Women's Indoor Track and Field Season Recap

• The University of Colorado Colorado Springs women's indoor track and field team had a fantastic season in 2023-24 as they finished second at the RMAC Indoor Championships and tied for 22^nd in the NCAA DII Indoor Championships.
• Sixteen different Mountain Lion student-athletes posted national qualifying marks this indoor season for a combination of 17 individual and two relay marks. Click Here for a full breakdown of the team's 2023-24 indoor track & field provisional qualifying marks. 
• UCCS tallied 119 points at the 2023-24 RMAC Indoor Championships to earn a second-place finish at the meet. The Mountain Lion women recorded ten podium finishes at the conference championship meet, with two student-athletes earning a total of three individual event championships. After the conclusion of the meet, Audrey Bloomquist was named the RMAC Women's Athlete of the Meet as she led all women's student-athletes with a total of 26 points scored. The native of Helena, Mont., earned ten points apiece with her gold medals in the long jump and triple jump while adding six more points with a third-place finish in the 60m dash. 
• Nine Mountain Lion women qualified for the NCAA Division II Indoor Championships with those being Hedlund (Mile, DMR), Fauske (Mile, 3,000m, DMR), Keyanda Bolton (DMR), Ashten Loeks (DMR), Melissa Moreni (60mh), Audrey Bloomquist (Triple Jump, Long Jump), Christine Bailey (Long Jump), Madissyn Moore (Long Jump), and Anna Holland (Weight Throw). At the national championship meet, UCCS finished with eight points total and would end the indoor season tied for 22^nd in all of Division II.

Award Winners
The 2023-24 Indoor Track and Field season would see 28 different Mountain Lions earn a combined 57 awards and honors.

• Nadine Almasri: RMAC All-Academic Honor Roll
• Christine Bailey: USTFCCCA All-Region Honors (Long Jump), All-RMAC Second Team (Triple Jump)
• Abby Bartel: RMAC All-Academic Honor Roll
• Audrey Bloomquist: USTFCCCA Second Team All-America (Triple Jump), USTFCCCA All-Region Honors (Long Jump, Triple Jump), RMAC Indoor Track & Field Academic Athlete of the Year, RMAC All-Academic First Team, RMAC Co-Field Athlete of the Year, All-RMAC First Team (60m, Long Jump, Triple Jump)
• Keyanda Bolton: USTFCCCA First Team All-America (DMR), All-RMAC First Team (200m), All-RMAC Second Team (60m)
• Molly Breuer: RMAC All-Academic Honor Roll
• Audrey Brunken: RMAC All-Academic Honor Roll
• Madison Chavez: RMAC All-Academic Honor Roll
• Amber Davis: RMAC All-Academic Honor Roll
• Gigi Douillard: RMAC All-Academic Honor Roll
• Anna Fauske: USTFCCCA First Team All-America (DMR), USTFCCCA Second Team All-America (3,000m), RMAC All-Academic Honor Roll, All-RMAC First Team (Mile), All-RMAC Second Team (800m)
• Victoria Farinas: All-RMAC Second Team (60m)
• Rachel Goodrich: RMAC All-Academic Honor Roll
• Kelsey Graff: RMAC All-Academic Honor Roll
• Skylar Hawk: RMAC All-Academic Honor Roll
• Kate Hedlund: USTFCCCA First Team All-America (DMR), USTFCCCA All-Region Honors (800m, Mile), RMAC All-Academic Honor Roll, All-RMAC First Team (Mile), All-RMAC Second Team (800m)
• Anna Holland: USTFCCCA Second Team All-America (Weight Throw), USTFCCCA All-Region Honors (Weight Throw), RMAC All-Academic First Team, All-RMAC First Team (Weight Throw)
• Savannah Jordens: RMAC All-Academic Honor Roll
• Ashten Loeks: USTFCCCA First Team All-America (DMR), RMAC All-Academic Honor Roll
• Alyssa Lopez: RMAC All-Academic Honor Roll
• Leyah Martinez: RMAC All-Academic Honor Roll
• Madissyn Moore: USTFCCCA Second Team All-America (Long Jump), All-RMAC First Team (Long Jump)
• Brooke Moss: RMAC All-Academic Honor Roll
• Melissa Moreni: USTFCCCA First Team All-America (60mh), USTFCCCA All-Region Honors (60mh), RMAC All-Academic First Team, All-RMAC First Team (60mh)
• Faith Novess: RMAC All-Academic Honor Roll, All-RMAC Second Team (Pentathlon)
• Kaya Pillivant: RMAC All-Academic Honor Roll
• Rachel Richtman: RMAC All-Academic Honor Roll
• Sydney Samuels: RMAC All-Academic Honor Roll

School Records

• The UCCS women's track & field team broke six indoor school records during the 2023-24 season:
  • Kate Hedlund: Mile – 4:46.16
  • Anna Fauske: 3,000m – 9:28.23
  • Audrey Bloomquist: Triple Jump – 12.70m
  • Anna Holland: Weight Throw – 19.00m
  • 4x400m Relay – 3:50.12
  • Distance Medley Relay – 11:25.13

National Rankings

• UCCS was ranked inside of the top-15 for seven of the eight weeks of the indoor season. The Mountain Lions highest ranking came on week's three and four when they were selected No. 7 in back-to-back weeks by USTFCCCA. UCCS' lowest ranking came in the final week on March 10^th when they tied for No. 22 in the NCAA DII Indoor Championships.

 
USTFCCCA DII INDOOR NATIONAL RANKINGS

Week 1 (Jan. 23)	No.10
Week 2 (Jan. 30)	No.11
Week 3 (Feb. 6)	No. 7
Week 4 (Feb. 13)	No. 7
Week 5 (Feb. 20)	No.11
Week 6 (Feb. 27)	No.11
Week 7 (Mar. 4)	No. 9
Final (Mar. 10)	No.22

 
For everything UCCS Athletics, follow the Mountain Lions on social media and stay tuned to gomountainlions.com.
 
SOCIAL
Twitter – @GoMountainLions
Instagram – @gomountainlions
Facebook – GoMountainLions