COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – The University of Colorado Colorado Springs Track & Field programs are sending 11 student-athletes to the 2019 NCAA Division II Indoor National Championships as announced by the NCAA Division II Men's and Women's Track & Field Committee Tuesday afternoon.

UCCS' women have nine different individuals competing in six different events at nationals, with four student-athletes making a repeat appearance in Pittsburg, Kan. The DMR team of Layla Almasri, Maia Austin, Dejah Glover (second appearance), and Skylyn Webb boast the 10th best time in DII (11:41.65), as they look to improve on their performance at nationals. Making her second appearance in the DMR at nationals, Webb will also make her second appearance in the 800m as she automatically qualified for nationals with a time of 2:03.87 back in late January. Sophomore Kayla Zink notches her second straight year of competing in the NCAA Championships and is tied for ninth best time in the 60m (7.54). No stranger to competing at nationals, Kaija Crowe qualified for two different events, the pentathlon and long jump. Crowe qualified with the fourth best mark in the pentathlon (3,770 points) at the first meet of the season, while claiming the tied for seventh best mark in the long jump (5.93m) this past weekend at the RMAC Championships.

Also joining the young but experienced group is distance runner Ellie Enderle and jumps student-athletes Jada Carr and Hannah Meek, who each hold berths in the long jump. Carr holds a mark of 5.84m that was recorded at the RMAC Championships and stands as the 14^th best mark, with Meek holding the ninth best jump in DII at a mark of 5.89m. Meek did not stop at the long jump, she also qualified in the triple jump by leaping to the tied for 19^th best mark of 12.08m in the first home meet of the indoor season.

The Mountain Lions men's team is sending one student-athlete to compete in a field event, and one student-athlete to compete in a track event. Junior Derek Valdez made his way to the top of the high jump list with an automatic qualifying jump last weekend at the RMAC Championships. His RMAC Champion jump of 2.17m ranks fourth on the DII list. Charlie Forbes makes the trip to nationals by sprinting to the eighth best time in all of DII. Forbes makes his first appearance at nationals with a time of 8.00 which was set early in the season in Golden, Colo. at the Mines DII Invite and Multi.

The NCAA Championships will be hosted in Pittsburg, Kan. Mar. 8-9 at the Robert W. Plaster Center on the campus of Pittsburg State University.