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Scots move up national rankings Release Date: March
4, 2009
MONMOUTH, Ill. —
With the NCAA
Indoor Championships just a week away, the Monmouth College’s men’s
and women’s track teams have moved up in the latest U.S. Track &
Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) power
rankings.
In the most recent
rankings released Wednesday, the Fighting Scots women moved up two
places from two weeks ago and are ranked 20th. The men edged up one
notch from their initial ranking to the No. 23 position. The
rankings, which compares teams based on performances during the
current season, is released weekly by the USTFCCA.
The Monmouth men,
with 132.62 points, are less than 14 points from the top 10. The top
six nationally ranked teams are from the NCAA’s Midwest region, the
same region as the Scots who are ranked 10th in the region.
Monmouth’s women were 11th in the region and with 129.92 points,
less than six points from cracking the national top 10.
The Scots have one
last chance to qualify athletes for next weekend’s national
championships. The will travel to UW-Stevens Point for a meet this
Saturday.
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