SAN DIEGO – The San Diego State women's track and field team begins their 2024 indoor campaign on Saturday at the Dr. Martin Luther King Invitational hosted by the University of New Mexico. The one-day meet will be streamed live on Flo Track (paid subsciption required) with live results available to follow online.
The field events will begin at 7 a.m. PT with high jump while competition on the track starts at 8:15 a.m. PT with the 200m dash.
Just over half the Aztec roster is set to make their 2024 debuts on Saturday as they send 19 student-athletes to compete in New Mexico.
There will be 10 Aztecs making their SDSU debuts with seven also being their collegiate debuts. Sydney Ash, Giselle Galles, Olivia Hicks, Jordan Leveque, Lidia Major, Aji Mbye, and Lily Mulligan are all incoming freshman that will compete in their first collegiate meet while Jada Pierre, Kayla Tassara, and Xiamara Young are transfers with at least one year of collegiate experience already.
Included in the returners competing at the season opening meet are Jada Moore and Ashley Callahan. Both are defending Mountain West indoor champions with Moore claiming the 60m crown and Callahan winning pole vault. Charlize James and Rhea Hoyte will join Moore and Callahan as the four Aztecs who earned indoor all-Mountain West honors a season ago and making their 2024 debuts on Saturday.
Shaquena Foote will start her sophomore season on Saturday after a tremendous 2023 campaign. She set the freshman records for the indoor 60m, 200m, and 400m as well as the outdoor 400m, and ended her year competing for her home country of Jamaica at the NACAC U23 Championships where she claimed three silver medals (4x100m, mixed relay, 4x400m) and a fifth-place finish in the 200m finals.
Saturday's indoor season opening meet will be the first of five on the schedule (not counting the NCAA Championships). Of the five, four will take place in New Mexico with the fifth happening in Washington.
Aztec Tidbits
• Head coach Shelia Burrell, a six-time Mountain West Coach of the Year, will be in her 15th season on The Mesa.
• The Aztecs return 22 student-athletes from last year's roster along with 14 newcomers. Of the newcomers, nine are freshmen. Combined, the returnees have 26 marks in the indoor program all-time records and 23 marks in the program all-time records.
• San Diego State also returns two Mountain West indoor champions and 10 Mountain West outdoor champions (five from relays). In total, it won eight gold medals across last year's indoor and outdoor conference championships.
• The Aztecs have finished top three in all but two Mountain West Indoor Championships (11-of-13) since Shelia Burrell took over the helm of the program, including a 2013 title. They have finished second-place in two of the last four.
• SDSU has won two of the last three Mountain West Outdoor Championships, four of the last six, and six total under head coach Shelia Burrell. They have finished first or second in each of the last seven years and finished top three in each of the last 10 seasons.
• The Aztecs had 12 All-Mountain West recipients last year (23 All-Mountain West honors across both the indoor and outdoor seasons). Nine of the recipients are back in the Scarlet and Back this season.
• Last season, two Aztecs qualified for both the NCAA Indoor and Outdoor Championships last season, while 14 Aztecs qualified for the NCAA West Preliminaries.
Track and Field Opens Indoor Season at MLK Invitational
