Linnea Rosman of Poudre is part of a deep group of 100 hurdlers closing in on shaving some time off of last year's minimum qualifying mark. Photo by Alan Versaw.
Note: I ran this same article the last two weeks, but have updated it this week with a fourth column indicating where the 5A qualifying marks stand as of May 3 (It appears that a previous save went somehow wrong and deleted where the 5A marks stood at the end of last weekend--my apologies about that).
The idea of this article is simple: compare where we are now in 5A state qualifying to what it took to get to state in each of the last two years. For each event, the first number represents what it took to get to state in 2013, the second number what it took to get to state in 2014, and the third number (red means it's already tougher this year than last) what it currently (April 20) takes to make the cutoff for 2015.
5A Girls
100 meter dash - 12.53, 12.42, 12.56, 12.50
200 meter dash - 25.70, 25.42, 25.95, 25.72
400 meter dash - 58.67, 59.43, 58.83, 58.78
800 meter run - 2:18.37, 2:18.03, 2:20.53, 2:18.31
1600 meter run - 5:11.85, 5:13.72, 5:21.41, 5:16.68
3200 meter run - 11:24.20, 11:28.78, 11:42.94, 11:35.62
100 meter hurdles - 15.62, 15.42, 15.67, 15.41
300 meter hurdles - 46.82, 46.78, 46.99, 46.50
4x100 meter relay - 50.17, 49.81, 51.06, 50.00
4x200 meter relay - 1:45.18, 1:44.86, 1:48.61, 1:46.71
4x400 meter relay - 4:04.77, 4:03.15, 4:14.28, 4:07.88
4x800 meter relay - 9:46.12, 9:53.24, 10:16.71, 9:56.79
800 meter sprint medley relay - 1:50.67, 1:51.11, 1:52.82, 1:51.03
High jump - 5-2, 5-1, 5-0.5, 5-1
Pole vault - 9-8, 9-3, 9-1, 9-6
Long jump - 17-3, 16-10.5, 16-7, 16-10.5
Triple jump - 35-4.75, 34-7, 34-10, 35-3.5
Shot put - 34-5, 35-0.5, 34-7.75, 34-10.25
Discus throw - 107-7, 111-4, 106-7, 108-10
5A Boys
100 meter dash - 11.07, 11.06, 11.20, 11.13
200 meter dash - 22.38, 22.23, 22.68, 22.54
400 meter dash - 50.36, 49.99, 51.09, 50.38
800 meter run - 1:58.87, 1:58.11, 1:59.69, 1:58.22
1600 meter run - 4:29.22, 4:27.31, 4:33.30, 4:29.14
3200 meter run - 9:58.33, 9:55.37, 9:55.23, 9:49.68
110 meter hurdles - 15.45, 15.47, 15.48, 15.25
300 meter hurdles - 40.78, 40.32, 40.87, 40.55
4x100 meter relay - 43.89, 43.48, 44.12, 43.66
4x200 meter relay - 1:31.10, 1:30.44, 1:32.47, 1:31.73
4x400 meter relay - 3:27.45, 3:26.74, 3:31.61, 3:28.10
4x800 meter relay - 8:11.39, 8:09.69, 8:24.76, 8:20.30
High jump - 6-3, 6-3, 6-2, 6-2
Pole vault - 13-0, 13-0, 12-6, 12-10
Long jump - 21-3.5, 21-4.5, 21-0, 21-3
Triple jump - 42-9.5, 43-1, 42-0, 42-8
Shot put - 46-8, 47-9, 47-1, 47-10.5
Discus throw - 139-7, 142-3, 141-1, 143-1