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PREVIEW | UCCS Set For Mines Winter Classic & Multi and UNM Team Open

1/29/2020 1:29:00 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 split up this weekend where they will compete in Golden, Colo. for the two-day Mines Winter Classic & Multi on Friday, Jan. 31 and Saturday, Feb. 1. Then a partial group will also travel to Albuquerque, N.M. for the University of New Mexico Team Open to compete on Saturday, Feb. 1.
Game Coverage
  • Meet Information, Meet Schedule, Live Results, and Live Stream for the UNM Team Open and Mines Winter Classic & Multi 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 UNM Team Open.
  • UNM Team Open:
    • Meet Information                                                           
    • Meet Schedule
    • Live Results (Live Results will be posted before the meet)
    • Live Stream
  • Mines Winter Classic & Multi
    • Meet Information                                                           
    • Meet Schedule
    • Live Results (Live Results will be posted before the meet)
Last Time Out
  • The Mountain Lions competed in the two-day Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Collegiate Invitational, hosted by UNM on Friday and Saturday this past weekend.
  • UCCS went up against professional, Division I, and Division II athletes as they climbed the RMAC rankings in multiple events.
    • Freshman Justyn Loper made his presence felt in his first meet as a Mountain Lion with an RMAC leading throw of 17.31m in the men's weight throw. He later heaved a mark of 14.03m in the men's shot put to rank him 11th in the conference.
    • Redshirt senior Deshon Elcock raced to a time of 22.05s to become the new RMAC leader in the men's 200m. Elcock owns the top time in the conference for both the men's 200m and 60m.
    • The women's 4x400m relay team of Kaija Crowe, Ashten Loeks, Jalen Jordan, and Dejah Glover clocked in at 3:57.54 where they currently rank as the fourth fastest time in the conference.
    • Fellow throws freshman Parker Bays cracked the conference top-5 in men's shot put in Albuquerque, N.M. by registering a throw of 15.63m to currently place him third in the RMAC.
Where They Rank
  • Click HERE to see where the Mountain Lions rank within the conference and where their provisional marks rank in DII.
USTFCCCA National & Regional Rankings
  • UCCS Men's team ranks 28th in the nation and 1st in the South Central Region.
  • UCCS Women's team ranks 17th in the nation, and 1st in the South Central Region.
  • For the Mountain Lion men, seven student-athletes have posted provisional marks so far this season with four of those marks ranking top-10 in the nation. Within the region, UCCS has 18 marks that rank in top-10 over 10 of the 16 indoor events, including three student-athletes that have the top mark in the region for their respective events including:
  • On the women's side, five Mountain Lions have provisionally qualified for nationals with three of the marks ranking top-10 within Division II. In the South Central Region, their No. 1 ranking stems off a total of 32 top-10 marks within 13 of the 16 indoor events, including junior Hannah Meek who has the top mark in the women's triple jump with a distance of 12.26m.
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 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. Abbott was named RMAC Field Athlete of the Week for the week of 1/01.
  • 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 return home for their second home meet of the indoor season next weekend. UCCS will host the Colorado Running Company Mountain Lion Open which will span over Friday, Feb. 7 and Saturday, Feb. 8 inside Mountain Lion Fieldhouse.
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