NCAA Division III Championships...Thoughts or Predicitons?

[Skyin' Brian]

Any other DIII fans out there? Sadly, I just cannot justify taking 2 vacation days and driving up to all the way to Oshkosh for Thursday's comp (come on, can we please make the PV on Saturday at least once in a while???).

Anyway, is this the best D3 field ever?

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Entries:

Peter Sprecher          Sr Monmouth College (Il) 5.30m (17-4 1/2)     
Michael Bina            Sr North Central College 5.24m (17-2 1/4)     
Jonny Henkins           Sr Monmouth College (Il) 5.20m (17-0 3/4)     
Jake Winder             So North Central College 5.20m (17-0 3/4)     
Alex Tapplin            Sr Wisconsin La Crosse   5.10m (16-8 3/4)     
Kyle Calvert            Jr Loras College         5.04m (16-6 1/2)     
Kevin Clark             Sr Elizabethtown College 4.95m (16-2 3/4)     
David Larson            Jr Wheaton College (Ill) 4.94m (16-2 1/2)     
Wes Jackson             Sr Augustana (Illinois)  4.91m (16-1 1/4)     
Daniel Drewek           Fr Wisconsin Stout       4.90m (16-0 3/4)     
   10
Scott Decker            Sr Lynchburg College     4.86m (15-11 1/4)   
Scott Howard            Jr Wisconsin Platteville 4.85m (15-11)       
Steve Sulfridge         Jr Augustana (Illinois)  4.81m (15-9 1/4)     
Omari Stephens          Sr Mass Inst Technology  4.80m (15-9)         
John Thompson           Sr Augustana (Illinois)  4.76m (15-7 1/4)     
Greg Tao                So Mass Inst Technology  4.73m (15-6 1/4)     
16 entrants

and the progression:

[code]Men’s Pole Vault: DIII Record currently 5.35
Metric English Progression
5.36 17’7â€

[cdmilton]

North Central is indeed stacked! My buddy (S.W.) was your former school record holder. This is one of the best start lists in a while...

[Robert schmitt]

S.W. is that steve white? Yeah I notices there wa sonly 3 from WI so I ws thinking the meet would suck. but I'm biased also.

[cdmilton]

S.W. is that steve white?

You are correct sir! He is now coaching the men at the University of Minnesota. His wife coaches the women.

[patybobady]

Go CCIW!

[Skyin' Brian]

Okay, I'm kind of dumb. I didn't realize that Clark was entered Dec.

"live" results found here:

http://www.raceberryjam.com/ncoutmenevt.html

he is off to a good start (maybe that is why his he hasnt been back up near 17'). I guess I wouldn't count him into the hunt for the championship anymore since the PV will be his 6th event of the day....but he has won before.

I guess the women's vault is going on now...I wonder how it is going...

[Lax PV]

yeah the dec makes it kinda hard... throwing down a sub 50 then trying to pole vault is not an easy task. Sad to see... if it wasn't taps... I really wanted Bina to drop something huge--wind was pretty shotty though.