The men’s track and field team is back in Arizona for the second consecutive weekend, but this time for the Jim Click Multi-Event Shootout in Tucson, Ariz. The multi-event competitors were the only athletes that made the trip while the rest of the team stayed back in Ames to train.

The Cyclones sent three athletes on the men’s side to compete at the Jim Click: senior Jamal Currica, junior Troy Walls and redshirt freshman Matt Harmeyer. Assistant coach Travis Hartke said this is usually the meet the Cyclones use to start of the multi-event season.

“We do this every year,” Hartke said. “It’s just a multi-event competition. The entire meet is for invited teams only, we aren’t one of those teams, but they have a multi-event competition before [the other events] that is basically open.”

Throws coach Grant Wall said that, after adjusting to the training schedules of the multi-events, he expects to see big things from Currica and Walls.

“Jamal and Troy are very similar,” Wall said. “They are very speed oriented and good high jumpers and long jumpers. Jamal is capable of being an All-American and can pretty much do all of the events. Troy has done a couple [multi-event meets] but he has had to relearn a couple things this year and has gotten a lot more fit. He could be a 7,000 plus [point guy] for us.”

Wall said Harmeyer, a walk-on, has been training now for a year and a half after redshirting his entire initial college season and has been making strides in his training.

“He hadn’t thought about doing the multi-event before,” Wall said of Harmeyer. “He’s just been working his butt off, so the first one is going to be interesting for him. It’s a learning curve, and he did a couple events last weekend and did a heptathlon indoor. Down the road I think he’s going to be pretty good, and he’s going to have fun this weekend.”

The decathlon at the Jim Click Multi-Event Shootout starts at 1:30 p.m. on Thursday with the 100-meter dash. Other events on day one will be long jump, shot put, high jump and 400-meter dash. Competition will resume for the decathlon at 12:00 p.m. Friday with the 110-meter hurdles and conclude with the discus, pole vault, javelin and 1,500-meter run.