The wait was worth it. Nearly 15 years after Marshall last played host to a track and field meet, the Thundering Herd took to its new Jeff Small Track on Thursday night and opened the 2014-15 indoor season with its best feet forward.

Before Tulane's track and field student-athletes break for the winter holidays, they have to kick-start their season, as the Green Wave will travel to Birmingham, Alabama, for the BSC Panther Icebreaker at the Birmingham CrossPlex on Friday.

The UAB track and field team opens its season on Friday at the Birmingham-Southern Panther Icebreaker at the Birmingham CrossPlex.

Marshall University makes its 2014-15 women's indoor track and field debut Thursday night with the Ohio Dual, facing the neighboring Bobcats in the first meet on the Jeff Small Track in the Chris Cline Athletic Complex.

Rice University head men's track and field coach Jon Warren has announced the signing of high school thrower Dane Stolsig to a National Letter of Intent.

The track team has completed their third annual winter garment drive. Headed by SAAC president Kedron Sowells, the team donated over 300 winter garments to the homeless.

East Carolina track and field head coach Curt Kraft and his staff announced the signing of 11 student-athletes in the early signing period Monday. Eight women and three men will compete and attend East Carolina University for the 2015-16 school year.

Four runners have signed National Letters of Intent for the North Texas Track and Field Progra m.

Six new faces will join the Tulane track and field program for the start of the 2015-16, as Tulane track and field's director, Eric Peterson, has announced his signing class on Thursday.

Longtime Louisiana Tech track and field head coach Gary Stanley announced the program's 2014 schedule Tuesday with five meets on the indoor slate and six outdoor meets scheduled in regular season action.