Track and Field Opens Outdoor Season at Cal, Stanford

03.22.2011 | Track and Field

By: cyclones.com

AMES, Iowa – The Iowa State track and field teams will kick off the 2011 outdoor season with a pair of meets in California as the multi-event specialists head to Berkeley for the California Multi-Event Wednesday and Thursday while a select group of athletes will head to Palo Alto for the Stanford Invitational Friday and Saturday.

Multi-event specialist Jamal Currica is set to compete in the decathlon Wednesday and Thursday while female Cyclones Jordon Andreassen, Anna Holtermann and Jenny Dillon will compete in the two-day heptathlon. Action is set to begin on both days from Berkeley at 10:30 a.m. CDT.

Senior thrower Britta Christofferson will compete in the hammer throw Friday at the Stanford Invitational while senior men's thrower Josh Koglin will see competition in the hammer throw Saturday.

Cyclone newcomer Edward Kemboi will compete in the 1,500-meter run Friday for the Cyclones while Martin Coolidge and Rico Loy are set to compete Friday night in the 5,000-meter run. Iowa State distance veterans Clayton Carper, Ben Murphy-Baum and Charlie Paul will follow the 5,000-meter run, competing in the 10,000-meter run.

The Cyclone women will have three competitors in both the 5,000 and 10,000-meter runs. Lucy Kennedy, India Lee and Meaghan Nelson are scheduled to compete in the 5,000-meter run while Semehar Tesfaye, Dani Stack and Betsy Saina will be on the track for Iowa State in the 10,000-meter run

Fields for the distance races have not yet been set.

Live results for both meets will be available at recordtiming.com for the Cal Multi-Event and at gostanford.com for the Stanford Invitational. Results will be posted on cyclones.com at the end of each day's events.