The Marquette Tribune

Track Brief

The Big East Indoor Championships are only two weeks away. But there’s still another meet this weekend for coach Bert Rogers and the Marquette track and field team at the Hoosier Hills Invitational in Bloomington, Ind., Friday.

Most of the athletes competing will seek to qualify themselves for the Big East in the final opportunity of the indoor season.

Rogers said some athletes who have already qualified will compete because they feel they need a tune-up meet.

Rogers chose this meet to participate in the weekend before the Big East because it has a banked track — meaning it is raised like a NASCAR track — and this is only one of two courses the team competes on that has a banked track – the other is the Big East.

If an athlete were to perform his or her best this weekend it wouldn’t be the end of the world, Rogers said, because the training program is set up for an athlete’s performance to peak around the Big East.

Any individual who set a personal record this weekend should be on pace to increase that mark at the Big East, Rogers said.

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