COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – In his first meet back from winter break, sophomore Dakota Abbott of the University of Colorado Colorado Springs men's track & field team claimed his second Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference (RMAC) Athlete of the Week award for the 2019-20 season.

Abbott and the Mountain Lions competed in the Air Force Invitational this past weekend where they were the only Division II school in a field of primarily Division I teams. Abbott did not miss a beat in his first competition of the new year as the sophomore leaped to a provisional mark of 14.83m in the men's triple jump, good for a strong third place finish. The sophomore would currently have the ninth best mark in the nation and third best in the conference after his performance over the weekend, but Abbott set a new school record with a 14.97m mark back on Dec. 14 that ranks him seventh in DII and first in the RMAC.

After staying within city limits for their first meet of the new year, the Mountain Lions will hit the road for New Mexico as they compete in the two-day Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Collegiate Invitational, hosted by University of New Mexico, on Friday, Jan. 24 and Saturday, Jan. 25.