1979 AIAW Indoor Track and Field Championships

1979 AIAW Indoor Track and Field Championships
DatesMarch 2–3, 1979
Host city Columbia, Missouri
VenueHearnes Multipurpose Building
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The 1979 Missouri National Invitational Women's Indoor Track and Field Meet was the second unofficial collegiate championship event for women's indoor track and field to be sanctioned by the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women in the United States. It was a forerunner of the first official AIAW Indoor Track and Field Championships. Held for the first two years as an invitational, the meet gained official national championship status in 1980,[1][2] when a qualification process was employed; it was called a "de facto" championship until then.[1][3]

The meet was contested March 2−3, 1979 in Columbia, Missouri at the Hearnes Multipurpose Building and won by the Iowa State Cyclones track and field team.[4] Unlike other AIAW-sponsored sports, there were not separate large and small college division championships for indoor track and field. At the championships, Themis Zambrzycki was noted for winning all but one of the events in the new indoor pentathlon event.[5][6][7][8]

Team standings

  • Scoring: 10 points for a 1st-place finish, 8 points for 2nd, 6 points for 3rd, 4 points for 4th, 2 points for 5th, and 1 point for 6th. Top 10 teams shown.[9]
Rank Team Points
Iowa State Cyclones 51
UTEP Miners 47
Kansas Jayhawks 34
4th Kansas State Wildcats 26
5th Arkansas Razorbacks 24
6th Colorado Buffaloes 22
7th Villanova Wildcats 19
8th BYU Cougars 18
Rutgers Scarlet Knights
10th District of Columbia Firebirds 17

Results

See also

References

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  3. ^ "Lady Miners Take Second In Indoor". El Paso Times. March 5, 1979. p. 27. Retrieved January 16, 2025.
  4. ^ "Brown to key Miner women". El Paso Herald-Post. March 2, 1979. p. 19. Retrieved January 16, 2025.
  5. ^ "Women Stars in MU Meet". The Kansas City Times. March 1, 1979. p. 78. Retrieved January 16, 2025.
  6. ^ "MSU Women Trail In Meet". The Commercial Appeal. March 4, 1979. p. 46. Retrieved January 16, 2025.
  7. ^ "BYU Coed Sets Mark". The Daily Herald. March 4, 1979. p. 9. Retrieved January 16, 2025.
  8. ^ "Vetters wreak considerable havoc as they monopolize track meet". Columbia Daily Tribune. March 4, 1979. p. 13. Retrieved January 16, 2025.
  9. ^ "COLLEGE WOMEN'S NATIONAL INVITATIONAL Yesterday's Finals". Columbia Daily Tribune. March 4, 1979. p. 14. Retrieved January 16, 2025.
  10. ^ "Zambryzcki easy leader in pentathlon". Columbia Daily Tribune. March 3, 1979. p. 9. Retrieved January 16, 2025.
  11. ^ "COLLEGE WOMEN'S NATIONAL INVITATIONAL". Columbia Daily Tribune. March 3, 1979. p. 10. Retrieved January 16, 2025.
  12. ^ "WOMEN'S TRACK At Morehead St". Lexington Herald-Leader. March 25, 1979. p. 40. Retrieved January 16, 2025.
  13. ^ "Deutch sets national mark in 60 hurdles". The Central New Jersey Home News. March 4, 1979. p. 15. Retrieved January 16, 2025.
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  15. ^ "10,000 record Joan Benoit's". Press and Sun-Bulletin. May 13, 1979. p. 20. Retrieved January 16, 2025.
  16. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l "Vetter, ISU women set 2 U.S. records". The Des Moines Register. March 5, 1979. p. 24. Retrieved January 17, 2025.
  17. ^ a b c d "Track UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI NATIONAL INDOOR MEET". The Commercial Appeal. March 3, 1979. p. 30. Retrieved February 18, 2025.
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