Young track team gets set to defend its new home

The first few days that men's track coach Connie Putnam left his office overlooking the new indoor track inside the Gantcher Center, he feared that it would be the last time. Fear that a state of the art facility would disappear is not too hard to understand from a man, who at the beginning of his 31-year coaching career, had to move out hay from a cow barn just to give his team room to train. But the dream has come true for Putnam and his team, and it won't vanish out of thin air, as the Jumbos will be defending their home turf for the first indoor track season since 1990.