College Station, Texas, will host the 2004 USA Junior Outdoor
Track & Field Championships June 25-27, USA Track & Field
(USATF) announced Friday. The USA Junior Championships serves
as the Team USA selection event for the 2004 IAAF World Junior
Track & Field Championships July 13-18 in Grosetto, Italy.The championships will take place at the Frank G. Anderson
Track & Field Complex on the campus of Texas A&M University,
which played host to the 1990 and 1992 Southwest Conference
Outdoor Championships. The facility hosted the 2001 Big 12
Outdoor Championships, and will host the 2004 NCAA Midwest
Regional May 28-29. It is also the site of the annual College
Station Relays in mid-March and the Texas A&M Invitational in
April, events which usually attract some of the top names in
collegiate track and field.
Originally scheduled to be held in Buffalo, N.Y., USATF moved
the championships upon learning that the local organizing
committee could not move forward with the event as originally
planned.
Updated event information on the meet will be posted on the
USATF Web site early next week. In the interim, athlete hotel
information for the 2004 USA Junior Outdoor Track & Field
Championships is listed below. All properties are located
within one block of each other and have free continental
breakfast, free local phone calls, dial-up internet access and
all non-smoking rooms. These hotels will be the only housing
properties on the event transportational shuttle to and from
the track. Rates listed are under the room block "USA Track &
Field":
University Tower: 1-800-888-6937; $65 + tax; 410 South Texas
Ave.
La Quinta: 979-696-7777 (reserve directly with hotel or through
central reservations); $70 + tax; 607 South Texas Ave.
Hampton Inn: 979-846-0184; $70 + tax; 320 South Texas Ave.
Super 8 Motel: 979-846-8800; $52 + tax; 301 South Texas Ave.
Qualifying standards for the 2004 USA Junior Outdoor Track &
Field Championships may be found at http://www.usatf.org/events/2004/USAJuniorOutdoo
rTFChampionships/entry/qualifyingStandards.asp.