USATF Outdoor Championships return to Drake in 2018

INDIANAPOLIS - The USATF Outdoor Championships are returning to Des Moines June 21-24, 2018. The best track and field athletes in the country will compete this summer at Drake University's Drake Stadium in what will be the final stop of the 2018 USATF Championship Series. The meet will be broadcast on the NBC family of networks and webcast on NBC Sports Gold.

Drake Stadium has previously hosted the USATF Outdoor Championships twice, in 2010 and 2013, with two American records falling at each championship. In 2013, 2016 Olympic gold medalist Brianna Rollins provided a glimpse of what was to come by setting the American Record in the women's 100m hurdles (12.26), and Amanda Bingson broke the AR in the women's hammer throw (75.73m/248-5.25). In 2010, 2008 Olympic bronze medalist Chaunte Lowe broke the high jump AR (2.05 m/6'8.75) and Kara Winger set the AR in the women's javelin (66.67m/218-8.75).

Drake has hosted the NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships in 1970 (men only), 2008, 2011, and 2012, and annually hosts the Drake Relays, which in 2018 will celebrate its 109th year.

More information will be available in coming weeks at www.usatf.org, including ticket prices, broadcast details, and competition schedules.

About USATF

USA Track & Field (USATF) is the National Governing Body for track and field, long-distance running and race walking in the United States. USATF encompasses the world's oldest organized sports, some of the most-watched events of Olympic broadcasts, the country's No. 1 high school and junior high school participatory sport and more than 30 million adult runners in the United States. For more information on USATF, visit www.usatf.org.