LIVE MEET RESULTS

ARLINGTON, Texas – Grand Canyon was predicted to take the top spot of the podium on both the men’s and women’s side at the 2024 Western Athletic Conference (WAC) Indoor Track & Field Championships according to the pre-championship coaches’ poll presented by adidas. Grand Canyon will look to win its eighth straight men’s championship and reclaim the title on the women’s side.
 
The Lopes were slotted ahead of Southern Utah, Stephen F. Austin, UT Arlington, and Utah Valley in the men’s projected top five for the championship meet at the Albuquerque Convention Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Utah Valley’s women’s squad was picked to finish second behind Grand Canyon with UT Arlington, Southern Utah, and Stephen F. Austin rounding out the top five women’s teams. 
 
2024 WAC INDOOR TRACK & FIELD PRE-CHAMPIONSHIP POLLS
 
2024 WAC Men’s Indoor Track & Field Pre-Championship Coaches’ Poll
 
Rank    Team
1.         Grand Canyon
2.         Southern Utah
3.         Stephen F. Austin
4.         UT Arlington
5.         Utah Valley
 
2024 WAC Women’s Indoor Track & Field Pre-Championship Coaches’ Poll
 
Rank    Team
1.         Grand Canyon
2.         Utah Valley
3.         UT Arlington
4.         Southern Utah
5.         Stephen F. Austin
 
DEFENDING SEVEN-TIME WAC MEN’S CHAMPIONS AIMING FOR EIGHTH STRAIGHT
 
Grand Canyon has won every WAC Men’s Indoor Track & Field Championship dating back to 2016 and looks to keep that trend rolling with another championship next week. Last year, the Lopes won the championship with 139.5 points, beating runner-up Stephen F. Austin who accumulated 100 points. The last time the championship was held in Albuquerque (2022), GCU won the meet with 201.5 points, totaling more than twice the points of SFA who finished second with 96.5.
 
Defending seven-time WAC Coach of the Year Tom Flood has led the Lopes to all of their last WAC titles and has another trophy in sight with key returners Erin Brown and Eric Cabais-Fernandez who have each won two WAC Men’s Indoor Track & Field Weekly Awards this year. In total, GCU has taken seven out of the twelve possible 2024 men’s weekly awards.
 
GCU WOMEN LOOKING TO TAKE BACK THE THRONE
 
Grand Canyon’s last women’s title came two years ago, which happened to be the last time the Albuquerque Convention Center hosted the WAC Indoor Track & Field Championship. The Lopes look to rekindle some of that Albuquerque magic and take their sixth women’s championship in the last eight years. Since 2016, the GCU women’s team has yet to finish worth than fourth in the final standings.
 
WAC IN THE NATIONAL RANKINGS
 
Southern Utah checks in at sixth in the Mountain Region on the most recent USTFCCCA DI Men’s Indoor Track & Field Regional Team Rankings that was released on February 12. Grand Canyon men’s (7^th) and women’s (13^th) both sit top-15 in the West Region in the latest USTFCCCA release. 
 
Grand Canyon has several athletes ranked inside of the top-50 national standings including Daviciea McCartney in the 60-meter hurdles (16^th), Erin Brown in the 200-meters (23^rd), Summer Grubbs in the pentathlon (35^th), Jack Hodge in the pole vault (40^th), Eric Cabais-Fernandez right behind Hodge in the pole vault (42^nd), and Onome Ogbeni in the weight throw (49^th).
 
Southern Utah also has athletes representing the WAC in the top-50 of national rankings including Astley Davis in the triple jump (6^th), Dylan Gibson in the 400-meters (21^st), Joren McKeever in the high jump (30^th), and Isaiah Labra in the 5000-meters (48^th).