Sophie Chase will run the 3,000 at Iowa State. Photo by Spencer Allen/SportsImageWire.com.
Stanford breaks its track and field team into three squads during a vital weekend for NCAA indoor qualifying.
These are the final meets before the postseason, meaning these competitions and the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Championships on Feb. 26-27 offer the final opportunities to qualify for NCAA’s.
Cardinal runners compete at the Iowa State Invitational in Ames, sprinters and jumpers take advantage of the altitude at the Don Kirby Elite Invitational in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and throwers are at the Husky Classic in Seattle.
In all, 40 Cardinal (22 men, 18 women) are scheduled to compete – 19 in New Mexico, 15 in Iowa, and six in Washington.
Those with top-16 marks in each event (12 in relays) at the end of season advance to the NCAA Championships March 11-12 in Birmingham, Alabama. At this point, four individuals and two relay teams appear assured of advancing: Olivia Baker (women’s 800 meters), Darian Brooks (men’s triple jump), Claudia Saunders (women’s 800), Harrison Williams (men’s heptathlon), the men’s distance medley relay, and the women’s DMR.
Other Cardinal in the current top 16 will have to improve their marks or risk being overtaken for the final cut. They are: Vanessa Fraser (No. 6, women’s 3,000, 9:14.06), Malika Waschmann (No. 14, women’s 800, 2:05.47), and Collin Leibold (No. 15, men’s 3,000, 7:59.51).
This weekend will be important for four qualification attempts in particular: Sean McGorty in the men’s 3,000, Leibold in the 5,000, and Fraser in the 5,000 in Iowa, and pole vaulter Dylan Duvio in New Mexico. Duvio was third at the 2015 NCAA Outdoors at 18-2 ½. His season best is 17-3, but he probably needs 17-11 to ensure an NCAA spot and his best chance seems to be at Albuquerque’s 5,300-foot elevation.
McGorty is running his first individual race of the season. He anchored the Stanford DMR to a school record 9:27.27 – the fifth-best time in collegiate history -- at the Penn State National on Jan. 29 with a 3:55.8 anchor leg over 1,600. A 3,000 qualification would be ideal for McGorty because he could run the NCAA DMR anchor on Friday and the 3,000 on Saturday. Though he could qualify in the mile and 5,000, those events also are Friday, before the DMR. McGorty will be looking for anything under 7:53 in Ames.
Leibold has been running well in the mile and 3,000, but steps into his most comfortable zone with the 5,000. The race also includes Jim Rosa, who was sixth at the NCAA Cross Country Championships in November, but hasn’t raced on the track since the 5,000 at last year’s MPSF Indoor Championships. The NCAA cutoff probably will be around 13:48.
Fraser’s 3,000 time is strong, but would not have gotten her into NCAA’s in any of the past four years. In Iowa, she will run the 5,000 – her main event outdoors. The women’s 5,000 cutoff has fluctuated greatly over the past six years, but it seems safe to assume a sub-16 will be enough.
Stanford in the USTFCCCA rankings:
Men: No. 11
Women: No. 13
Meet information:
Don Kirby Elite Invitational
City: Albuquerque, N.M.
Site: Albuquerque Convention Center
Track: 200-meter banked
Schedule: Fri.: 2:30-8:30 p.m. PT; Sat.: 9 a.m.-2:40 p.m. PT
Event Schedule: Click here
Live results: Click here
Stanford competitors:
Men: Daniel Brady, Isaiah Brandt-Sims, Dalton Duvio, Dylan Duvio, Dan Emery, Jackson Shumway, Garrett Starkey, Jaak Uudmae, Harrison Williams, Dartis Willis II.
Women: Olivia Baker, Michaela Crunkleton Wilson, Daryth Gayles, Gaby Gayles, Marisa Kwiatkowski, Abbie McNulty, Kaitlyn Merritt, Kaitlyn Williams, Kristyn Williams.
Notes: The Cardinal women will make a run in the 4x400. The team of Kristyn Williams, Olivia Baker, Michaela Crunkleton Wilson, and Gaby Gayles won the Razorback Invitational last year in 3:36.81 – the No. 3 time in school history -- on a 200-meter track and all four will be in Albuquerque. The average NCAA standard over the past six years has been 3:35.28 … Isaiah Brandt-Sims, a sophomore receiver on Stanford’s Rose Bowl-winning football team, will make his collegiate indoor track debut. In high school, he ran the 60 in 6.64. Stanford’s school record, held by Tyrone McGraw since 2010, is 6.80 … Marisa Kwiatkowski will look to break her Philippines national indoor triple jump record of 40-10 1/4. The sophomore from Sunnyvale has broken it twice already this season.
Iowa State Classic
City: Ames, Iowa
Site: Lied Recreational Center
Track: 300-meter flat
Schedule: Fri:, 9 a.m.-7 p.m. PT; Sat.: 8 a.m.-3:05 p.m. PT
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Stanford competitors:
Men: Justin Brinkley, Tom Coyle, Steven Fahy, Collin Leibold, Sean McGorty, Patrick Perrier, Jim Rosa, Sam Wharton.
Women: Elise Cranny, Sophie Chase, Vanessa Fraser, Danielle Katz, Molly McNamara, Claudia Saunders, Malika Waschmann.
Notes: Claudia Saunders and Malika Waschmann will both run the 800. Saunders may emphasize the 800 at NCAA’s rather than the DMR, which she has raced the past three years at nationals. This will be a strong test, with NCAA finalists Hannah Green (Virginia Tech) and Savannah Camacho (Oklahoma State) in the field. Waschmann dropped her personal best by two seconds at Penn State two weeks ago (to 2:05.47), and will look for another drop to stay in the NCAA qualification chase … Elise Cranny, a four-time All-America as a freshman last year, will run the mile in her first race this academic year, after a hip injury.
Husky Classic
City: Seattle, Wash.
Site: Dempsey Indoor
Track: 307-meter flat
Schedule: Fri.: 4-8 p.m.; Sat.: 9 a.m.-6 p.m.
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Live results: Click here
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Stanford competitors:
Men: Jack Bordoni, Will Drinkwater, Adam Thorne, Tristen Newman, Grant Fisher (unattached), Will Lauer (unattached).
Women: Valarie Allman, Lena Giger.
Notes: Stanford freshmen Grant Fisher and Will Lauer are redshirting indoors, but will race the 3,000, in their first track meet of the season. Fisher, a sub-4 miler in high school and the top American freshman at the NCAA Cross Country Championships, will race in a highly-competitive heat with Oklahoma State’s Chad Noelle, the 2015 NCAA outdoor 1,500 champ; Washington’s Izaic Yorks, the defending Pac-12 1,500 champ; Cal 1,500 school-record holder Thomas Joyce; Dorian Ulrey, who ran the 1,500 on the U.S. team at the 2009 World Championships, and several other professionals … The weight throw will be Stanford’s emphasis in this meet, with Pan Am Junior hammer silver medalist Lena Giger and first-team All-America discus thrower Valarie Allman throwing the 20-pound implement. In her first try at the event, at Penn State, Allman threw 60-1 ¼, placing her No. 3 on Stanford’s all-time performers’ list.
These are the final meets before the postseason, meaning these competitions and the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Championships on Feb. 26-27 offer the final opportunities to qualify for NCAA’s.
Cardinal runners compete at the Iowa State Invitational in Ames, sprinters and jumpers take advantage of the altitude at the Don Kirby Elite Invitational in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and throwers are at the Husky Classic in Seattle.
In all, 40 Cardinal (22 men, 18 women) are scheduled to compete – 19 in New Mexico, 15 in Iowa, and six in Washington.
Those with top-16 marks in each event (12 in relays) at the end of season advance to the NCAA Championships March 11-12 in Birmingham, Alabama. At this point, four individuals and two relay teams appear assured of advancing: Olivia Baker (women’s 800 meters), Darian Brooks (men’s triple jump), Claudia Saunders (women’s 800), Harrison Williams (men’s heptathlon), the men’s distance medley relay, and the women’s DMR.
Other Cardinal in the current top 16 will have to improve their marks or risk being overtaken for the final cut. They are: Vanessa Fraser (No. 6, women’s 3,000, 9:14.06), Malika Waschmann (No. 14, women’s 800, 2:05.47), and Collin Leibold (No. 15, men’s 3,000, 7:59.51).
This weekend will be important for four qualification attempts in particular: Sean McGorty in the men’s 3,000, Leibold in the 5,000, and Fraser in the 5,000 in Iowa, and pole vaulter Dylan Duvio in New Mexico. Duvio was third at the 2015 NCAA Outdoors at 18-2 ½. His season best is 17-3, but he probably needs 17-11 to ensure an NCAA spot and his best chance seems to be at Albuquerque’s 5,300-foot elevation.
McGorty is running his first individual race of the season. He anchored the Stanford DMR to a school record 9:27.27 – the fifth-best time in collegiate history -- at the Penn State National on Jan. 29 with a 3:55.8 anchor leg over 1,600. A 3,000 qualification would be ideal for McGorty because he could run the NCAA DMR anchor on Friday and the 3,000 on Saturday. Though he could qualify in the mile and 5,000, those events also are Friday, before the DMR. McGorty will be looking for anything under 7:53 in Ames.
Leibold has been running well in the mile and 3,000, but steps into his most comfortable zone with the 5,000. The race also includes Jim Rosa, who was sixth at the NCAA Cross Country Championships in November, but hasn’t raced on the track since the 5,000 at last year’s MPSF Indoor Championships. The NCAA cutoff probably will be around 13:48.
Fraser’s 3,000 time is strong, but would not have gotten her into NCAA’s in any of the past four years. In Iowa, she will run the 5,000 – her main event outdoors. The women’s 5,000 cutoff has fluctuated greatly over the past six years, but it seems safe to assume a sub-16 will be enough.
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Stanford in the USTFCCCA rankings:
Men: No. 11
Women: No. 13
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Meet information:
Don Kirby Elite Invitational
City: Albuquerque, N.M.
Site: Albuquerque Convention Center
Track: 200-meter banked
Schedule: Fri.: 2:30-8:30 p.m. PT; Sat.: 9 a.m.-2:40 p.m. PT
Event Schedule: Click here
Live results: Click here
Stanford competitors:
Men: Daniel Brady, Isaiah Brandt-Sims, Dalton Duvio, Dylan Duvio, Dan Emery, Jackson Shumway, Garrett Starkey, Jaak Uudmae, Harrison Williams, Dartis Willis II.
Women: Olivia Baker, Michaela Crunkleton Wilson, Daryth Gayles, Gaby Gayles, Marisa Kwiatkowski, Abbie McNulty, Kaitlyn Merritt, Kaitlyn Williams, Kristyn Williams.
Notes: The Cardinal women will make a run in the 4x400. The team of Kristyn Williams, Olivia Baker, Michaela Crunkleton Wilson, and Gaby Gayles won the Razorback Invitational last year in 3:36.81 – the No. 3 time in school history -- on a 200-meter track and all four will be in Albuquerque. The average NCAA standard over the past six years has been 3:35.28 … Isaiah Brandt-Sims, a sophomore receiver on Stanford’s Rose Bowl-winning football team, will make his collegiate indoor track debut. In high school, he ran the 60 in 6.64. Stanford’s school record, held by Tyrone McGraw since 2010, is 6.80 … Marisa Kwiatkowski will look to break her Philippines national indoor triple jump record of 40-10 1/4. The sophomore from Sunnyvale has broken it twice already this season.
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Meet information: Iowa State Classic
City: Ames, Iowa
Site: Lied Recreational Center
Track: 300-meter flat
Schedule: Fri:, 9 a.m.-7 p.m. PT; Sat.: 8 a.m.-3:05 p.m. PT
Event Schedule: Click here
Live results: Click here
FloPro premium webcast: Click here
Stanford competitors:
Men: Justin Brinkley, Tom Coyle, Steven Fahy, Collin Leibold, Sean McGorty, Patrick Perrier, Jim Rosa, Sam Wharton.
Women: Elise Cranny, Sophie Chase, Vanessa Fraser, Danielle Katz, Molly McNamara, Claudia Saunders, Malika Waschmann.
Notes: Claudia Saunders and Malika Waschmann will both run the 800. Saunders may emphasize the 800 at NCAA’s rather than the DMR, which she has raced the past three years at nationals. This will be a strong test, with NCAA finalists Hannah Green (Virginia Tech) and Savannah Camacho (Oklahoma State) in the field. Waschmann dropped her personal best by two seconds at Penn State two weeks ago (to 2:05.47), and will look for another drop to stay in the NCAA qualification chase … Elise Cranny, a four-time All-America as a freshman last year, will run the mile in her first race this academic year, after a hip injury.
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Meet information:Husky Classic
City: Seattle, Wash.
Site: Dempsey Indoor
Track: 307-meter flat
Schedule: Fri.: 4-8 p.m.; Sat.: 9 a.m.-6 p.m.
Event schedule: Click here
Live results: Click here
FloPro premium webcast: Click here
Stanford competitors:
Men: Jack Bordoni, Will Drinkwater, Adam Thorne, Tristen Newman, Grant Fisher (unattached), Will Lauer (unattached).
Women: Valarie Allman, Lena Giger.
Notes: Stanford freshmen Grant Fisher and Will Lauer are redshirting indoors, but will race the 3,000, in their first track meet of the season. Fisher, a sub-4 miler in high school and the top American freshman at the NCAA Cross Country Championships, will race in a highly-competitive heat with Oklahoma State’s Chad Noelle, the 2015 NCAA outdoor 1,500 champ; Washington’s Izaic Yorks, the defending Pac-12 1,500 champ; Cal 1,500 school-record holder Thomas Joyce; Dorian Ulrey, who ran the 1,500 on the U.S. team at the 2009 World Championships, and several other professionals … The weight throw will be Stanford’s emphasis in this meet, with Pan Am Junior hammer silver medalist Lena Giger and first-team All-America discus thrower Valarie Allman throwing the 20-pound implement. In her first try at the event, at Penn State, Allman threw 60-1 ¼, placing her No. 3 on Stanford’s all-time performers’ list.
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