LANGLEY, British Columbia – This week is the final U SPORTS Top 10 ranking of the season with the Trinity Western Spartans' men's track and field team dropping to No. 10 after last week's Canada West championship.
Last week's Top 10 was the final rankings for men's and women's volleyball, basketball, and hockey. In volleyball, the TWU women were ranked No. 6 in their final ranking, while men's volleyball was ranked No. 7.
Next up for men's track and field is the U SPORTS championships
on March 7-9 at the U SPORTS championship in Winnipeg, Man.
Men's volleyball continues its post-season run in the Canada West semifinals this weekend. The Spartans will host the Winnipeg Wesmen in the best-of-three series beginning on Thursday, February 29 at the Langley Events Centre in Langley, B.C. A win by the Spartans will advance TWU to the Canada West final and the U SPORTS championship.
RANKINGS
U SPORTS uses the ELO rating system for the calculation of its weekly national rankings. ELO calculates team rankings on a game-by-game basis, using an algorithm that generates a statistical calculation based on certain customized variables that have been adapted across the range of U SPORTS team sports. For volleyball, U SPORTS uses a 50/50 combination of ELO ranking and Coaches Poll ranking to determine the final Top 10 rankings.
About Spartan Athletics
As official members of U SPORTS, the Spartans currently compete in 13 sports in the Canada West conference, including women's and men's soccer, volleyball, basketball, hockey, cross country and track & field, as well as women's rugby sevens. TWU also competes as an independent team in men's rugby and women's and men's disc golf. Since TWU entered U SPORTS in 1999, the Spartans have won 14 U SPORTS team championships and 33 Canada West team championships.
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