BOULDER, Colo. – After more than a month away from competition, the University of Colorado Colorado Springs men's and women's track and field teams made the trip to Boulder, Colo., to compete among a field primarily consisting of NCAA Division I athletes at the Potts Invitational. 
 
INSIDE THE POTTS INVITATIONAL
Location: CU Boulder IPF | Boulder, Colo.
Track Size: 300-meters
Elevation: 5,378 ft
 
HOW IT HAPPENED

• The Mountain Lions had a large group of eight student-athletes competing in the men's 200m dash, with sophomore Kymani Sterling leading the way for UCCS with a sixth overall finish as he notched a time of 21.81s in his first race of the indoor season. Right behind Sterling in ninth place was redshirt junior Brian Mosley Jr., who raced to a time of 21.99s. Also placing in the top-15 of the race were redshirt sophomore Justice Mendoza (11^th – 22.13s), Mason Pastorello (12^th – 22.16s), and Daryn Ofori-Kuragu (14^th – 22.36s).
• In the women's 200m, both student-athletes in action put forth a strong showing as redshirt senior Brittany Fuchs claimed fourth overall in the race with a raw time of 25.08s and redshirt sophomore Keyanda Bolton clocked an indoor PR with a raw time of 25.13s to finish in sixth place.
• Freshman Andrew Muncy highlighted a strong stable of men's 400m runners on Saturday afternoon as he clocked a season-best time of 48.70s for a second-place finish. Redshirt junior Dillon Andrews also clocked a strong performance in the event with a fourth-place finish and a season-best time of 49.28s. At the women's 400m race, freshman Skylar Hawk put together the best race of her collegiate career as she recorded a fifth-place finish with a personal-best raw time of 59.09s that cleared her previous best by nearly three full seconds.
• Redshirt sophomore Melissa Moreni continued her strong season in the women's 60m hurdles as she finished seventh in the prelim with a time of 8.97s before improving to fourth overall in the final by crossing the line at 8.70s. Her altitude-converted time of 8.72s sits just .05 seconds off her season-best for the event.
• At the women's 60m dash, redshirt junior Audrey Bloomquist was the lone Mountain Lion in the competition as she earned a qualifying time of 7.79s in the prelim before going on to clock a fourth-place time of 7.91s in the event final.
• Rounding out the competitors for UCCS on Saturday afternoon was sophomore Joseph Hamilton, who raced to an altitude-converted time of 1:56.22 in the men's 800m for a tenth-place finish.

 
BEYOND THE RESULTS

• Sterling's raw 200m time of 21.81s moves him into third-place all-time in the men's record book. With her raw time of 25.13s in the women's 200m, Bolton also claims the third-fastest time in program history for the event.
• With their respective raw times of 48.70s and 49.28s in the 400m, Muncy and Andrews move into second and fifth all-time in the UCCS record book for the event. 

 
UP NEXT

• The Mountain Lions will be back in action next weekend when they host the Colorado Running Company UCCS Invite on Saturday, Jan. 21, at the Mountain Lion Fieldhouse.

 
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As a member of the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference, the University of Colorado Colorado Springs competes in 16 varsity sports in NCAA Division II intercollegiate athletics.