The ISU track and field teams will send athletes to multiple events this week, beginning with the Cal Multis on March 27-28, 2013, in Berkeley, Calif.

The Cyclones started the outdoor season March 22-23 during the ASU Invitational with a small group of sprinters and will send another small group of multi-event athletes to compete at the Cal Multis.

The Cyclones will face competition from BYU, California, USC and many other schools while also providing an opportunity to improve.

“Taylor Sanderson brought up how Nick Efkamp was a guy just like him and now he is a Big 12 champion and if you have that mentality amongst the team, the sky is the limit,” said ISU coach Corey Ihmels. “For every Nick Efkamp that becomes a Big 12 champion, you have a Taylor Sanderson that wants to get there.”

Sanderson will get the opportunity to improve and get one step closer to his goal while competing in the decathlon along with teammates Matt Harmeyer and Ethan Wilkins.

“I prefer outdoors a lot more than indoors; the events that are added outdoors for the decathlon [400-meter dash, javelin and discuss] are some of my stronger events,” Sanderson said. “I also like competing outdoors a lot more than being stuck indoors.”

On the women’s side, multiple athletes, including Jordon Andreassen, Anna Holterman, Kelly McCoy, Kaci Storm, Hannah Willms and Bree Woelber, will be competing in the heptathlon.

“We’ve been practicing at the Lied Recreation Center every day, so it should be similar to the weather in Berkeley,” Sanderson said on whether the weather could play as a disadvantage for the team.

However, if it does play as a factor for others on the team competing, the meet will provide an opportunity to get adapted to the warm weather that they will face throughout the outdoor season.

The Cal Multis will begin with the men’s decathlon at 11:25 a.m. Wednesday.

Other meets the teams will be sending athletes to on March 29-30 are the Texas Relays in Austin, Texas, and the Stanford Invitational in Palo Alto, Calif.