The Hope College men's track & field team is pursuing its 11th league championship at the 124th annual MIAA Field Day this week at Albion College.

The two-day meet begins on Thursday at 1 p.m. at the Elkin Isaac Track/Sprankle-Sprandel Stadium. There will be finals in a number of field events as well as the men's and women's 10,000 meters. Preliminaries are also on the schedule in most track events.

Friday's competition starts at 10 a.m.

Click here for a complete schedule of events.

Photo of Erik Gonzalez by Lynne Powe

The results of MIAA Field Day solely determines the conference champion.

The Flying Dutchmen have won eight outright MIAA titles and shared the league championship twice. Their last MIAA title came in 2012.

Hope finished second at the 2014 MIAA Field Day behind Calvin. Coach Kevin Cole's Flying Dutchmen graduated both of their individual MIAA champions from 2014: Steffon Mayhue in the long jump and James Rogers in the 1,500-meter run.

The Flying Dutchmen won this year's MIAA Jamboree with 863.5 points on April 11 at Adrian.

Hope finished first in three events: sophomore Ross Whitman of Monroe, Michigan (St. Mary Catholic Central HS), in the 110-meter hurdles with a time of 15.82 seconds, sophomore Ryan Arndt of Holland, Michigan (Zeeland West HS), in 400 hurdles with a time of 57.73 seconds, and junior Boone Marois of Traverse City, Michigan (Central HS), in the 100 meters with a run of 11.04 seconds.

Field Day is the longest-running athletic event in the MIAA. The event's roots go back to the very founding of the MIAA, with the first event taking place May 31-June 2, 1888 at Michigan Agricultural College (now Michigan State University).

Except for cancellations during World War I and World War II, Field Day has taken place every year since.