NCAA Division I Indoor T&F Championships History Page Launched by USTFCCCA

NEW ORLEANS – For fifty years, the NCAA Division I Indoor Track & Field Championships have been a centerpiece of the collegiate winter schedule. From 1965 when Missouri won the inaugural title in a 14-12 barnburner over Oklahoma State all the way through this upcoming March 13-14 in Fayetteville, Arkansas, this meet has served as collegiate proving grounds for half a century.

College track & field fans can now explore that full, rich history of the meet in more depth than ever as the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) unveiled Thursday its comprehensive NCAA Division I Indoor Track & Field Championships History Record Book homepage.

The full archive of meet history can be found here. Additionally, links to year-by-year results for the NCAA Championships can still be found on the USTFCCCA Infozone meet history page.

Using information compiled from the NCAA News Archive, USCTrackAndField.com, Flash Results and TFRRS, the meet’s history is broken down from numerous angles throughout the current 14 distinct reports, with more to come in the future.

Do you want to know who the meet’s top career individual scorers are? Or the career scoring leaders in each event? Or maybe the all-time best single-season scoring performances? The record book has all of those covered.

(Note: In order to better compare athletes across generations, the current 10-8-6-5-4-3-2-1 scoring system has been retroactively applied to all results.)

The record book breaks down the history of each of the championships’ events in much more detail than just tallying up the top scorers, however. Users will find the all-time list of winners and their margins of victory; the best times/marks/scores by place (ex: fastest-ever runner-up); and the most entries by a team in a single event in a single meet – and how those teams fared in those events.

Plus, for the first time ever, the USTFCCCA has produced a list that not only includes the meet records in each current championship event, but also each event’s top-10 performances and performers – based on the USTFCCCA’s popular all-time collegiate top-10 lists.

The expansive information also covers the meet from the team perspective, detailing each school’s final position in the team standings in an easy-to-visualize format. Information can also be found on how well each school has done in each track & field event throughout meet history, both in terms of recent finishes and total points scored in an event.

Though this database is the most expansive ever, it is still a work in progress. If you notice aspects of the record book that need to be updated, please contact Tom Lewis in the USTFCCCA National Office.