Montana State University
Big Sky Tuner
Big Sky Tuner Closes Indoor Regular Season in Bozeman on Thursday
2/19/2025 7:01:00 PM | Men's Track and Field, Women's Track and Field
Bobcats host fourth and final indoor meet of the season in last opportunity before the 2025 Big Sky Indoor Track & Field Championships in Flagstaff next week
BOZEMAN, Mont. -- Montana State track and field wraps up the indoor regular season with one final home meet before the conference championships, hosting the Big Sky Tuner on Thursday at Worthington Arena.
The men's weight throw begins at 1:45 p.m., with action on the track getting started with the women's 60 meter hurdles at 3 p.m.
A full meet schedule can be viewed here, while live results and heat sheets can be viewed here.
Admission to the meet is free.
Class of 2025 Montana State Athletics Hall of Fame inductees Jeff Mohl (2010-14) and Jen Cleary Hoogesteger (1992-94) will be honored during the meet for their selection to enshrinement.
Participating teams on Thursday include Carroll College, Montana Tech, MSU Billings, Montana Western, Rocky Mountain College, University of Providence, and Salt Lake Community College.
"It's going to be great to be back home and have everyone together," head coach Lyle Weese said. "Coming off last weekend and really having some standout individual efforts in the meets in Albuquerque and Seattle was really nice, but it's so much fun to have the whole squad together. For the majority of the team, whether their last competition was here in Bozeman or in Albuquerque or Seattle, we're still seeing PRs and season-bests across the board, so it definitely seems like we have a lot of momentum as we continue to prepare for the Big Sky Conference Championships."
Montana State's throwers, jumpers, and distance runners will be a full-go on Thursday, with the sprinters and hurdles more limited as they rest in preparation for next week's Big Sky Indoor Track & Field Championships in Flagstaff, Arizona.
"It is a little different between the event groups," Weese said. "For the most part, the throws, distance, and jumps are going to be competing pretty heavily across the board. Sprints and hurdles is a little bit of a mixture where we'll have a few people competing and some sitting out as they prepare for the Big Sky Conference Championships. It's a little different. That being said, even if someone isn't competing, they are at the meet and helping out, so it's good to have the entire track and field team around."
With the Kennedy-Stark Athletic Center slated to be completed by this summer, Thursday marks potentially the last track and field meet to ever be held at Worthington Arena.
"You never know what the future holds, but there's a possibility that this could be the last track meet in the Brick," Weese said. "A lot of our student-athletes are pretty excited about that and excited about the opportunity to compete in maybe the last track and field meet in the Brick."
Montana State is coming off another record-breaking weekend across a pair of high-level meets in Albuquerque and Seattle.
Colby Wilson was named Big Sky Men's Field Athlete of the Week for the second straight week after breaking his own school and conference record in the pole vault, first clearing 5.50 meters (18-02.50) and then 5.60 meters (18-04.50) at the Don Kirby Elite Invitational in Albuquerque.
The mark is tied for the eighth-best clearance in NCAA Division I this season.
Earlier that same day, junior sprinters Jaeden Wolff and Peyton Garrison broke the school record in the 200 meters in consecutive heats. First, Wolff clocked a converted 23.81, before Garrison ran a blistering 23.49 to take over the record just a few minutes later.
Finally, junior jumper Hailey Coey continued her special season by breaking her own school record in the triple jump, going 40-08.25 to set a new record by nearly five inches in Albuquerque. The Billings native has now twice broken the school record in both the long jump and the triple jump, and holds the Big Sky record in the long jump as well.
On the distance side in Seattle, Kyla Christopher-Moody ran the second-fastest indoor mile in school history (4:42.83) and the second-fastest 3,000 meter race in school history (9:13.46). The 3,000 meter mark was the fastest race by a Bobcat since Jen Cleary ran 9:13.31 in 1993—the same Cleary that is being honored during Thursday's meet for induction to the Montana State Athletics Hall of Fame.
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