Action of the 2017 Conference-USA men’s and women’s outdoor track championships got underway Thursday afternoon at Kidd Field. This year marks the fourth year UTEP has hosted the outdoor championships since joining Conference-USA in 2006.
The UTEP women are looking to win their first ever outdoor conference title in program history and the men will be aiming at their first outdoor conference title since they won it in 2013.
Just two events kicked off the first day with the first parts of both the Heptathlon (women) and Decathlon (men).
For the women, the heptathlon is a seven-part event, with the first day contains the 100-meter hurdles, high jump, shot put, and the 200m dash.
Recapping day one of the 2017 C-USA track championships
