SUN DEVIL TRACK & FIELD SID Contact: Alex Ryan | [email protected] | (480) 965-4987 | thesundevils.com SEASON WEEK 5 INDOOR WEEK 5 MPSF Meet Awaits ASU Track & Field in Seattle Meet #6 (Indoor #6) Sun Devils looking for conference titles, qualify for NCAA Champs. at MPSF Indoor Championships Friday-Saturday, February 25-26 All Day TEMPE - The Arizona State University track and eld team will travel to Seattle Dempsey Indoor Facility Seattle, Wash. hosted by Washington and the Dempsey Indoor Facility on the Washington campus this week to com- pete in the 2011 Mountain Paci c Sports Federation (MPSF) Indoor Champion- 2011 INDOOR SEASON SCHEDULE ships, which will take place on Friday and Saturday. The meet opens on Friday Date Meet Location with the mens weight throw at 12:35 p.m. PT and on Saturday at 11 a.m. PT with J 28-29 at New Mexico Invite Albuquerque, NM the heptathlon 60m hurdles, womens pole vault, mens triple jump, mens high F 4-5 at New Mexico Classic Albuquerque, NM 5 at NAU Team Challenge Flagstaff, AZ jump and mens shot put. The meet will be a scored team event. 12 at TAMU Conf. Chall. College Station, TX 19 at Lumberjack Invite Flagstaff, AZ OUT OF THE BLOCKS 25-26 at MPSF Championships Seattle, WA The ASU women are #25 in this weeks USTFCCCA Top 25 rankings M 4-5 at Last Chance Meets TBD In the West, both squads are ranked No. 4 this week 11-12 at NCAA Champs. College Station, TX Live Results: http://www.gohuskies.com/livestats/c-track/022511/index.htm Meet the eld: 11 schools make up the MPSF 2011 OUTDOOR SEASON SCHEDULE Date Meet Location Both Sun Devil teams took fourth place at the 2010 MPSF with 7 titles won M 18-19 Baldy Castillo Invite TeMpe ASU holds the MPSF-leading mark in ve total events (3 women, 2 men) 25-26 ASU Invitational TeMpe Six Sun Devils are among the Top 8 in multiple events in the MPSF 25-26 at Stanford Invite Palo Alto, CA Chaney ranked in the Top 10 nationally and in the world at 200m 31-1 at Jim Click Multis Tucson, AZ Two former Sun Devils also on the world Top 20 lists A 8 at Mesa Classic Mesa, AZ Chaney a part of four times that rank in the Top 13 nationally 8-9 Sun Angel Track Classic TeMpe Elite company: Chaney is 1-of-3 women to rank Top 20 in 200m, 400m 14-16 at Mt. SAC Relays Walnut, CA Pinnick posts big personal best in 400m 22-23 at UCSD Triton Invite La Jolla, CA 23 Sun Devil Open TeMpe Jelmini leads the nations freshman class in the womens shot put 30 Double Dual - UA/NAU TeMpe In the ASU Top 10: 10 marks recorded at Lumberjack Invitational 30 at Cardinal Invite Palo Alto, CA ASU wins 13 events at the Lumberjack Invite; sweeps both team titles M 6-7 at Pac-10 Multis Tucson, AZ Five rookies won events in Flagstaff over the weekend 13-14 at Pac-10 Champs. Tucson, AZ 21 at Tucson Elite Throws Tucson, AZ IN THE RANKINGS: USTFCCCA TOP 25 28-29 at NCAA Prelims - West Eugene, OR The USTFCCCA released the National Top 25 rankings for the week with the Sun J 9-12 at NCAA Champs. Des Moines, IA 23-27 at USATF Champs. Eugene, OR Devil women slipped ve spots to No. 25 this week despite another strong showing at the Lumberjack Invitational. The men are not among the Top 25 teams based All times local to site and subject to change; home meets in maroon upon points earned from positioning on the NCAA descending order lists. Check host team web sites for meet schedules for each event IN THE RANKINGS: USTFCCCA WEST REGION In the West region rankings, the men rose two spots to No. 4 this week while the women remained at No. 4 for the third week in a row. LIVE RESULTS The Washington web site (gohuskies.com) will have live updates of the results from the MPSF Championships throughout the meet. Visit the track and eld page or by clicking on this link for the results: http://www.gohuskies.com/livestats/c- track/022511/index.htm. FOLLOW THE SUN DEVILS ONLINE IN THE FIELD FACEBOOK The MPSF is comprised mainly of Pac-10 Conference teams with three teams from Sun Devil Track & Field/Cross Country Arizona State XCTF the Big West bringing the MPSF Championships to an 11-team event. The Pac-10 members in the eld include Arizona State, Arizona, California, Oregon, Stanford, TWITTER UCLA, Washington and Washington State while the Big West representatives in- @SunDevilTFXC clude CS Northridge, Long Beach State and UC Irvine. ARIZONA STATE NCAA TheSunDevils.com NCAA.com QUICK RECAP: 2010 MPSF Both Sun Devil teams nished fourth in the 2010 MPSF Championships with UCLA PACIFIC-10 MPSF taking the mens title and Oregon the womens. Arizona State captured seven titles, Pac-10.org MPSports.org including three by the women and the four by the men. The womens champions in- 2011 ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY TRACK & FIELD 1 Coach Kraft / Notes cluded Jasmine Chaney in the 400m dash (53.83); the 4x400m relay of Dominique HEAD COACH GREG KRAFT Maloy, Keia Pinnick, Kayla Sanchez and Chaney (3:38.40); and Constance Ezugha Greg Kraft is in his 15th year (2011 seasons) with the in the long jump (6.45m/21-02.00). On the mens side, winners included Lawrence Sun Devil program and has built it into a national power. During the 2008 season, his men and women captured Trice in the 60m dash (6.68); Donald Sanford in the 400m dash (46.19); Mason the NCAA Indoor Championships, only the second time in McHenry in the 800m run (1:48.89); and the 4x400m relay of Allante Battle, Justin the history of the event that the same school swept both Kremer, Joel Phillip and Sanford (3:07.38). titles. The title was the second in a row for the women and their third overall (2007 outdoor) and the first for the men. Dating back to the 2006 seasons, the Sun Devil women TAKE ME TO YOUR LEADERS! have won the Pac-10 three times, the MPSF twice, the Heading into the MPSF Championships this weekend, the Sun Devils have ve NCAA indoor twice, the NCAA outdoor once and the NCAA West Region outdoor once. The men have added of the top marks in the league, including three by the women and two by the men. one NCAA indoor and one NCAA West Region outdoor Jasmine Chaney is part of all three womens leading marks, including the top times crown to that collection as well. in the 200m dash (23.16) and 400m dash (53.37) and as part of the 4x400m re- Individually, athletes have excelled under the 2008 Mens and Womens USTFCCCA National Indoor Coach lay with Dominique Maloy, Keia Pinnick and Kayla Sanchez (3:35.99). The mens of the Year, including seven-time NCAA multi-event cham- 4x400m relay of Allante Battle, Kelsey Caesar, John Kline and William Henry lead pion Jacquelyn Johnson, who also advanced to the the way with a time of 3:10.85 while Jordan Clarke has the top mark in the shot put Olympic Games in the heptathlon after winning her fourth NCAA heptathlon title. In 2009, two men captured three (18.67m/61-03.00). NCAA titles, including Ryan Whiting sweeping in the indoor and outdoor shot put crown and Jason Lewis won MULTIPLE TOP 8 MARKS the indoor weight throw. In 2010, Whiting swept the shot put once again and added a discus crown before being Four men and two women enter the MPSF Championships with more than one name a finalist for the Bowerman Award. mark that ranks them among the Top 8 in the league with both women holding At the conference level, the Sun Devils have dominated on the womens side with three titles in a row while (2006- Top 8 marks in three events and all four men holding two each. For the women, 08) the men have finished as the meet runner-up the Jasmine Chaney is rst in both the 200m and 400m while standing second in the past three years in a row. His athletes have collected 49 60m hurdles while Dominique Maloy sits third in the 200m, fourth in the 400m and individual titles and added another 14 relay crowns in the Pac-10 before going on to collect 143 All-America honors seventh in the 60m dash. On the mens side, Daniel Auberry is second in the 60m individually and another 22 in relays. dash and seventh in the 200m; William Henry is third in the 400m and eighth in the Along with Johnson, other impressive names that have 200m; Chris Benard is second in the triple jump and seventh in the long jump; and been coached by Kraft include 2004 Olympic Long Jump Champion Dwight Phillips and 2008 U.S. Long Jump Jordan Clarke is rst in the shot put and fourth in the weight throw. Champion Trevell Quinley. WORLD RANKINGS BY THE NUMBERS According to the most recent update of the World Top 20 lists, current Sun Devil Athletic Honors M W NCAA Champions (Team) 1 3 Jasmine Chaney and two former Sun Devils are currently ranked in their respective NCAA Champions (Individual) 9 14 events. On the womens side, Chaney stands tied for eighth in the 200m dash at NCAA All-Americans - TF (Individual) 72 84 NCAA All-Americans - TF (Relay) 15 9 23.16 while Charonda Williams, in the same event, is 13th at 23.24.