By Steve Holt, Sports Writer Friday marks day one of two for the NCAA Division II Indoor National Championships, taking place at the Reggie Lewis Athletic Center in Boston. The Wildcat men's team will go for its fifth straight indoor title, while the women's team will try to break a five-year title drought. But head coach Don Hood has said all ... [Read More…]

By Steve Holt, Sports Writer The final list of qualifiers for the NCAA Division II Indoor National Championships was released Monday, and ACU has fewer athletes on it than in past seasons. The national meet, which will be in Boston on Friday and Saturday, will feature a combined 15 men and women in individual events and all four relay teams. ACU ... [Read More…]

By Steve Holt, Sports Writer Watching track and field star Marvin Bien-Aime compete today, someone might never imagine his humble beginnings. Living with his immigrant parents and sister in a one-room apartment in South Florida. Running competitively for the first time as a high school junior. Suffering an injury that ruined his senior season - ... [Read More…]

By Steve Holt, Sports Writer Head track and field coach Don Hood will take a "handful" of athletes to the Oklahoma Sooner Indoor Invitational Saturday for their second-to-last chance to qualify for the NCAA Division II Indoor National Championships, which will take place in Boston March 10-11. Hood said he will take several field event athletes ... [Read More…]

By Steve Holt, Sports Writer The women's track and field team added eight new provisional and one automatic qualifying marks or times, while the men's team added three provisional and two automatic qualifiers, as ACU made strong showings at the University of New Mexico's Albuquerque Invitational and the Tyson Invitational in Fayetteville, ... [Read More…]

By Steve Holt, Sports Writer Indoor action will continue for the track and field teams Saturday on the campus of the University of New Mexico at the Albuquerque Invitational. The Invitational will feature 13 Division I and II college teams that include the host New Mexico Lobos, the eighth-ranked Arizona State women, Mountain West Conference ... [Read More…]

By Steve Holt, Sports Writer Someone once said, "Competition is the whetstone of talent." The competition displayed at the Frank Sevigne Classic in Lincoln, Neb., Friday and Saturday certainly sharpened the performances of the ACU track and field athletes, who posted 15 new provisional or automatic qualifying marks or times for the indoor ... [Read More…]

By Steve Holt, Sports Writer The Wildcats will face their first significant Division I track and field competition Friday and Saturday as they compete in the Frank Sevigne Husker Invitational on the campus of the University of Nebraska in Lincoln. Schools already declared for the two-day meet include North Carolina, Minnesota, New Mexico, ... [Read More…]

By Steve Holt, Sports Writer Try to catch ACU track and field coach Don D. Hood without a smile on his face, and chances are you won't. That's because when it comes to his new position at his alma mater alongside brother Derek and father Don, Don D. is speechless. "I walked away from a pretty good job to come do this, and this is better than I ... [Read More…]

By Steve Holt, Sports Writer In their first meet of the season, the men's and women's track and field teams combined to provisionally qualify six individuals and two relay teams for the indoor national meet at the Wes Kittley Invitational Friday in Lubbock. The women's team qualified athletes provisionally in four events, along with the ... [Read More…]