BYU
- Women's gymnastics - BYU's 13th-ranked women's gymnastics team will have its final two home appearances this weekend when it hosts 15th-ranked Utah State on Friday and top-ranked Utah on Saturday.
Both meets will be in the Marriott Center with Friday's meet beginning at 7 p.m and Saturday's at 8 p.m. The late start Saturday is to accommodate KSL-TV Channel 5's live broadcast of the Utah meet. This is the second meet that KSL has broadcast this year, the first was in mid-January against Georgia. KSL Anchor Brad Steinke will do the play-by-play with former Utah All-American Missy Marlowe providing the color.
The Cougars have met both Utah State and Utah twice before this season. In a quad-meet involving both teams, the Cougars scored 187.95 to the Aggies' 188.45 and the Utes' 196.95. In other meetings, BYU beat USU 191.20-191.15 in Logan and lost to Utah 195.55-103.80 when the Cougars competed only three gymnasts.
- Track and field - Veteran BYU trainer Ollie Julkunen has been named head trainer for the United States Track and Field Team at the World Indoor Championships in Toronto this weekend.
He was an assistant for the U.S. squad at the 1990 Indoor Championships in Bulgaria and also has served as a trainer at two World Outdoor Championships and two Junior World Championships.
Last summer, he was the head trainer for Namibia at the Olympic Games in Barcelona, where BYU runner Frank Fredericks won two silver medals.
Julkunen came to BYU from Finland in 1968 and was a student trainer and graduate assistant before becoming a fulltime assistant in 1975.
- Women's golf - BYU's top pair of golfers helped the Cougars to their best 18-hole round on the final day of the Jones Sport Dixie-Classic Tuesday, but it wasn't enough to move the squad out of third place in the 15-team field.
The Cougars tallied 325-311-305 - 941 for 54 holes to trail tournament champion Texas A&M with 927 strokes and runner-up Oregon with 934.
Playing at No. 1 for BYU, Lisa Christie came in with a 2-over-par 74 for the best single round for a Cougar player in the tournament.
- Men's golf - BYU junior Eric Rustand fired a 72 Tuesday afternoon at Emerald Valley Resort to win the Duck Invitational Golf Tournament by six strokes.
Host Oregon shot 292 on the final day to jump past the Cougars and claim the team trophy by two strokes at 893. BYU finished the first 36 holes one stroke behind San Jose State and three ahead of Oregon in the 16-team field.
Weber State
- Track and field - Weber State University will send five track athletes to compete at the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championship in Indianapolis. The national meet will be held at the Hoosier Dome on Friday and Saturday.
Weber State's women's 4x800 relay team has qualified for the national meet with the nation's sixth best time of 8:48.10. The relay team of Cathy Jolley, Taunya Olsen, Cheryl Hannay and Shawna Cox qualified earlier at the Mountain States Games in Pocatello with a provisional time of 8:53.34 and improved their time a week ago to 8:48.10 at the Intermountain Championship, again in Pocatello. The team recently won the 4x800 relay at the Big Sky Indoor Championship at Flagstaff.