1979 AIAW Indoor Track and Field Championships
The 1979 Missouri National Invitational Women's Indoor Track and Field Meet was the second unofficial collegiate championship event for women's indoor track and field to be sanctioned by the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women in the United States. It was a forerunner of the first official AIAW Indoor Track and Field Championships. Held for the first two years as an invitational, the meet gained official national championship status in 1980, when a qualification process was employed. It was called a "de facto" championship until then.
The meet was contested March 2−3, 1979 in Columbia, Missouri at the Hearnes Multipurpose Building and won by the Iowa State Cyclones track and field team. Unlike other AIAW-sponsored sports, there were not separate large and small college division championships for indoor track and field. At the championships, Themis Zambrzycki was noted for winning all but one of the events in the new indoor pentathlon event.
Team standings
Scoring: 10 points for a 1st-place finish, 8 points for 2nd, 6 points for 3rd, 4 points for 4th, 2 points for 5th, and 1 point for 6th. Top 10 teams shown.
| Rank | Team | Points |
| | 51 |
| | 47 |
| | 34 |
| | 26 |
| | 24 |
| | 22 |
| | 19 |
| | 18 |
| | 18 |
| | 17 |
Results
Only results of finals are shown
| Name | Team | Mark |
| Sheila Calmese | | 6.90 |
| Lori Green | | 7.04 |
| Elizabeth Young | | 7.05 |
| Sandra Milliner | | 7.08 |
| Hazel Lucas | | 7.16 |
| Wanda Hooker | | 7.18 |
| Name | Team | Mark |
| Elizabeth Young | | 34.50 |
| Jeanine Brown | | 34.92 |
| Sheila Calmese | | 34.93 |
| Nancy Miller | | 35.12 |
| Lori Green | | 35.57 |
| Edna Brown | | 35.74 |
| Name | Team | Mark |
| Diann Ousley | | 1:21.22 |
| Dorianne Lambelet | | 1:21.6 |
| Dana Gildden | | 1:21.9 |
| Wanda Trent | | 1:23.0 |
| Laura Ferguson | | 1:23.0 |
| Carolyn Brinkley | | 1:25.2 |
| Lee Ballenger | | |
| Name | Team | Mark |
| Debbie Vetter | | 2:29.81 |
| Brigid Leddy | | 2:32.6 |
| Diane Vetter | | 2:34.2 |
| Janel LeValley | | 2:35.5 |
| Siri Bjelland | | 2:39.3 |
| Deb Hertzog | | 2:39.8 |
| Name | Team | Mark |
| Debbie Mitchell | | 4:47.35 |
| Jody Rittenhouse | | 4:50.9 |
| Renee Urish | | 4:51.6 |
| Wendy Van Mierlo | | 4:53.9 |
| Brigid Leddy | | 4:54.6 |
| Michelle Brown | | 4:58.7 |
| Name | Team | Mark |
| Dana Slater | | 16:05.45 |
| Karen Bridges | | 16:10.2 |
| Mary Seybold | | 16:22.9 |
| Alanna McCarthy | | 16:27.9 |
| Matha Stinson | | 16:41.0 |
| Cindy Bradley | | 16:55.9 |
| Pippa Holman | | 16:59.3 |
| Name | Team | Mark |
| Debra Deutsch | | 7.80 |
| Gayle Watkins | | 7.82 |
| Julie Smithers | | 7.84 |
| Linda Bourn | | 7.98 |
| Debbie Kilhoffer | | 8.06 |
| Pam Page | | 8.11 |
| Lori Lowrey | | 8.19 |
| Name | Team | Mark |
| Amy Whicker | rowspan=4 | 1:40.69 |
| Ellen Howard | - | 1:40.69 |
| Venita McDavid | - | 1:40.69 |
| Laura Carroll | - | 1:40.69 |
| Ellie Mahall | rowspan=4 | 1:41.5 |
| Loreen Spearman | - | 1:41.5 |
| Sumetia Wells | - | 1:41.5 |
| Laurie Eder | - | 1:41.5 |
| | rowspan=4 | 1:41.7 |
| | - | 1:41.7 |
| | - | 1:41.7 |
| | - | 1:41.7 |
| | rowspan=4 | 1:42.8 |
| | - | 1:42.8 |
| | - | 1:42.8 |
| | - | 1:42.8 |
| Debra Spencer | rowspan=4 | 1:44.8 |
| Wanda Hooker | - | 1:44.8 |
| Jill Ford | - | 1:44.8 |
| Mary Walker | - | 1:44.8 |
| | rowspan=4 | 1:44.8 |
| | - | 1:44.8 |
| | - | 1:44.8 |
| | - | 1:44.8 |
| Name | Team | Mark |
| Laurie Eder | rowspan=4 | 3:47.06 |
| Debbie Esser | - | 3:47.06 |
| Ellie Mahall | - | 3:47.06 |
| Sumetia Wells | - | 3:47.06 |
| Leesa Wallace | rowspan=4 | 3:50.8 |
| Freda Hancock | - | 3:50.8 |
| Lorraine Davidson | - | 3:50.8 |
| Wanda Trent | - | 3:50.8 |
| | rowspan=4 | 3:52.2 |
| | - | 3:52.2 |
| | - | 3:52.2 |
| | - | 3:52.2 |
| | rowspan=4 | 3:52.5 |
| | - | 3:52.5 |
| | - | 3:52.5 |
| | - | 3:52.5 |
| | rowspan=4 | 3:52.6 |
| | - | 3:52.6 |
| | - | 3:52.6 |
| | - | 3:52.6 |
| | rowspan=4 | 3:53.5 |
| | - | 3:53.5 |
| | - | 3:53.5 |
| | - | 3:53.5 |
| Name | Team | Mark |
| Evelyn McMeekin | rowspan=4 | 11:39.39 |
| Debbie Esser | - | 11:39.39 |
| Debbie Vetter | - | 11:39.39 |
| Diane Vetter | - | 11:39.39 |
| | rowspan=4 | 12:05.7 |
| | - | 12:05.7 |
| | - | 12:05.7 |
| | - | 12:05.7 |
| Name | Team | Mark |
| Sharon Burrill | | |
| Tammie Thomas | | |
| Shawn Corwin | | |
| Lucia Chudy | | |
| Kay Barstow | | |
| Mary Cragoe | | |
| Name | Team | Mark |
| Esther Otieno | | |
| Gayle Watkins | | |
| Ann Meacham | | |
| Annette Sittenauer | | |
| Cheryl Williams | | |
| Carla Heintz | | |
| Sharon Burrill | | |
| Karesa Robbins | | |
| Name | Team | Mark |
| Cecil Hansen | | |
| Jennifer Smit | | |
| Deanna Patrick | | |
| Betty Bogers | | |
| Jan Hallier | | |
| Joan Fagerness | | |