HIGH POINT, N.C. – High Point University men's and women's track and field head coach Mike Esposito has announced the indoor and outdoor schedules for the 2023-24 campaign. The Panthers will start their season in December with 13 indoor door meets ahead of the NCAA Championships, before moving to 17 outdoor meets starting in mid-March before the NCAA Championships in late May.
 
"As our track and field program continues to grow, we are always exploring local, regional, and national opportunities for our student athletes. Indoors, we are able to travel to high level meets at Virginia Tech, Liberty, and Clemson," coach Esposito stated. "In addition, we are traveling a full team to Vanderbilt for the first time ever. Some of our higher-level athletes will also travel to Boston which is the site of the NCAA Championships. Outdoors, our schedule sets up well, as we open at home with a scored meet as well as hosting Vertklasse two weeks later. We will travel a select group to the Bryan Clay meet in California, along with competing in many competitive regional meets. Our location is ideal in that we don't have to travel very far to compete against Power 5 opponents on a weekly basis."
 
HPU opens the indoor season in just a few weeks at the Liberty Kick-Off on November 30 in Lynchburg, Virginia and at the Sharon Colyear-Danville Season Opener in Boston, Massachusetts.
 
The Panthers start the New Year with back-to-back weekends in Virginia for the Virginia Tech Invite on January 12-13 and the Hokie Invitational on January 19-20. High Point will also compete at the Dick Taylor Invitational, hosted at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on January 20.
 
The Panthers will split and compete at three different places during the last weekend of January 26-27, hitting the road for meets at the Riverhawk Invitational (Boston, Mass.), the Bob Pollock Invitational (Clemson, S.C.) and the Camel City Invite hosted right down the road in Winston-Salem.
 
In the final three regular season meets, High Point travels to Blacksburg, Virginia for the Doc Hale Invite on February 2-3, and the Virginia Tech Challenge on February 16-17. Mixed in between the trips to Virginia, HPU will compete at the Music City Invitational in Nashville, Tennessee on February 9-10.
 
The Panthers will cap off the indoor season with the Big South Indoor Championships at the end of February in Blacksburg, Virginia on the 23rd and 24th. Athletes that qualify for the NCAA Indoor Championships will compete in Brighton, Mass. on March 8-9.
 
The outdoor season begins March 15 through the 16 at the 49er Classic in Charlotte, N.C. before hosting HPU's first home meet of the year. On March 22-23, HPU will host the Bod Davidson Team Challenge presented by Norris Woody and the Bill Webb Combined Events. The Panthers will welcome Campbell, ECU, Furman, George Mason, Liberty and NC A&T to compete at Vert Stadium.
 
During the weekend of March 27-30, qualified athletes will have the opportunity to travel to Austin, Texas for the Texas Relays and to Raleigh, N.C. for the Raleigh Relays.
 
HPU will host the teams second home meet of the season, the annual Vertklasse Meeting on April 5-6 in Vert Stadium.
 
For the final three weekends of April, the Panthers will be traveling to various places. April 11-13, HPU will be spread across four meets, the Pacific Coast Intercollegiate (Long Beach, Calif.), the Duke Invitational (Durham, N.C.), the Bryan Clay Invitational (Azusa, Calif.) and the Beach Invitational (Long Beach, Calif.). High Point will compete at the Wake Forest Invitational on April 19 in Winston-Salem before rounding out the month of April with two meets, the Charlotte Invitational and the Virginia High Performance on April 26-28.
 
The final meet before the Big South Outdoor Championship will be at the Liberty Twilight in Lynchburg, Va. on May 1.
 
High Point was selected to host the 2024 Big South Outdoor Championships at Vert Stadium during the week of May 6-8. Following the Championship, High Point will host the Dani Palooza Last Chance meet on May 12 ahead of the throwers only Tuscon Elite meet in Arizona and the first round of the NCAA Championships.
 
The first round of the NCAA Championships is hosted in Lexington, Kentucky on May 22-25. The 2024 NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships return to Eugene, Oregon during the week of June 5-8 at the University of Oregon.