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10.18.2016 | Track and Field
AMES, Iowa - Iowa State director of track and field and cross country Martin Smith announced the program's 2017 indoor and outdoor track and field schedules. The Cyclones are scheduled to host a pair of indoor meets, the Iowa State Classic and the 2017 Big 12 Indoor Track & Field Championships.
ISU has five regular season indoor competitions lined up, followed by the Big 12 and NCAA Championships events. Outdoors, the Cyclones will compete in eight meets before the conference championships and the start of postseason.
The indoor season will begin on Jan. 14 in Iowa City at the Hawkeye Challenge. The Cyclones will return to the Hawkeyes' home track again on Jan. 20-21 for the Power 5 Premier Invitational. ISU will leave the state for the first time on Feb. 3-4 for the Frank Sevigne Husker Invitational.
Feb. 10-11 marks the prestigious Iowa State Classic. One of the best indoor events in the country, ISU will welcome some of the best teams and student-athletes in the country to the Lied Recreation Center for two days of competition. For more info about the Iowa State Classic, click here.
Following competition at the UCS Invitational in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Iowa State will once again be the hosts for the Big 12 Indoor Track and Field Championships on Feb. 24-25. The Cyclones will welcome their nine conference colleagues as teams compete for Big 12 Championships, and spots at the NCAA Indoor Championships, which will take place on Mar. 10-11 in College Station, Texas.
ISU's outdoor season will begin the same way the 2016 outdoor season did, at the Tulsa Duels on March 17-18. The Cyclones then begin a four-week West Coast swing, starting with the Stanford Invitational and San Francisco Distance Carnival on Mar. 31 and Apr. 1. Iowa State then heads to Arizona State on Apr. 7-8 for the Sun Angel Track Classic. Apr. 14 it is back up to California for the Bryan Clay Invitational, with the Cardinal Classic on Apr. 21-22 wrapping up the competition on the Pacific Coast.
Back in Iowa, the Cyclones will also have student-athletes competing in the Musco Twilight on Apr. 22 in Iowa City. The next weekend, Apr. 26-29 will be the Drake Relays in Des Moines to close out the regular season.
The Big 12 Outdoor Championships kick off the post season May 12-14, with Kansas as the hosts this season. May 25-27 marks the NCAA West Preliminaries, with the event returning to Austin, Texas and Mike A. Myers Stadium after a one-year hiatus. For the fifth-straight season, the NCAA West Prelims will led to Hayward Field and Eugene, Oregon for the NCAA Outdoor Championships June 7-10.
To see the full 2017 Iowa State track and field schedule, click here.