Montana State University Women's Track & Field

Lyle Weese – a former Bobcat standout that garnered four All-America honors, three Big Sky Conference individual championships and was named the Big Sky Male Outstanding Track Athlete of the Year as a senior – was appointed as Montana State's Director of Track and Field and Cross Country on August 16, 2018. The 2024-25 season will be his seventh as the director of the track and field program as well as his 11th heading the distance group at Montana State. Weese’s tenure as the head of the program has brought the consistent success his predecessor – legendary coach Dale Kennedy whose named is formally connected to MSU’s head coaching position through a million-dollar endowment – created while also helping spur Bobcats to annual achievements at the national level. Weese was named the 2024 Big Sky Outdoor Men's Track & Field Coach of the Year and the 2024 USTFCCCA Mountain Region Men's Coach of the Year after leading the Cats to their first outdoor Big Sky title since 2005 and their second-ever in the 60-year history of the league. On the back of the most memorable race in program history, the MSU 4x400 relay team closed out the 2024 Big Sky Outdoor Track & Field Championships at Bobcat Track & Field Complex in Bozeman with a win in school-record time, giving Montana State a 186-185 victory in the team totals over No. 11 Northern Arizona, who had won nine of the previous 11 championships. Since Weese took over the reins in track and field, MSU men’s teams have accomplished top t

Jen Allen, a 2004 Montana State graduate, begins her eighth season as the Bobcats’ full-time throws coaching during the 2024-25 season and will serve her ninth season overall coaching within the program. Allen, who owns two school records that stand to this day and is a member of the Montana State Athletics Hall of Fame (2018), has had at least one individual earn an all-Big Sky accolade in every indoor and outdoor season but one, and Bobcat throwers have collected 28 top-10 marks in program history between the men and women under her guidance, with three school records (men's javelin, women's javelin, women's outdoor shot put). In 2023-24, Allen developed freshman Sydney Brewster to a school record in the women's shot put (outdoors) and coached sophomore Pat Vialva to a school record in the men's javelin. Freshman Clara Fox secured silver in the women's javelin at the 2024 Big Sky Conference Outdoor Championships, with Tristen Sedgwick earning bronze in the discus. On the men's side, Elijah Jackman earned silver in the shot put, while Matt Furdyk claimed bronze in the hammer throw as the Bobcats secured a one-point victory over No. 11 Northern Arizona, 186-185, to win their first conference championship since 2005. Qualifying for the NCAA West First Rounds in three separate events (shot put, discus, hammer throw) Jackman was one of only three men at the NCAA Division I level to triple at the NCAA Regional Rounds. Additionally, Clara Fox (javelin), Sydney Brewster (shot put),