Can anyone explain why they take 13 guys for track indoor nationals, but 15 girls?
Can anyone explain why they take 13 guys for track indoor nationals, but 15 girls?
I think they take the same number of men and women across all events. Depending on who doubles, some events have more athletes than others.
Wondering if D3 is recognizing the ratio of women to men in the D3 schools. D1 is exactly the same 16 for both, while D2 is somewhat looser between 16 to 20, but there two too there are overall more women than men selected, though it could just be a question of who made qualifying standard.
more women double. so it ends up being approximately the same number of total male/female athletes traveling. this is mainly because the best women are better relatively than the best men. look at someone like christy cazolla who's running the mile, DMR, and 5k. someone on the men's side would get slaughtered trying to do that.
it really doesn't end up making a huge difference though, at least in running events, since on the men's side it will usually scratch down a few spots so like for example if you're the 15th or 16th guy in the mile you still stand a reasonable shot at getting in, much more so than if you're a woman sitting 17th (though this year for some reason nobody entered the women's mile, so perhaps there's a shift away from women doubling and in a few years their entries will match the men's)
the mile always scratches deep because of the dmr, 800 and 5k. that has nothing to do with the number of accepted entries.
More girls double than guys at the D3 meet. Roughly the same number of male and female athletes go to the meet.
Old Woman in the Shoe wrote:
Can anyone explain why they take 13 guys for track indoor nationals, but 15 girls?
They should just take the fastest out of the 28 girls and guys
That would be equality
Doclove wrote:
Old Woman in the Shoe wrote:Can anyone explain why they take 13 guys for track indoor nationals, but 15 girls?
They should just take the fastest out of the 28 girls and guys
That would be equality
That WOULD be equality, assuming we lived in a gender neutral world where boys and girls were raised to be equals (from an emotional, physical and intellectual perspective) and similarly encouraged to participate in sports such as track.
But, as we all know, girls are more disadvantaged than boys thanks to our lovely society (just look at LRC for confirmation of rampant sexist attitudes of most men). Therefore, it makes sense to ensure girls are on an equal footing with boys by providing them with greater opportunity when the need arises.
You're welcome.
yeppp wrote:
more women double. so it ends up being approximately the same number of total male/female athletes traveling. this is mainly because the best women are better relatively than the best men. look at someone like christy cazolla who's running the mile, DMR, and 5k. someone on the men's side would get slaughtered trying to do that.
it really doesn't end up making a huge difference though, at least in running events, since on the men's side it will usually scratch down a few spots so like for example if you're the 15th or 16th guy in the mile you still stand a reasonable shot at getting in, much more so than if you're a woman sitting 17th (though this year for some reason nobody entered the women's mile, so perhaps there's a shift away from women doubling and in a few years their entries will match the men's)
They took the 32nd woman on the list this year for the mile