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Friday, February 22
Nampa, Idaho
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WAC Indoor Championships
Photo by: Loren Orr
Lopes tabbed to 4-peat at WAC
2/21/2019 9:00:00 AM | Track and Field
GCU look to become 4th conference school to win 4 in a row
Winning a conference championship is anything but easy. Winning two in a row is really tough. Three times straight? Extremely rare.
Winning four times in a row? It's only been done by three schools in WAC history.
The Grand Canyon track and field team has a chance to be the fourth program to four-peat as men's and/or women's WAC Indoor champions when it competes this weekend in Nampa, Idaho. The Lopes would join BYU's men (1990-99) and women (1995-99), UTEP's men (1974-82) and Louisiana Tech's women (2008-11) as the only teams to win more than three consecutive WAC Indoor Track and Field Championships titles.
"I am very excited and confident in our teams' ability to have very successful WAC Indoor Championships meets," GCU head coach Tom Flood said. "Both teams know that no one is going to just hand them anything and that they are going to have to fight for every point they get."
The Lopes are picked to win the WAC title, as voted on by the coaches who were not able to vote for their teams. The GCU men received all five possible first-place votes and the women also received five first-place votes in a field of eight teams.
GCU enters with multiple athletes ranked in Division I's top 75 with redshirt freshman Trey Johnson tied for 19th in the long jump, sophomore Madelyn Lundberg tied for 49th in the pole vault, senior Chris Linnin Jr. tied for 60th in the high jump and junior Grant Carpenter tied for 61st in the heptathlon.
Entering the weekend, the Lopes have 12 athletes who top the WAC standings in their events. Five of them rank first in events for which a GCU athlete never has won an indoor individual title.
Flood will be in the running for his sixth consecutive Coach of the Year award, including a women's Coach of the Year honor for every year the Lopes have been in the WAC.
The WAC Championships will be streamed live on Facebook and on the WAC Digital Network during each day of competition.
Men's Pre-Championship Poll
Women's Pre-Championship Poll
CSU Bakersfield does not field a men's indoor team and New Mexico State does not compete in men's track and field. California Baptist is not running indoor in 2019.
Winning four times in a row? It's only been done by three schools in WAC history.
The Grand Canyon track and field team has a chance to be the fourth program to four-peat as men's and/or women's WAC Indoor champions when it competes this weekend in Nampa, Idaho. The Lopes would join BYU's men (1990-99) and women (1995-99), UTEP's men (1974-82) and Louisiana Tech's women (2008-11) as the only teams to win more than three consecutive WAC Indoor Track and Field Championships titles.
"I am very excited and confident in our teams' ability to have very successful WAC Indoor Championships meets," GCU head coach Tom Flood said. "Both teams know that no one is going to just hand them anything and that they are going to have to fight for every point they get."
The Lopes are picked to win the WAC title, as voted on by the coaches who were not able to vote for their teams. The GCU men received all five possible first-place votes and the women also received five first-place votes in a field of eight teams.
GCU enters with multiple athletes ranked in Division I's top 75 with redshirt freshman Trey Johnson tied for 19th in the long jump, sophomore Madelyn Lundberg tied for 49th in the pole vault, senior Chris Linnin Jr. tied for 60th in the high jump and junior Grant Carpenter tied for 61st in the heptathlon.
Entering the weekend, the Lopes have 12 athletes who top the WAC standings in their events. Five of them rank first in events for which a GCU athlete never has won an indoor individual title.
Flood will be in the running for his sixth consecutive Coach of the Year award, including a women's Coach of the Year honor for every year the Lopes have been in the WAC.
The WAC Championships will be streamed live on Facebook and on the WAC Digital Network during each day of competition.
Men's Pre-Championship Poll
| Place | Team | Points |
| 1 | Grand Canyon (5) | 25 |
| 2 | Utah Valley | 20 |
| 3 | UT Rio Grande Valley (1) | 17 |
| 4 | Kansas City | 14 |
| T-5 | Seattle U | 7 |
| T-5 | Chicago State | 7 |
Women's Pre-Championship Poll
| Place | Team | Points |
| 1 | Grand Canyon (5) | 47 |
| 2 | Utah Valley (2) | 40 |
| 3 | New Mexico State (1) | 39 |
| 4 | UT Rio Grande Valley | 31 |
| 5 | Kansas City | 28 |
| 6 | Seattle U | 16 |
| 7 | CSU Bakersfield | 13 |
| 8 | Chicago State | 10 |
CSU Bakersfield does not field a men's indoor team and New Mexico State does not compete in men's track and field. California Baptist is not running indoor in 2019.
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