BOSTON, Mass. – Redshirt senior Evan Graff of the University of Colorado Colorado Springs track & field team raced to an indoor school record time in the men's mile on Saturday as the lone Mountain Lion student-athlete in action at the Bruce Lehane Scarlet & White Invite in Boston, Mass. UCCS also had four student-athletes in competition on day two of the Mines Winter Classic & Multi and saw a trio of personal best marks inside the CSM Steinhauer Fieldhouse.
 
INSIDE THE BRUCE LEHANE SCARLET & WHITE INVITE
Location: BU Track & Tennis Center | Boston, Mass.
Track Size: 200m (banked)
 
INSIDE THE MINES WINTER CLASSIC & MULTI
Location: CSM Steinhauer Fieldhouse | Golden, Colo.
Track Size: 193-meters (flat)
Elevation: 5,675 ft
 
HOW IT HAPPENED

• As one of 68 runners in a highly competitive men's mile race at Boston University, Graff went on to record a blazing time of 4:05.08 to place 14th in the race. Although his time was shy of his season best converted time of 4:00.22 that he established at the Colorado Running Company UCCS Invite, the Montrose, Colo., native's raw time registers as a new personal best and breaks his own UCCS men's indoor school record for the event by more than two seconds, with the previous record being 4:07.48.
• In Golden, freshman Daryn Ofori-Kuragu was the first Mountain Lion in action as he clocked a personal best raw time of 6.94s in the prelim of the men's 60m dash to qualify for the final with the second-fastest time in the 26-person field. In the final, Ofori-Kuragu came back to match his previous time at 6.94s, which was good for a third place finish in the race. His altitude-converted time of 6.96s sits just one tenth of a second away from the NCAA Division II provisional standard for the event.
• UCCS had a pair of student-athletes racing in the women's mile and saw both of them collect personal best times as redshirt freshman Brooke Moss took sixth place with a time of 5:20.77 and redshirt sophomore Rachel Goodrich placed 11^th at a time of 5:32.99.
• In the women's 800m, redshirt junior Erika Timbang came less than a second away from her personal best for the event as she clocked a time of 2:23.80 for a ninth place finish.

BEYOND THE RESULTS

• Graff's mile time of 4:05.08 registers as an NCAA qualifying time, but came up just short of his season-best converted time of 4:00.22 that currently ranks third overall on the NCAA Division II provisional qualifying list for the 2022-23 indoor season.

UP NEXT

• The Mountain Lions return to action with a full squad next weekend as they make the trip east to Pittsburg, Kan., for the 8^th Annual Indoor Gorilla Classic at Pittsburg State University on Feb. 10-11.

 
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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.