OKLAHOMA CITY (March 11, 2021) – Oklahoma Christian mostly will compete in meets in towns along Interstate 35 during the 2021 outdoor track and field season, according to the schedule announced Thursday by head coach Wade Miller.

OC will open its outdoor season next Friday (March 19) at the Emporia State Spring Invitational in Emporia, Kan., about a 3½-hour drive north on I-35.

The next weekend will feature the Eagles in a slew of different meets. Some of OC's runners will head south on I-35 to central Texas to compete in the Texas Relays in Austin and Texas State's Bobcat Invitational in San Marcos on March 25-27, while others will take a short drive east on Interstate 40 to Shawnee for the annual Oklahoma Baptist Invitational on March 27.

The weekend of April 9-10 will have the Eagles headed back north on I-35 to Wichita, Kan., for the Friends Spring Open that Friday and Saturday and the Wichita State Open on Saturday.

OC's multi-event competitors will travel to Wichita on April 14-15 for the Wichita State Multis and some of their teammates will compete in Wichita State's K.T. Woodman Classic on April 17. Other OC competitors will make the short trip down I-35 to Norman for the University of Oklahoma's Sooner Invitational on April 16-17.

The Drake Relays – off I-35 in Des Moines, Iowa, on April 23-24 – usually are on the OC schedule and they will be this season. Miller will send other OC team members on the 24th to Pittsburg, Kan., for the Pittsburg State Tune-Up.

West Texas A&M will host the Lone Star Conference Outdoor Championships on May 6-8 in Canyon, Texas. It will be the first time OC will have the opportunity to compete in the LSC outdoor meet, which was cancelled last season due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Miller plans to schedule a last-chance meet the following weekend at a site to be determined.

Should any OC athletes qualify, the NCAA Division II Outdoor Championships will be contested May 26-29 in Allendale, Mich., at Grand Valley State University.