The Texas Tech track and field team is set for its biggest test of the season.

Texas A&M Notes

January 26, 2012

LUBBOCK, Texas - After hosting back-to-back home meets to begin the 2012 indoor season, the Texas Tech track and field team will make its first road trip of the season by competing in the Texas A&M Mondo Challenge this weekend in College Station.

The two-day meet will provide the most challenging competition the Red Raiders and No. 8 Lady Raiders have seen this season by boasting teams from the Big 12, SEC and Pac-12 conferences with nearly every team appearing in the most recent USTFCCCA Top 25 rankings released on Tuesday. Tech enters the meet after garnering a total of 21 first place finishes in their first two meets of the season.

"There are going to be a lot of great teams there," head coach Wes Kittley said. "It is going to be a great meet, and I think our kids are ready."

Tech will compete against men's and women's squads from Oregon, Arizona State, Florida, Tennessee and host team Texas A&M in the meet. The Texas A&M Mondo challenge will be a scored meet by conference, marking the first scoring meet of the season for Tech.

The Texas A&M Mondo Challenge will begin Friday afternoon at 1:30 p.m. inside the Gilliam Indoor Track and Field Stadium with the men's 5k race. Tech will begin competition at 6:00 p.m. Friday with the women's 60 meter hurdles.

The meet will continue on Saturday beginning with field events at 11 a.m. with the running events following at 12:30.

The Red Raiders and No. 8 Lady Raiders enter the meet with 12 athletes currently ranked in the Top 20 nationally in their event, led by junior All-American long jumper Bryce Lamb who leads the nation after leaping of 26'-0.75" in his season-opening jump last weekend.