Last season Trinity University, also the meet's host, arrived hot and both their men's and women's teams captured titles. Both DePauw teams finished third. While Trinity is the favorite again this year, the Texas school's teams are both topheavy. While they have more athletes who can win events than does DePauw, Stoffregen said he believes DePauws depth will counteract that. They have don't have anywhere near the depth that we have in the middle distance and distance events.
Trinity has almost no one in distance events.
But I think their sprints are going to be better than ours. If DePauw does get tripped up this weekend, the likely foil won't be Trinity, it'll be Rhodes College. Like DePauw, Rhodes' strength lies in its distance runners. If a bulk of the Lynxs' middle distance and distance runners edge DePauw's, that should clear a path for Trinity to repeat as champs. While neither the men's nor the women's team have much experience, the men have two seniors who consistently score points and the women have one.