How many collegiate teams have a dual or tri meet scheduled indoor or outdoor?

Lehigh University and Lafayette College have a dual meet in XC, indoor and outdoor track every year. A lot of alumni come back for each of the meets every year. The first athletics dual meet between them was in 1881.

how many true "track teams" are there? Seems like schools just concentrate on what they (the coach) is good at and let the rest fall to the way side. With budget cuts and Title IX who's got that many scholarships?

Wisconsin had these two indoor teams comp meets and will have two similar meets this indoors (outdoors is harder as there is not much time to host meets in the spring when it is late enough for good outdoor comp and early enough to be prior to the Conference Champs):

01/21/12 Wisconsin Elite Invitational The Shell 1st, 150 pts

01/28/12 Bill Bergan Invitational Ames, Iowa 3rd, 48.5 points

Women - Team Rankings - 17 Events Scored

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1) Wisconsin 157.50 2) Illinois State 155.50

3) Western Illinois 105.50 4) Northern Michigan 95.50

5) Valparaiso 39

Men - Team Rankings - 15 Events Scored

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1) Wisconsin 150 2) Illinois State 128

3) Western Illinois 114 4) Valparaiso 71

Women - Team Rankings - 14 Events Scored

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1) Wisconsin 107 2) Kansas State University 96.50

3) Iowa State University 66 3) South Dakota 66

5) North Dakota State 43.50 6) Missouri 31

7) Marquette University 13 8) SD State 11

Men - Team Rankings - 14 Events Scored

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1) Minnesota 96 2) Kansas State University 78.50

3) Wisconsin 71.50 4) Iowa State University 71

5) Missouri 33 6) North Dakota State 28.50

7) Marquette University 25 8) South Dakota 21.5

Tons of schools have teams. Title IX has limited scholarships and mens teams are smaller but you could still have a fun competition. Might even cut some costs. You dont have to stay overnight if you are close to each other, you dont have to pay for entries into some big meet. You could open concessions and make some cash.

Lehigh-Laf wrote:

Lehigh University and Lafayette College have a dual meet in XC, indoor and outdoor track every year. A lot of alumni come back for each of the meets every year. The first athletics dual meet between them was in 1881.

Is it mens and womens? Do they have some sort of traveling trophy after each meet? Like if Lafayette wins in XC do they bring it with them to the indoor meet and its up for grabs again?

If they have been doing that since 1881 thats pretty awesome.

There is indeed a travelling trophy, the Bryan Mundy trophy, named for a Lehigh Athelete, and it does get traded back and forth.

It is men's and women's. I don't know that Lafayette will ever win another XC dual ever, it doesn't appear to be a priority.

Dickinson, Franklin & Marshall, and Gettysburg have been competing in their own Little Three Meet in track since 1947. They have also been competing in XC since 1966.

Navy Army

USC UCLA

Lehigh Lafayette

A&M, Arkansas, LSU

Arizona State LSU

Arizona St Arizona

Michigan Michigan St

Arkansas Texas

Arkansas Oregon

Any other match ups?

Those are pretty decent meets.

Washington St. vs Washington

I definitely think more schools should try to make these a reality.

I know the Boston teams (Harvard, BC, BU, Northeastern) hold a Beanpot meet every year indoor. (This is to mirror the famous annual hockey tournament).

I've been to the hockey tournament, not the meet, but it is clear that the schools take those rivalries very, very seriously.

Also, if the schools are even mildly comparable, it's not like the meets would be a waste of time. There could easily be fast times or something else to gain - no race is ever a waste.

What are some other cool ones you'd like to see?

Harvard-Yale-Princeton hold an annual meet, don't they?

As well as Ohio State-Michigan indoor?

Pretty much any classic football rivalry would be neat to draw interest to track/xc.

Georgia Florida

Florida FSU

I would like to see those two

Indoor schedule is pretty much complete, outdoor is still just "highlights"

Battle of the Bull City - Duke vs NC Central XC