Tide Men's Track Ranked No. 7 in Preseason Poll
1/14/2003 12:00:00 AM
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The 2003 Trackwire.com Preseason Top 25 was released and the University of Alabama men’s track and field team checks in at No. 7.
“I’m ecstatic about the ranking,” said Alabama Head Coach Harvey Glance. “I feel like the last four years we have consistently stayed in the Top 10 and that’s the way we want to keep it. Ideally we want to get back into the top four because those are the teams that are winning the trophies at nationals, but we’ll take seventh and try to move back up the ladder.”
The Crimson Tide finished the 2002 indoor season ranked No. 2 in the country, the highest finish ever in the program’s history.
The 2003 preseason Top 25 resembles a who’s who among SEC track programs as eight of the Top 10 teams hail from the conference and 10 of the 11 schools in the SEC that sponsor track are represented in the Top 25.
Alabama opens the 2003 season on Saturday, at the SEC 6-Way meet in Fayetteville, Arkansas.
