Six Oregon State football players will represent the school in an indoor track meet Friday and Saturday in Seattle, cross country and track coach Kelly Sullivan told me Tuesday afternoon.

Jordan Bishop and Obum Gwacham will do the high jump. James Rodgers, Markus Wheaton, Keynan Parker and Rashaad Reynolds will run the 60 meters.

Bishop pushed for this since he signed two years ago. Part of his recruiting was he could do track and football. The Beavers haven’t had men’s track team since 1988.

“It evolved this last year,” Sullivan said. “It came because Jordan and Keynan missed doing track. Then others started asking about it. I give Jordan and Keynan a lot of credit for doing it, and (athletic director) Bob De Carolis for his idea of having as many opportunities as possible for student-athletes.”

This is not officially a team. They are individuals representing OSU at various events. Sullivan has taken the football players under his wing as side project to the women’s team he normally trains.

A track facility needs to be built first before a men’s team can be assembled, and OSU is fundraising. Rumbling around the program say something could happen very soon on that.

For more on this situation, there will be a full story in Thursday’s GT. Here’s a link to the full story.

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