Coach Joe’s Jumpers are killing it!
Each year, the coaching staff has a friendly and sometimes heated competition to see whose event group will have the highest national standing or “squad ranking”. To calculate the ranking, the Coaches’ Association takes a team’s top four athletes in each event and ranks them against all the NCAA Division 3 schools. In some events, the key is having four athletes with a qualifying mark that season. It is much more difficult to have 4 athletes complete a heptathlon over the course of one indoor season compared to the 60m dash. There might be only a handful of schools with four heptathletes but most will have four sprinters.
Currently, Coach Joe is destroying the rest of us in squad ranking. His heptathletes, long jumpers, and high jumpers are off to a great start this year and those squads are all ranked top-ten in the nation. It helps to have an All-American high jumper in Jackson McDowell (2025, Colorado), but jumpers 2, 3 & 4 are all tied at 6ft-3.5in. That’s a pretty good group! The rest of us coaches have some serious work to do to catch him.
We have our third home meet of the year this Saturday, February 15th. This is a large meet with thirteen teams joining the Johnnies and Bennies. Many of the teams are coming because we are hosting the indoor conference championships. Saturday’s meet starts at 11:00am and we’d love to see some alumni in the stands.
After that, the MIAC Indoor Championships begins Thursday, February 27th with the heptathlon. The rest of the meet is Friday, February 28th starting at 4pm and Saturday, March 1st at noon. Sounds like a good group of alumni will be returning for the meet- we hope you join us!
Thanks,
Jeremy