The football team will take on Indiana in the annual Homecoming game, but multiple other teams are in action as well. Here is a glimpse at other MSU squads competing this weekend:
Weekend events on course, court and pool for MSU
Select members of the women’s tennis team will travel to Ann Arbor to partake in the ITA Midwest Regional Championship from Thursday to next Tuesday.
MSU’s first competition was the Auto-Owners Insurance Spartan Invitational two weekends ago.
In singles bracket A, freshman Erin Faulkner made it all the way to the championship round before losing Wisconsin’s Lauren Chypyha in straight sets.
Sophomore Emily Meyers and senior Olga Chernova also placed with Meyers taking seventh place and Chernova taking fourth place.
With Homecoming weekend festivities this weekend, the swimming and diving team will honor past Spartans with its 58th-annual Alumni Meet.
The meet, which is second-longest Homecoming tradition behind the annual football game, will take place at 9:30 a.m. Saturday morning at McCaffree Pool inside IM Sports-West prior to the kickoff of the football game against Indiana.
Former Spartan swimmers will go up against current MSU swimmers in the pool.?
The women’s golf team will travel down to Chapel Hill, N.C., to compete in the Tar Heel Invitational from Friday through Sunday.
After winning their first tournament of the season in mid-September, the Spartans finished ninth in the Mason Rudolph Championship in Franklin, Tenn., on Sept. 22.
Senior Liz Nagel has been the top-Spartan golfer early in the season. She picked up her first career win at the Mary Fossum Invitational in mid-September, just days after losing her grandfather.
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The cross country team will run in the Michigan Intercollegiate at Hillsdale College on Saturday.
The men finished sixth at the Roy Griak Invitational on Sept. 28 in Minneapolis, Minn. The women placed second with redshirt freshman Rachele Schulist finishing first for the Spartans with a time of 21:07 in the women’s 6,000-meter race.
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