High Jump
Women’s Pole Vault – FINAL
Hept: Men’s 60 meters
Pent: Women’s Shot Put
Hept: Men’s Long Jump
Hept: Men’s Shot Put
Pent: Women’s Long Jump
Women’s 60m Hurdles – PRELIM
Men’s 60m Hurdles – PRELIM
Hept: Men’s High Jump – FINAL
Women’s 60 meters – PRELIM
Men’s 60 meters – PRELIM
Women’s Long Jump – FINAL
Men’s Long Jump – FINAL
Men’s Weight Throw – FINAL
Men’s Pole Vault – FINAL
Pent: Women’s 800 meters
Women’s 5000 meters – FINAL
Men’s 5000 meters – FINAL
Women’s 200 meters – FINAL
Men’s 200 meters – FINAL
Women’s DMR – FINAL
Men’s DMR – FINAL
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25
10:30 am:
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11:00 am:
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12:45 pm:
1:00 pm:
1:00 pm:
1:20 pm:
1:45 pm:
2:10 pm:
2:25 pm:
2:40 pm:
Hept: Men’s 60m Hurdles
Women’s Shot Put – FINAL
Women’s High Jump – FINAL
Women’s Triple Jump – FINAL
Women’s Mile – FINAL
Men’s Mile – FINAL
Hept: Men’s Pole Vault
Women’s 60m Hurdles – FINAL
Men’s 60m Hurdles – FINAL
Women’s 400 meters – FINAL
Men’s 400 meters – FINAL
Women’s 60 meters – FINAL
Men’s 60 meters – FINAL
Women’s 800 meters – FINAL
Men’s Shot Put – FINAL
Men’s High Jump – FINAL
Men’s Triple Jump – FINAL
Men’s 800 meters – FINAL
Women’s 3000 meters – FINAL
Men’s 3000 meters – FINAL
Hept: Men’s 1000 meters
Women’s 4x400m Relay – FINAL
Men’s 4x400m Relay – FINAL
2017 MPSF Indoor Track & Field • Page 1
2017 MPSF TOP INDOOR TRACK AND FIELD PERFORMANCES
Sprints/Hurdles:
The Oregon women own three of the nation’s top-10 60-meter dash sprints, as Hannah Cunliffe set a school, NCAA, and world record of
7.07 (7.09 NCAA altitude converted) on Feb. 10 at New Mexico. Deajah Stevens is fifth in the NCAA (7.23) and Makenzie Dunmore 10th
(7.27). Oregon’s Sasha Wallace has an NCAA-best 7.91 in the 60-meter hurdles. The MPSF has the NCAA’s top-four 200-meter
sprinters. Record holder Deajah Stevens of Oregon is No. 1 nationally (22.65), followed by Cunliffe No. 2 (22.67), USC’s Deanna Hill No.
3 (22.74), and Oregon’s Ariana Washington No. 4 (22.87). Ellis ranks second in the NCAA 400-meter (51.52), while Arizona’s Sage
Watson is fifth. Each of this year’s top MPSF sprinters (Cunliffe, Wallace, Stevens, and Ellis) are defending champions in the conference.
In their first three seasons in the MPSF, USC women have won seven of the 12 possible championship sprints, including all four in their
initial year of 2014.
USC’s Just’n Thymes ranks No. 2 in the nation in the men’s 200-meter (20.47), just one-hundredth of a second off the NCAA lead. His
teammate Marquis Morris ranks sixth in the men’s 60-meter hurdles (7.73). Oregon’s Braxton Canady is tied for seventh, one-hundredth
of a second behind (7.74). The Ducks’ Kyree King is No. 7 in the nation in the men’s 60-meter dash (6.62), while Trojan defending
champion Ricky Morgan is tied for 14th nationally in the 400-meter.
2017 Top Women Performers
*% 60m
Hannah Cunliffe, Oregon
7.09
*% 60m Hurdles Sasha Wallace, Oregon
7.91
*% 200m
Deajah Stevens, Oregon
22.65
*400m
Kendall Ellis, USC
51.52
*2016 MPSF Champion…% 2017 NCAA No. 1 Time
2017 Top Men Performers:
60m
Kyree King, Oregon
60m Hurdles Marquis Morris, USC
200m
Just’n Thymes, USC
*400m
Ricky Morgan, USC
*2016 MPSF Champion
6.62
7.73
20.47
46.41
Middle Distance/Distance Races:
BYU’s Shea Collinsworth has the nation’s second-ranked women’s 800-meter (2:01.42), while Oregon’s Raevyn Rogers is right behind in
third (2:01.75). Dani Jones of Colorado ranks fourth in the mile (4:32.68). Oregon freshman Katie Rainsberger owns the nation’s topranked time in the 3,000-meter (9:01.21), with Jones in third (9:02.22) and Stanford’s Vanessa Fraser rounding out the NCAA’s top-five
(9:04.78). Portland’s Lauren LaRocco is tops in the MPSF and ninth nationally in the 5,000-meter (9:01.21).
The MPSF continues to carry one of the nation’s strongest set of men’s distance runners across the nation. Oregon’s Edward Cheserek
is the nation’s leader in the 5,000 meter in 13:32.59. Cheserek is an eight-time NCAA indoor champion, twice each in the 5000, 3,000,
and distance medley relay, and once in the mile. He is also a five-time national athlete of the year (twice track, three-time cross country).
Washington’s Colby Gilbert ranks second in the NCAA 5,000-meter (13:34.85), followed by Colorado’s John Dressel in fifth (13:42.57).
The top-two NCAA spots are reversed in the 3,000-meter, with Gilbert No. 1 (7:45.71) and Cheserek No. 2 (7:46.85). BYU’s Clayton
Young ranks fifth (7:49.76), while Stanford’s Jack Keelan (7:51.20) and Colorado’s Joe Klecker (7:51.43) are also ranked in the top-10.
Colorado has the nation’s top three mile runners this year in Ben Saarel (3:55.60), Klecker (3:55.82), and Zach Perrin (3:56.36). This
event produced an NCAA-best time, fastest American indoor mile in NCAA history, along with a meet and facility record in 2016,
achieved by Izaic Yorks of Washington. In the men’s 800-meter, Abraham Alvarado has recorded a top-10 NCAA time of 1:47.46.
2017 Top Women Performers:
800m
Shea Collinsworth, BYU
Mile
Dani Jones, Colorado
% 3,000m
Katie Rainsberger, Oregon
5,000m
Lauren LaRocco, Portland
% 2017 NCAA No. 1 Time
2:01.42
4:32.68
9:01.21
15:54.26
2017 Top Men Performers:
800m
Abraham Alvarado, BYU
% Mile
Ben Saarel, Colorado
% 3,000m
Colby Gilbert, Washington
% 5,000m
Edward Cheserek, Oregon
% 2017 NCAA No. 1 Time
1:47.46
3:55.60
7:45.71
13:32.59
Relays:
Oregon owns the nation’s No. 1 women’s distance medley relay in 10:48.77 (Burdon, Horsley, Rogers, Rainsberger). BYU ranks third
(10:56.93). Oregon’s 4x400 meter relay ranks No. 3 nationally on the women’s side at 3:30.29, with USC close behind in fourth (3:30.66).
The women’s 4x400 conference and facility record has been broken each of last two years, and three of the last four, with Arizona taking
down the standards last year in 3:32.54..
USC is the defending MPSF Champion in the men’s 1600-meter relay, and checks in this year with a No. 13 national ranking (3:06.01).
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Stanford’s ‘C’ team (Dinger, Shumway, Smith, Keelan) in the men’s distance medley relay ranks third in the nation in 9:28.72.
2017 Top Women Performers:
4x400 Relay Oregon
DMR
*Oregon
% 2017 NCAA No. 1 Time
3:30.29
10:48.77
2017 Top Men Performers:
4x400 Relay *USC
DMR
Stanford
3:06.01
9:28.72
*2016 MPSF Champion
Jumps:
Lisanne Hagens from the University of Arizona cleared six feet and three-quarters inch on Jan. 13, a mark which ties for sixth nationally.
Washington’s Elizabeth Quick is tied for 13th in the NCAA’s pole vault, clearing 13 feet, 10.5 inches. The Huskies have won three
straight MPSF pole vault titles. Defending MPSF long jump champion Margaux Jones of USC shares a 14th-ranked leap with Oregon’s
Rhesa Foster (20’-9.25”). Chaquinn Cook of Oregon leads the conference and is No. 27 in the nation’s triple jump (42’-0.75”).
The men’s jumps category produced four new MPSF champions in 2016. Oregon’s Damarcus Simpson owns a 2017 third-ranked long
jump of 26’-3.5.” Freshman Michael Burke of UCLA and Justice Summerset of Arizona share a No. 7 NCAA ranking in the high jump.
Washington’s Chase Smith is tied for No. 11 in the NCAA’s pole vault (17’-11”). USC’s Dominic Smallwood has a 2017 triple jump leap of
51’-0.25.”
2017 Top Women Performers:
High Jump Lisanne Hagens, Arizona
*Long Jump Margaux Jones, USC
Rhesa Foster, Oregon
Triple Jump Chaquinn Cook, Oregon
Pole Vault
Elizabeth Quick, Washington
*2016 MPSF Champion
6’-0.75”
20’-9.25”
42’ 0.75”
13’-10.5”
2017 Top Men Performers:
High Jump Michael Burke, UCLA
Justice Summerset, Arizona
Long Jump Damarcus Simpson, Oregon
Triple Jump Dominic Smallwood, USC
Pole Vault
Chase Smith, Washington
7’-3”
26’-3.5”
51’-0.25”
17’-11”
Throws:
The women’s throws category in the MPSF has belonged to Maggie Ewen of Arizona State in 2017. She is the defending MPSF
Champion in the weight throw, and has improved from her title last year to over 70 feet, ranking No.12 in the nation (70’-1.00”). Ewen
has also delivered the shot put 59 feet, five and one-half inches, ranking third nationally.
James Hubbard of Long Beach State has the MPSF’s furthest weight throw in 2017, delivering a seventh-ranked heave of 72 feet, 6.5
inches. Aaron Castle of Arizona is ranked fourth in the NCAA’s shot put (64’-1.00”), an event which will produce a new MPSF Champion
for the first time in three years.
2017 Top Women Performers:
Shot Put
Maggie Ewen, Arizona State
*Weight Throw Maggie Ewen, Arizona State
*2016 MPSF Champion
59’-5.50”
70’-1.00”
2017 Top Men Performers:
Shot Put
Aaron Castle, Arizona
Weight Throw James Hubbard, Long Beach State
64’-1.00”
72’-6.5”
Multi Events – Pentathlon:
Liz Harper of Washington State is the MPSF’s top performer in the pentathlon this year (3,898), ranking 21st nationally. Kendall
Gustafson of UCLA follows in second (3,882) at No. 24 in the nation, and Lyndsey Lopes of USC in third (3,754). The Trojans’ Amalie
Iuel broke the MPSF record with 4,444 points--taking down a 10-year old conference record--en route to athlete of the meet honors.
2017 Top Women Performers:
1. Liz Harper, Washington State
2. Kendall Gustafson, UCLA
3. Lyndsey Lopes, USC
3,898
3,882
3,754
Multi Events – Heptathlon:
Stanford’s Harrison Williams leads the MPSF and ranks sixth nationally (5,828) in the heptathlon. BYU’s Kevin Nielsen is No. 20 (5,528)
and Colorado’s Andrew Ghizzone is No. 29 (5,443). Nielsen placed third at the conference meet last year.
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2017 Top Men Performers:
1. Harrison Williams, Stanford
2. Kevin Nielsen, BYU
3. Andrew Ghizzone, Colorado
5,828
5,528
5,443
2016 MPSF CHAMPIONSHIP TEAM RESULTS
Women 1) Oregon
2) Stanford
3) USC
4) Washington St.
5) Colorado
6) Washington
7) BYU
8) Arizona State
9) Arizona
9) California
11) UCLA
12) Oregon State
13) Long Beach State
14) Utah
15) Portland
16) CSUN
17) Hawaii
18) UC Irvine
19) CS Fullerton
108
73.75
59
54.50
50
47.75
47.50
44
43
43
34
14
11
9
8
6.75
4.50
3
2.25
Men 1) USC
2) BYU
3) UCLA
4) Oregon
5) Arizona State
6) Stanford
7) Washington
8) California
9) Arizona
10) Colorado
11) Long Beach State
12) Washington State
13) Portland
14) CSUN
90.50
82
73
72
59
51.50
49.50
48
43
38
20.50
19
9
8
2016 MPSF CHAMPIONSHIP IN REVIEW
Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Indoor Track and Field celebrated its 24th year of competition with the 2016 championship meet at the
University of Washington’s Dempsey Indoor Facility for the 14th consecutive year, Feb. 26-27. The 2016 MPSF Championship featured 19
universities comprised from members of the Pac-12, Big West, and West Coast Conferences. A total of 19 women’s teams competed for a
conference title, along with 14 on the men’s side. At the conclusion of the two-day meet, the top-ranked Oregon women won their fourth
MPSF title with 108 points, 34.25 points ahead of second-place Stanford. The ninth-ranked USC men won their first MPSF title in just their
second year in the conference, edging BYU 90.50-82. USC women and UCLA men took home the bronze.
As was the case in 2015, the 2016 championship meet featured five MPSF records. Perhaps the most impressive performance came from
Washington’s MPSF Athlete of the Meet Izaic Yorks, who ran the fastest ever mile by an American in NCAA Indoor history. He finished in a
UW, MPSF, and Dempsey Facility record 3:53.89, the top national indoor mile of 2016 and third-fastest ever. Every step had to be fought
for, as Stanford’s Sean McGorty was just six hundredths of a second behind (3:53.95), the No. 2 NCAA mile last year. The second men’s
record came in the 60-meter hurdles, as Oregon’s Devon Allen broke both the MPSF and Dempsey record in 7.60, a sprint which also tied
for the nation’s top time in 2016. For the women, Oregon’s Deajah Stevens ran the 200-meter in 23.14, taking down the oldest MPSF
women’s record from 2002. USC’s Amalie Iuel accumulated a conference record 4,444 pentathlon points--bringing down a 2006
standard—en route to athlete of the meet honors. Additionally, the Arizona 4x400 meter relay team finished in an MPSF and facility record
3:32.54, a conference record which had been broken three times in the past four years.
2017 MPSF Indoor Track & Field • Page 4
MEN’S & WOMEN’S INDOOR TRACK AND FIELD CHAMPIONS
1992-93
1993-94
1994-95
1995-96
1996-97
1997-98
1998-99
1999-00
2000-01
2001-02
2002-03
2003-04
2004-05
2005-06
2006-07
2007-08
2008-09
2009-10
2010-11
2011-12
2012-13
2013-14
2014-15
2015-16
Men’s Indoor Track & Field
MPSF
NCAA
Utah State
Arkansas
Arizona
Arkansas
Arizona
Arkansas
Arizona
George Mason
Idaho
Arkansas
Washington State
Arkansas
Stanford
Arkansas
Stanford
Arkansas
Washington State
LSU
UCLA
Tennessee
UCLA
Arkansas
UCLA
LSU
UCLA
LSU
Washington
Arkansas
Washington
Wisconsin
Oregon
Arizona State
UCLA
Oregon
UCLA
Florida
Stanford
Florida
Arizona State
Florida
Arizona State
Arkansas
California
Oregon
Oregon
Oregon
USC
Oregon
Women’s Indoor Track & Field
MPSF
NCAA
UNLV
LSU
Utah State
LSU
Arizona
LSU
Washington
LSU
Stanford
LSU
Stanford
Texas
Washington State
Texas
Washington State
UCLA
Arizona
UCLA
Arizona
LSU
Stanford
LSU
Stanford
LSU
Stanford
LSU
Stanford
Texas
Arizona State
Arizona State
Arizona State
Arizona State
Stanford
Tennessee
Oregon
Oregon
Oregon
Oregon
Stanford
Oregon
Oregon
Oregon
USC
Oregon
USC
Arkansas
Oregon
Oregon
2017 MPSF Indoor Track & Field • Page 5
MOUNTAIN PACIFIC SPORTS FEDERATION
INDOOR TRACK & FIELD CHAMPIONSHIP MEET RECORDS
TRACK EVENTS
Mark
55 Meter Dash
6.06
55 Meter Hurdles
7.25
60 Meter Dash
6.51
60 Meter Hurdles
7.60
200 Meters
20.75
400 Meters
46.04
800 Meters
1:46.73
Mile
3:53.89
3,000 Meters
7:44.48
5,000 Meters
13:41.58
1,600 Meter Relay
3:06.98
Dist. Medley Relay
9:26.78
FIELD EVENTS
High Jump
2.26m (7-5)
Pole Vault
5.72m (18-9 1/4)
Long Jump
8.12m (26-7 3/4)
16.43m (53-11)
Triple Jump
Shot Put
21.47m (70-5 1/4)
35-lb. Wt. Throw
23.60m (77-5.25)
HEPTATHLON
PENTATHLON
5,784 points
4,444 points
MEN
Student-Athlete
Marcus Brunson
Arend Watkins
Ja’Warren Hooker
Devon Allen
Ja’Warren Hooker
Mike Kenyon
Elijah Greer
Izaic Yorks
Lawi Lalang
Lawi Lalang
School
Arizona State
Washington State
Washington
Oregon
Washington
Arizona
Oregon
Washington
Arizona
Arizona
Anderson, Inico, Ikwuakor, Scherer Oregon
Fleet, Berry, Greer, Centrowicz Oregon
Year
1999
2000
2001
2016
2001
2002
2013
2016
2012
2014
2005
2011
Site
Reno, NV
Reno, NV
Flagstaff, AZ
Seattle, WA
Flagstaff, AZ
Flagstaff, AZ
Seattle, WA
Seattle, WA
Seattle, WA
Seattle, WA
Seattle, WA
Seattle, WA
Bryan McBride
Scott Roth
Norris Frederick
Chris Benard
Ryan Whiting
Conor McCullough
Arizona State
Washington
Washington
Arizona State
Arizona State
USC
2015
2010
2008
2012
2008
2015
Seattle, WA
Seattle, WA
Seattle, WA
Seattle, WA
Seattle, WA
Seattle, WA
Josh Hustedt
Amalie Iuel
Stanford
USC
2008
2016
Seattle, WA
Seattle, WA
1998
1994
2015
2004
2016
2013
2008
2010
2012
2007
2016
2012
Reno, NV
Reno, NV
Seattle, WA
Seattle, WA
Seattle, WA
Seattle, WA
Seattle, WA
Seattle, WA
Seattle, WA
Seattle, WA
Seattle, WA
Seattle, WA
2012
2006
2008
2005
2012
2015
Seattle, WA
Seattle, WA
Seattle, WA
Seattle, WA
Seattle, WA
Seattle, WA
WOMEN
TRACK EVENTS
55 Meter Dash
6.73 Shekedia Jones
UCLA
55 Meter Hurdles
7.68 Claudine Robinson
Washington
60 Meter Dash
7.19 Jenna Prandini
Oregon
60 Meter Hurdles
8.06 Sheena Johnson
UCLA
200 Meters
23.14 Deajah Stevens
Oregon
400 Meters
52.03 Phyllis Francis
Oregon
800 Meters
2:03.39 Alysia Johnson
California
Mile
4:35.01 Jordan Hasay
Oregon
3,000 Meters
9:02.35 Deborah Maier
California
5,000 Meters
15:50.65 Arianna Lambie
Stanford
1,600 Meter Relay
3:32.54
Waggoner, Hailey Trevisan, Watson Arizona
Dist. Medley Relay
10:55.01 Orr, Carlson, Mires, Flood Washington
FIELD EVENTS
High Jump
1.93m (6-4) Brigetta Barrett
Arizona
Pole Vault
4.40m (14-5 1/4) Chelsea Johnson
UCLA
Long Jump
6.50m (21-4) Jacquelyn Johnson
Arizona State
Triple Jump
13.90m (45-7 1/4) Erica McLain
Stanford
Shot Put
17.87m (58-7 1/2) Julie Labonte
Arizona
20-lb. Wt. Throw
22.40m (73-6) Ida Storm
UCLA