WICHITA, Kan. – The Wichita State track and field team is back at home for a two-day meet Friday and Saturday in the Heskett Center.
 
"The indoor season, especially, you're constantly trying to build toward the championship season, so you're just trying to see positive steps, identify areas of improvement and find something to build on," head coach Steve Rainbolt said.
 
This is the final home meet of the indoor season for the Shockers with just two more away meets leading up to indoor conference championships.
 
"I think that the Shocker athletes enjoy the Heskett Center, feel comfortable here and feel like they can come here and do some good things," Rainbolt said. "It's a fast 200-meter flat track, it's a great place to pole vault, it's a good place to high jump, and in most cases, I think our athletes enjoy a good home meet."
 
The Shockers are coming off a weekend of strong performances with seven Shockers adding their names to WSU all-time top-10 lists. Adam Moore ran a 4:01.51 mile at the Adidas Classic to tie Alan Walker's hand-timed school record of 4:01.5 from 1973.
 
"Really excited for Adam Moore," Rainbolt said. "Those types of things are special, and I'm excited that I'm able to be part of a senior year where he's obviously ready to do some things that have never been done in Shocker track and field history in his events."
 
Just crossing the halfway point of the indoor season, some Shockers will be taking a week off from competing to rest and recover.
 
"It is the time of year that those aches and pains are going to be happening, and now we need to sort through those, work through those issues, and hopefully get past them and then get ready for the conference championship," Rainbolt said.
 
Eight Shockers will compete in the multi-event competition starting Friday at 10 a.m., and the rest of the meet will commence on Saturday with field events starting at 10 a.m. and track events beginning at 2 p.m.
 
The invitational features athletes from over 20 schools and is named after long-time Shocker cross country and track and field coach Herm Wilson, who coached at Wichita State from 1967-83. His teams won five Missouri Valley Conference cross country titles, along with a men's outdoor track and field title in 1972.