NEW ORLEANS, LA. – The University of Sioux Falls Women's Track and Field Team is ranked No. 23 in the NCAA Division III Women's Indoor Track & Field National Rating Index, as released by the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) on Tuesday (Feb. 8).
No marks from previous seasons are used in this ranking system, which gives a true, comprehensive and objective look at the current indoor season. In those national rankings, USF accumulated 33.61 points in moving from No. 24 to No. 23. In addition, the Cougars, coached by Director of Track and Field/Cross Country
Doug Petersen, sit No. 10 in the Central Regional rankings with 84.06 points. USF, which is sixth in the NSIC with a track and field index rank of 156.12, is top 10 in two event rankings. The Cougars sit No. 9 in the shot put and No. 7 in the weight throw.
Event Squad 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.
The Cougars will compete this weekend at
NCAA DII National Rankings Index -
- Minnesota State, 158.34
- Azusa Pacific, 155.84
- Pittsburg State, 137.31
- West Texas A&M, 131.92
- Grand Valley State, 121.13
- Indianapolis, 107.38
- UC-Colorado Springs, 98.62
- Adams State, 78.50
- Saginaw Valley State, 76.73
- CSU Pueblo, 75.26
- Lee (Tenn.), 69.15
- Northwest Missouri State, 65.51
- Academy of Art, 60.09
- Central Missouri, 59.70
- Winona State, 56.34
- Simon Fraser, 51.67
- Western Colorado, 49.89
- Walsh, 49.39a
- Fort Hays State, 48.41
- Queens (N.C.), 47.39
- Findlay, 45.21
- UMary, 38.74
- Sioux Falls, 33.61
- Concordia St. Paul, 31.34
- Cal Poly Pomona, 28.77
