In Saturday's scored meet, with finals starting at 2 p.m., the Aggies will face Abilene Christian, Baylor, Louisiana Tech, Stephen F. Austin, TCU, Texas-Arlington, Texas-San Antonio, and Texas State. Field events begin at noon with track prelims starting at 12:30 p.m.
Friday's scored meet, which begins at noon, includes Houston Baptist, Lamar, Louisiana-Lafayette, Louisiana-Monroe, McNeese State, North Texas, Northwestern State, Prairie View A&M, Sam Houston State, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, Texas A&M-Kingsville, Texas-Pan American, Texas Southern.
Teams from both meets will compete in a pair of events on Friday, the distance medley relay (4:30 p.m.) and 5,000 meters (5:40 p.m.). The Aggie men will have three squads racing in the men's distance medley relay anchored by Hector Hernandez, Cameron Villarreal and Isaac Spencer.
Both meets will be available via a webcast on the SEC Network plus. The links for each day are: Friday - http://es.pn/1IscLXD; Saturday - http://es.pn/1tKZ9Qy.
Texas A&M enters the meet with both squads nationally ranked among the top four teams in the preseason computer rankings from USTFCCCA. The Aggie women are No. 2 in the nation while the A&M men are No. 4.
The Aggies also feature four athletes who are on the Bowerman watch list for the 2015 season. Deon Lendore, the 2014 winner of the Bowerman, is on the men's list while A&M has three athletes on the women's list with Olivia Ekponé, Shamier Little and Shelbi Vaughan.
Ekponé, the 2014 SEC Runner of the Year and NCAA Outdoor 200m bronze medalist, will race in the first heat of the 200 meters along with teammate Ashton Purvis, who placed fourth in the 2014 NCAA Indoor 200m. They rank fifth and sixth among returning collegians with indoor best times of 23.10 and 23.18 set last season.
Little, the 2014 SEC Freshman of the Year as well as NCAA and world junior champion in the 400 hurdles, is scheduled to be on the Aggie 4x400 relay with NCAA Outdoor 200m champion Kamaria Brown and a pair of freshmen in Briyahna Desrosiers and Ebony Crear. Little, who placed third in the NCAA Indoor 400m, enters the season with the fifth best mark in the event from a 51.86 run indoors last year.
Vaughan, the 2014 NCAA discus champion, ventures into a new throwing event this weekend as she contests the weight throw. Also throwing the weight for the Aggies are Alison Ondrusek and Carissa van Beek. Brea Garrett, the 2014 NCAA weight throw champion, is entered in the shot put.
Men's sprint events have Aggie newcomer Devin Jenkins in the 60 meters along with Baylor's Trayvon Bromell, the world junior record holder and NCAA champion in the 100 meters. A&M's Shavez Hart is in the same opening heat of the 200 meters with Bromell.
Hart (20.66) and Jenkins (6.61) rank third and fifth nationally among the returning collegians in their respective events. Bromell, meanwhile, ranks 14th in both events with marks of 6.65 and 21.02 from 2014.
In the women's 60 the Aggies return four athletes who rank among the top 20 nationally. Racing in that event this weekend are Aaliyah Brown (7.30) and Kamaria Brown (7.36), who rank 11th and 19th, respectively.
An indoor best of 17-11 in the pole vault ranks Aggie Chase Wolfle 10th among returning collegians. Wolfle headlines the men's vault field on Saturday which includes Seth Arnold of Texas State (17-9.25). The long jump features a match-up between A&M's Olabanji Asekun (24-6.5) and Baylor's Felix Obi (24-8.25).
The women's vault includes Demi Payne of SFA (13-11.25) and Aggie Brittany Wooten (13-6.25) as they rank ninth and 18th nationally from last season marks. Payne cleared 14-9 earlier this month during a pole vault expo held in Belton.
An Olympic development women's mile event features Laura Roesler, the 2014 women's Bowerman Award winner from Oregon, who won a NCAA title in the 800 meters last season.