Pirates Announce 2024 Track & Field Schedule
November 30, 2023 | Track & Field
GREENVILLE, N.C. – The East Carolina track & field program has released its schedule for the 2024 indoor and outdoor seasons. The Pirates will compete at five regular-season meets during the indoor season before heading outdoors for eight regular-season meets including the annual Bill Carson Invitational at the Bate Foundation Track & Field Facility.
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Indoor
The Pirates will open the season with a trip to Blacksburg, Va., on Jan. 19-20 for the Hokie Invitational followed by the JDL Camel City Invite (Jan. 26-27) in Winston-Salem. Then it's back to Blacksburg for the Doc Hale Virginia Tech Meet (Feb. 2-3)
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The indoor season will wrap up at Liberty's Darius Dixon Memorial and Clemson's Tiger Paw Invitational, both taking place Feb. 9-10.
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The 2024 American Athletic Conference Indoor Championships will be held on Feb. 23-24 in Birmingham, Ala.
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Outdoor
The outdoor season begins for the Pirates on March 22-23 at High Point's VertKlasse Meeting. The Pirates remain in North Carolina for the entirety of the outdoor season, next heading to the Raleigh Relays (March 28-30) at N.C. State and Adidas Trojan Challenge (March 29-30) in Mount Olive.
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On April 5-6, East Carolina will host the 2024 Bill Carson Invitational. Invited teams include: The Citadel, Mount Olive, UNCW and Saint Augustine's.
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The Pirates head back out on the road to the Duke Invitational (April 11-13) and Mount Olive's Trojan Relays (April 12) before wrapping up the regular season at the Wake Forest Invitational (April 19) and North Carolina A&T's Aggie Classic (April 19-20).
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The 2024 American Athletic Conference will take place on May 10-12 in San Antonio, Texas while the NCAA East Preliminary round will be May 22-25 in Lexington, Ky.
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"We always try to be a little creative when we are making a schedule for our indoor and outdoor seasons," said Director of Track & Field Curt Kraft. "One of the most difficult things about creating a good indoor schedule is that there are only so many institutions that have indoor tracks within our footprint. Creating a good outdoor schedule regionally is less challenging. We are going to a couple new places for both indoors and outdoors, but at the end of the day, regardless of what meets that we attend, we have to be ready to be the best versions of who we are."
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Indoor
The Pirates will open the season with a trip to Blacksburg, Va., on Jan. 19-20 for the Hokie Invitational followed by the JDL Camel City Invite (Jan. 26-27) in Winston-Salem. Then it's back to Blacksburg for the Doc Hale Virginia Tech Meet (Feb. 2-3)
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The indoor season will wrap up at Liberty's Darius Dixon Memorial and Clemson's Tiger Paw Invitational, both taking place Feb. 9-10.
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The 2024 American Athletic Conference Indoor Championships will be held on Feb. 23-24 in Birmingham, Ala.
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Outdoor
The outdoor season begins for the Pirates on March 22-23 at High Point's VertKlasse Meeting. The Pirates remain in North Carolina for the entirety of the outdoor season, next heading to the Raleigh Relays (March 28-30) at N.C. State and Adidas Trojan Challenge (March 29-30) in Mount Olive.
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On April 5-6, East Carolina will host the 2024 Bill Carson Invitational. Invited teams include: The Citadel, Mount Olive, UNCW and Saint Augustine's.
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The Pirates head back out on the road to the Duke Invitational (April 11-13) and Mount Olive's Trojan Relays (April 12) before wrapping up the regular season at the Wake Forest Invitational (April 19) and North Carolina A&T's Aggie Classic (April 19-20).
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The 2024 American Athletic Conference will take place on May 10-12 in San Antonio, Texas while the NCAA East Preliminary round will be May 22-25 in Lexington, Ky.
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Quotable
"We always try to be a little creative when we are making a schedule for our indoor and outdoor seasons," said Director of Track & Field Curt Kraft. "One of the most difficult things about creating a good indoor schedule is that there are only so many institutions that have indoor tracks within our footprint. Creating a good outdoor schedule regionally is less challenging. We are going to a couple new places for both indoors and outdoors, but at the end of the day, regardless of what meets that we attend, we have to be ready to be the best versions of who we are."
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Follow ECU XC/TF on Social Media
For more information on the ECU track & field team follow @ECUTFXC on Twitter and Instagram.
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