Attended the Lone Star Conference meet at West Texas A&M this past weekend. Particularly with WT A&M and Angelo State but not limited to those two, was shocking the amount of Europeans and Africans in their mid 20's (WT has a hep who won 2 individual events as well who is 29 and 18 of 37 on the women's team are not from the US). From the athlete's perspective, I get it, US education and pathway to a work visa upon graduation much easier. Just seems odd for DII programs to be scouring the earth for track and field talent. On another note, stands were completely packed all three days and the throws did not compete with running events, so huge crowds for those which never happens. Thought that was very cool for the athletes especially given the remoteness of Canyon, TX.

Glad you had a good time and there was a good crowd.

Someone please tell me there will be more seating than this at the SEC Meet this weekend.

Ooof that is terrible. I'm assuming there will be GA lawn seating but even then it doesn't look like much space. Don't know why they are allowed to host with that sad excuse of a stadium

Is that picture real. You got to be kidding.

Wow, that's crazy....

Last year in Kentucky my wife said that "stadium" felt like a high school ....

I can't imagine what she would say (well, maybe I can but shouldn't post it) if we traveled to attend and ended up sitting on the side of a hill......

Baseball berm says hello.

That is from the facility website. I mentioned the SECs there to the new kid in my office that just graduated form auburn and he said, "I don't think they can do that. It's just a practice track."

"A new track facility was completed prior to the 2006 season that ranks among the nation's best. The new top-notch facility includes Beynon Sports Surface's BSS 2000 track surface, with jumping and throwing areas, grandstand seating, a meet control booth, public restrooms, field lighting and storage facilities. "

Odd they don't mention seating capacity, but at least they got public restrooms!

Yeah, that's REAL bad. Gonna be a ****show.