2012 Oregon Preview Schedule - PDF
2012 Oregon Preview Accepted Entries (as of March 14) - PDF

PORTLAND, Ore. – The Portland State men and women's track teams head south to Historic Heyward Field on the campus of the University of Oregon for the Oregon Preview to kick off the 2012 outdoor track season.
 
The Oregon Preview will be the first of three meets that the Vikings will compete in at Heyward Field. They will also compete at the Oregon Relays (April 20-21) and the Oregon Twilight (May 5). Live results from the Oregon Preview can be found at www.goducks.com.
 
The women's team is coming off of one of the best indoor track seasons in Portland State history finishing fourth with 90 points with nine female student-athletes earning Big Sky Indoor All-Conference selections, most ever in a single season. Sprinters Geronne Black and Karene King set the Big Sky Indoor Track Championship and conference all-time records in the 60 and 200-meters respectively.
 
Black will be back out on the track this spring looking to punch her ticket to the NCAA Outdoor Track Championship June 6-9 at Drake Stadium in Des Moines, Iowa.
 
The Vikings are looking to equal if not improve on the number of NCAA West Regional qualifiers from the 2011 season. The women's team sent four in Black, King, Anaiah Rhodes and Joenisha Vinson but will not have King (exhausted eligibility) and Vinson (redshirting the outdoor season). The women's squad will rely on its sprint corps after qualifying eight for the Big Sky Indoor tournament in the 200-meters and medaling in the 4x400-meter relay at the championship.
 
The men's squad sent two competitors to the NCAA West Regional in Tony Crisofulli and Sean Mackelvie. Mackelvie finished fourth in the men's triple jump at the Big Sky Indoor Championship with an indoor career best distance of 45-10.75 (13.99m).
 
Following this weekend in Eugene, the Vikings will stay in the state of Oregon and head to Salem, Ore. For the  Willamette Invitational, March 30-30.