USTFCCCA Polls & Rankings

By Matt Schaefer, USTFCCCA March 18, 2019

2019 NCAA DI Women’s Outdoor Track & Field Rating Index – Preseason

NEW ORLEANS – Oh, you thought you could take a break?

There’s no time for breaks as the conclusion of the NCAA indoor meet means it’s time for outdoor action, which the U.S Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) is gearing up for with its release of the preseason edition of the NCAA Division I Women’s Outdoor Track & Field National Rating Index on Monday.

Teams will battle all season long, which ends with the 2019 NCAA DI Outdoor Track & Field Championships, hosted by the University of Texas in Austin, June 5-8.

NCAA Division I Outdoor Track & Field NATIONAL TFRI Top 5 – Women
1)	2)	3)	4)	5)
Southern California	Texas A&M	LSU	Arkansas	Oregon

NATIONAL TFRI

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It should come to no surprise that Southern California, the defending national champions, lead off the outdoor season as the No. 1 team in the country.

The Women of Troy return a talented roster from last season which includes five athletes ranked in the top-five of their respective events of the TFRI Individual Rankings: Anna Cockrell (tops in the nation in the 400H), Terry Twanisha (best in the 100), Lauren Rain Williams (fifth in the 200), Dior Hall (fifth in the 100H) and Kaelin Roberts (fifth in the 400). Sophomore Chanel Brissett looks to be a top contributor as well.

It is the first time the program has started the season in the top spot in school history.

Debuting outdoors at No. 2 was Texas A&M which is the best ranking received by the program to start a season since 2015.

The group should see top contributions come from Tyra Gittens (tops in the heptathlon), Jazmine Fray (second overall in the 800), Serena Brown (second in the dicus) and Madalaine Stulce (fifth in the javelin), among others.

Holding down the No. 3 spot was LSU after a sixth-place finish at outdoor nationals a year ago, the same place the team finished at the recently held national indoor meet a week ago.

LSU will look to get top contributions out of Kortnei Johnson (second individually in the index in the 100 and third in the 200), Lisa Gunnarsson (second overall in the pole vault) and Tonea Marshall (third in the 100 hurdles). The groups 4×100 unit also ran this past weekend to kick off their indoor season in which they posted the second-best time run so far in the country.

Slotting in at No. 4 is Arkansas. The Razorbacks have a heavy-hitting roster that is fresh off a team title at the 2019 NCAA Division I Indoor Track & Field Championships two weeks ago.

Arkansas will look to be led by The Bowerman Watch List member Lexi Jacobus (ranked No. 1 in the country in the pole vault), Payton Chadwick (second in the heptathlon), Janeek Brown (third in the 100H), Tori Hoggard (third in the pole vault), Kelsey Herman (fifth in the heptathlon) and Jada Baylark (fifth in the 100).

Coming in at No. 5 is Oregon, which is two spots better than its sixth-place finish at last year’s outdoor meet. The Ducks also took seventh at the indoor meet not too long ago.

Oregon will look towards leaders in Makenzie Dunmore (second in the nation in both the 200 and 400), Jessica Hull (second in the 1500) and Chaquinn Cook (third in the triple jump).

Rounding out the top-5 at No. 5 is Florida State.

The top-ranked Seminole athlete is Rougu Sow, who is billed No. 1 in the TFRI Individual Rankings in the long jump.

Completing the rest of the top-10 was Florida State, Kentucky, Miami (Fla.), Colorado and Florida, in that order.

The SEC led all conference with eight programs being ranked in the top-25. They were followed by the Pac-12 with six, the ACC with 4, the Big 12 with 3, the Mountain West with two and the American and Big 10 with one apiece.

The next National Track & Field Rating Index will be released on Monday, April 1.

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Top 25 Teams

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National Rank	Team	Points	Conference	Region	2018 FINAL
1	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA	355.35	Pac-12 (1)	West	1
2	TEXAS A&M	310.92	SEC (2)	South Central	19
3	LSU	248.17	SEC (4)	South Central	6
4	ARKANSAS	246.80	SEC (1)	South Central	11
5	OREGON	210.69	Pac-12 (2)	West	7
6	FLORIDA STATE	185.44	ACC (1)	South	14
7	KENTUCKY	171.72	SEC (3)	Southeast	4
8	MIAMI (FLA.)	168.50	ACC (2)	South	69
9	COLORADO	168.26	Pac-12 (3)	Mountain	37
10	FLORIDA	166.21	SEC (5)	South	5
11	STANFORD	158.05	Pac-12	West	3
12	ALABAMA	154.84	SEC (5)	South	46
13	NEW MEXICO	144.95	Mountain West	Mountain	17
14	TEXAS TECH	132.30	Big 12	Mountain	46
15	GEORGIA	132.23	SEC (10)	South	2
16	TENNESSEE	120.82	SEC (9)	South	25
17	KANSAS STATE	120.58	Big 12 (2)	Midwest	17
18	VIRGINIA TECH	114.53	ACC	Southeast	10
19	TEXAS	111.80	Big 12 (1)	South Central	34
20	WASHINGTON	101.01	Pac-12	West	44
21	BOISE STATE	97.21	Mountain West (4)	West	25
22	UCLA	89.80	Pac-12	West	14
23	IOWA	72.59	Big Ten	Midwest	13
24	NOTRE DAME	70.69	ACC	Great Lakes	46
25	GEORGIA TECH	63.03	ACC	South	---

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Week-by-Week Ranking

Only showing those with a season-best ranking in the top 25.

Team	Preseason	Week #1	Week #2	Week #3	Week #4	Week #5	Week #6	Week #7	Week #8	Week #9	FINAL
Arkansas	4	2	3	3	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Southern California	1	1	1	1	4	3	3	2	2	2	2
LSU	3	4	5	4	8	5	7	6	6	6	3
Texas A&M	2	3	2	2	3	2	2	3	3	4	4
Oregon	5	5	4	5	10	8	5	7	10	8	5
Florida	10	7	6	7	5	7	10	8	8	10	6
Alabama	12	8	8	9	7	6	8	12	11	5	7
New Mexico	13	14	13	12	9	9	9	5	5	7	8
Colorado	9	12	15	14	19	13	18	15	15	16	9
Florida State	6	6	7	8	6	10	11	10	7	3	10
Stanford	11	13	14	13	20	19	22	21	24	11	10
Texas	19	11	11	15	15	17	17	9	9	13	10
South Carolina	74	25	26	24	18	23	25	25	25	27	10
Kentucky	7	9	9	6	2	4	4	4	4	9	14
North Carolina A&T	73	50	50	49	16	24	6	13	12	12	15
Kansas State	17	16	12	11	12	12	13	14	13	19	16
Washington	20	19	18	17	22	25	23	17	20	18	17
Penn	99	106	110	94	33	32	34	41	36	33	17
North Carolina	88	66	43	33	31	30	30	28	26	40	17
Boise State	21	21	21	22	26	27	20	16	14	17	20
Miami (Fla.)	8	10	10	10	14	15	16	20	23	21	20
Arizona State		29	27	26	23	20	21	23	22	22	22
Oklahoma State	64	53	57	55	57	50	55	39	39	25	22
Ohio State	77	54	53	51	27	22	26	24	21	20	24
UCLA	22	22	22	23	24	21	24	19	16	14	25
BYU	32	24	19	20	11	11	12	11	17	15	25
Texas Tech	14	18	17	18	28	14	14	30	28	30	25
Iowa	23	27	24	21	13	16	15	18	18	38	25
California	50	63	58	60	54	56	56	60	63	51	25
Notre Dame	24	28	29	29	25	28	28	29	31	29	30
Virginia	29	36	34	36	64	43	45	52	45	45	30
Auburn	79	38	35	37	35	37	35	36	34	35	32
San Diego State	68	58	55	58	53	55	54	56	55	54	32
Northwestern State	146	78	79	79	66	68	66	83	82	70	32
Indiana State	81	85	87	90	110	114	115	98	98	84	32
Missouri	36	32	32	28	29	29	29	31	30	39	36
Wofford	111	121	93	87	97	98	96	97	78	91	36
Villanova	83	92	95	93	44	39	41	45	33	57	38
Colorado State	40	45	46	35	30	31	31	33	32	26	39
UNLV	46	44	47	48	39	45	48	51	48	49	39
Georgia Tech	25	31	31	32	116	89	95	37	38	34	41
UC Santa Barbara	78	79	80	82	73	76	71	35	67	50	41
Rutgers	158	97	98	97	62	70	68	90	83	58	41
Kansas	41	48	44	45	68	53	53	48	44	75	41
Georgetown	172	124	128	127	72	75	85	76	128	113	41
TCU	113	111	109	111	87	104	107	125	124	114	41
Rhode Island					141	146	121	130	134	129	41
Arizona	87	93	92	96	119	49	49	32	29	28	48
Minnesota	27	34	36	38	58	63	74	62	54	31	48
Akron	47	55	60	69	78	62	59	61	64	32	48
Indiana	44	57	62	57	61	66	64	54	57	41	48
Nebraska	49	49	52	63	47	42	44	55	49	43	48
North Dakota State	96	112	66	65	42	48	47	49	47	48	48
Monmouth	164	140	127	131	65	69	75	73	91	103	48
Michigan State	60	69	64	66	67	71	81	69	51	110	48
UC Davis	90	102	101	101	48	52	52	59	111	115	48
Norfolk State	103	109	119	120	155	61	39	40	40	44	57
Oklahoma	26	37	38	44	55	34	38	43	37	47	57
Incarnate Word	65	71	73	52	38	44	43	57	60	61	57
North Dakota	58	67	68	70	74	83	84	86	85	87	57
Albany	104	95	99	104	89	101	101	107	104	96	57
Syracuse	28	30	30	31	34	35	33	34	65	64	62
South Dakota	48	52	56	53	59	64	57	64	62	66	62
Baylor	31	23	23	25	32	33	32	44	42	83	62
Kennesaw State	94	103	107	107	107	106	111	104	103	104	62
Georgia	15	17	25	27	21	18	19	22	19	23	66
Tennessee	16	15	16	16	17	26	27	26	27	24	66
Mississippi State	34	40	39	40	45	46	46	38	35	36	66
Wisconsin	33	43	45	46	85	87	69	72	56	81	66
Vanderbilt	101	115	120	110	93	95	93	92	87	82	66
Wichita State	125	136	137	140	144	138	150	156	141	120	66
Duke	119	130	114	116	46	65	67	46	43	37
Virginia Tech	18	20	20	19	36	36	36	27	53	42
Memphis	56	59	59	59	51	41	42	50	46	46
Wyoming	85	86	89	85	40	47	50	66	70	52
Ole Miss	72	83	70	68	82	57	61	70	75	53
Florida International	75	80	81	75	50	38	37	42	41	55
Stephen F. Austin	166	99	111	115	71	77	72	67	69	56
San Francisco	63	64	67	67	174	189	133	138	110	59
Portland	55	70	72	73	108	109	86	77	84	60
Cincinnati	45	51	49	50	90	99	102	85	80	62
Central Michigan	159	167	168	170	77	85	78	53	50	63
Providence	52	60	61	61	76	81	87	82	66	65
Clemson	42	26	28	30	49	74	70	91	88	67
West Virginia	62	75	75	80	70	82	76	74	72	68
Texas A&M-Corpus Christi		84	85	84	63	60	58	71	74	69
Air Force	54	76	78	78	92	94	92	95	148	71
Maryland	43	33	33	34	118	120	122	117	109	72
Southern Illinois		110	121	118	111	112	113	122	126	73
Nevada	134	142	141	145	94	102	103	101	89	74
Bowling Green	53	47	51	56	60	67	65	78	79	76
Connecticut	76	77	84	81	99	59	63	68	71	77
Iowa State	92	61	65	64	79	73	79	84	61	78
Houston	35	41	41	43	84	86	89	99	102	79
Utah State	57	65	69	72	81	84	88	79	73	80
South Dakota State	100	101	104	105	109	107	109	110	96	85
Florida Atlantic	39	42	40	41	69	78	80	87	86	86
Princeton	98	118	88	91	83	88	83	81	81	88
Arkansas State	149	157	144	149	101	118	119	121	122	89
Furman	66	73	77	77	75	79	77	75	58	90
Cal State Fullerton	169	126	135	139	91	97	106	96	93	92
CSUN	124	94	97	100	86	90	91	80	76	93
Penn State	37	35	37	39	37	40	40	47	68	94
South Alabama	93	89	90	86	88	96	99	88	90	95
Illinois State	147	87	94	99	96	100	98	100	99	97
Jacksonville	144	154	105	106	112	93	90	109	107	98
Abilene Christian	114	127	125	137	122	123	134	136	137	99
Louisville	30	39	42	42	41	51	51	58	52	100
Long Beach State	130	143	142	146	115	126	127	133	132	101
Bucknell	61	68	71	71	127	134	139	132	135	102
SMU	107	119	118	123	126	108	114	102	100	105
Michigan	38	46	48	47	56	58	62	65	95	106
Miami (Ohio)	155	117	117	119	105	105	105	108	108	107
Southern Utah	137	165	164	166	139	144	132	135	112	108
Rice	70	82	83	83	98	113	116	106	105	109
UTEP	120	133	134	138	100	92	94	111	118	111
UCF		170	175	122	120	119	120	115	114	112
Kent State					128	135	108	114	116	116
UT Arlington	59	62	63	62	131	136	142	145	147	117
Fresno State	117	123	132	133	154	154	156	116	117	118
Weber State	142	152	154	156	117	128	126	126	125	119
Brown	82	96	103	114	123	124	125	118	119	121
Middle Tennessee	51	56	54	54	80	91	100	103	101	122
Northern Illinois	97	105	108	109	114	122	124	142	142	123
Liberty	160	145	151	151	135	132	137	139	143	124
Tulane	84	90	91	92	150	162	163	128	129	125
Wake Forest					179	185	192		189	126
Sacramento State					136	141	151	157	158	127
Montana	105	114	122	125	145	139	145	137	146	128
Saint Francis (Pa.)	173	172	172	176	166	170	175	176	177	130
Cornell	139	151	152	136	140	145	143	140	123	131
Bethune-Cookman	108	122	123	126	134	143	136	144	144	132
NC State	95	113	115	117	113	115	97	89	77	133
Samford	69	74	76	76	177	152	169	177	157	134
Columbia					95	110	110	127	131	135
Oregon State	121	149	148	148		178	165	158	190	136
UMass					183	185	193	168		136
Pittsburgh	143	164	164	169	137	148	159	162	161	138
Boston College	133	138	140	143	152	156	161	167		139
Western Kentucky					138	151	158	105	97	140
Dayton	162	168	170	172	190	194	187	191	164	141
George Mason	118	132	131	134	125	131	140	146	138	142
Harvard	128	137	139	141	147	161	135	152	150	143
Iona					181	192				144
Utah	135	104	106	108	52	54	60	63	59
Alabama State	89	100	100	88	43	80	82	93	92
Texas State	116	129	126	132	175	72	73	94	94
Temple	109	125	129	124	129	130	146	131	106
UMBC	71	81	82	89	124	127	128	112	113
UC Irvine	122	134	145	103	104	111	112	113	115
Tulsa						103	104	119	120
UTRGV				128	102	116	117	119	120
UTSA	168	116	116	121	103	117	118	124	127
Charlotte					143	137	149	129	130
N.C. Central	148	155	155	160	164	185	130	134	133
Western Michigan					106	121	123	143	136
Northwestern	140	156	157	159	170	164	173	169	139
Purdue	110	91	96	95	121	125	129	141	140
Richmond			166	167	132	140	147	147	145
La Salle						149	155	160	149
San Jose State	112	120	124	130	153	158	162	172	151
Gardner-Webb	164	160	163	165	157	160	160	148	152
Northeastern	152	160	160	155	169	175	144	151	153
Illinois					133	142	148	154	154
Georgia State						133	138	150	155
Yale						188	198	194	156
Southern Miss	80	88	86	98	148	153	156	153	159
High Point	151	159	158	161	172	168	183	173	160
Murray State	145	150	153	158		147	153	159	162
Hampton								161	163
East Carolina			167	168	167	163	175	184	165
Toledo	67	72	74	74	171	181	197	202	166
Morgan State							152	166	167
Howard	136	147	150	150	146	155	141	155	168
Hawai'i						166	172	164	169
North Texas	126	146	146	152	159	157	163	170	170
Houston Christian					180	182	167	165	171
Towson							171	173	172
Dartmouth	157	166	168	170	159	170	178	179	172
James Madison					183	194	170	170	174
Eastern Michigan	169				182	190	199	179	176
Florida A&M							178	175	177
Montana State	156	175	175	174	191	194	199		177
Troy	169				183	193	199	184	180
Stony Brook							168	188	181
Tennessee Tech	138	153	156	157	142	150	154	149	182
Navy					159	169	174	178	182
Prairie View A&M	152	160	160	162	159	170	178	179	182
Louisiana					159	170	178	179	182
Elon									186
South Florida					149	165	182	189	187
USC Upstate								189	187
DePaul						180	186	179	190
Washington State	91	107	112	112	183				190
Western Illinois					156	178	184	187	193
St. John's (N.Y.)								199	193
Southeastern Louisiana	86	98	102	102	178	182	188	191	195
Butler	131	144	147	147	151	170	184		195
Northern Arizona	141	158	159	164	176	182	188	195	197
New Mexico State	106	131	133	135				195	197
Grand Canyon								195	197
Sam Houston State	123	141	138	144	168	175	191	199	197
McNeese State	102	108	113	113	130	129	131	123
Cal Poly	129	148	149	154	158	159	166	163
Idaho State	166	173	174					184
Arkansas-Pine Bluff								191
Lamar	132	139	143	153	173	166	175	195
VCU	162	169	172	176	165	175	188
Marquette							195
William & Mary							195
Delaware							199
Ball State	115	128	130	129	183
Eastern Illinois					183
Loyola-Chicago					192
Marshall					192
Oral Roberts	127	135	136	142
UMass Lowell	152	160	160	162
Austin Peay	161	173	175	175

USTFCCCA NCAA Division I Outdoor Track & Field

2019 Rankings Calendar

Weeks	National TFRI	Regional TFRI	Conference TFRI	#EventSquad	KEY DATES
Preseason	Mon 3/18 MEN \| WOMEN				Mar. 1: DI Season Opens
Week 1	Mon 4/1 MEN \| WOMEN	Mon 4/1 MEN \| WOMEN
Week 2	Mon 4/8 MEN \| WOMEN	Mon 4/8 MEN \| WOMEN		Mon 4/8 MEN \| WOMEN
Week 3	Mon 4/15 MEN \| WOMEN	Mon 4/15 MEN \| WOMEN	Mon 4/15 MEN \| WOMEN	Mon 4/15 MEN \| WOMEN
Week 4	Mon 4/22 MEN \| WOMEN	Mon 4/22 MEN \| WOMEN	Mon 4/22 MEN \| WOMEN	Mon 4/22 MEN \| WOMEN
Week 5	Mon 4/29 MEN \| WOMEN	Mon 4/29 MEN \| WOMEN	Mon 4/29 MEN \| WOMEN	Mon 4/29 MEN \| WOMEN
Week 6	Mon 5/6 MEN \| WOMEN	Mon 5/6 MEN \| WOMEN	Mon 5/6 MEN \| WOMEN	Mon 5/6 MEN \| WOMEN	May 12: Final Qualifying Day
Week 7	Mon 5/13 MEN \| WOMEN	Mon 5/13 MEN \| WOMEN	Mon 5/13 MEN \| WOMEN	Mon 5/13 MEN \| WOMEN
Week 8	Mon 5/20 MEN \| WOMEN	Mon 5/20 MEN \| WOMEN	Mon 5/20 MEN \| WOMEN	Mon 5/20 MEN \| WOMEN	May 23-25 NCAA DI First Rounds
Week 9	Tue 5/28 MEN \| WOMEN	Mon 5/27 MEN \| WOMEN	Mon 5/27 MEN \| WOMEN	Mon 5/27 MEN \| WOMEN	June 5-8: NCAA DI Championships Final Site (Austin, Texas)
FINAL Results	Sat 6/8 MEN \| WOMEN		Sat 6/8 MEN \| WOMEN

Weeks	National TFRI	Regional TFRI	Conference TFRI	#EventSquad	KEY DATES
Preseason	Mon 3/18 MEN \| WOMEN				Mar. 1: DI Season Opens
Week 1	Mon 4/1 MEN \| WOMEN	Mon 4/1 MEN \| WOMEN
Week 2	Mon 4/8 MEN \| WOMEN	Mon 4/8 MEN \| WOMEN		Mon 4/8 MEN \| WOMEN
Week 3	Mon 4/15 MEN \| WOMEN	Mon 4/15 MEN \| WOMEN	Mon 4/15 MEN \| WOMEN	Mon 4/15 MEN \| WOMEN
Week 4	Mon 4/22 MEN \| WOMEN	Mon 4/22 MEN \| WOMEN	Mon 4/22 MEN \| WOMEN	Mon 4/22 MEN \| WOMEN
Week 5	Mon 4/29 MEN \| WOMEN	Mon 4/29 MEN \| WOMEN	Mon 4/29 MEN \| WOMEN	Mon 4/29 MEN \| WOMEN
Week 6	Mon 5/6 MEN \| WOMEN	Mon 5/6 MEN \| WOMEN	Mon 5/6 MEN \| WOMEN	Mon 5/6 MEN \| WOMEN	May 12: Final Qualifying Day
Week 7	Mon 5/13 MEN \| WOMEN	Mon 5/13 MEN \| WOMEN	Mon 5/13 MEN \| WOMEN	Mon 5/13 MEN \| WOMEN
Week 8	Mon 5/20 MEN \| WOMEN	Mon 5/20 MEN \| WOMEN	Mon 5/20 MEN \| WOMEN	Mon 5/20 MEN \| WOMEN	May 23-25 NCAA DI First Rounds
Week 9	Tue 5/28 MEN \| WOMEN	Mon 5/27 MEN \| WOMEN	Mon 5/27 MEN \| WOMEN	Mon 5/27 MEN \| WOMEN	June 5-8: NCAA DI Championships Final Site (Austin, Texas)
FINAL Results	Sat 6/8 MEN \| WOMEN		Sat 6/8 MEN \| WOMEN

2019 NCAA DI Women’s Outdoor Track & Field Rating Index – Preseason

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