BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – The Michigan State track & field team travels to Bloomington, Indiana, for the 2023 Big Ten Outdoor Track & Field Championships at Indiana’s Haugh Track & Field Complex from Friday-Sunday, May 12-14.
Action gets underway with the decathlon 100m at noon on Friday and concludes Sunday afternoon with the men’s and women’s 4×400 relays.
Live results will be available on MSUSpartans.com. Separate track and field streams will be available for all three days of competition on B1G+.
A total of six Spartans earned All-Big Ten honors at the indoor championships in February this year, with senior Heath Baldwin and graduate student Trevor Stephenson collecting honors on the men’s side and grad student Shakira Dancy, seniors Katie Osika and Lauren Freeland and sophomore Kate Stewart-Barnett earning honors on the women’s side. Baldwin (heptathlon) and Stephenson (pole vault) also advanced to the NCAA Indoor Championships in March, both collecting First-Team All-American honors.
MSU also returns a pair of All-Big Ten finishers from last year’s outdoor conference championships. Current senior Ryan Talbot won the decathlon title at last year’s championships with a then-school record of 8,064 points, while Osika finished second in the women’s 1500m. Osika has had an outstanding year in the Green & White, most notably finishing as a Second-Team All-American in cross country in the fall.
Four 2022 outdoor All-Americans also return for the Spartans this season, including Talbot and Baldwin (decathlon), Stephenson (pole vault) and distance athlete John Petruno (1500m). Graduate transfer CarLee Stimpfel, who joined the Spartans in the fall for the 2022-23 cross country and track seasons, was a seven-time Division II All-American at Saginaw Valley State.
The Spartan women last won the Big Ten Outdoor team title in 2015, while the last team title for the Spartan men came in 1972.
RECORD BREAKERS
Several Spartan school records have fallen throughout the indoor and outdoor seasons in 2022-23. During the indoor season, senior Heath Baldwin broke the heptathlon school record (6,000 pts) and followed up his performance with the MSU decathlon record (8,084 pts) in his first multi-event of the outdoor season. He has broken the school record in every multi he has competed in this year.
Graduate student Trevor Stephenson…
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