UTEP's indoor track regular season is a sprint, and it ends this Friday and Saturday with Miners in two different spots looking to make a final statement before the Conference USA championships in Birmingham, Ala., in two weeks.
While most of the team heads to the Don Kirby Invitational in Albuquerque to face off against a field that includes three ranked teams, four top distance runners will head to the Husky Invitational in Seattle.
"Most people are in pretty good shape. For most people the big thing is just to stay healthy," coach Mika Laaksonen said. "We have a few individuals, most on the men's side but some women, too, who are not performing as well as they could.