MPSF Indoor Track and Field Championship Preview
Photo: Dempsey Indoor Facility (Courtesy University of Washington Athletics)
2019 MPSF Indoor Track & Field Championship Preview
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2019 MPSF Indoor Track and Field Championships
Friday-Saturday, February 22-23
Dempsey Indoor, Seattle, Wash (17th Season)
Live Results: https://live.pntfo.com/meets/1914/scoreboard
Live Video Stream (Flotrack, Subscription): http://bit.ly/2TRrwA4
Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Indoor Track and Field celebrates its 27th year of competition with the 2019 championship meet at the University of Washington’s Dempsey Indoor Facility for the 17th consecutive season, Friday and Saturday (Feb. 22-23). Friday begins at 12 noon (PT) with the women’s weight throw and concludes at 7:25 p.m. with the men’s Distance Medley Relay. The first event Saturday takes off at 10:00 a.m. with the women’s high jump, before the men’s 4 X 400 meter relay will end this year’s championship meet at 2:55 p.m. The 2019 MPSF Championship features 22 universities comprised from members of the Pac-12, Big West, and West Coast Conferences. Thirty-seven teams will compete for a conference title, matching last year’s record total, 22 for the women and 15 for the men.
At the conclusion of the two-day 2018 MPSF Championship, the USC women won their fourth title in the last five years with 122 points, 24 ahead of second-place Stanford. The Trojan men also came away with the title with 107 points, 31.5 ahead of runner-up BYU. USC became the second school ever to sweep the MPSF Championship for both genders, joining the University of Arizona from 1995 in what was the meet’s third year. The Oregon women and men were the 2018 bronze medal teams.
The 2019 NCAA Men’s and Women’s Indoor Track and Field Championships will be held March 8 and 9, at the Birmingham CrossPlex in Birmingham, AL. The MPSF has produced nine of the last 12 NCAA women’s champions and 11 all-time (Oregon winning two of the last three and seven of the last nine), while the MPSF men own five NCAA titles all in the last 11 years (three of the last five years won by Oregon).
On the women’s side, USC is ranked second in the nation (163.65), Oregon is third (100.23), Stanford ninth (80.41), BYU 16th (48.54), and UCLA 25th (39.01)…Oregon men rank 10th nationally (74.16), along with USC at No. 12 (56.38), Stanford No. 15 (51.81), BYU No. 17 (49.05) and Arizona No. 23 (39.38). Rankings are as of February 18, 2019, provided by
www.ustfccca.org and
www.tfrrs.org.