UCCS 10th in Final Regional Index
NEW ORLEANS - The University of Colorado Colorado Springs women's indoor track and field team will finish the regular season in No. 10 in the final U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association South Central Regional Team Index released this morning. The Mountain Lions earned five USTFCCCA All-Region awards yesterday from the coaches association.
Alexa Urban, Melanie Diep, Jessica Todd, Megan Burrell and Alex Colvin each earned all-region honors for having performances rank in the top five for individual events and in the top three for relay events. Diep and Burrell also have the eighth-fastest times in the region for the 800-meter run and mile run, respectively, and Angie Martell has the eighth-fastest time in the 5,000-meter run in the region.
The Mountain Lions finished seventh at the RMAC Championships last Saturday with the fourth-highest point total in program history. Colvin repeated as the conference indoor pole vault champion and led three all-conference performers in Martell and Urban.
UCCS will continue the indoor season at the national championships March 8-9 in Birmingham, Ala. Diep, Todd, Burrell and Urban will compete in the distance medley relay and Burrell will also compete in the mile run.
UCCS Players/Staff Featured | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Megan Burrell | Distance | Sr | |
 | Melanie Diep | Distance | Fr | |
 | Angie Martell | So. | ||
 | Jessica Todd | Sprints | So | |
 | Alex Colvin | Pole Vault | ||
 | Alexa Urban | Sprints | So | |
| Additional News Stories | |||
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| May 7, 2013 |  | Todd Earns Two All-RMAC Honors on Final Day | Jessica Todd finished third in the 400-meter hurdles and sixth in the long jump to pick up a pair of all-conference awards to lead the University of Colorado Colorado Springs on the final day of the 2013 RMAC Outdoor Track and Field Championships. |
| May 6, 2013 |  | Martell, Colvin Lead UCCS at RMAC Championships | Angie Martell and Alex Colvin both turned in provisional qualifying performances and earned all-conference honors to lead the University of Colorado Colorado Springs at the 2013 RMAC Track and Field Championships at the Stermole Complex at the Colorado School of Mines. |
| May 6, 2013 |  | Big Opportunities Await Mountain Lions on Tuesday | After a pair of All-RMAC performances on Monday, the University of Colorado Colorado Springs wil compete in six scoring events on the final day of the 2013 RMAC Outdoor Track & Field Championships. |
| May 5, 2013 |  | UCCS Opens RMAC Championships Monday | The University of Colorado Colorado Springs will compete in four events to open competition at the 2013 RMAC Outdoor Track and Field Championships on Monday at the Stermole Track and Field Complex at Colorado School of Mines. |
| May 1, 2013 |  | Shaswar and Burrell Receive McLaughlin Award | University of Colorado Colorado Springs senior student-athletes Mash Shaswar and Megan Burrell were honored as the recipients of the Thomas F. McLaughlin Award at the University's annual Awards Banquet tonight in Berger Hall. |
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