NEW ORLEANS, La. – The University of Colorado Colorado Springs track and field teams land themselves on USTFCCCA's Top-25 National Ratings Index for the seventh straight week. The men's team receives the No. 12 ranking in the country with 85.62 points as the women's team comes in at No. 20 in Division II with 55.31 points.
 
Azusa Pacific University's women's team (284.83 points) and Grand Valley State University's men's team (235.05 points) both rank No. 1 in the country.
 
For the Mountain Lion men, 19 student-athletes have posted a combined 25 provisional marks and two automatic qualifying marks through five meets this season as four of those marks rank top-10 in Division II:

• 4x100m Relay (Justice Mendoza, Brian Mosley Jr., Peter Ackah, Charlie Forbes) – 7^th 40.49s
• Skye Ciccarelli (High Jump) – 7^th 2.12m / 6' 11.5"
• *Will Ross (Long Jump) – 6^th 7.70m / 25' 3.25"
• *Dakota Abbott (Triple Jump) – 1^st 15.87m / 52' 1"

On the women's side, 11 Mountain Lions have registered a total of 11 provisional marks and one automatic qualifying mark (*) with three of the marks ranking top-10 within Division II:

• Kayla Zink (100m) – 8^th 11.59s
• 4x100m Relay (Keyanda Bolton, Ashley Benton, Brittany Fuchs, Kayla Zink) – 10^th 46.07s
• *Hannah Meek (Long Jump) – 2^nd 6.49m

UCCS Track and Field claims their No. 12 and No. 20 national rankings by ranking inside the top-10 in a total of 16 events from both the men's and women's teams combined, according to USTFCCCA's #EventSquad National Rankings. 

USTFCCCA #EventSquad rankings places a rank order to a program's "squad" of athletes in a particular event, using the cumulative season-best qualifying marks from a team's top-four ranked athletes on the national descending-order list. As with the national descending-order list for qualifying and seeding purposes, marks are subject to be converted due to track size and/or altitude. A team must have four or more athletes with a valid season-best mark recorded with TFRRS to achieve a ranking in a particular event.
 

Event	UCCS Men's #EventSquad National Rankings	Event	UCCS Women's #EventSquad National Rankings
100m	10th	100m	3rd
1500m	8th	200m	T-10th
5000m	9th	800m	4th
Long Jump	1st	1500m	5th
Triple Jump	1st	5000m	9th
High Jump	3rd	100m Hurdles	3rd
		400m Hurdles	3rd
		High Jump	10th
		Long Jump	2nd
		Triple Jump	4th

The Mountain Lions now turn to one more weekend of competition before NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships. UCCS is set to compete in three meets this weekend including the Mines Friday Last Chance on Friday, May 14 in Golden, Colo., and the Loper Twilight #1 and Loper Twilight #2 on Saturday, May 15 and Sunday, May 16 in Kearney, Neb.

2021 USTFCCCA Outdoor National Rankings
3/30       MEN: #5
              WOMEN: #18
4/6         MEN: #7
              WOMEN: #19
4/13       MEN: #7
              WOMEN: #19
4/20       MEN: #11
              WOMEN: #23
4/27       MEN: #13
              WOMEN: #28
5/4         MEN: #10
              WOMEN: #17
5/11       MEN: #12
              WOMEN: #20