UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – The Nittany Lions cross country/track & field program has released its 2021 schedule for the upcoming cross country and indoor track & field season.
“Penn State Cross Country/Track and Field is ready to compete again! It has been almost 11 months since our last opportunity to wear the Blue and White and we are now less than one week away from wearing it again. The Penn State Administration and Big Ten Conference have worked tirelessly to provide us an opportunity to compete and we all appreciated their efforts. We have some outstanding student-athletes in our program who are ready to take advantage of the opportunity to compete again and our entire coaching staff is excited to see them do so.”
The Nittany Lions are slated to host three indoor track & field events during the 2021 indoor campaign and will compete in five indoor track & field meets prior to the Big Ten Indoor Championships in late February.
Penn State opens indoor competition next Saturday, January 16 by hosting the Nittany Lion Opener and will host the Rutgers Scarlet Knights and the Maryland Terrapins.
The Nittany Lions host the second meet of the season the following weekend on January 23 with Penn State Invite.
Hitting the road for the next two team meets, the Nittany Lions travel to Ann Arbor on February 6 and then head to the Big Ten Preview at Spire Institute in Geneva, Ohio.
Rounding out the indoor regular season schedule, the Nittany Lions host the Penn State Tune Up on Feb. 19 before heading to the Big Ten Indoor Championships the following weekend (Feb. 26-27).
At last year’s Big Ten Indoor Championships at Spire, the women’s program placed third and had five Big Ten individual champions. This included Maddie Nickel (Holmberg) in the pentathlon, Katie Jones (pole vault), Kiara Lester (400m) and Danae Rivers (800m & mile). Rivers became the first student-athlete in Big Ten history to win four consecutive women’s 800m Big Ten indoor titles.
On the men’s side, Billy McDevitt continued the men’s dominance in the 800m race. McDevitt won Penn State’s fifth consecutive men’s 800m title and the 11th in the last 13 years.
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