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Team travels north while Murphy travels east.
SALT LAKE CITY – The Utah track and field team opens up the 2017-18 indoor season at the Weber State Winter Open on Saturday, Dec. 2nd in Ogden, Utah. The Utes will also be sending senior standout Grayson Murphy to Boston to compete in the BU Season Opener.
Competition for the Weber State Winter Open is set to begin at 2 p.m. (MST) starting with the 55 meter hurdles, and the BU opener is slated to begin at 4:20 p.m. (EST) with Murphy in the 5,000 race.
"We are just excited to see everyone in uniform, to see the team come together and get a chance to support each other and compete against some people in other color jerseys," head coach Kyle Kepler said. "That's really what it's about more than anything else, just seeing some different color jerseys, some other people line up, and seeing where we stack up."
Among the student-athletes competing for the Utes at the Winter Open will include seniors Raynee Helm Wheelock, Dakota Grossman, and Hannah McInturff. Wheelock ranks sixth all-time in the 60-meter indoor at Utah and will be competing in the 55-meter dash for the Utes this weekend. Coming off of solid cross country season performances, both Grossman and McInturff will be competing in the women's mile at Weber State. Grossman and McInturff have good history with the indoor mile where Grossman captured the event title in 2016 at the Jackson Invitational and McInturff who ranks fifth all-time at Utah in the indoor mile (4:49.61).
Across the country, Murphy will be competing in the women's 5000-meter race at Boston University where she will be aiming for a time that will be competitive for NCAA Championship qualification. Murphy will be running against six of the top 15 competitors from the NCAA Cross Country Championships.
"It's a race set up with several gals in that group of the top 15 or 20 kids who will all be together going after fast times and trying to earn one of the top 16 times in the NCAA," Kepler explained. "The qualifying window starts December 1st and if you get it done now, it gives us more options later on in the year especially during indoor. It's a chance to take advantage of great fitness, championship level fitness, and see if we can put it on the track and make it go."
The complete schedule of events for both meets can be found above in PDF form.
"We want to see where we are at and hopefully that will give a roadmap of where we want to go, what we need to do over break and provide some motivation and or confidence," Kepler stated.
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