Montana State University
Bobcat Performance
Bobcat Performance Up Next for Track and Field on Friday
1/30/2025 12:08:00 PM | Men's Track and Field, Women's Track and Field
MSU hosts the third of four home meets this indoor season welcoming local Montana schools to Worthington Arena
BOZEMAN, Mont. -- For the second weekend in a row, Montana State track and field has the opportunity to chase big marks in a familiar home environment, hosting the Bobcat Performance meet on Friday at Worthington Arena.
With just under a month until the 2025 Big Sky Indoor Track & Field Championships in Flagstaff, the 'Cats are aiming to sustain momentum from a terrific start to the year.
"The season goes fast," head coach Lyle Weese said. "We are pretty much into the middle of our season. We're looking forward to having another home meet, another opportunity to go out there and put up some good marks after the few meets early in the season. Now we're not just working our way into it, we're in full competition mode ready to put down some great performances. I expect our team to go out there and perform really well and keep coming up with season-bests, keep having PRs, keep building as we work more and more towards the conference championships."
Action in the women's pentathlon featuring reigning Big Sky champion Shelby Schweyen and freshman Hailey Ells begins at 11 a.m.
Field events get started with the men's weight throw at 2 p.m., with track events getting underway at 3:30 p.m. in the women's 60 meter hurdles.
A full schedule can be viewed here, with live results accessible here, and heat sheets available here.
Admission is free.
Participating teams include Montana Western, Montana Tech, Carroll College, Rocky Mountain College, and the University of Providence.
MSU is coming off a successful Bobcat Challenge in The Brick last Saturday, with the women's team earning dominant wins in the double-dual scored meet over both Wyoming and Idaho State.
Competing without some of their best athletes, the men suffered a narrow two-point loss to Wyoming while handily defeating Idaho State.
Hailey Coey added another school record to a standout indoor campaign, breaking a 25-year-old long jump record with a leap of 20-03.75. The junior from Billings also broke the school record in the triple jump at the Bobcat PReview in December, and is the only woman in MSU history to clear both 20 feet in the long jump and 40 feet in the triple jump indoors.
Kyla Christopher-Moody was named Big Sky Women's Track Athlete of the Week after clocking a blistering 3,000 meter race on Saturday. The graduate student from Royal Oak, Michigan, ran an altitude-adjusted time of 9:17.26 to climb to No. 2 all-time in MSU history with the 36th-fastest time in the country this season.
Christopher-Moody will be taking aim at the women's indoor mile record on Friday—Heather Haug set the bar at 4:39.87 in 2013.
Robert Hartley was named Big Sky Men's Field Athlete of the week after a triple PR in the pole vault last Saturday. The senior from Bozeman cleared a bar at 17-04.50 to become just the second Bobcat since 1998 to reach that height, joining teammate and Big Sky record holder Colby Wilson.
The Bobcat men's pole vault group checked in as the 11th-best event squad in the country for pole vault in the latest USTFCCCA rankings released on Tuesday. The men's mile group was also ranked 11th, while women's pole vault checked in at No. 14, women's 400 meters was No. 17 and men's weight throw was No. 18.
In the latest USTFCCCA Mountain Region rankings, the MSU women were ranked fifth, with the men ranked tenth.
"I think both the men's and women's teams are in a really good place," Weese said. "From last year at this time, our women's team has really come a long ways, so that's exciting. Last outdoor season, our women's team was very much improved from the indoor season, and they've really continued that throughout the fall and the start of the indoor season. The women's team especially is in a really great spot. We're seeing a lot of great things from our men's team as well. We're getting more and more people back in the lineup and back healthy, but we feel like once we have a full squad on that men's side that we are going to be a really good team."
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