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Mountain West Indoor Track & Field Championships
Time to Defend Mountain West Indoor Titles for Rams
2/26/2020 2:59:00 PM | Track & Field, Indoor Track & Field
Colorado State Track & Field Teams Head to Mountain West Indoor Championships
FORT COLLINS, Colo. – Eight hours of pavement from the Glenn Morris Fieldhouse and the Albuquerque Convention Center is what lies between the Rams and their goal – repeat as Mountain West Indoor Champions for the men and women.
The 21st running of the MW Indoor Championships commence Thursday, Feb. 27 and go through Saturday, Feb. 29 at New Mexico's venue that also houses the NCAA Indoor Championships in two weeks' time. It is the sixth year in a row and 11th overall, that the MW indoor meet has been held at the same site in Albuquerque, N.M. Two weeks ago, the Rams were in the building for the Don Kirby Invite – a usual tactic to get a feel of the environment and the competition.
Since the first Mountain West Indoor Championship in 2000, CSU has compiled three men indoor titles (2002, 2017, 2019) and four women's championships (2006, 2016, 2017, 2019). On the men's side, Colorado State seeks its third Mountain West indoor title in the past four seasons. CSU's women's team looks to win its fourth Mountain West indoor title in the past five seasons.
In all, the Ram men have 13 top-3 finishes in the 20 total championships, while the women have 14 podium finishes.
The Ram titles on both sides in 2017 and 2019 tied New Mexico, who also accomplished the feat in 2014 and 2015, with two sweeps, which is the second-most in conference history behind BYU's nine. Head coach Brian Bedard also earned coach of the year honors for both sides in the two years.
Adding to their own expectations, Colorado State men and women has been deemed favorites according to the USTFCCCA conference track and field rating index.
The meet will get underway Thursday at 10 a.m. with the entirety of the pentathlon, and the distance medley relays, while the heptathlon will compete 4 of 7 events. The heptathlon will wrap up Friday along with the 5,000-meter races and half of the field events, while qualifying goes on in the track events. The deciding final day starts at 9:30 a.m. with field events and 11:10 a.m. on the track.
Coach's Corner
Head Coach Brian Bedard
On the women's side …
"We are relatively healthy. Of the 28 student-athletes going down, I think all of them have the potential to score in their event areas. When we are in that position it gives us a good shot to put together a solid meet and a position to be in contention. I like the squad we are bringing down there. They are very well rounded."
On the men's side …
"We have the ability to score in every event except the men's pole vault where we don't have a competitor. That position, which is just like the women, gives us a great opportunity to challenge for a championship. I love going down to the conference championship meet when we have a chance and it's not a "Dumb and Dumber" chance. We have a legitimate chance to be in the running for a title and the student-athletes know it. They are excited about it. The staff knows it. Anytime you're in that situation, it is fun to be a Ram."
USTFCCCA Conference Track & Field Rating Index
Men's Rankings
1 COLORADO STATE 675.07
2 AIR FORCE 587.24
3 UTAH STATE 356.56
4 NEW MEXICO 326.78
5 WYOMING 295.29
6 BOISE STATE 244.74
7 SAN JOSE STATE 56.31
Women's Rankings
1 COLORADO STATE 530.90
2 SAN DIEGO STATE 462.07
3 UNLV 423.92
4 NEW MEXICO 322.56
5 NEVADA 192.15
6 BOISE STATE 161.41
7 UTAH STATE 141.31
8 AIR FORCE 135.82
9 SAN JOSE STATE 119.36
10 FRESNO STATE 84.27
11 WYOMING 75.87
• USTFCCCA #EventSquad rankings places a rank order to a program's "squad" of athletes in a particular event, using the cumulative season-best qualifying marks from a team's top-four ranked athletes on the national descending-order list. As with the national descending-order list for qualifying and seeding purposes, marks are subject to be converted due to track size and/or altitude. A team must have four or more athletes with a valid season-best mark recorded with TFRRS to achieve a ranking in a particular event.
MEN'S RANKINGS
EVENT NATIONAL RANKING
60 Meters 95
200 Meters 77
400 Meters 43
Mile 43
3000 Meters 64
5000 Meters 23
60 Meter Hurdles 59
High Jump 29
Long Jump 55
Triple Jump 9
Shot Put 17
Weight Throw 19
WOMEN'S RANKINGS
EVENT NATIONAL RANKING
60 Meters 42
200 Meters 56
400 Meters 64
800 Meters 157
Mile 79
3000 Meters 38
5000 Meters 22
60 Meter Hurdles 63
High Jump 11
Pole Vault 24
Long Jump 14
Shot Put 29
Pentathlon 3
Rams Among the Mountain West
Entering this week's meet, three individuals rank as the Mountain West's leaders in their respective events plus the Rams tout the conference's top 4x400-meter relay team. The women's side features three student-athletes with top marks in the MW.
Men on 2019-20 MW Indoor Performance List (Altitude Adjusted, Top Three Only)
Tom Willems – No. 3, 400m (47.92)
Eric Hamer – No. 2, 3000m, (8:08.28)
Eric Hamer – No. 1, 5000m (13:40.11
Andrew Doctor – No. 1, 60mh (8.06)
Germain Barnes – No. 3, 60mh (8.19)
Team (Tom Willems, Adam Stark, Germain Barnes, DeVon Washington) – No. 1, 4x400m relay (3:11.01)
Trenton Wallace – No. 3, high jump (6'8'')
Isa Bynum – No. 2, long jump (24'1.5'')
Allam Bushara – No. 2, triple jump (49'8.5'')
Mariano Kis – No. 3, shot put (55'3.75'')
Mariano Kis – No. 2, weight throw (59'5.75'')
Adam Dawson – No. 3, weight throw (5'3.25'')
Eric Lundgren – No. 1, heptathlon (5059)
Mauricio Galindo Vega – No. 2, heptathlon (4789)
Women on 2019-20 MW Indoor Performance List (Altitude Adjusted, Top Five Only)
Briyana Bunson – No. 3, 60m (7.48)
Lauren Gale – No. 1, 400m (54.36)
Team (Lauren Gale, Jessica Ozoude, Yolonda Johnson, Jasmine Chesson) – No. 2, 4x400m relay (3:42.04)
Aria Tate – No. 2, high jump (5'10.5'')
Nia Powdrell – No. 2, long jump (19'8.75)
Amelia Harvey – No. 3, triple jump (40'6.25'')
Tarynn Sieg – No. 1, shot put (52'7.25'')
Maria Muzzio – No. 2, shot put (52'1.75'')
Tarynn Sieg – No. 2, weight throw (62'6.5'')
Aria Tate – No. 1, pentathlon (3868)
Amelia Harvey – No. 3, pentathlon (3745)
A Refresher from Last Year's Mountain West Indoor Championships (2/21-2/23)
• The women garnered 14 All-Mountain West awards across 12 student-athletes. Six of those student-athletes will return to the same building this week, including Lauren Gale and Jessica Ozoude – the two individuals that went home with two medals apiece. Gale and Ozoude each won their individual event, 400 meters and 200 meters, respectively, in addition to earning All-MW for the 4x400-meter relay team. The returning group also includes Jasmine Chesson (4x400m relay), Michelle Gould (4x400m relay), Nia Powdrell (long jump), and Tarynn Sieg (shot put).
• 2019 Women Champions: Kelcey Bedard (weight throw), Lauren Gale (400m), Jessica Ozoude (200m), Destinee Rocker (60mh), Tarynn Sieg (shot put). For Bedard it was her second consecutive indoor title in the weight throw.
• The men garnered 13 All-Mountain West awards across 10 student-athletes. Three of those student-athletes return for this year's conference meet, including Isa Bynum and Michael Mooney who picked up two awards each. Bynum earned All-MW accolades for long jump and triple jump, while Mooney did so for the mile and distance medley relay.
• Brian Bedard was named the Men's and Women's Mountain West Coach of the Year to put the total number of awards at 29 for the Rams. The honor was his sixth and seventh coach of the year award since 2015.
• 2019 Men Champions: Hunter Powell (heptathlon), Cole Rockhold (mile). Powell marked CSU's fifth individual conference champion in the heptathlon in the past six seasons.
• School record set in the women's 4x400-meter relay. All four (Chesson, Gould, Gale, and Ozoude) are back for the 2020 meet.
• Sieg's winning shot put mark was 56-1 (17.09m), a personal best. Sieg's mark ranked as the third-best in Mountain West history, the third-best in meet history, the No. 3 mark on CSU's all-time indoor list and 10th in the NCAA this indoor season at that time.
• Jessica Ozoude won her first MW title in a program record-setting 200m.
• Lauren Gale became the first freshman in the history of the meet to win the 400-meter race.
For More on Colorado State Track & Field and Cross Country follow: Twitter – CSUTrackFieldXC | Instagram – csutrackfieldXC | Facebook – Colorado State Track & Field/Cross Country
The 21st running of the MW Indoor Championships commence Thursday, Feb. 27 and go through Saturday, Feb. 29 at New Mexico's venue that also houses the NCAA Indoor Championships in two weeks' time. It is the sixth year in a row and 11th overall, that the MW indoor meet has been held at the same site in Albuquerque, N.M. Two weeks ago, the Rams were in the building for the Don Kirby Invite – a usual tactic to get a feel of the environment and the competition.
Since the first Mountain West Indoor Championship in 2000, CSU has compiled three men indoor titles (2002, 2017, 2019) and four women's championships (2006, 2016, 2017, 2019). On the men's side, Colorado State seeks its third Mountain West indoor title in the past four seasons. CSU's women's team looks to win its fourth Mountain West indoor title in the past five seasons.
In all, the Ram men have 13 top-3 finishes in the 20 total championships, while the women have 14 podium finishes.
The Ram titles on both sides in 2017 and 2019 tied New Mexico, who also accomplished the feat in 2014 and 2015, with two sweeps, which is the second-most in conference history behind BYU's nine. Head coach Brian Bedard also earned coach of the year honors for both sides in the two years.
Adding to their own expectations, Colorado State men and women has been deemed favorites according to the USTFCCCA conference track and field rating index.
The meet will get underway Thursday at 10 a.m. with the entirety of the pentathlon, and the distance medley relays, while the heptathlon will compete 4 of 7 events. The heptathlon will wrap up Friday along with the 5,000-meter races and half of the field events, while qualifying goes on in the track events. The deciding final day starts at 9:30 a.m. with field events and 11:10 a.m. on the track.
Coach's Corner
Head Coach Brian Bedard
On the women's side …
"We are relatively healthy. Of the 28 student-athletes going down, I think all of them have the potential to score in their event areas. When we are in that position it gives us a good shot to put together a solid meet and a position to be in contention. I like the squad we are bringing down there. They are very well rounded."
On the men's side …
"We have the ability to score in every event except the men's pole vault where we don't have a competitor. That position, which is just like the women, gives us a great opportunity to challenge for a championship. I love going down to the conference championship meet when we have a chance and it's not a "Dumb and Dumber" chance. We have a legitimate chance to be in the running for a title and the student-athletes know it. They are excited about it. The staff knows it. Anytime you're in that situation, it is fun to be a Ram."
USTFCCCA Conference Track & Field Rating Index
Men's Rankings
1 COLORADO STATE 675.07
2 AIR FORCE 587.24
3 UTAH STATE 356.56
4 NEW MEXICO 326.78
5 WYOMING 295.29
6 BOISE STATE 244.74
7 SAN JOSE STATE 56.31
Women's Rankings
1 COLORADO STATE 530.90
2 SAN DIEGO STATE 462.07
3 UNLV 423.92
4 NEW MEXICO 322.56
5 NEVADA 192.15
6 BOISE STATE 161.41
7 UTAH STATE 141.31
8 AIR FORCE 135.82
9 SAN JOSE STATE 119.36
10 FRESNO STATE 84.27
11 WYOMING 75.87
• USTFCCCA #EventSquad rankings places a rank order to a program's "squad" of athletes in a particular event, using the cumulative season-best qualifying marks from a team's top-four ranked athletes on the national descending-order list. As with the national descending-order list for qualifying and seeding purposes, marks are subject to be converted due to track size and/or altitude. A team must have four or more athletes with a valid season-best mark recorded with TFRRS to achieve a ranking in a particular event.
MEN'S RANKINGS
EVENT NATIONAL RANKING
60 Meters 95
200 Meters 77
400 Meters 43
Mile 43
3000 Meters 64
5000 Meters 23
60 Meter Hurdles 59
High Jump 29
Long Jump 55
Triple Jump 9
Shot Put 17
Weight Throw 19
WOMEN'S RANKINGS
EVENT NATIONAL RANKING
60 Meters 42
200 Meters 56
400 Meters 64
800 Meters 157
Mile 79
3000 Meters 38
5000 Meters 22
60 Meter Hurdles 63
High Jump 11
Pole Vault 24
Long Jump 14
Shot Put 29
Pentathlon 3
Rams Among the Mountain West
Entering this week's meet, three individuals rank as the Mountain West's leaders in their respective events plus the Rams tout the conference's top 4x400-meter relay team. The women's side features three student-athletes with top marks in the MW.
Men on 2019-20 MW Indoor Performance List (Altitude Adjusted, Top Three Only)
Tom Willems – No. 3, 400m (47.92)
Eric Hamer – No. 2, 3000m, (8:08.28)
Eric Hamer – No. 1, 5000m (13:40.11
Andrew Doctor – No. 1, 60mh (8.06)
Germain Barnes – No. 3, 60mh (8.19)
Team (Tom Willems, Adam Stark, Germain Barnes, DeVon Washington) – No. 1, 4x400m relay (3:11.01)
Trenton Wallace – No. 3, high jump (6'8'')
Isa Bynum – No. 2, long jump (24'1.5'')
Allam Bushara – No. 2, triple jump (49'8.5'')
Mariano Kis – No. 3, shot put (55'3.75'')
Mariano Kis – No. 2, weight throw (59'5.75'')
Adam Dawson – No. 3, weight throw (5'3.25'')
Eric Lundgren – No. 1, heptathlon (5059)
Mauricio Galindo Vega – No. 2, heptathlon (4789)
Women on 2019-20 MW Indoor Performance List (Altitude Adjusted, Top Five Only)
Briyana Bunson – No. 3, 60m (7.48)
Lauren Gale – No. 1, 400m (54.36)
Team (Lauren Gale, Jessica Ozoude, Yolonda Johnson, Jasmine Chesson) – No. 2, 4x400m relay (3:42.04)
Aria Tate – No. 2, high jump (5'10.5'')
Nia Powdrell – No. 2, long jump (19'8.75)
Amelia Harvey – No. 3, triple jump (40'6.25'')
Tarynn Sieg – No. 1, shot put (52'7.25'')
Maria Muzzio – No. 2, shot put (52'1.75'')
Tarynn Sieg – No. 2, weight throw (62'6.5'')
Aria Tate – No. 1, pentathlon (3868)
Amelia Harvey – No. 3, pentathlon (3745)
A Refresher from Last Year's Mountain West Indoor Championships (2/21-2/23)
• The women garnered 14 All-Mountain West awards across 12 student-athletes. Six of those student-athletes will return to the same building this week, including Lauren Gale and Jessica Ozoude – the two individuals that went home with two medals apiece. Gale and Ozoude each won their individual event, 400 meters and 200 meters, respectively, in addition to earning All-MW for the 4x400-meter relay team. The returning group also includes Jasmine Chesson (4x400m relay), Michelle Gould (4x400m relay), Nia Powdrell (long jump), and Tarynn Sieg (shot put).
• 2019 Women Champions: Kelcey Bedard (weight throw), Lauren Gale (400m), Jessica Ozoude (200m), Destinee Rocker (60mh), Tarynn Sieg (shot put). For Bedard it was her second consecutive indoor title in the weight throw.
• The men garnered 13 All-Mountain West awards across 10 student-athletes. Three of those student-athletes return for this year's conference meet, including Isa Bynum and Michael Mooney who picked up two awards each. Bynum earned All-MW accolades for long jump and triple jump, while Mooney did so for the mile and distance medley relay.
• Brian Bedard was named the Men's and Women's Mountain West Coach of the Year to put the total number of awards at 29 for the Rams. The honor was his sixth and seventh coach of the year award since 2015.
• 2019 Men Champions: Hunter Powell (heptathlon), Cole Rockhold (mile). Powell marked CSU's fifth individual conference champion in the heptathlon in the past six seasons.
• School record set in the women's 4x400-meter relay. All four (Chesson, Gould, Gale, and Ozoude) are back for the 2020 meet.
• Sieg's winning shot put mark was 56-1 (17.09m), a personal best. Sieg's mark ranked as the third-best in Mountain West history, the third-best in meet history, the No. 3 mark on CSU's all-time indoor list and 10th in the NCAA this indoor season at that time.
• Jessica Ozoude won her first MW title in a program record-setting 200m.
• Lauren Gale became the first freshman in the history of the meet to win the 400-meter race.
For More on Colorado State Track & Field and Cross Country follow: Twitter – CSUTrackFieldXC | Instagram – csutrackfieldXC | Facebook – Colorado State Track & Field/Cross Country
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