Springfield Public Schools and it's five high schools (Central, Glendale, Hillcrest, Kickapoo, Parkview) host the Glendale Girls Night Out and the Hillcrest Boys Invitational every year on a Thursday and Friday in early April at Parkview's JFK Stadium. The meets attract schools from a wide range of sizes, classes, and areas of the state including southwest, south, mid-south, west-central, mid-Missouri, as well as the Kansas City and St. Louis areas.
Teams head out as the rain and a few snowflakes fall.
The ladies kicked things off on Thursday in brutal weather conditions. Temperatures ranged throughout the day between 38 and 52-degress but blustery winds made it bitterly cold. On the final leg of the meet's final event, the 4x400-meters, the clouds finally let go and rain began pouring. A few snowflakes fell with the rain as teams hustled off the track to pack up and head home. About the same time, small bits of hail fell for a short time a few miles away.
