March 28, 2008

MSUB Track and Field Heads to First Outdoor Meet at Bauer Invitational                             

RAPID CITY, S.D. – The Montana State Billings men’s and women’s track and field teams begin their first outdoor season at the Bauer Invitational this Saturday at South Dakota Tech. 

“The team and I are really excited about starting off the first NCAA outdoor track season at MSUB,” head coach Dave Coppock said.  “We’re coming off a good first effort from our indoor season, where we made a lot of progress and we are hoping to carry that momentum into the outdoor season.”

The meet begins at 11 a.m. and the field includes MSUB, Black Hills State, Dickinson State, Dakota Wesleyan and South Dakota Tech.  The Yellowjackets are pretty familiar with the area and the teams in the field as most of them competed in the Dave Little Indoor Invitational at Black Hills State, Feb. 1.   

The Yellowjackets qualified everyone on the team for the Great Northwest Athletic Conference Indoor Championships and Coppock hopes to do the same for the outdoor championships.