Chart #2 (click to see men’s chart)

compiled by Jack Pfeifer (as of April 18)

USC Emerges From Top-End Scramble

Talk about rearranging the deck chairs! The projected order of the women’s team finishers at the NCAA Championships underwent quite a shakeup in the first two weekends of April.

The teams that were 1-2-3-4-5 on Chart #1 are now at 3-1-=4-2-=4.

USC’s theoretical score didn’t change, but Caryl Smith Gilbert’s Trojans nonetheless moved up a spot and how hold down the No. 1 spot over Georgia, which added 5 to its total. Dropping a dozen points, former leader Arkansas is now at No. 3.

If the meet goes as predicted (and you know likely that is!), when we get to the climactic 4×4 the standings will be these: 1. Georgia 54; 2. Arkansas 51; 3. USC 48.

But neither the Bulldogs nor the Razorbacks are projected to have a team in that race, so their scores won’t change. The predicted USC win would put the Trojans into the top spot, as would a 2nd, while a 3rd would leave them tied for the title.

USC is plotted to score 10 times in 8 events (100–2, 200, 400, 100H–2, 400H, 4×1, 4×4, SP).

Even if the 4×4 isn’t needed to decide the team title, it’s still likely to finish the meet on the highest of notes, where we should see Kendall Ellis of USC and Sydney McLaughlin of Kentucky on the anchors. Low-49 splits anyone?

There are two leader changes over Chart #1: Tatiana Gusin (Georgia) replaces Nicole Greene (North Carolina) in the HJ; Lexi Jacobus (Arkansas) takes over from Olivia Gruver (Kentucky) in the vault.

The Top 10 teams:

Team	Points	Previous Chart
1. USC	58	2
2. Georgia	54	4
3. Arkansas	51	1
=4. Kentucky	44	3
=4. LSU	44	5
6. Florida	40	6
7. Stanford	38	7
8. Texas A&M	31	9
9. Oregon	29	8
=10. Arizona State	28	10
=10. Purdue	28	12
(complete team scores below)

100 METERS
1. Mikiah Brisco	LSU	Sr
2. Aleia Hobbs	LSU	Sr
3. Ashley Henderson	San Diego State	Sr
4. Deanna Hill	USC	Sr
5. Ariana Washington	Oregon	Jr
6. Twanisha Terry	USC	Fr
7. Kortnei Johnson	LSU	Jr
8. Jada Baylark	Arkansas	So
9. Kayla White	North Carolina A&T	Jr
10. Nataliyah Whyte’	Auburn	Fr

200 METERS
1. Gabby Thomas	Harvard	Jr
2. Lynna Irby	Georgia	Fr
3. Deanna Hill	USC	Sr
4. Ashley Henderson	San Diego State	Sr
5. Ka’Tia Seymour	Florida State	Fr
6. Kayelle Clarke’	Kentucky	Sr
7. Brittany Brown	Iowa	Sr
8. Tamara Clark	Alabama	Fr
9. Kortnei Johnson	LSU	Jr
10. Kianna Gray	Kentucky	Jr

400 METERS
1. Sydney McLaughlin	Kentucky	Fr
2. Kendall Ellis	USC	Jr
3. Sharrika Barnett	Florida	Jr
4. Brionna Thomas	Purdue	Sr
5. Brianna Guillory	Iowa	Jr
6. Taylor Manson	Florida	Fr
7. Jaevin Reed	Texas A&M	So
8. Makenzie Dunmore	Oregon	So
9. Sara Limp	Texas Tech	Jr
10. Kiana Horton	Baylor	Jr

800 METERS
1. Sabrina Southerland	Oregon	Sr
2. Síofra Cléirigh Büttner’	Villanova	Sr
3. Sammy Watson	Texas A&M	Fr
4. Jazmine Fray’	Texas A&M	Jr
5. Kayla Johnson	Miami	Fr
6. Ashley Taylor’	Northern Arizona	Sr
7. Abike Egbenyi’	Middle Tennessee	Jr
8. Rachel Pocratsky	Virginia Tech	Jr
9. Ersula Farrow	LSU	Jr
10. Alethia Marrero’	Arizona State	Sr

1500 METERS
1. Nikki Hiltz	Arkansas	Sr
2. Dani Jones	Colorado	Jr
3. Rhianwedd Price-Weimer’	Mississippi State	Sr
4. Elise Cranny	Stanford	Sr
5. Jaimie Phelan’	Michigan	Sr
6. Jessica Harris	Notre Dame	Jr
7. Christina Aragon	Stanford	So
8. Danae Rivers	Penn State	So
9. Amy-Eloise Neale’	Washington	Sr
10. Dillon McClintock	Michigan State	So

STEEPLE
1. Allie Ostrander	Boise	So
2. Elinor Purrier	New Hampshire	Sr
3. Marie Bouchard’	USF	Sr
4. Grayson Murphy	Utah	Sr
5. Bri Ilarda’	Providence	Sr
6. Claire Borchers	Michigan	Sr
7. Sarah Edwards	Virginia Tech	So
8. Taylor Austin	Indiana State	Sr
9. Charlotte Prouse’	New Mexico	Jr
10. Sage Hurta	Colorado	So

5000 METERS
1. Karissa Schweizer	Missouri	Sr
2. Lilli Burdon’	Oregon	Jr
3. Allie Ostrander	Boise	So
4. Katherine Receveur	Indiana	Jr
5. Jessica Drop	Georgia	So
6. Vanessa Fraser	Stanford	Sr
7. Jessica Hull	Oregon	Jr
8. Elly Henes	NC State	So
9. Sarah Disanza	Wisconsin	Sr
10. Ednah Kurgat’	New Mexico	Jr

10,000 METERS
1. Ednah Kurgat’	New Mexico	Jr
2. Karissa Schweizer	Missouri	Sr
3. Alice Wright’	New Mexico	Jr
4. Erin Finn	Michigan	Sr
5. Sharon Lokedi’	Kansas	Sr
6. Charlotte Taylor’	USF	Sr
7. Paige Stoner	Syracuse	Jr
8. Samantha Nadel	Oregon	Sr
9. Erin Clark	Colorado	Sr
10. Shannon Malone	Syracuse	Sr

100 HURDLES
1. Jasmine Camacho-Quinn’	Kentucky	Jr
2. Devynne Charlton’	Purdue	Sr
3. Anna Cockrell	USC	So
4. Rushelle Burton’	Texas	Fr
5. Tonea Marshall	LSU	So
6. Payton Chadwick	Arkansas	Jr
7. Pedrya Seymour’	Texas	Sr
8. Dior Hall	USC	Sr
9. Janeek Brown’	Arkansas	Fr
10. Tara Davis	Georgia	Fr

400 HURDLES
1. Anna Cockrell	USC	So
2. Kymber Payne	LSU	Sr
3. Symone Black	Purdue	Sr
4. Anna Runia’	Miami	Jr
5. Deonca Bookman	Prairie View	Sr
6. Mariam Abdul-Rashid	Texas	Jr
7. Ariel Jones	Texas	Sr
8. Jasmine Barge	Nebraska	Jr
9. Brandee’ Johnson	Florida	So
10. Kiana Hawn	Baylor	Sr

4 x 100
1. LSU	LSU
2. Kentucky	Kentucky
3. USC	USC
4. Alabama	Alabama
5. Texas A&M	Texas A&M
6. Arkansas	Arkansas
7. Florida	Florida
8. Auburn	Auburn
9. Miami	Miami
10. Tennessee	Tennessee

4 x 400
1. USC	USC
2. Kentucky	Kentucky
3. Purdue	Purdue
4. Florida	Florida
5. Texas A&M	Texas A&M
6. Oregon	Oregon
7. LSU	LSU
8. Miami	Miami
9. Baylor	Baylor
10. Arkansas	Arkansas

HIGH JUMP
1. Tatiana Gusin’	Georgia	Jr
2. Logan Boss	Mississippi State	Sr
3. Loretta Blaut	Cincinnati	Sr
4. Clarissa Cutliff	Florida International	Jr
5. Shelley Spires	Air Force	Sr
6. Zarriea Willis	Texas Tech	Jr
7. Janae Moffitt	Purdue	Jr
8. Mady Fagan	Georgia	Sr
9. Abigail O’Donoghue	LSU	Fr
10. Nicole Greene	North Carolina	Jr

POLE VAULT
1. Lexi Jacobus	Arkansas	Jr
2. Lisa Gunnarsson’	Virginia Tech	Fr
3. Tori Hoggard	Arkansas	Jr
4. Lucy Bryan’	Akron	Jr
5. Madison Heath	Duke	Sr
6. Bonnie Draxler	San Diego State	Sr
7. Laura Taylor	Kansas	Sr
8. Rachel Baxter	Virginia Tech	Fr
9. Kristen Denk	Vanderbilt	So
10. Olivia Gruver	Kentucky	Jr

LONG JUMP
1. Kate Hall	Georgia	So
2. Taliyah Brooks	Arkansas	Sr
3. Jhoanmy Luque’	Iowa State	Sr
4. Yanis David’	Florida	Jr
5. Keturah Orji	Georgia	Sr
6. Rougui Sow’	South Carolina	Jr
7. Tara Davis	Georgia	Fr
8. Savannah Carson	Purdue	Sr
9. Jahisha Thomas’	Iowa	Sr
10. Darrielle McQueen	Florida	Sr

TRIPLE JUMP
1. Keturah Orji	Georgia	Jr
2. Yanis David’	Florida	So
3. Jhoanmy Luque’	Iowa State	Sr
4. Marie-Josée Ebwea-Bile’	Kentucky	Jr
5. Sabina Allen’	Campbell	Sr
6. Lajarvia Brown	Texas A&M	So
7. Jakayla Hand	Auburn	Sr
8.	Kansas State	Shardia Lawrence’ (KsSt)
9. Paetyn Revell	Texas Tech	Sr
10. Jessie Maduka’	UCLA	Sr

SHOT
1. Maggie Ewen	Arizona State	Sr
2. Lena Giger	Stanford	Sr
3. Jessica Woodard	Oklahoma	Sr
4. Lloydricia Cameron	Florida	Sr
5. Janeah Stewart	Mississippi	Sr
6. Breana Jemison	USC	Sr
7. Ashlie Blake	UCLA	Jr
8. Kiley Sabin	Minnesota	Jr
9. Gleneve Grange’	Florida State	Sr
10. Samantha Noennig	Arizona State	Fr

DISCUS
1. Valarie Allman	Stanford	Sr
2. Maggie Ewen	Arizona State	Sr
3. Shadae Lawrence’	Kansas State	Jr
4. Tarasue Barnett’	Grand Canyon	Sr
5. Katelyn Daniels	Michigan State	Sr
6. Serena Brown	Texas A&M	So
7. Laulauga Tausaga	Iowa	So
8. Shanice Love’	Florida State	So
9. Kayla Hopkins	Fresno State	Sr
10. Gleneve Grange’	Florida State	Sr

HAMMER
1. Maggie Ewen	Arizona State	Sr
2. Brooke Andersen	Northern Arizona	Sr
3. Stamatia Scarvelis’	Tennessee	Jr
4. Janeah Stewart	Mississippi	Sr
5. Janee’ Kassanavoid	Kansas State	Sr
6. Ashley Bryant	Oklahoma	Sr
7. Camryn Rogers’	Cal	Fr
8. Emma Thor’	Virginia Tech	So
9. Temi Ogunrinde	Minnesota	Jr
10. Maddy Niles	North Dakota State	So

JAVELIN
1. Mackenzie Little’	Stanford	Jr
2. Alyssa Olin	North Dakota State	Jr
3. Avione Allgood	Florida	Sr
4. Kelechi Nwanaga’	UMBC	Fr
5. Maura Fiamoncini	Bucknell	Fr
6. Ashley Pryke’	Memphis	So
7. Nicolle Murphy’	Minnesota	Sr
8. Laura Paredes’	Florida State	Fr
9. Sophia Rivera	Wisconsin	Fr
10. Jenna Gray	Stanford	So

HEPTATHLON
1. Taliyah Brooks	Arkansas	Sr
2. Nina Schultz’	Kansas State	So
3. Georgia Ellenwood’	Wisconsin	Sr
4. Louisa Grauvogel’	Georgia	So
5. Tyra Gittens’	Texas A&M	Fr
6. Jaclyn Siefring	Akron	Sr
7. Alissa Brooks-Johnson	Washington State	Sr
8. Kendall Gustafson	UCLA	Sr
9. Amanda Frøynes’	Florida	Fr
10. Payton Chadwick	Arkansas	Sr

COMPLETE TEAM SCORES
1. USC	58
2. Georgia	54
3. Arkansas	51
=4. Kentucky	44
=4. LSU	44
6. Florida	40
7. Stanford	38
8. Texas A&M	31
9. Oregon	29
=10. Arizona State	28
=10. Purdue	28
12. Kansas State	19
13. Missouri	18
=14. Boise	16
=14. New Mexico	16
=16. Mississippi State	14
=16. San Diego State	14
18. Virginia Tech	13
=19. Iowa State	12
=19. Michigan	12
=19. Texas	12
22. Northern Arizona	11
=23. Harvard	10
=23. Miami	10
=25. Mississippi	9
=25. Oklahoma	9
=25. USF	9
=28. Akron	8
=28. Colorado	8
=28. Iowa	8
=28. North Dakota State	8
=28. New Hampshire	8
=28. Villanova	8
=34. Alabama	6
=34. Cincinnati	6
=34. Florida State	6
=34. Kansas	6
=34. Tennessee	6
=34. Wisconsin	6
=40. Florida International	5
=40. Grand Canyon	5
=40. Indiana	5
=40. UMBC	5
=40. Utah	5
=45. Air Force	4
=45. Bucknell	4
=45. Campbell	4
=45. Duke	4
=45. Michigan State	4
=45. Providence	4
=45. Prairie View	4
=52. Auburn	3
=52. Memphis	3
=52. Minnesota	3
=52. Notre Dame	3
=52. South Carolina	3
=52. Texas Tech	3
=52. UCLA	3
=59. Cal	2
=59. Middle Tennessee	2
=59. Syracuse	2
=59. Washington State	2
=63. Indiana State	1
=63. Nebraska	1
=63. NC State	1
=63. Penn State	1