BOZEMAN, Mont. — The largest rivalry within the Treasure State takes heart stage on Friday, as Montana State hosts Montana within the Cat-Griz Dual meet from Bobcat Track and Field Complex.
Montana State has dominated the annual twin as of late, with the boys profitable ten of the final 12 and the ladies profitable 9 of the final 11 conferences. Montana State has gained each twin in Bozeman on each the boys’s and ladies’s sides since 2010.
The 89th Cat-Griz Dual will get underway with the ladies’s javelin at 11:30 a.m., whereas monitor occasions begin with the boys’s 3,000 meter steeplechase at 12:00 p.m. The closing occasion is slated to be the ladies’s 4×400 meter relay at 3:10 p.m.
A full schedule is available right here.
Admission to Friday’s meet is free. Live outcomes can be available right here.
The winner of the twin on each the boys’s and ladies’s sides is set by level totals. The prime finisher in every occasion earns 5 factors, with the runner-up incomes three factors, third place incomes two factors, and fourth place incomes one level. The prime two finishers for every staff can earn factors.
“We are so lucky to have that in-state rival and have this kind of expertise for our student-athletes,” Dale Kennedy Director of Track and Field Lyle Weese stated. “It’s so completely different from most of our faculty monitor and area meets. It is known as a nice environment simply going head-to-head—one of many few occasions in the course of the season the place the rating actually issues. Having a staff rating, having folks battle for one thing larger than themselves is admittedly an necessary a part of monitor and area and helps put together us for the convention championships as a result of we’ll have that very same scoring factors for the staff sort of mentality.”
Friday’s home meet would be the first of two competitions held at Bobcat Track and Field Complex this spring, with the 2024 Big Sky Outdoor Track & Field Championships coming to Bozeman on May 8-11.
The Bobcat males enter the weekend ranked twentieth within the nation in response to the USTFCCCA Ratings Index. Thanks to a bevy of robust performances on the Stanford Invitational in Palo Alto, the Bobcat males rose 117 spots to sit down firmly within the nationwide top-25 rankings because the calendar turns to April.
In the USTFCCA Event Squad Rankings, which orders the highest occasion teams in NCAA Division I, the Montana State males’s steeplechase group reigns supreme because the top-ranked squad within the nation.
Rob McManus (2nd) and Levi Taylor (4th) each rank within the top-five in NCAA Division I within the occasion, with Harvey Cramb (twenty third) and Owen Smith (thirty first) not far behind. The Bobcat males’s hammer group is ranked ninth within the nation, with Matt Furdyk (62nd) and Elijah Jackman (89th) main the way in which.
A pair of faculty data have already fallen this out of doors season, with sophomore Pat Vialva setting the boys’s javelin document (225-03) and freshman Sydney Brewster setting the ladies’s shot put document (52-02.50) on the Al Manuel Invite in Missoula on March 22.
Through simply two out of doors meets, together with just one that has included the complete staff, Montana State has already set 9 top-ten marks in program historical past on the boys’s aspect and 9 top-ten marks on the ladies’s aspect.
Weese pointed to the boys’s javelin, the ladies’s pole vault, and each finals for the 1,500 meters as some occasions that promise to be must-watch theater.
“We’re anticipating to see continued growth,” Weese stated. “We had a superb begin in Missoula, constructed on that at Palo Alto, and actually need to proceed that tomorrow.”
After a pair of runner-up finishes to nationally-ranked Northern Arizona on the 2024 Big Sky Indoor Track & Field Championships, each Cats’ squads have been picked second within the preseason out of doors coaches’ ballot. The Griz males have been picked to complete fifth, whereas the Griz ladies have been picked ninth.
SERIES HISTORY
Montana leads the all-time Cat-Griz Dual sequence 55-33 for the boys, whereas the Bobcat ladies have a 21-19 lead. The first Cat-Griz Dual dates again to 1906, and the sequence has been run concurrently since 1960 with the exceptions of 2020 and 1973. The ladies’s Cat-Griz Dual started in 1983.
The Bobcat males have gained ten of the final 12 conferences, whereas the Bobcat ladies have gained 9 of the final 11 conferences.
Last season, the a victory within the 4×400 meter relay gave Montana a 97.5-93.5 victory on the boys’s aspect, whereas the Bobcat ladies gained 107.5-85.5.
Montana State’s 2023-2024 monitor and area roster boasts 27 ladies hailing from the Treasure State and 16 males.
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