Gamecocks Reveal 2023 Track & Field Campaign

COLUMBIA, S.C. (Jan. 5, 2023) – The College of South Carolina has formally launched its 2023 Monitor & Subject schedule, launched by head coach Curtis Frye. The Gamecocks will compete in 20 whole meets between the indoor and outside seasons, together with the Clemson Opener that was held on Dec. 2, 2022.

“I at all times look ahead to the SEC Championships, biggest meet within the nation,” acknowledged Coach Frye. “We’ve got two of these occasions and so they give our children the chance to compete in opposition to the very best folks on this planet. In preparation for that, we get to compete on one of many prime 5 amenities on this planet right here in Columbia. I’m enthusiastic about our children to run in high-quality meets just like the SEC Championship, the Penn Relays and even the indoor facility in New York Metropolis.”

The Gamecocks will host 4 indoor meets on the Carolina Indoor Monitor & Subject Advanced, whereas internet hosting three outside occasions on the Sheila and Morris Cregger Monitor.

“After we talked to the folks designing our indoor monitor, we talked a few sweeping, double-radius flip like they’ve in NASCAR,” added Frye. “We’re completely different than all the opposite tracks. Folks wish to know why we run so quick right here and why we’ve 45 NCAA Qualifying marks right here. We’re so lucky that our children get to compete on this monitor day-after-day. We give an excellent alternative to each college that involves run quick and attempt to put up qualifying marks right here in our facility. We love competing at dwelling – you get to sleep in your individual beds, focus in your grades since you aren’t away from dwelling after which if you end up away it’s at a high quality meet.”

South Carolina will host the Gamecock Opener on Jan. 14, earlier than holding the Carolina Problem the subsequent weekend on Jan. 20-21. Following a journey to New York to compete within the Columbia Problem (Jan. 27-28), the Gamecocks will return dwelling in two of their subsequent three meets on the South Carolina Invitational (Feb. 3-4) and the USC Indoor Open (Feb. 17).

The Indoor SEC Championship will begin on Feb. 24 and run by means of Feb. 25 at Fayetteville, Ark. The ultimate indoor postseason meet would be the NCAA Championships in Albuquerque, N.M. on March 10-11.

Carolina will open the outside season in worldwide waters, participating within the Island Relays Bahamas on March 17-18 in Freeport earlier than returning dwelling to host the annual Weems Baskin Relays on March 24-25.

The Gamecocks will then head to the Florida Relays (March 31 – April 1) earlier than having fun with their second dwelling meet within the Gamecock Invitational on April 8. The ultimate dwelling outside meet of the season will happen on April 22 when South Carolina hosts the USC Open.

Sandwiched between the ultimate two dwelling outside meets will likely be a split-weekend when the Gamecocks ship opponents to each the Tom Jones Memorial (April 14-15) and the Mount SAC Relays (April 13-15).

The outside marketing campaign will proceed on the much-coveted Penn Relays on April 27-29 earlier than heading to Baton Rouge, La. for the SEC Outside Championships starting on Thursday, Might 11.

This 12 months’s NCAA Regional for the Gamecocks will happen in Jacksonville, Fla. on Might 24-27 earlier than heading to Austin, Texas for the annual NCAA Championships that may begin June 7-10.