2021 NCAA Women’s Formchart #3 — A&M Takes Over

AFTER THE CONFERENCE WEEKEND we find that the NCAA women’s formchart has changed significantly since the previous iterations. In charts 1 (April 05) and 2 (April 27) top-rated USC had a 2-point lead — over LSU in the first, over Texas A&M in the second. In our latest round of crystal-balling, Pat Henry’s Aggies have continued their climb, now holding down the leadership by 6 points over LSU, with the Trojans another 3 points back.

A&M is tabbed to pick up wins in the 400, 4×4 & heptathlon, with backup points in the 400 (7th), 4×4 (4th), HJ (2nd & 3rd), LJ (2nd & 7th) & TJ (3rd). The huge keys for the favorites are 3-event scorer Tyra Gittens (HJ, LJ, Hept) and doubler Athing Mu (400, 4×4).

As is so often the case, the team battle may well come down to the climactic 4×4. Based on our current charting, as the teams toe the line LSU would be leading with 56 (but have no entry), with A&M at 52. A&M, even though top-rated, could then win by finishing 4th or higher, but no matter how it plays out teamwise, watch out for Athing Mu on the Aggie anchor!

The 10-deep predictions for each event (’ = athlete not eligible for U.S. international teams):

TOP 10 TEAMS
School	Score	Previous Place
1. Texas A&M	62 (+2)	2
2. LSU	56 (+1)	3
3. USC	53 (-9)	1
4. Alabama	50 (+3)	6
=5. Georgia	45 (0)	7
=5. Texas	45 (-6)	4
7. Arkansas	39 (-10)	5
=8. BYU	27 (+14)	=19
=8. Florida State	27 (-3)	8
=10. Ohio State	26 (+7)	14
=10. Oregon	26 (+6)	=11
(complete team scores below individual event charts)

100 METERS
1. TeeTee Terry	USC	Jr
2. Tamara Clark	Alabama	Sr
3. Cambrea Sturgis	North Carolina A&T	So
4. Kemba Nelson’	Oregon	Jr
5. Symone Mason	LSU	Jr
6. Jayla Kirkland	Florida State	Sr
7. Maia McCoy	Tennessee	Sr
8. Jada Baylark	Arkansas	Jr
9. Tristen Evelyn	Houston	Sr
10. Joella Lloyd’	Tennessee	Fr

200 METERS
1. Tamara Clark	Alabama	Sr
2. Favour Ofili’	LSU	Fr
3. Anavia Battle	Ohio State	Sr
4. Kynnedy Flannel	Texas	Jr
5. Brianne Bethel’	Houston	Sr
6. TeeTee Terry	USC	Jr
7. Cambrea Sturgis	North Carolina A&T	So
8. Angie Annelus	USC	Sr
9. Symone Mason	LSU	Jr
10. Alfreda Steele	Miami	Sr

400 METERS
1. Athing Mu	Texas A&M	Fr
2. Nastassha McDonald’	Alabama	Sr
3. Stacey Ann Williams’	Texas	Jr
4. Kyra Constantine’	USC	Sr
5. Meleni Rodney’	UCLA	Sr
6. Talitha Diggs	Florida	Fr
7. Charokee Young’	Texas A&M	So
8. Bailey Lear	USC	Jr
9. Brittany Aveni	Duke	Sr
10. Kaelin Roberts	USC	Sr

800 METERS
1. Aaliyah Miller	Baylor	Sr
2. Laurie Barton	Clemson	Sr
3. Michaela Meyer	Virginia	Sr
4. Amber Tanner	Georgia	Sr
5. Shafiqua Maloney’	Arkansas	Sr
6. Gabrielle Wilkinson	Florida	So
7. Lindsey Butler	Virginia Tech	So
8. Sarah Hendrick	Kennesaw State	So
9. Brooke Fazio	Richmond	Jr
10. Kayla Johnson	Miami	Jr

1500 METERS
1. Sage Hurta	Colorado	Sr
2. Ella Donaghu	Stanford	Jr
3. Krissy Gear	Arkansas	Jr
4. Maudie Skyring’	Florida State	Jr
5. Presley Weems	Auburn	Jr
6. Anna Camp	BYU	Sr
7. Lauren Berman	Virginia Tech	Sr
8. Katelyn Tuohy	NC State	Fr
9. Micaela Degenero	Colorado	Sr
10. Olivia Hoj	BYU	Sr

STEEPLE
1. Courtney Wayment	BYU	Jr
2. Aneta Konieczek’	Oregon	Jr
3. Charlotte Prouse’	New Mexico	Sr
4. Katie Rainsberger	Washington	Sr
5. Hannah Steelman	NC State	Sr
6. Joyce Kimeli’	Auburn	Jr
7. Gabrielle Jennings	Furman	Sr
8. Olivia Markezich	Notre Dame	Fr
9. Mahala Norris	Air Force	Sr
10. Adva Cohen’	New Mexico	Sr

5000 METERS
1. Whittni Orton	BYU	Sr
2. Katie Wasserman	Notre Dame	Sr
3. Mercy Chelangat’	Alabama	So
4. Katie Izzo	Arkansas	Sr
5. Elly Henes	NC State	Sr
6. Julia Heymach	Stanford	Jr
7. Lauren Gregory	Arkansas	So
8. Amaris Tynnismaa	Alabama	Fr
9. Jenna Magness	Michigan State	Sr
10. Taryn O’Neill’	Northern Arizona	So

10,000 METERS
1. Mercy Chelangat’	Alabama	So
2. Carmela Cardama Baez’	Oregon	Sr
3. Grace Forbes	Rice	Fr
4. Abby Nichols	Colorado	Sr
5. Nicole Fegans	Georgia Tech	Jr
6. Purity Sanga’	Louisville	Jr
7. Amanda Vestri	Syracuse	Jr
8. Poppy Tank’	Utah	Sr
9. Clare O’Brien	Boise	Sr
10. Haley Herberg	Washington	Sr

100 HURDLES
1. Tonea Marshall	LSU	Sr
2. Tara Davis	Texas	Jr
3. Rayniah Jones	UCF	Fr
4. Anna Cockrell	USC	Sr
5. Chanel Brissett	Texas	Jr
6. Ackera Nugent’	Baylor	Fr
7. Grace Stark	Florida	So
8. Tiara McMinn	Miami	Sr
9. Daszay Freeman’	Arkansas	So
10. Jasmine Jones	USC	Fr

400 HURDLES
1. Anna Cockrell	USC	Sr
2. Shae Anderson	UCLA	So
3. Andrenette Knight’	Virginia	Sr
4. Brittley Humphrey	LSU	Sr
5. Shannon Meisberger	Arizona	Jr
6. Milan Young	LSU	Jr
7. Lauren Hoffman	Duke	Jr
8. Ashton Lindley	South Carolina	Fr
9. Masai Russell	Kentucky	So
10. Jae’Nisa Heckstall	South Florida	Jr

4 x 100
1. LSU	LSU
2. USC	USC
3. Alabama	Alabama
4. Oregon	Oregon
5. Houston	Houston
6. Arkansas	Arkansas
7. Texas	Texas
8. Miami	Miami
9. Florida State	Florida State
10. North Carolina A&T	North Carolina A&T

4 x 400
1. Texas A&M	Texas A&M
2. USC	USC
3. Arkansas	Arkansas
4. Florida	Florida
5. Texas	Texas
6. South Carolina	South Carolina
7. Duke	Duke
8. Alabama	Alabama
9. UCLA	UCLA
10. LSU	LSU

HIGH JUMP
1. Rachel Glenn	South Carolina	Fr
2. Tyra Gittens’	Texas A&M	Jr
3. Lamara Distin’	Texas A&M	So
4. Abigail O’Donoghue	LSU	Sr
5. Anna Hall	Georgia	Fr
6. Esther Isa’	Middle Tennessee	Jr
7. Morgan Smalls	USC	Fr
8. Rylee Anderson	Kansas	So
9. Taylor Beard	Cincinnati	Fr
10. Lillian Lowe	Arizona	Jr

POLE VAULT
1. Lisa Gunnarsson’	LSU	Sr
2. Nastassja Campbell	Arkansas	So
3. Kayla Smith	Georgia	Sr
4. Sydney Horn	High Point	Fr
5. Lauren Martinez	Arkansas	Sr
6. Gennifer Hirata	South Dakota	Fr
7. Helen Falda’	South Dakota	Sr
8. Sophia Franklin	Michigan State	Sr
9. Rachel Baxter	Virginia Tech	Sr
10. Hayley Horvath	Towson	So

LONG JUMP
1. Tara Davis	Texas	Jr
2. Deborah Acquah’	Texas A&M	Sr
3. Claire Bryant	Florida	Fr
4. Jasmine Moore	Georgia	So
5. Monae’ Nichols	Texas Tech	Sr
6. Ruth Usoro’	Texas Tech	Jr
7. Tyra Gittens’	Texas A&M	Jr
8. Jasmyn Steels	Northwestern Louisiana	Jr
9. Aliyah Whisby	LSU	Sr
10. Michelle Fokam	Rice	Sr

TRIPLE JUMP
1. Jasmine Moore	Georgia	So
2. Rūta Lasmane’	Florida State	Fr
3. Deborah Acquah’	Texas A&M	Sr
4. Ruth Usoro’	Texas Tech	Jr
5. Natricia Hooper’	Florida	Sr
6. Titiana Marsh	Georgia	Jr
7. Bria Matthews	Georgia Tech	Sr
8. Mikeisha Welcome	Oklahoma	So
9. Dominique Ruotolo	Oregon	Fr
10. Eszter Bajnok’	Virginia Tech	Sr

SHOT
1. Adelaide Aquilla	Ohio State	Jr
2. Khayla Dawson	Indiana	Sr
3. Latavia Maines	Tennessee	Sr
4. Samantha Noennig	Arizona	Jr
5. Sade Olatoye’	Ohio State	Sr
6. Akealy Moton	North Dakota State	So
7. Jorinde van Klinken’	Arizona State	Jr
8. Madison Pollard	Indiana	Sr
9. Josie Schaefer	Wisconsin	So
10. Lagi Tausaga	Iowa	Sr

DISCUS
1. Jorinde van Klinken’	Arizona State	Jr
2. Lagi Tausauga	Iowa	Sr
3. Shanice Love’	Florida State	Sr
4. Alexandra Emilianov’	Kansas	So
5. Serena Brown’	Iowa	Jr
6. Seasons Usual	Texas Tech	Jr
7. Nora Monie	Houston	Sr
8. Debbie Ajagbe	Miami	Jr
9. Gabrielle Bailey	Kent State	So
10. Elena Bruckner	Texas	Sr

HAMMER
1. Camryn Rogers’	Cal	Jr
2. Alyssa Wilson	UCLA	Jr
3. Sade Olatoye’	Ohio State	Sr
4. Maddy Nilles	North Dakota State	Sr
5. Jillian Shippee	North Carolina	Jr
6. Tara Simpson-Sullivan’	Rice	Fr
7. Autavia Fluker	South Alabama	Sr
8. Emma Robbins	LSU	Fr
9. Beatrice Llano’	Arizona State	Jr
10. Erica Belvit	Northeastern	Sr

JAVELIN
1. Marie-Therese Obst’	Georgia	Sr
2. Kylee Carter	Auburn	Sr
3. Maura Fiamoncini	Bucknell	Sr
4. Kelechi Nwanaga’	Florida State	Jr
5. Ashton Riner	BYU	Jr
6. Alexandra Roberts’	Wake Forest	Fr
7. Madison Wiltrout	North Carolina	Jr
8. Rhema Otabor’	Florida International	Fr
9. Kari Wolfe	North Dakota State	So
10. Maddie Harris	Nebraska	Fr

HEPTATHLON
1. Tyra Gittens’	Texas A&M	Jr
2. Michelle Atherley	Miami	Sr
3. Kristīne Blaževiča’	Texas	Fr
4. Erin Marsh	Duke	Sr
5. Jadin O’Brien	Notre Dame	Fr
6. Lauren Taubert	Kansas State	Sr
7. Asya Reynolds	Georgia	Sr
8. Madeline Nickal	Penn State	Sr
9. Kaylee Hinton	Texas Tech	Sr
10. Lyndsey Lopes	Washington	Sr

COMPLETE TEAM SCORES
1. Texas A&M	62
2. LSU	56
3. USC	53
4. Alabama	50
=5. Georgia	45
=5. Texas	45
7. Arkansas	39
=8. BYU	27
=8. Florida State	27
=10. Ohio State	26
=10. Oregon	26
12. Florida	23
13. UCLA	20
=14. Auburn	15
=14. Colorado	15
=14. Texas Tech	15
17. South Carolina	14
=18. Baylor	13
=18. Notre Dame	13
=20. Arizona State	12
=20. Iowa	12
=20. Virginia	12
=23. Miami	11
=23. Stanford	11
=25. Cal	10
=25. Houston	10
=27. Arizona	9
=27. Duke	9
=27. Indiana	9
=27. NC State	9
=27. Rice	9
=32. Clemson	8
=32. North Carolina A&T	8
=32. North Dakota State	8
=32. Tennessee	8
=36. Bucknell	6
=36. Georgia Tech	6
=36. Kansas	6
=36. North Carolina	6
=36. New Mexico	6
=36. UCF	6
=42. High Point	5
=42. South Dakota	5
=42. Washington	5
45. Virginia Tech	4
=46. Kansas State	3
=46. Louisville	3
=46. Middle Tennessee	3
=46. Wake Forest	3
=50. Furman	2
=50. South Alabama	2
=50. Syracuse	2
=53. Florida International	1
=53. Kennesaw State	1
=53. Michigan State	1
=53. Northwestern Louisiana	1
=53. Oklahoma	1
=53. Penn State	1
=53. Utah	1