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The NCAA announced sites for the 2008-2010 Division I Men's and Women's Indoor and Outdoor Track and Field Championships, and the 2007 NCAA Division I Men's and Women's Cross Country Championships, in a teleconference this afternoon.
The 2008 Outdoor Championships will be hosted by Drake University at Drake Stadium in Des Moines, Iowa; the 2009 Outdoor Championships at the John McDonnell track at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville. The 2010 Outdoor Championships will be held at the University of Oregon's Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon.
The 2008 and 2010 Indoor Championships will be at the Randal Tyson Track Center in Fayetteville, Arkansas, where the University of Arkansas has hosted it several times already this decade; the 2009 Indoor Championships will be hosted by Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas.
The 2007 Cross Country Championships will return to the Wabash Family Sports Center in Terre Haute, Indiana, where it will be hosted by Indiana State University for a fifth year. The bidding process for hosting future Cross Country championships will open soon and bids will be gathered until April 1, 2007.
DeTrease Harrison of Virginia Commonwealth University, a member of the site selection committee, pointed out that while the NCAA had been awarding the sites in three year blocks, those selections were made by a different committee, and the present committee favored changing sites on a regular basis. "There's been a change of philosophy," said Harrison.
Posted by Parker Morse at 2:11 p.m. | Tags: Press Releases