Friday, February 25, 2011

Weekend Championship Links ...

In case you haven't heard, it's a big weekend for indoor track and field.

The Big Ten and Northern Sun conferences are holding their indoor championships this weekend, and down in Albuquerque, New Mexico the nation's top professionals will be racing at the USA Indoor Championships.

At Big Tens, the Gopher men will seek a third-straight conference indoor crown this weekend in Champaign, Illinois, while the Gopher women will try to get back atop the Big Ten heap in West Lafayette, Indiana. Both meets open on Saturday.

Follow those respective meets HERE (men) and HERE (women) via the host schools' web-sites.

Previews of the Gopher men's prospects can be found HERE, a women's preview should be posted HERE shortly.

Bemidji State his hosting the NSIC meet starting this afternoon. The Minnesota State, Mankato men and Augustana College (SD) women look to defend team titles at the meet. Minnesota State, Moorhead enters the meet as the conference's top ranked men's team at #18 in NCAA Division II. Augustana is ranked #23, Mankato is #25.

The University of Mary (ND) is the highest-ranking women's squad in the field at #11, followed by #16 Winona State and #24 Augustana.

Find live results of the meet HERE.

You can watch live action of Saturday and Sunday's USA Indoor meet -- featuring Minnesota-affiliated athletes like Amanda Smock, Jim Dilling, Heather Kampf, and Garrett Heath -- via THIS webcast.

Results of the USA Indoor Championships will be posted HERE.

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