FORT COLLINS, Colo. – Competing in their final meet before the start of the 2023 RMAC Outdoor Championships, the University of Colorado Colorado Springs track & field team posted eight NCAA qualifying marks at the Fum McGraw Power Meet on Sunday at Colorado State University's Jack Christiansen Track.
INSIDE THE FUM MCGRAW POWER MEET
Location: CSU Jack Christiansen Track | Fort Collins, Colo.
Elevation: 5,081 ft.
HOW IT HAPPENED
- Three of the Mountain Lions provisional marks on Sunday came in the men's long jump competition, with redshirt junior Peyton Turnage, sophomore Daryon Wilson, and redshirt junior Peterson Bohannon each meeting the national qualifying threshold for the event. Turnage led the way for UCCS with a first-place finish and a season best mark of 7.45m, while Wilson took second place with a season best mark of his own at 7.43m. Bohannon was the third best finisher in the nine-person field, although he came up just shy of his season best mark at 7.27m.
- Redshirt junior Sawyer Christopher added his first NCAA qualifying mark of the season in the men's javelin throw, tossing to a season-best mark of 60.73m. Sophomore Joseph Hamilton also put forth a season-best performance, finishing fourth overall with a throw of 53.64m.
- UCCS tallied two more provisional marks in the men's and women's 4x100m relay races, however both relay teams came up just shy of their season best national qualifying marks for the event. On the women's side, it was Audrey Bloomquist, Keyanda Bolton, Brittany Fuchs, and Victoria Farinas handing the baton off to each other to complete the race in first place with an altitude-converted time of 46.34s. The men's relay team of Justice Mendoza, Kymani Sterling, Michael Nichols, and Brian Mosley Jr. also notched a first-place finish in their race, clocking a converted time of 40.76s.
- Mosley Jr. would come back later in the day to record another national qualifying mark in the open 100m dash, registering a third-place finish in the race with an altitude-converted time of 10.50s that sits just shy of his season best time.
- Redshirt senior Dakota Abbott rounded out Sunday's provisional marks in the men's triple jump, where he leaped to a mark of 15.18m to take first place in a light four-person field. His mark sits shy of his national fourth ranked mark of 15.62m that he established on March 31.
- In the throws events, freshman Kyle Demos had himself a strong day as he posted personal best marks in the men's shot put and discus throw. He started his day with a mark of 48.00m in the discus throw to claim eighth place in the event before notching a sixth-place finish in the shot put at an outdoor best mark of 14.16m.
- Redshirt senior Justice Mendoza came away with an event win in the men's 200m dash, racing to a time of 21.32s. The Mountain Lions also claimed the event win in the men's 400m dash, where Angel Laca posted a season best time of 48.55s. Freshman Sebastien Jean also had a strong race in the 400m dash, finishing second with a personal best time of 48.66s.
BEYOND THE RESULTS
- Demos' discus throw mark of 48.00m ranks 4th all-time in UCCS outdoor program history.
UP NEXT
- The Mountain Lions will turn their attention to defending their back-to-back sweeps of the outdoor conference championships as the 2023 RMAC Outdoor Championships get underway on Friday, April 28, at the Nelson Physical Activity Center in Chadron, Neb.
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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.
