You'll need a Greater Los Angeles map to watch Mt. SAC, Bryan Clay & Long Beach meets...

If you follow any of Washington’s nine NCAA Division I and II schools, there’s a better than even chance that you’ll need for the dreaded greater Los Angeles traffic to cooperate, or have enough knowledge of the side roads to get you between meets.

With four weeks to go before the various conference championship meets, all nine schools make the trek to the greater Los Angeles area for various meets, starting Wednesday.

Central Washington, Washington State, Western Washington, Washington and Seattle Pacific all have athletes competing Wednesday and Thursday at Azusa Pacific University in the BRYAN CLAY INVITATIONAL decathlon and heptathlon.

The main portion of the Bryan Clay Invitational happens Friday, with athletes from Seattle University and Saint Martin’s joining the schools previously named.  The 10000 will be run Wednesday night, while the steeplechase and the 5000s will be run Thursday night.

Media partner Flotrack ($) will stream all three days of the meet.

Washington State and Eastern Washington will have athletes in Long Beach for the PACIFIC COAST INVITATIONAL on Thursday at the Jack Rose Track complex on the Long Beach State University campus.

Friday and Saturday, they’ll be joined by athletes from Washington, Western Washington, Central Washington and Seattle Pacific at the BEACH INVITATIONAL, also at Long Beach State.

A few individuals from Western Washington, Seattle University and Washington State will run Thursday-Saturday at the MT. SAC RELAYS, which are contested for one more year on the campus track at El Camino College in Torrance, while Hilmer Lodge Stadium, where the track complex at Mt. SAC is housed, is refurbished.

And, if you really are hard core and want to hop on a commuter plane, you can fly between one of the Los Angeles area airports and either San Francisco or San Jose and catch the CARDINAL CLASSIC on Friday and Saturday, where the distance runners from Gonzaga and Washington will run.

Several notable professionals with ties to the state of Washington will compete in one or more of those meets.

Among those are:

Gianna Woodruff 400h (Mt. SAC)
Angela Whyte 100h (Mt. SAC); heptathlon (Bryan Clay)
CJ Allen 400h (Mt. SAC)
Jordin Andrade 400h (Mt. SAC)
Christie Moerman 100h (Beach Invite)
Tim Duckworth decathlon (Bryan Clay)
Alissa Brooks-Johnson heptathlon (Bryan Clay)
Willie Milam 10000 (Bryan Clay)
Alexa Efraimson 1500 (Bryan Clay)

Here are results links to the various meets in the state of California (name of timing company listed in parentheses):

Bryan Clay (Finished Results)

Cardinal Classic and Mt. SAC Relays (Record Timing)

Pacific Coast Invitational and Beach Invitational (Royal Results).

Please don’t forget to check the track and field web sites of the various schools to see specifically which event groups from your favorite school are going where, as schools are running split squads.

NOTE:  The sports information offices of Azusa Pacific, Long Beach State, Mt. San Antonio College, and Stanford University along with Finished Results, Record Timing, and Royal Results timing companies contributed to this report.