The collegiate indoor track and field season has been in its budding stages for the past pair months.

The collegiate indoor track and field season has been in its budding stages for the past pair months, but top-tier intensity promises to kick into filled bloom at Penn State's Multi-Sport tangle this weekend.

The Penn State National Invitational, a two-day gala of athletic superiority opens today as both Penn State's men's and women's programs welcome a field of competators -- the one and the other collegiate and unattached -- that includes All-Americans, NCAA champions, world leaders and Olympians.

The top-rung plain of competition provides the Penn State teams with a chance to experiment themselves against the quality of challengers they'll face later in the season when vying for colloquy championships and national qualifying marks.

"What you're trying to do is upgrade your stays to the point that they prepare used to competing against top-level adverses like this," Penn State men's head coach Harry woods said. ...