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Track & Field Travels to Air Force For First Meet of the New Year

1/15/2020 4:41:00 PM

By: Eric Mason - Sports Information Director

This Week's Meet

The University of Colorado Colorado Springs men's and women's track & field teams travel up the highway to the Air Force Academy to compete in the Air Force Invitational on Friday, Jan. 17 and Saturday, Jan. 18.

Game Coverage

Meet Information, Meet Schedule, and Live Results for the Air Force Invitational can be found below as well as on the respective schedule pages of UCCS Men's and Women's Track & Field.

Last Time Out

The Mountain Lions hosted their first home meet of the 2019-20 season on Saturday, Dec. 14 with the Colorado Running Company UCCS Invite.
UCCS capped off the UCCS Invite with nine provisional marks, nine event winners, and two school records.
- The dynamic pair of Deshon Elcock and Kayla Zink showed out in the 60m dash as Elcock ran to a first place finish of 6.80s to record the 7^th best time in DII and set a new school record on the men's side while Zink improved on her provisional time by clocking in at the eighth fastest time in DII of 7.52s.
- Colton Homuth did not slow down after a career weekend at Air Force as the throws student-athlete took second place in the men's shot put by recording a mark of 16.43m, his second provisional mark of the season.
- After Will Ross broke the triple jump school record the week before, Dakota Abbott took it a bit further by breaking Ross' school record and jumping to a distance of 14.97m for a provisional mark that stands as the seventh best in the country.
- Tanner Walsh recorded his first provisional mark in the high jump this season by registering a first-place mark of 2.05m, ranking as the 10^th best mark in DII.
- Jumps student-athletes Will Ross and Hannah Meek posted another weekend of strong marks. Ross stepped in to claim second and third place in the long jump (7.19m) and triple jump (14.73m) respectively. Meek topped the list of long jumpers where a leap of 5.95m put her ahead of the competition and was good for a provisional mark, while she came back to jump out to a second-place provisional mark of 12.07m in the triple jump.
- Kaija Crowe and Dillon Andrews swept the 400m as Crowe took first with a time of 58.05s as Andrews won the men's 400m with a time of 50.24s.
- Brittany Fuchs and Angel Laca continued the dominance with a pair of event winning times in the 200m as Fuchs clocked in at 25.31s in the women's 200m with Laca taking the men's 200m at a time of 22.61s. Laca also took second place in the men's 400m as he finished right behind Andrews with a time of 50.25s.
- Maia Austin competed in the women's mile where she ran to an event winning time of 5:14.73, with UCCS putting an end to the night with a time of 4:02.61 in the women's 4x400m relay as the relay team of Leilani Washington, Cameron Tracy, Ella McKinna-Worrell and Dejah Glover took the event's best time.

Award Winners

Meek had a weekend to remember as she competed in both the Mines Alumni Classic & Multi and the Air Force Holiday Open this past weekend. In Golden, Colo., Meek began the indoor season with a second place mark of 6.08m in the long jump that broke a school record, set a new PR, and provisionally qualified her for nationals with what currently is the best mark in all of DII. The junior did not stop there as she competed the next day at Air Force in the triple jump where she took first place with a mark of 12.26m that set a school record, goes down as a new PR, and provisionally qualified her for nationals with currently the best mark in DII.
At the Colorado Running Company UCCS Invite on Saturday, Abbott walked away with a school record, PR, and provisional mark as he leaped to a distance of 14.97m in the triple jump for second place. The new triple jump school record currently gives Abbott the seventh best mark in all of DII, and the top mark in the RMAC. Abbott then cemented a fourth-place finish in the long jump where he recorded a mark of 7.08m to boasting the third best mark in the RMAC.

UCCS Under Coach Ross Fellows

In three complete years at UCCS, Fellows has coached four national champions, 21 individual RMAC champions, three RMAC Freshmen of the Year, five RMAC Track Athletes of the Year, one RMAC Field Athlete of the Year, four RMAC Athletes of the Meet, and 24 all-region athletes.
At the helm, Fellows has helped coach 16 individual All-Americans who combine for a total of 30 All-America honors.
The UCCS woman's team have won their first ever indoor (2017-18) and outdoor (2018-19) track & field conference championships under Fellows' direction.

Upcoming Meets

The Mountain Lions stay on the road where they will head to New Mexico University in Albuquerque, N.M. for the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Collegiate Invitational on Friday Jan. 24 and Saturday, Jan. 25.

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