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The NCAA News -- February 15, 1999

Division I Women's Indoor Track

Field: The Division I Championships/Competition Cabinet has approved a qualifying procedure that allows for a maximum of 270 student-athletes.

Dates and site: The championships will be conducted March 5-6 at the RCA Dome in Indianapolis. Butler and USA Track and Field are cohosts.

Information/results: The fax-on-demand telephone number is 770/563-1133 (pin code 1915); request numbers are 1565 for dates/site/schedule, 5276 for qualifiers, 5277 for first-day results, 5278 for second-day results and 5279 for finals-only results. Championships results also will be available on the World Wide Web at www.ncaa.org. Results will be published in the March 15 issue of The NCAA News.

Championships notes: Texas broke LSU's five-year string of titles in convincing fashion last year. The Longhorns had four individual champions on their way to 60 points, doubling runner-up LSU's total. The 30-point winning margin was the largest in the 16-year history of the championship. Texas now has four titles overall, second to LSU's eight, but the Longhorns did grab the lead in individual championships with 21 to the Tigers' 19. LSU and Texas both have strings of 14 straight top-10 finishes ... Pittsburgh's Trecia Smith became the eighth student-athlete in the championships to win two events in the same year when she sprung to victories in both the long and triple jumps.