HAMMOND – Conference records and championships are on the line as the Southeastern Louisiana track and field program competes in the Southland Conference Indoor Championships Friday and Saturday in Norman, Okla.

The competition will be held on a flat track at the Mosier Indoor Facility on the University of Oklahoma campus. Events begin at 8:30 a.m. with heptathlon and pentathlon event finals. Live statistics, courtesy the Southland Conference, are available at www.LionSports.net.

“This is our most important meet to this point,” head coach Sean Brady said. “It's truly a championship meet. If you perform well you can move up the list and move on to NCAA competition.”

Individual athletes competing for a conference award moves one step further at the Southland championships.

“This meet is less about marks than it is about competition,” Brady said. “It is a scored meet and we have very few of those over the course of the season.”

Leading the way for the men in the running events will be Shannon Grover, a senior from New Orleans, La., and T.J. Herbert, a sophomore from Port Allen, La. Grover has the best indoor 200-meter dash time this season in the Southland Conference with an adjusted time of 21.68 seconds.

“Men's pole vault should also be interesting with All-American Kovey Simmons returning,” Brady said.

Simmons will be trying to topple the season best mark of 18-feet, 1.00 inch set by Texas State's Logan Cunningham.

The Lady Lions also stand a good chance of bringing home some hardware in the pole vault. Brittany Pfantz set the Southeastern indoor record earlier this season with a mark of 12-7 ¼.

“Brittany Pfantz has a chance to be a conference champion as well as Michell Ogashi,” Brady said.

The NCAA Qualifier, March 3 at LSU, and the NCAA Championships, March 9-10 in Nampa, Idaho, wrap up the indoor season.