The Indiana State men and Wichita State women came away with the team championship at the 2012 State Farm MVC Outdoor Track & Field Championship. The Sycamore men won by 12.5 points, edging out Wichita State, while the Shocker women beat out Illinois State by over 40 points.

The Wichita State men and women have been selected as pre-championship favorites for this weekend’s 2012 State Farm Missouri Valley Conference Outdoor Track & Field Championship in Wichita, Kan., May 11-13, in a vote by the league coaches.

Greggmar Swift of Indiana State has been named this week’s Men’s Track Athlete of the Week while Illinois State’s Sade Sealy receives this week’s Women’s Track Athlete of the Week recognition. Northern Iowa’s Jordan Williams and teammate Traci Harms are named this week’s Valley Field Athletes of the Week, respectively.