Race For NAIA No. 1 Tightens

NEW ORLEANS – In the latest edition of the NAIA track & field team rankings released Wednesday by the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA), the No. 1 teams remained the same, but the battle for the top spot tightened. The No. 1 Indiana Tech men and No. 1 Wayland Baptist women led the nation in rankings points for the fourth straight week. And the No. 2 Oklahoma Baptist men and No. 2 Indiana Tech women closed the gap by more than thirty points each.

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OBU’s men narrowed Tech’s lead by running a nation-leading 4×800 meter relay at Drake. Travis Hinton, Jywayne Allen, Ayoub Akil, and Clay Shepperson teamed up to run 7:31.73 and win the non-DI section in Des Moines. The Warrior women made their advance thanks to forty points from the two polar opposite hurdling events at the Penn Relays. Laura Condron ran 11:06 in the steeplechase, and Andrea Ford ran 14.20 in the 100 meter hurdles.

Trends for both sexes were similar. For both men and women, the composition of the top five remained the same, one team from Oregon joined the top ten, and two teams joined the top twenty-five.

The men’s top five—Tech, Oklahoma Baptist, No. 3 Concordia (Neb.), No. 4 British Columbia, and No. 5 Southern Oregon—is the same for the second straight week. Nos. 6 and 7 Doane and Concordia (Ore.) switched places, and No. 9 Eastern Oregon joined the top ten. The leaper of the week was No. 17 Northwestern (Iowa), up eleven ranks. No. 23 Cumberlands (Ky.) also joined the top twenty-five.

Behind Wayland Baptist and Indiana Tech, women’s No. 3 Concordia (Neb.) and No. 4 British Columbia traded spots ahead of No. 5 Doane. Concordia (Ore.) joined the top ten at No. 10, and two squads made huge jumps. No. 19 Brenau (Ga.) and No. 23 Friends (Kan.) moved up forty-six and seventeen spots, respectively.

The NAIA national rankings will be released on Wednesdays between now and the May 21-23 national championships in Gulf Shores, Alabama.

USTFCCCA NAIA
Men’s Outdoor Track & Field National Team Computer Rankings (Top 25)
2015 Week #5 — April 29
next ranking: May 6

Rank	Institution	Points	Conference	Head Coach (Yr)	Last Week
1	Indiana Tech	432.83	Wolverine-Hoosier	Doug Edgar (6th)	1
2	Oklahoma Baptist	376.89	Sooner Athletic	Ford Mastin (19th)	2
3	Concordia (Neb.)	347.59	Great Plains	Kregg Einspahr (23rd)	3
4	British Columbia	292.20	Independent (NAIA)	Marek Jedrzejek (14th)	4
5	Southern Oregon	272.14	Cascade	Grier Gatlin (4th)	5
6	Wayland Baptist (Texas)	271.78	Sooner Athletic	Rohan Thompson (4th)	7
7	Doane (Neb.)	248.16	Great Plains	Ed Fye (13th)	6
8	Concordia (Ore.)	227.27	Cascade	Jerret Mantalas (1st)	8
9	Eastern Oregon	206.19	Cascade	Ben Welch (11th)	12
10	Olivet Nazarene (Ill.)	203.39	Chicagoland	Michael McDowell (14th)	9
11	Embry-Riddle (Fla.)	180.97	Sun Conference	Michael Rosolino (12th)	11
12	Briar Cliff (Iowa)	174.13	Great Plains	Nate Treinen (8th)	20
13	Oklahoma City	171.76	Sooner Athletic	Conor Holt (4th)	10
14	Siena Heights (Mich.)	167.54	Wolverine-Hoosier	Tim Bauer (31st)	13
15	Wiley (Texas)	162.25	Red River	Micah Tirop (2nd)	14
16	Indiana Wesleyan	132.18	Crossroads	John Foss (28th)	16
17	Northwestern (Iowa)	128.52	Great Plains	Scott Bahrke (3rd)	28
18	Carroll (Mont.)	123.48	Frontier	Harry Clark (2nd)	18
19	William Carey (Miss.)	121.50	Southern States	Ben Smith (3rd)	19
20	Lewis-Clark State (Idaho)	118.92	Frontier	Mike Collins (18th)	21
21	Tennessee Wesleyan	116.12	Appalachian	Shawn Jakubowski (3rd)	15
22	Cal State San Marcos	113.48	Independent (NAIA)	Steve Scott (16th)	17
23	Cumberlands (Ky.)	109.59	Mid-South	Floyd Stroud (22nd)	27
24	Central Methodist (Mo.)	109.38	Heart of America	Mark Nelson (4th)	22
25	Bethel (Ind.)	105.39	Crossroads	Tony Natali (17th)	25
dropped out: No. 23 Park (Mo.), No. 24 Westmont (Calif.)
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Men’s Conference Index Top 10
Rank	Conference	Points	Top 25 Teams
1	Great Plains	963.53	3
2	Sooner Athletic	878.62	3
3	Cascade	866.39	3
4	Wolverine-Hoosier	710.64	2
5	Independent (NAIA)	503.16	2
6	Sun Conference	424.43	1
7	Crossroads	352.54	2
8	Chicagoland	319.68	1
9	Red River	286.09	1
10	Heart of America	279.01	1

USTFCCCA NAIA
Women’s Indoor Track & Field National Team Computer Rankings (Top 25)
2015 Week #5 — April 29
next ranking: May 6

Rank	Institution	Points	Conference	Head Coach (Yr)	Last Week
1	Wayland Baptist (Texas)	479.30	Sooner Athletic	Rohan Thompson (4th)	1
2	Indiana Tech	440.84	Wolverine-Hoosier	Doug Edgar (6th)	2
3	Concordia (Neb.)	387.71	Great Plains	Kregg Einspahr (23rd)	4
4	British Columbia	375.99	Independent	Marek Jedrzejek (14th)	3
5	Doane (Neb.)	351.98	Great Plains	Ed Fye (13th)	5
6	Oklahoma Baptist	317.20	Sooner Athletic	Ford Mastin (19th)	6
7	Westmont (Calif.)	241.54	Golden State	Russell Smelley (36th)	8
8	Embry-Riddle (Fla.)	227.96	Sun Conference	Michael Rosolino (12th)	7
9	Cornerstone (Mich.)	190.38	Wolverine-Hoosier	Paul Koutz (3rd)	9
10	Concordia (Ore.)	154.00	Cascade	Jerret Mantalas (1st)	12
11	Aquinas (Mich.)	144.19	Wolverine-Hoosier	Dave Wood (19th)	10
12	Southwestern (Kan.)	140.46	Kansas Collegiate	Mike Kirkland (2nd)	14
13	Cal State San Marcos	138.23	Independent	Steve Scott (16th)	13
14	Siena Heights (Mich.)	131.13	Wolverine-Hoosier	Kirk Richards (3rd)	11
15	Carroll (Mont.)	120.78	Frontier	Harry Clark (2nd)	15
16	Hastings (Neb.)	115.68	Great Plains	Ryan Mahoney (2nd)	18
17	Wiley (Texas)	113.86	Red River	Micah Tirop (2nd)	16
18	Olivet Nazarene (Ill.)	113.45	Chicagoland	Michael McDowell (14th)	21
19	Brenau (Ga.)	107.61	Southern States	Richard Ludwig (3rd)	65
20	Southern-New Orleans (La.)	103.88	Gulf Coast	Yhann Plummer (2nd)	19
21	Missouri Baptist	103.83	American Midwest	Patricia Hanna (5th)	17
22	The Master’s (Calif.)	99.37	Golden State	Zach Schroeder (7th)	24
23	Friends (Kan.)	99.13	Kansas Collegiate	Cole Davis (4th)	40
24	Grand View (Iowa)	95.34	Midwest Collegiate	Jerry Monner (9th)	23
25	Southern Oregon	92.22	Cascade	Grier Gatlin (4th)	20
dropped out: No. 22 Indiana Wesleyan, No. 25 SCAD Savannah (Ga.)
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Women’s Conference Index Top 10
Rank	Conference	Points	Top 25 Teams
1	Great Plains	1140.56	3
2	Wolverine-Hoosier	940.84	4
3	Sooner Athletic	846.28	2
4	Cascade	572.67	2
5	Independent (NAIA)	543.20	2
6	Sun Conference	509.99	2
7	Golden State	461.28	2
8	Crossroads	324.67	1
9	Kansas Collegiate	287.67	1
10	Red River	276.79	1

Team	Week #1	Week #2	Week #3	Week #4	Week #5	Week #6	Week #7	FINAL
Southern California	2	3	1	2	2	2	2	1
Georgia	75	58	67	27	27	13	12	2
Auburn	20	25	27	7	7	6	4	3
Arkansas	18	1	2	1	1	1	1	4
Oklahoma State	22	22	25	31	14	14	10	5
Mississippi State	24	34	16	13	15	19	14	6
Virginia	17	27	15	17	8	9	18	6
Texas Tech	3	7	4	3	5	5	6	8
North Carolina	10	8	5	6	3	4	7	8
Texas A&M	1	2	3	5	4	3	3	10
Ole Miss	13	10	13	16	17	18	16	10
Oklahoma	4	6	8	8	9	8	9	12
Nebraska	12	13	11	18	18	22	21	12
BYU	74	52	36	25	28	29	25	14
Oregon	87	36	55	57	54	51	50	15
Georgetown	59	82	49	26	19	25	17	16
Kentucky	31	40	44	33	34	26	23	16
Wisconsin	27	41	34	53	24	27	26	16
Washington	5	4	7	4	6	7	5	19
Villanova	11	15	9	10	11	10	8	19
South Carolina	33	28	32	60	75	46	48	21
South Florida	38	30	30	30	33	42	74	21
Baylor	81	33	24	22	25	24	20	23
Arizona State	15	19	21	32	35	20	19	24
Missouri	35	17	20	19	23	31	28	24
New Mexico	29	20	23	15	16	15	11	26
Purdue	23	31	35	34	39	35	30	26
Texas	7	14	26	37	38	39	37	26
Wyoming	63	44	42	40	44	40	38	26
Duke	45	77	63	43	46	49	51	26
Iowa	34	23	19	23	22	33	33	31
LSU	73	74	73	74	72	38	36	32
CSUN	36	37	33	39	40	43	43	32
Northern Colorado	47	70	74	76	59	67	64	32
Wake Forest	101	66	66	48	32	34	32	35
Cal Poly	132	72	70	61	63	36	40	36
Akron	42	43	41	41	43	44	44	36
Miami (Fla.)	53	84	100	97	99	73	72	36
Boston University	88	87	92	101	94	90	78	36
Illinois	8	9	12	9	10	12	13	40
Virginia Tech	9	12	10	14	20	16	22	41
Cincinnati	79	90	59	21	21	32	27	41
South Alabama		56	54	72	69	48	49	41
Northern Iowa	43	59	69	69	67	75	71	41
Colorado	30	38	51	86	89	93	85	41
Harvard	16	16	22	24	26	21	42	46
Tarleton State	71	91	88	47	49	54	54	46
Arkansas-Pine Bluff	76	64	46	63	61	64	62	46
Utah State	68	55	53	64	62	65	63	46
Iowa State	6	21	17	35	37	41	41	50
Louisville	129	71	86	85	83	57	52	50
Boston College		101	106	68	64	66	56	50
Kent State	49	61	58	59	57	61	58	50
Alabama	37	35	40	49	55	68	65	50
UCLA	61	95	52	56	58	70	67	50
Penn State	14	11	14	20	13	23	15	56
Florida	21	5	6	11	12	11	29	56
Northern Arizona	64	32	38	36	36	30	31	56
Houston	39	46	60	28	31	17	35	56
Texas State	56	63	37	29	30	28	24
California	19	18	18	12	29	37	34
Princeton	26	47	61	65	42	45	39
Washington State	48	42	50	50	45	50	45
Arizona	41	51	39	44	48	47	46
Montana State	146	119	112	72	56	56	47
Clemson	40	26	29	38	50	53	53
Alabama State	83	86	93	99	41	58	55
Kansas	109	83	82	89	87	55	57
Air Force	62	69	77	58	60	62	59
North Carolina A&T	46	48	47	54	52	60	60
Southeastern Louisiana			122	80	82	63	61
Connecticut	32	39	48	75	71	72	66
Florida State	70	67	79	66	66	69	68
High Point	28	45	43	55	53	71	69
Furman	60	73	72	77	74	74	70
Ohio State	82	54	64	67	68	76	73
Tennessee	25	24	28	45	47	59	75
TCU	58	29	31	46	76	84	76
Rutgers	52	53	62	81	79	77	77
Indiana State	84	93	96	83	84	80	79
North Texas	67	68	68	79	80	87	79
Cal State Fullerton	123	121	65	71	70	81	81
Portland	90	105	108	78	77	79	82
Samford	80	94	85	92	90	82	83
Penn	85	112	113	115	113	86	84
Syracuse		150		91	98	96	85
Grand Canyon	72	98	97	62	65	78	87
Norfolk State		102	110		73	97	87
South Dakota	55	62	75	84	78	83	89
DePaul	69	78	83	82	81	89	90
Southeast Missouri	78	80	80	87	91	92	91
East Texas A&M	127	88	94	52	51	52
Stanford	44	49	56	42	86	85
Arkansas State	51	79	81	88	85	88
NC State	96	89	89	104	102	91
Cornell	86	111	114	121	97	94
Eastern Kentucky	94	76	84	94	96	95
Southern Miss	65	57	71	93	92	98
Kansas State	121	114	101	105	107	99
Indiana	112	130		111	100	100
Sacramento State	56	64	76	95	93	101
Louisiana	146	127	139	124	126	102
Eastern Washington	115	132	105	108	108	103
Columbia	120	141	91	96	95	104
Georgia Tech	54	96	99	102	105	105
Notre Dame	98	97	102	109	101	106
Incarnate Word		75	95	90	88	107
Youngstown State	102	85	87	103	104	108
Michigan	92	114	90	100	103	109
Boise State		123	137	133	126	110
Sam Houston State	114	137				111
Wichita State	100	147			109	112
Kennesaw State	128	139	134			113
Holy Cross	76	92	98	106	106	114
Lamar	132	125	130	118	118	115
UTEP	129	141	139			115
ULM	105	147		117	116	117
Louisiana Tech	115	132	134	135		117
Colorado State	91	103	111	114	112	119
Binghamton	137	123	130	130	117	119
Eastern Illinois	104	145	139	111	110	121
UTSA	110	147		111	110	121
George Mason	132	145	119	116	115	121
Bradley		136		120	122	124
Middle Tennessee	93	134	132	132		125
Western Kentucky						125
UNC Asheville						125
Michigan State	97	99	103	107	119	128
Florida A&M	136	144			113	129
Appalachian State	103	107	120	119	121	129
Liberty			129	124	123	129
Little Rock	113	60	57	51		129
Marshall	95	104	107	122	119	133
Idaho			139			133
North Dakota State						133
Utah Valley	106	108	115	127	123
Rhode Island	106	108	115	127	123
UT Arlington		119	128	130	126
Albany	108	117	124	133	126
Long Beach State			134		126
UMBC	118	50	45	70
Pittsburgh	89	81	78	98
Charleston Southern	50	100	104	110
Drake				123
Kansas City	111	126	121	126
San Jose State		141	139	129
Monmouth	66	106	109
Yale	146	110	117
Northeastern	99	113	118
Loyola-Chicago		122	123
Saint Louis		127	124
Houston Christian		116	126
Tulane		129	127
Coppin State		134	132
Charlotte	139	131	138
Lipscomb	132	118	139
Northwestern State	129	138	139
Memphis	117	140
Illinois State	121	151
Queens (N.C.)	118
Dartmouth	124
Maine	125
Navy	126
William & Mary	137
Eastern Michigan	139
North Florida	141
Stephen F. Austin	142
Howard	142
Army West Point	144
UMES	144
Jackson State	146

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Week #2

Week #3

Week #4

Week #5

Week #6

Week #7

FINAL

Southern California

Georgia

Auburn