WICHITA – The indoor schedule is set for the Wichita State track and field team as the Shockers open their season at home with the Shocker Multi.
 
Wichita State's multi-event athletes will compete in the heptathlon and pentathlon over the course of Wednesday and Thursday, Dec. 4-5 to begin the 2024-25 indoor track and field season. The remainder of the team will participate in the annual Black vs. Yellow Intrasquad meet on Friday, Dec. 5 before launching their season at the KU-KSU-WSU Triangular in Manhattan, Kan. on Jan. 17.
 
The Shockers will make two more trips to Manhattan over the course of the indoor season for the DeLoss Dodds Invitational multi-event competition on Jan. 31 and Feb. 1 and the Steve Miller Invitational on Feb. 7.
 
Wichita State travels to Lincoln, Neb. for the Prairie Wolf Invitational and Mark Colligan Memorial on Jan. 24 and 25 at the Bob Devaney Sports Center before returning home for the Coach Wilson Invitational from Jan. 30-Feb. 1.
 
The distance squad heads to Topeka, Kan. for the Washburn Open the same weekend, and the whole team will make another trip to Washburn for the Ichabod Invitational on Feb. 14 and 15.
 
The Shockers' final regular season meet is the Arkansas Qualifier on Feb. 21 before they head to Birmingham, Ala. for the 2025 American Athletic Conference Indoor Track and Field Championships Feb. 28-March 1 at the Birmingham CrossPlex.
 
The NCAA Indoor Championships will wrap up the indoor season for the Shockers March 14 and 15 in Virginia Beach, Va.
 
SHOCKER MULTI PREVIEW
Four Wichita State men and seven women will compete in uniform at the 2024 Shocker Multi.
 
Senior Destiny Masters opens her final collegiate indoor season with a pentathlon after earning First Team All-America recognition in the event last season, finishing sixth at the NCAA Indoor Championships with a personal-best score of 4,338 points. Masters looks to put up a big pentathlon mark early in the season to attempt to qualify for her second-straight NCAA Indoor Championships. She has won the last three Shocker Multi pentathlons.
 
Redshirt-sophomore Brianna Utecht returns to competition for the Shockers for the first time in two seasons after receiving a medical hardship waiver and redshirting the 2023 and 2024 seasons. Sadie Millard, who placed fifth in the heptathlon at the AAC Outdoor Championships, Abby Klipstein, Natalie Hill, Emily Whorton and Lexi Gagnon will also compete in uniform for the Shockers, and Tess Roman, Anna Bundy and Ali Jacobs are entered unattached.
 
After earning all-conference recognition at the 2024 AAC Indoor Championships, senior Hudson Bailey will compete in his heptathlon of the season. Bailey won the Shocker Multi heptathlon in 2022 and placed second in 2021 and 2023 and holds a personal best of 5,186 points from last year's Shocker Multi.
 
Sophomore Luke Czarnecki will also compete in the Shocker Multi heptathlon, as well as freshman Rikard Trogen-Hedin and sophomore Holden Atwood, who will be making their Shocker debuts.