LANCASTER, Pa. – Eight-time defending champion Johns Hopkins has been chosen as the unanimous favorite to repeat in the 2021 Centennial Conference Men's Indoor Track & Field Preseason Poll. The Blue Jays received all eight possible first-place votes and tallied 64 points to rank atop the vote among the conference head coaches. 

Ursinus finished second in the voting with 52 points, followed by Haverford (48) and Dickinson (47) close behind in third and fourth, respectively. The Red Devils collected the other first-place nod. 

Swarthmore was project to place fifth with 33 points, while Gettysburg (25), Muhlenberg (24), Franklin & Marshall (17) and McDaniel (14) rounded out the voting. 

The 2021-22 season kicks off this weekend. The Centennial Conference Indoor Championship is slated for Feb. 26-17 at Ursinus. 

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The 2020-21 indoor track & field season was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and Centennial squads are eager to get back to the action this winter. We last witnessed CC teams compete at the 2020 conference championship meet, just weeks prior to the NCAA Championship being cancelled. 

At the 2020 Centennial Indoor Championship, Johns Hopkins captured seven first-place finshes en route to its eighth consecutive title, compiling 212.5 points throughout the two-day event. Haverford still remains atop the all-time list of team titles with 17, while Dickinson and Franklin & Marshall have each collected one indoor crown in the 28-year history of the conference. 

Seven CC athletes qualified for the 2020 NCAA Indoor Championship, including two that are back this winter - JHU's Justin Canedy and Haverford's Jamie Moreland. Canedy, the 2020 CC Outstanding Field Performer, also qualified for nationals in 2019, earning All-America honors in both the heptathlon and and long jump. 

2021-22 Centennial Conference Men's Indoor Track & Field Preseason Poll