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LRC Note. We have combined 3 threads into 1 on this topic.
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Oral Roberts TF coach twitter
https://twitter.com/USTFCCCA/status/1387921873590231042Early news wrote:
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Haven't seen it posted yet, but hot news from last night:
All,
The preliminary-round format for the 2021 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track & Field Championships will include 48 athletes per gender, per site, in individual events and 24 per gender, per site, in relay events.
In addition, the preliminary-site rounds will be conducted in a four-day format. The schedule will mimic the final site schedule, where men will compete on Wednesday and Friday, and women will compete on Thursday and Saturday.
More information, along with revised meet site schedules, will be made available by the NCAA in coming days.
This is from the USTFCCCA. It is the right choice, I believe SAAC was the driving force along with a few strong advocate coaches.
Does this mean 96 athletes are qualifying for regionals per event?
Are there four regionals? And how many in each event will go on to the National Finals?
48 - 2 regions. 12 qualify.
Great work. This is really a positive development. The NCAA should never be just about the very top. It's not just about Alabama in football or the top 5 track athletes. The student-athlete who dreams of making it to regionals and came back and has put up with a lot of crap due to Covid-19 now is pretty pumped.
Huge victory for the athletes. So much has been taken from these athletes already, and this prelim reduction was completely unnecessary. Glad we could get people on board and get this changed, and huge props to division 1 SAAC. Thankful that COC changed their minds and listened to reason on this issue instead of eliminating 1,152 opportunities for student-athletes.
This is great! Now the NCAA needs to reinstate the full number of athletes qualifying for DIII nationals. No reason there shouldn't be full fields for DIII. After all they missed cross country and indoor this year.
Thank you for being so outspoken about it!!!! Really!
With relays and individual events, taking 96 to regionals is like 2000 athletes. That's more than go to the NCAA basketball tournament, an event that makes money.
Lenny Leonard wrote:
Does this mean 96 athletes are qualifying for regionals per event?
No, USTFCCCA stated “48 per gender”. This means there will be 12,288 athletes per event to accommodate for all 256 internationally recognized genders.
Female coach having affair with male runner. Should I report it?
Post about women banditing Brooklyn half marathon going viral on X
If Daniel's and Pfitz are outdated..then where do I look for modern training plans?
Colin Sahlman runs 1:45 and Nico Young runs 1:47 in the 800m tonight at the Desert Heat Classic