SAN DIEGO – As the new year begins, head coach Shelia Burrell has announced the indoor and outdoor track and field schedules for the upcoming 2024 season.
The Aztecs will open the indoor slate at the Dr. Martin Luther King Invitational on Saturday, Jan. 20 at the University of New Mexico. The one-day meet will be the team's first of four separate trips to Albuquerque during the indoor season.
SDSU closes out January at their lone indoor meet away from New Mexico with a trip into the Pacific Northwest for the UW Invite in Seattle, Wash. The Scarlet and Black head back into Albuquerque the following two weekends to close out their regular season with the New Mexico Collegiate Classic (Feb. 2-3) and the Don Kirby Invitational (Feb. 9-10).
Following a weekend off from competing, the postseason begins with the Mountain West Indoor Championships. The Albuquerque Convention Center will be the host for the conference championship meet for the ninth consecutive season (2021 cancelled) beginning on Thursday, Feb. 22 and running through Saturday, Feb. 24. This year, the NCAA Indoor Championships will be hosted in Boston, Mass. on Mar. 8-9.
The outdoor season begins on the same weekend of the NCAA Indoor Championships with the Aztec distance runners heading up I-5 for the Ben Brown Invite hosted by Cal State Fullerton. The following weekend will be the pole vaulters' first outdoor action at the Sharon Ross Invite hosted by Point Loma Nazarene here in San Diego.
The 45th edition of the Aztec Invitational will take place Mar. 21-23. The three-day meet continues to be one of the best meets in the state with over 1250 entries last year.
Next on the schedule is the Stanford Invite for the distance runners on Mar. 29-30 before the next full team meet at the UCSD Triton Invitational on Apr. 5-6.
April continues with competition at the Bryan Clay Invitational (Apr. 11-13) and the Mt. SAC Relays (Apr. 17-20).
The Aztecs spread out for the final weekend of the regular season as the throwers and distance runners head to Irvine, Calif. for the Steve Scott Invite, while the pole vaulters go to Provo, Utah for BYU's Robinson Invitational and the rest of the team travels to Arizona for the Desert Heat Classic in Tucson, Ariz.
The Mountain West Championships will be hosted by Fresno State on May 9-11 to begin the postseason. The NCAA West Preliminaries will be hosted by the University of Arkansas May 22-25 and the NCAA Championships return to Hayward Field in Oregon June 5-8.