Thursday, March 27, 2008

Gopher Women Ranked #23 for Outdoor Season

The University of Minnesota's women's track and field team is ranked #23 in the first U.S Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association poll for the outdoor season. LSU tops the poll, followed by two-time defending NCAA indoor and defending NCAA outdoor champions Arizona State at #2.

The Gopher women, who finished 15th at the NCAA Indoor Championships earlier this month, were ranked as high as #7 in the USTFCCA indoor poll.

Penn State, coached by Minnesota native Beth Alford-Sullivan, is the top-ranked Big Ten school outdoors at #8. Michigan is ranked #10. The complete women's poll and USTFCCA media release is available HERE.

No Big Ten men's teams cracked the USTFCCA top-25, available HERE.

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