Montana State University
Bobcat Challenge
Track and Field Hosts Wyoming, Idaho State in Bobcat Challenge
1/24/2025 12:09:00 PM | Men's Track and Field, Women's Track and Field
Double dual meet pits the Cats head-to-head with regional rivals on Saturday inside Worthington Arena
BOZEMAN, Mont. -- Montana State track and field returns to Brick Breeden Fieldhouse to host the Bobcat Challenge on Saturday, welcoming Wyoming and Idaho State for a double dual meet in the second of four home meets this season in Bozeman.
Action begins at 9:15 a.m. with the men's weight throw and continues through 2 p.m. with the 4x400 meter relays.
Admission is free. A full meet schedule can be viewed here, with heat sheets available here.
Live results will be carried on Athletic.LIVE.
The meet will be scored as a double dual, with Montana State competing head-to-head against regional foes Wyoming and Idaho State. Each team's top two finishers in every event will score points.
"We're really looking forward to this meet," head coach Lyle Weese said. "Having the University of Wyoming and Idaho State come in for a double dual is really just a great format for a college track and field meet, so we're excited to get after it."
First place earns five points, second place three points, third place two points, and fourth place one point. In the relays, the winner earns five points, with the runner-up taking three points.
Last year at the Bobcat Challenge, MSU's men earned a dominant 95-49 win over Montana, while the women won 102-44.
Against Wyoming, the men finished with an 84-63 victory, with the women picking up a 94-55 win.
"A lot of college meets before you get to the conference championships tend to be non-scoring meets," Weese said of the double-dual format. "This meet you go to head-to-head and each team can score up to two people in each event, so it really is a show of a team's strength across all event groups. We have two quality teams coming here so having a head-to-head team score that goes across all event groups is exciting and really brings the entire team into it."
Montana State returned to action last week at the Spokane Sports Showcase in Spokane, Washington, shaking the rust off from winter break with several standout performances.
Hailey Coey earned Big Sky Women's Field Athlete of the Week after winning the long jump with the third-best mark in MSU history (20-01.00) and placing fourth in the triple jump with a leap just a few inches off her school record (40-01.50). Coey is the first woman in program history to clear 20 feet in the long jump and 40 feet in the triple jump indoors.
The 4x400 meter relay team of Olivia Lewis, Peyton Garrison, Giulia Gandolfi, and Caroline Hawkes broke the school record in their win over UCLA, clocking 3:38.67 to put up what is currently the 19th-fastest time in the country this season.
"We're excited about this meet because the first meet over in Spokane everyone had just gotten back from break and it's hard to be a full-go right away for that meet," Weese said. "This meet sets up well in our schedule so we have more people prepared and more in a rhythm to go out there and compete. It's also exciting because the distance runners didn't compete really for the most part at all in either of the first two meets, so that is going to be a lot of fun to have all four event groups going at the same meet."
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