PREVIEW: Texas Tech Primed For Second Home Meet
January 19, 2012 | Track and Field
The Texas Tech track and field team is looking to build off a successful start to indoor season.
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January 19, 2012
LUBBOCK, Texas - Fresh off a fast start to the 2012 indoor season last weekend, the Texas Tech track and field team is primed to host their second meet of the season.
The Texas Tech Open, the second of back-to-back home meets to begin the year, is scheduled to begin Friday at 5 p.m. inside the Athletic Training Center on the Texas Tech campus. The meet will continue through Saturday with events beginning at 10 a.m.
The consecutive home meets is something head coach Wes Kittley is comfortable with to begin the year.
"We are very comfortable working out on this track," he said Thursday afternoon. "It's home, so we feel very comfortable. I think they are looking forward to competing in the second meet of the season."
Last weekend his squad collected 12 first place finishes, and junior Katie Grimes set school record in the 55m hurdles with a 7.74 finish in the prelims.
Now, they enter the Texas Tech Open with seven athletes currently ranked in the Top 15 nationally, along with a women's 4x400 relay team that is ranked No. 4 in the country after running a winning time of 3:38.23 in last weekend's season opener.
The lone returning indoor All-American on the men's team, junior Bryce Lamb, is expected to make his season debut this weekend, something that Kittley said he is anxious to see. Lamb holds the school record in the long jump with a mark of 26'-8.50" set on Feb. 20, 2010.
"He will get a good jump in this weekend," Kittley said. "It will be a good opener for him to get on that national list and get him qualified for NCAAs."
This weekend will serve as the final opportunity for the Tech squad to prepare for the first of several competitive road trips this season. The squad will make their first trip next weekend as they travel to College Station to compete in the Texas A&M Challenge.
"These two meets have served to show me who's in shape, who worked out over Christmas, and also who is coming along." Kittley said.
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