2024 NJCAA Women’s Indoor Track & Field Rating Index – Week 1
NEW ORLEANS – Indoor season is underway!
Here is the Week 1 edition of the NJCAA Women’s Indoor Track & Field National Rating Index, as released Wednesday by the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA). No marks from previous seasons have been used, which means this objective list is compiled solely of current marks from the 2024 indoor track & field season.
National TFRI is presented by AthleticNET.
NJCAA — Women's Indoor Track & Field
This Week's National Top Five
1
New Mexico JC
New Mexico JC
2
Barton (Kan.) CC
Barton (Kan.) CC
3
Iowa Western CC
Iowa Western CC
4
Cloud County (Kan.) CC
Cloud County (Kan.) CC
5
Mesa (Ariz.) CC
Mesa (Ariz.) CC
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New Mexico JC is very familiar with being No. 1 – it’s the fifth time in the last six years that the ratings have kicked off with the T-Birds at the top. The defending champs 16 top-10 marks – half of those are No. 1 or No. 2 with three national leaders: Lacarthea Cooper in the 200 meters (23.97) and 400 (54.15) and Tania Da Silva in the weight throw (19.23m/63-1¼).
No. 2 is Barton (Kan.) CC – their ninth-straight year having at least one top-5 rating. The Cougars have 15 top-10 marks with three national leaders – two from current M-F National Athlete of the Week Sanae Hassnaoui in the 1000 (2:56.76) and mile (4:51.25) and one from Treneese Hamilton in the shot put (14.41m/47-3½).
Iowa Western CC is No. 3 – the third time in the last four years opening up in the top-3. The Reivers, who won NJCAA Indoor team titles in 2022 and ’21, have 17 top-10 marks, led by national leader Mercy Honesty in the triple jump (11.81m/38-9).
At No. 4 is Cloud County (Kan.) CC, earning a top-5 rating for the sixth-straight year. The T-Birds have 16 top-10 marks with three athletes – N Vanee Anchike (mile), Jasmine Sakaguchi (pole vault) and Adrienne Locke-Garcia (weight throw) – rating No. 4 individually.
Hitting a program-high at No. 5 is Mesa (Ariz.) CC. The Thunderbirds, who compete in NJCAA Division II in cross country, have 15 top-10 marks led by Maliyah Ross in the pentathlon (3414 points).
Completing the top-10 teams in the national TFRI are No. 6 Indian Hills (Iowa) CC, No. 7 Pima (Ariz.) CC, No. 8 Salt Lake (Utah) CC, No. 9 College of Southern Idaho and No. 10 Fort Scott (Kan.) CC. Those are first-ever top-10 ratings for Pima and Salt Lake.
All programs are eyeing the dates of March 1-2, which is when the 2024 NJCAA Indoor Track & Field Championships are scheduled at the Alachua County Events Center in Gainesville, Florida.
