McMinnville, Ore. - The Boxers opened the outdoor track season this weekend at the Linfield Erik Anderson Icebreaker meet. The Boxers had 21 athletes qualify for the NWC Championships across 12 different events at the meet. The Northwest Conference Championship is a standard qualifier championship. The athletes spend the season attempting to achieve conference as well as national marks across their respective events. To make the NCAA Championships, they take the top 20 men and 22 women from the national descending order list in each event.