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PREVIEW | Track & Field Travels South to UNM For Two-Day Meet

1/22/2020 2:00:00 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 south to the University of New Mexico to compete in the two-day Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Collegiate Invitational on Friday, Jan. 24 and Saturday, Jan. 25.
Game Coverage
  • Meet Information, Meet Schedule, Live Results, and Live Stream for the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Collegiate Invitational can be found below as well as on the respective schedule pages of UCCS Men's and Women's Track & Field. A subscription to FloTrack is required in order to live stream the meet.
Last Time Out
  • The Mountain Lions competed in their first meet since winter break where a partial group of student-athletes made the trip to the Air Force Academy Cadet Fieldhouse.
  • UCCS was the only Division II school in the meet as they went toe to toe with strictly Division I competition on the weekend.
    • Freshman sprinter Brian Mosley Jr. competed in his first meet as a Mountain Lion where he recorded an altitude conversion prelim time of 6.87s in the 60m and went on to place 6th with a time of 7.85s.
    • Junior Maia Austin bested the field of DI competition in the women's 3000m with a conversion time of 10:08.57 as Layla Almasri and Kayla Wooten rounded out the top-5 with a second-place time of 10:10.09 and a fourth-place time of 10:25.64 respectively.
    • The women's 60m consisted of two top-10 finishes as Kayla Waterman placed fifth at a time of 7.77s with Brittany Fuchs clocking in at 7.84s for seventh place.
    • Jumps student-athletes continued to perform well in the triple jump as freshman Dakota Abbott recorded a provisional mark of 14.83m to finish third as Will Ross posted a mark of 14.81m to finish in fourth place.
    • Freshmen Brendan Young and Peyton Turnage held their own with Division I competition in the triple jump by taking sixth (14.34m) and ninth place (13.81m) respectively.
    • Tanner Walsh and Dawson Hopkinson each registered a top-10 finish as Walsh took fifth place in the men's high jump at a height of 1.95m and Hopkinson vaulting to a mark of 4.75m in the men's pole vault.
 
Where They Rank
  • Click HERE to see where the Mountain Lions rank within the conference and where their provisional marks rank in DII.
Records Are Meant To Be Broken
  • UCCS has broken six school records after only four meets this indoor season:
Award Winners
  • 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.
  • At the Colorado Running Company UCCS Invite, 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 be named RMAC Field Athlete of the Week for the week of 12/17.
  • Meek had a weekend to remember as she competed in both the Mines Alumni Classic & Multi and the Air Force Holiday Open to win RMAC Field Athlete of the Week for the week of 12/10. 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. 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.
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 split up as they head to two different meets in two different states on Saturday, Feb. 1. UCCS will head to the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, N.M. for the UNM Team Open and Colorado School of Mines in Golden, Colo. for the Mines DII Invite & Multi.
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