Season Primer: Indoor Track & Field Opens Up Season Tomorrow

BOCA RATON, Fla. – The Florida Atlantic University women's track & field team is ready to commence the 2021 indoor track & field season tomorrow with a pair of meets hosted by UAB this weekend. FAU will kick off the weekend Friday at the Blazer Invitational and close out opening weekend at the Vulcan Invitational on Saturday. Both meets will run all day at the Birmingham Crossplex with no fans allowed.

Season Preview

Coach's Corner

Head coach, Alex Smolka:
"It's definitely going to be a new experience," said Smolka. "They really weren't sure if they were going to be able to race, and now finally being able to race, we will see exactly how the nerves are going to handle the actual racing."

Associate head coach, Willie Randolph
"The turnaround was quick, but the preparation in the fall was extreme in the sense of just the conditioning part," said Randolph. "The girls came back in some pretty good shape on all accounts, but we still need a little bit more time to fine-tune some things because they haven't been race-sharp in a while, so that's the thing we have been working on right now... Being track & field in comparison to other sports, we can put the numbers together so they are ready to go on the day that matters."

Meet Schedules

UAB Blazer Invite
UAB Vulcan Invite

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Participating Teams

Blazer Invite

Alabama State
Alcorn State
Belhaven
Georgia State
Jackson State
Marshall
Mississippi for Women
South Alabama
Troy
Tennessee Wesleyan
UAB

Vulcan Invite

Alabama State
Alcorn State
Belhaven
Emmanuel College
Georgia State
Jacksonville State
Lee (Tenn.)
Mississippi University for Women
Montevallo
Samford
Shorter
Southern Miss
Texas State
UAB

About the Owls

FAU returns most of the last year's squad on both the distance and sprint side, with the key losses to graduation being Mikaela Jonsson and Anne-Catherine Wasser
The team finished in 13th place with nine points at the Conference USA Indoor Track & Field Championships. FAU was just one point behind WKU
Junior Cara Simpson advanced to finals in the triple jump at last year's championships, finishing in seventh place with a second-best feat in program history (11.94m)
Three out of the four student-athletes in the 4x400 team, which broke a school record at the Bruce Lehane Sarlet & White Invitational at Boston University, are back for this season: Jessica Lambert, Lyric Schmalz and Roshelle Francois.

Upcoming

The Owls will have some time off before their final regular season indoor meet, which will be at the Camel City Invitational at the JDL Fast Track in Winston-Salem, North Carolina from Feb. 5 to 6.

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