Purdue track & field heads to Michigan for championships

The Purdue track & field team begins the championship portion of its outdoor schedule at the 2024 Big Ten Outdoor Track & Field Championships in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Friday through Sunday.

The weekend gets underway on Friday at noon, with the decathlon and heptathlon. Field events begin at 1:30 p.m., and Purdue’s first running event is at 6:30 p.m., according to a news release. The opening day will conclude about 9 p.m.

On Saturday, the decathlon continues at 9:30 a.m., with the heptathlon resuming 45 minutes later. The Boilermakers’ field events start at 2:15 p.m. and the opening running event is at 4 p.m. The day will finish about 7 p.m.

The meet wraps up on Sunday with field events at 11 a.m. and running events at 12:45 p.m. The championships will finish about 4 p.m.

Fans unable to cheer on the Boilermakers in person can follow along with live results, and watch all of the action live on B1G+ (Friday Track | Friday Field | Saturday Track | Saturday Field | Sunday Track | Sunday Field), with a B1G+ subscription required.

Additional championships information, including tickets and the complete schedule, is available at BigTen.org and MGoBlue.com.

Forty-three Boilermakers, 28 men and 15 women, have made the trip to Michigan for the three-day competition.

Now-junior Praise Aniamaka will look to defend his triple jump title from a year ago. Sophomore Bryanna Craig also returns after taking silver in the heptathlon as a freshman in 2023, and two members of Purdue’s men’s 4x100 relay team are back in 2024 after claiming a bronze medal outdoors last season. Aniamaka, Craig and graduate student Cameron Miller will look to add to their medal total in 2024, after Aniamaka (triple jump) and Craig (pentathlon) won silver medals and Miller (200-meter) took bronze indoors in February.