1st CTCA (Collegiate Triathlon Coaches Association) rankings came out today:
Rank Team Score Division
1 ASU 500.25 1
2 Arizona 500.20 1
3 USF 495.97 1
4 Queens University of Charlotte 495.07 1
5 TCU 486.64 1
6 Wingate 481.76 2
7 East Tennessee State University 477.18 1
8 Lenoir-Rhyne University 476.01 2
9 USD 473.79 1
10 University of Denver 469.81 1
11 Duquesne University 459.77 1
12 CMU 456.12 2
13 Navy 453.68 1
14 BHSU 411.82 2
15 Delaware State University 408.73 1
16 University of Indianapolis 404.38 2
17 Cal Poly Humboldt 402.60 2
18 North Central 389.40 3
19 Trine University 379.50 3
20 Central College 369.41 3
21 Warren Wilson College 355.39 3
22 Willamette University 352.87 3
23 Northern Kentucky University 345.66 1
24 Millikin University 333.80 3
25 La Salle University 310.64 1
26 EMU 301.22 3
27 Gallaudet University 288.87 3
28 King University 267.27 2
29 Emmanuel University 248.00 2
30 Concordia University Wisconsin 245.95 3
31 Newberry College 234.64 2
32 Hampton University 206.55 1
33 Guilford College 194.16 3
34 Coe College 172.42 3
35 Chicago State University 161.02 1
Best scoring regular season races are classified as collegiate cups; any other events are weighted less. So far there have been 4 CCâs:
Collegiate Cup Results:
ETSU Super Sprint (on campus race)- 8/29
The final collegiate cup was completed yesturday in Illinois. Rankings come out this Wednesday which will be used to fill out the regional races. There will be an A and B wave in each region. I think itâs 75 A wave, up to 80 in B wave. Top 20 from each region qualify for the A wave at Nationals, then the next best 35 ranked athletes (from your best race score of the entire year) fill out the 75 person A wave (teams are limited with number of athletes at Nationals). There is a B and C wave at Nationals, if/when ncaa tri becomes championship status sport, there will only be 1 A wave at both the regional and nationals.
Back to elite WT rules regarding water temp, and lap out rules are in affect again (not in regular season).
Current NCAA Women results from ITU worlds: not counting anyone from AG ranks
Ruff (ASU)- DNF U23 race after collapsing 20m from the finish and trying to crawl to finish line.
Visgueiro (ETSU)- 34th U23
Clement (ASU)- 29th U23
Brown (ASU)- 25th U23
Wolfe (UoA)- 36th U23
Lakustiak (UoA)- 24th U23
Reckmann (USF)- 6th Jr
Pardy (UoA)- 21st Jr
Wentzy (UoA)- 35th Jr
Apologies if I missed anyone. Regionals is next weekend for most of these athletes (or they may skip it and qualify for nationals on their ranking). Sprint distance for NCAA (olympic for the U23 athletes this past weekend at worlds)
East regional is racing at Lake Norman near Charlotte, NC.
West regional is racing near TCU (host) in Fort Worth, TX.
Top 10 teams from â24 were alternated to each region, so you may seem some west teams in east. Top 20 from each region among A/B heat (each region is combined times and then ranked 1-XXX) will make Nationals. The remaining 35 A spots will be filled from individual rankings from entire year (regionals is weighed stronger than regular season events). There will be an A/B/C heat at nationals but individuals must have a strong enough score so no one is out there for long time delaying start of other races. Itâs roughly high 1:1X sprint time to make nationals cut.
East Regional results; they show up by division, but they are scored all together; I have that file just donâ't know how to add a file.
East Regional D1
East Regional D2
East Regional D3
Top 5 Team Scores (all divisions):
Queens 622 points
ASU 617 points
San Fran 582 points
Wingate 564 points
Lenoir-Rhyne 540 points
West Regional Results
Top 5 team scores (all divisions):
UoA 450 points
TCU 406 points
S Dakota 366 points
Denver 365 points
Drury 335 points
Eta: Arizona got a âperfectâ score by placing 1-5 (teams 1st 5 score 6-7 displace and if more than 8-10 are removed from scoring/displaced) which has only been done 1 other time in the regionals era (Queenâs in â22).
Championship week has arrived. 3 waves of athletes will race on Saturday Nov 8th in Tempe, AZ.
1 lap 750m lake swim, 3 lap 20km bike (no lap out- race is entirely on 2 full lanes of roads, so they took out lap out), 2 lap 5km run course.
Heat 3 (C wave)- 10:30am local time start
Heat 2 (B wave)- 12:45pm local time start
Heat 1 (A wave)- 3:00pm local time start
This year you qualified individually, and so not all teams qualified athletes; there was also a 60% standard that you must be within so that the race schedule can stay on time.
Got back from the race, so if I have this right it went something like
UofA
UofA
ASU
Queens
For the team titles I have
D1 - UofA (ASU Runner Up)
D2 - Queens
D3 - No idea
In some ways I like this format, in others I donât. Whenever this becomes a championship sport, D2 and D3 races may be in completely different locations! Running them based on qualifying times instead of Division creates completely different dynamics. BUT, it made it interesting for sure. Queenâs girls seemed to bleed a whole lot of time on the bike, but holy moly they can run. If they were D1 theyâd be the second runner up for the team title.
Also, how far TCU and USF seem to have fallen off was wild. UofA becoming an NCAA program a few years ago really had made D1 tough. Also, the national champion apparently started triathlon two years ago? Wild.
ETA: It would be nice if USAT Social was focused on this race instead of posting about Taylor Knibb. As the event organizer there was so much low hanging fruit.
Thx for coming out! Strong performances in the A wave today, I think they had about 4-6 degree cooler temps than the B wave. Sport is getting much more competitive, this is generally a âslowâ course.
The race format is based on how ncaa will format their championship. I think it takes 35 schools for your division to have its own divisional national championship, until then it will be an all comers 1 national title regardless of division.
36 schools had at least 1 student athlete race and finish today thus allowing them to score. This was also the 1st year you qualified strictly as individuals so no automatic team spots. Thatâs probably going to be the process moving forward. Also had to be within 60% of the qualifying standard, I think 210 started and ~20 DNFâd for various reasons.
Why do you say that? They started at 10:30 and then I guess had about 30 minutes of turnover. Having been out there at least 4 times, the A Wave (formerly D1 Race) has been in the afternoon and due to the length of the distance (sprint) I canât say itâs had any effect. Also, the only reason amateur racing starts so early is because of permitting.
Keep in mind itâs the hurdles of emerging sport to championship status (if it happens). When itâs sanctioned by ncaa there wonât be any age group events but I still think the earliest theyâll stage a championship event would be 10-11am. Also keep in mind if itâs an all division race (which it currently would be) it will only be 1 wave of 75 athletes. If any division got I think itâs 35 schools that allows their own divisional championship. If it ever split divisions there is strong chance the nationals location would be different as well (will be based on bids).
(Nice race for your daughter and Duquesne to go top 10)
Thanks. The races are getting so fast with the foreign athletes as well as the single sport people finding there way to triathlon. She knew she was going to to be closer to the back in the A wave. Swim and bike went pretty well, but melted down on run and lost a ton of energy places. My rant is admittedly partly in response to this, but I said the same thing before the race as well as the previous races on this course. I saw a few other athletes that looked to be suffering heat stroke. Could have been worse. Today will be a few degrees hotter at 3pm and a few years ago it was over 100F. In that race it was carnage. Many races start a wave with runners in the previous race still on the run. 90 minutes between races instead of or 2:15 would help. All the college cup and regional races were earlier in the day and I think they have it right. Hope your team continues to to grow and thrive.
Maybe the collegiate club race in Biloxi, MS this spring opens up a new option, but of course anything in the southeast is capable of a hurricane in the fall (thus why they moved off Clermont after only 1 year w the hurricane issue). Tempe is an expensive trip for basically every school minus UoA and ASU.
Only way to make things âcheapâ is to make it driveable. A South destination would make it drivable for a decent amount of teams. But there are no programs down there, University of South Alabama or UNO would be interesting places if you could get a program up and running I suppose.