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Shocker Indoor Track & Field Preview
As the weather begins to cool off and the indoor season grows closer, we’ve continue to grind away at track practice. This is always a difficult time of the training year for the sprinters and hurdlers because 1) the newness of the fall has worn off and 2) it still seems like a long time until we get our season started.
Two months from today we officially open our season (Jan 9 at Kansas) so we do have a long time until we start but we are only 4 weeks away from our annual Intersquad Meet on Dec 5 at the Heskett Center. Our Intersquad Meet serves as something to shoot for at the end of the fall and while it isn’t just around the corner it does feel like we’re almost there. We’ll have our Intersquad Multi in about two weeks so for those athletes it’s almost go time.
This week at practice we talked about how important it is to be ready to go at the beginning of the season. Research has shown the NCAA champions (and conference champions) run very fast in the first meets of the year. If that’s true then we must get ready to go in the coming weeks so that when we start our season in two months our performances will be where we need them.
Let’s take a look at our indoor schedule:
Dec 5 @Wichita St – This is our annual Intersquad Meet where we divide into three teams (Gold, White, Black) and well as having a bunch of alumni (Gray) come back. I have to imagine it’s the most fun and intense Intersquad Meet in the country. Someone try to prove me wrong!
Jan 9 @Kansas – Low key season opener, most athletes will run one event (if any) to shake the rust off from the winter break.
Jan 16 @Wichita St – This meet will be for the athletes who don’t travel to K-St the next day. Only 26 athletes make the K-St meet so this will be an opportunity for a lot of Shockers to showcase their talents at home. Our opponents will be Emporia St, Friends University and Butler County.
Jan 17 @Kansas St – This is the first ever Wichita St-Kansas St-Kansas Triangular. Next year will be at KU with 2017 at WSU. We are very excited for this meet and picking the top 26 athletes to compete will be very tough with our deep and talented team. Fans of T&F in Kansas should put this meet on their calendar every year!
Jan 23-24 @Nebraska – The first night at Nebraska is more of a small college meet where we have a lot of our younger athletes compete with the following day being a scored quad meet against Nebraska and two other D1 teams on UNL’s banked 200m track.
Jan 30-31 @Northern Iowa – Another great scored meet against UNI, Indiana St and Kent St. This is will be very significant because 1) we are competing on the facility that the MVC Indoor Champs are hosted, 2) we are competing against our main MVC rival Indiana St and 3) we are competing against my alma mater Kent St!
Feb 7 @Notre Dame – Most of my group will be off this weekend but the distance crew will travel to South Bend to run some fast time trial races on ND’s oversized track.
Feb 14 @Wichita St – The annual Herm Wilson Invitational will include UT-Arlington, Oral Roberts and Emporia St in a scored meet. This is what we consider our final “team meet” in preparation for the MVC Indoor.
Feb 20-21 @Nebraska and Kansas St – These are just tune-up meets, with most of the athletes either running one race to get ready for MVC or one final attempt to make the MVC team.
Feb 28/Mar 1 @Northern Iowa – MVC Indoor Championships – This is what our team will be focused on getting ready for the whole indoor season. 32 men and 32 women make this squad and it is two days of intense competition for the MVC title!
Mar 13-14 @Arkansas – NCAA Indoor Championships – Only 16 athletes per event make it to this meet. It’s the elite of the elite of NCAA track and if you make it you are a major stud!
So as you can see we have a very exciting indoor schedule this year with lots of scored meets and great competition! I can’t wait for it to begin!
Shocker Indoor Track & Field Preview
As the weather begins to cool off and the indoor season grows closer, we’ve continue to grind away at track practice. This is always a difficult time of the training year for the sprinters and hurdlers because 1) the newness of the fall has worn off and 2) it still seems like a long time until we get our season started.
Two months from today we officially open our season (Jan 9 at Kansas) so we do have a long time until we start but we are only 4 weeks away from our annual Intersquad Meet on Dec 5 at the Heskett Center. Our Intersquad Meet serves as something to shoot for at the end of the fall and while it isn’t just around the corner it does feel like we’re almost there. We’ll have our Intersquad Multi in about two weeks so for those athletes it’s almost go time.
This week at practice we talked about how important it is to be ready to go at the beginning of the season. Research has shown the NCAA champions (and conference champions) run very fast in the first meets of the year. If that’s true then we must get ready to go in the coming weeks so that when we start our season in two months our performances will be where we need them.
Let’s take a look at our indoor schedule:
Dec 5 @Wichita St – This is our annual Intersquad Meet where we divide into three teams (Gold, White, Black) and well as having a bunch of alumni (Gray) come back. I have to imagine it’s the most fun and intense Intersquad Meet in the country. Someone try to prove me wrong!
Jan 9 @Kansas – Low key season opener, most athletes will run one event (if any) to shake the rust off from the winter break.
Jan 16 @Wichita St – This meet will be for the athletes who don’t travel to K-St the next day. Only 26 athletes make the K-St meet so this will be an opportunity for a lot of Shockers to showcase their talents at home. Our opponents will be Emporia St, Friends University and Butler County.
Jan 17 @Kansas St – This is the first ever Wichita St-Kansas St-Kansas Triangular. Next year will be at KU with 2017 at WSU. We are very excited for this meet and picking the top 26 athletes to compete will be very tough with our deep and talented team. Fans of T&F in Kansas should put this meet on their calendar every year!
Jan 23-24 @Nebraska – The first night at Nebraska is more of a small college meet where we have a lot of our younger athletes compete with the following day being a scored quad meet against Nebraska and two other D1 teams on UNL’s banked 200m track.
Jan 30-31 @Northern Iowa – Another great scored meet against UNI, Indiana St and Kent St. This is will be very significant because 1) we are competing on the facility that the MVC Indoor Champs are hosted, 2) we are competing against our main MVC rival Indiana St and 3) we are competing against my alma mater Kent St!
Feb 7 @Notre Dame – Most of my group will be off this weekend but the distance crew will travel to South Bend to run some fast time trial races on ND’s oversized track.
Feb 14 @Wichita St – The annual Herm Wilson Invitational will include UT-Arlington, Oral Roberts and Emporia St in a scored meet. This is what we consider our final “team meet” in preparation for the MVC Indoor.
Feb 20-21 @Nebraska and Kansas St – These are just tune-up meets, with most of the athletes either running one race to get ready for MVC or one final attempt to make the MVC team.
Feb 28/Mar 1 @Northern Iowa – MVC Indoor Championships – This is what our team will be focused on getting ready for the whole indoor season. 32 men and 32 women make this squad and it is two days of intense competition for the MVC title!
Mar 13-14 @Arkansas – NCAA Indoor Championships – Only 16 athletes per event make it to this meet. It’s the elite of the elite of NCAA track and if you make it you are a major stud!
So as you can see we have a very exciting indoor schedule this year with lots of scored meets and great competition! I can’t wait for it to begin!
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