VERMILLION, S.D.—A quartet of home meets including the 2020 Summit League Championships' return to Vermillion, a National Pole Vault Summit, a trio of prestigious relay meets and the 2020 Olympic Trials highlight the 2019-20 South Dakota track and field schedule.
 
South Dakota will host the Summit League Outdoor Track and Field Championships at the Lillibridge Track Complex from May 14-16. It will be the Coyotes' second time hosting the meet overall and first since 2016.
 
Additional outdoor home meets include the South Dakota Challenge (April 3-4) and the USD Twilight (April 21) at Lillibridge. South Dakota's lone home meet of the indoor season, the Dakota Realty Alumni Meet, is scheduled for Feb. 8 on the Mildred J. Hillenbrand Memorial Track inside the DakotaDome.
 
The Coyotes spice up 2020's indoor season with the National Pole Vault Summit (Jan. 17-18) in Reno, Nevada. South Dakota boasted the nation's No. 1 men's and No. 2 women's pole vault squads in the nation in 2019 according to the USTFCCCA event squad rankings. This marks the program's first return to the Summit since 2014.
 
South Dakota also makes trips to the Big 12's Iowa State for the Iowa State Classic (Feb. 14-15) in Ames and the Big Ten's Nebraska twice for the Adidas Classic (Feb. 1) and the Nebraska Tune-Up (21) in Lincoln.
 
The Summit League Indoor Track and Field Championships will be hosted by Purdue Fort Wayne for the final time on Feb. 28-29 in Fort Wayne, Indiana. The top-16 athletes nationally in each event at the conclusion of the conference meet weekend will qualify for the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships, to be held March 13-14 in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
 
The outdoor season brings with it a slate of large relay meets with the red and white in action. South Dakota will compete at the Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays (March 25-28), the Mt. SAC Relays (April 16-18) and the Drake Relays (April 23-25).
 
Local annual relay meets include the Howard Wood Dakota Relays (May 1-2) in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and the Sioux City Relays (April 17-18) in Sioux City, Iowa.
 
South Dakota also makes its debut at the K.T. Woodman Classic held in Wichita, Kansas, on April 10-11.
 
Following the Summit meet in Vermillion, individuals ranked in the top-48 of the west region will advance to the NCAA West Preliminary held in Lawrence, Kansas, May 28-30. The top-12 finishes per event advance to the NCAA Championships held June 10-13 in Austin, Texas.
 
The final meet on South Dakota's 2020 schedule is the U.S. Olympic Trials, scheduled for June 19-28 in Eugene, Oregon. Select Coyotes will take the stage with the nation's best and attempt to make Team USA for the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo.