The Harry Hoak Track at Lied Recreation Athletic Center has become like a second home to this year’s men’s and women’s track and field teams. Despite already having all their daily practices housed there, the Cyclones have made the trip down Beach Avenue seven times already this season, for each of their first seven meets. The familiarity with the facilities helped the Cyclones last weekend, as the women finished sixth and men finished seventh at last weekend’s Big 12 Indoor Track and Field Championships.

Saturday the team will host its final meet of the season as athletes from all three NCAA divisions will be competing for one last chance at a berth in the NCAA Indoor Championship field. The only automatic qualifier for the Cyclones this season is senior Lisa Koll, who qualified in both the 3,000- and 5,000-meter runs, and the only provisional qualifier to date is senior Jenna Caffrey, in the 60-meter hurdles. Although there are only a few select athletes who are nearing provisional marks, a majority of the ISU roster will be in action Saturday.

One of those athletes nearing a provisional mark is junior thrower Josh Koglin. Koglin, a fifth-place finisher at the Big 12 Indoor Championships, will need to improve his season-best throw of 61-01.25 more than two feet to reach 63-11.00. Koglin has seen the ball travel that far in practice, and even his last throw at the Big 12 meet — a foul by two feet — hit the 63-feet mark.

“[A qualifying throw] is there, my body feels good enough to do it,” Koglin said. “If I can throw 63 feet falling down, another foot shouldn’t be too much if I can get a good finish.”

There will be a group of ISU runners that will not be in town for Saturday’s meet. Senior Erin Penticoff, and the men’s distance medley relay team of freshman Brian Sandvig, junior Michael Alexander, senior Brandon Rooney and junior Hillary Bor, will head to Notre Dame University in South Bend, Ind., for the NCAA Qualifier held there. Coach Corey Ihmels made the decision to send the group to South Bend because many of the nation’s best competition in both the 800 meters and distance medley relay will be on the track.

A fourth-place finisher in the 800-meter run at the Big 12 Championships, Penticoff will need to improve on her time of 2:08.97 from last weekend by nearly 19 seconds as she will try to hit the provisional qualifying time of 1:50.50.

For the men’s relay, Bor is the only returning runner from last weekend’s relay squad, which finished second in a time of 9:42.99. Sandvig will run the 400-meter leg, Alexander the 800-meter leg, followed by Rooney at 1,200 meters and anchoring will be Bor, the Big 12 indoor champion, at 1,600 meters. Assistant coach Travis Hartke said many of the best distance medley relay teams in the country will be in South Bend this weekend, which is why the team will make the trip.

“Notre Dame is basically the place to be this weekend for [distance medley relay] teams,” Hartke said.

Although the provisional qualifying time is 9:41.70, Hartke believes that only distance medley relay teams that reach the automatic qualifying standard of 9:30.00 will be competing at the NCAA Indoor Championships in Fayetteville, Ark., next weekend.

Penticoff and the distance medley relay team will compete Friday in South Bend while the competition at Lied Recreation Athletic Center will get underway at 10 a.m. on Saturday with the women’s weight throw.