NCAA Sites Announced

[rainbowgirl28]

2008 NCAA Indoor - Arkansas
2009 NCAA Indoor - Texas A&M
2010 NCAA Indoor - Arkansas

2008 NCAA Outdoor - Drake University
2009 NCAA Outdoor - Arkansas
2010 NCAA Outdoor - Oregon


Yay! No more Sac State

How are they going to pole vault qualifying at Drake?? As I recall, there is just one really long runway. You could add a board runway, but then you get into the whole issue again of one runway possibly having an advantage over another...

[Vaultref]

How would "you" (meaning any vaulter) feel if they did not run a qualifier
during the outdoor meet.
No, I don't have any inside information nor do I even think they are considering this. It's more a hypothetical question.

[Barto]

It would be a pretty rough final with 30 vaulters.

[Vaultref]

It would be a pretty rough final with 30 vaulters.

I hear ya!.

What if they tightened up the regional a bit and limited the numbers to say 24 max. Remember this is just a what-if and is not under consideration to my knowledge.

Due to bad timing, I don't work the indoor championship meet. How many jumpers are usually competing there? I really don't know.

[rainbowgirl28]

In Austin in 2004 the women were rained out and all went to finals. It's doable but not ideal.

I like having prelims because it shows whose ready and who isn't. Some regions are weaker than others. Some people who get in on at-large bids peaked way earlier in the season.

I am definitely not in favor of reducing the overall field size, and I do not believe this is being considered.

[SlickVT]

Another option is ranking the vaulters from highest seasonal PR then alternately place them in 2 groups from the top of the list (AKA 1, 3, 5, 7, etc would be in one group and 2, 4, 6, 8, etc would start the other). That would make two equally seeded sections then maybe take the top 8 from each section.

In that format, you could run them separately and still keep it fair.

And it would weed out the people that put up one high mark to get in at large.

Just a thought.

[saraf]

I don't like drake

[rainbowgirl28]

I don't like drake

That's not the right attitude Adam

[jcoover]

oh come on adam, drake is alright... just not when its pouring down rain like during the relays this year... but that did suck, il give you that

[saraf]

I just don't like it because I landed in every corner of the pit, hit both standards, and fell in the box but I guess we will all do our best i am an idiot, love banda.

[TreyDECA]

even though it has nothing to do with me, i'm glad for the decathletes that it will not be held at sacramento!!! hopefully there will be some good scores and maybe even some tail winds!???!????

[SweetPVJumps]

im biased, since i live in the sacramento area and go to school practically across the street from sac state. but im super bummed the NCAAs wont be there anymore! for a while we kinda became somewhat of a track city because we had the olympic trials and the NCAAs, not to mention state championships too, and now we got nothing. what made everyone decide sacramento was a good city for all these big meets and then decide it totally is not?