NCAA Championship Qualifying Criteria

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2013 NCAA Division I Indoor Track & Field

From the NCAA DI Pre-Championships Manual (as of 12/4/12):

(summarized when necessary and emphasis added)

Section 2.4 – Selection Criteria

Standards. There are no qualifying standards for the championships season. There will be a track indexing standard to delineate the different indexing among flat, undersized, banked and oversized. Altitude conversions, as well as other conversions, are based on a formula and will be done as results are submitted (to TFRRS).

Download NCAA conversion calculator (.exe)

Qualifying Criteria. Qualification to the championships is based on descending-order list for the season and adhering to the qualifying regulations/criteria published on NCAA.org. For each individual event contested, the top 16 declared student-athletes will be accepted into the competition. For each relay event contested, the top 12 declared relay teams will be accepted into the competition. The stated maximums are absolute and will not be extended as a result of ties.

Ties. See 2013 Indoor Track & Field Technical Manual (technical manual to be released in mid-December. The rules concerning ties will be similar to what has been used to determine the outdoor preliminary round fields).

2013 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track & Field

Preliminary Championships Competition
Qualification to the preliminary championships competition of the championships is based on the descending-order list for the season, segregated by east and west sites. For each individual event (20 for each gender) contested at each of the preliminary championships competition sites, the top 48 declared student-athletes will be accepted into the competition. For each relay event contested at each of the preliminary championships competition sites, the top 24 declared relay teams will be accepted into the competition. The stated maximums are absolute and will not be extended as a result of ties.

Announcement of Student-Athletes into Preliminary Championships
The list of student-athletes, by event, who have been accepted to compete in each preliminary championships competition, plus those who  have been accepted to compete in the heptathlon or decathlon at the final championships competition, will be announced on on Thursday, May 16, by 1 p.m. ET. Additionally those who have been accepted to compete in the heptathlon or decathlon at the final championships competition will be announced at this time.

Combined Events
The heptathlon and decathlon events are not contested at the preliminary championships competition. Qualification to the championships in these two events is accomplished through a competitor’s position on the national descending order list. The top 24 declared student-athletes in each of these two events will be accepted into the national championships.

Qualifying to the Final Championships Competition
Qualifying to the final championships competition is accomplished through performance in the preliminary championships competition at each site for events contested at those competitions. Twelve competitors from each individual event and 12 teams from each relay event advance from each preliminary championships competition site to the final championships competition. Qualification, through competition in an event at a preliminary championships competition, is required to participate in that event at the final championships competition.

Announcement of Student-Athletes into Final Championships
The list of student-athletes, by event, who have been qualified from the preliminary championships competition will be announced on the on Sunday, May 26, by 5 p.m. ET.
The descending order list for men is located at here and the descending order list for women is located here. The qualifying window for the 2013 championships begins on March 1.
Preliminary Round
• March 23-25, 2013
• East – Greensboro, North Carolina – Hosted by North Carolina A&T  – Detailed Schedule of Events
• West – Austin, Texas – Hosted by University of Texas at Austin – Detailed Schedule of Events | Event Information

Broadcast Information

• June 6 at 6:50 p.m. ET: ESPN3
• June 7 at 7:30 p.m. ET: ESPNU
• June 8 at 5 p.m. ET: ESPNU

Future Dates

2014
• Selections:  May 12
• Preliminary Championships Competition: May 29-31
East – Jacksonville, Fla. – hosted by North Florida
West – Fayetteville, Ark. – hosted by Arkansas
• Finals:  June 11-14; Hayward Field – Eugene, Ore. – hosted by Oregon