BOULDER, Colo. – Both University of Colorado Colorado Springs women's relay teams broke the program records in each event as the Mountain Lions competed in the Colorado Invitational today at CU-Boulder. The UCCS women added eight more top-10 finishes in the individual events.
Jessica Todd was the common link between the two teams. She ran the second leg of the 4x100-meter relay team with
Hayley Gantt, Tacey Divittorio and
Alicia Lawrence that ran an unadjusted time of 48.62 seconds. The conversion to sea level will take the time to a UCCS record 48.74 seconds.
Todd ran the leadoff leg on the 4x400-meter relay team at the end of the meet with
Chelsea Martus,
Amber McAfee and
Molly Klotz. The Mountain Lions ran the time in 3:56.00 for an altitude-adjusted time of 3:56.44.
Todd also finished seventh in the 400-meter hurdles with 1:06.60 to round out a busy day on the track. Klotz took more than a second off of her 400-hurdle time with 1:03.91 to finish fourth.
Gantt finished one spot ahead of Lawrence in the 100-meter dash with 12.54 seconds for seventh, and Lawrence led Gantt and Divittorio in the 200-meter dash with 25.37 seconds for ninth. Martus led three Mountain Lions in the 800-meter run with an altitude-adjusted time of 2:15.84 and placed seventh. She unofficially moved to seventh in the RMAC performance list.
Kelly Devlin ran her best unadjusted time in the 1,500-meter run with 5:01.74, and her third straight adjusted time faster than five minutes at 4:54.55.
Sam Bauer finished fifth in the 3,000-meter steeplechase and lowered her season-best time by nearly 10 seconds with a sea level time of 11:24.81.
Sarah Treese improved by nearly seven seconds with 11:33.77 and placed seventh.
UCCS will be sending athletes to multiple locations next week between the Kansas Relays, Beach Invitational at Long Beach State, Mt. SAC Relays and the Bryan Clay Invitational at Azusa Pacific.
