NEW ORLEANS, La. – The University of Colorado Colorado Springs men's and women's track & field teams both remain in the top 25 rankings in the Week 3 United States Track & Field & Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) National Indoor Track & Field Rating Index, as the men's team moves down to the No. 11 ranking with 69.50 TFRI points while the women's team takes a big leap to No. 13 nationally with 56.21 TFRI points.
Grand Valley State University stays at the top the men's rankings for the third week in a row with 225.50 TFRI points, while Minnesota State University remains at the No. 1 ranking on the women's side with 227.12 TFRI points.
Through the first six weeks of the season, the Mountain Lions have recorded a total of 33 NCAA provisional qualifying marks with eight being within the top 10 in NCAA Division II Track and Field.
*Converted for altitude/track size
In the third edition of the USTFCCCA South Central Regional Rankings, the UCCS men's and women's teams rank third as the men have 390.85 TFRI points and the women possess 286.46. West Texas A&M University men's team stay at the No. 1 ranking in the South Central Region with 411.46 TFRI points, and Colorado School of Mines women's team ranks first in the region with 374.72 TFRI points.
2025 USTFCCCA IT&F National and Regional Rankings
Week 1 (1/28): MEN: #9 (#1 South Central Region)
WOMEN: #16 (#3 South Central Region)
Week 2 (2/4): Men: #8 (#3 South Central Region)
Women: #25 (#3 South Central Region)
Week 3 (2/11): MEN: #11 (#3 South Central Region)
WOMEN: #13 (#3 South Central Region)
In the third week of the USTFCCCA Division II Indoor Track & Field Event Squad Rankings, the Mountain Lions had 11 event groups ranked inside the top ten for their respective event. The men's long jump event group of
Jeffrey Franquemont,
Richard Safoh,
Broden Cahoon, and
KJ McInnis ranks first with an average of 7.42m, while UCCS also sits top-five in the women's long jump, women's triple jump, and men's weight throw.
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 to achieve a ranking in a particular event.
Men's Long Jump: 1
st- 7.42m (
Jeffrey Franquemont,
Richard Safoh,
Broden Cahoon,
KJ McInnis)
Women's Mile: 3
rd- 4:51 (
Anna Fauske,
Rachel Richtman,
Emma Montoya,
Kate Hedlund)
Women's Triple Jump: 3
rd- 11.59m (
Kathryn Carroll,
Payton Rodgers,
Brielle Bracken,
Chelsea Howard)
Men's Weight Throw: 4
th – 17.84m (
Michael Roberts,
Luke Hard,
Hayden Cuevas,
Kane Fobare)
Women's Long Jump: 5
th- 5.62m (
Paige Cordero,
Danaya Kinnard,
Chelsea Howard,
Madissyn Moore)
Men's Heptathlon: 6
th – 3,994 (
Thorben Hast,
Broden Cahoon,
Evan Atkin,
Dillon Arvayo)
Men's 400m: 7
th – 48.50 (
Sebastien Jean,
Kymani Sterling,
Ashton Whisler,
Peyton Nelson)
Women's 3,000m: 7
th – 9:52.72 (
Anna Fauske,
Rachel Richtman,
Kseniya Nikanorov,
Molly Breuer)
Men's Triple Jump: 9
th – 13.89m (
KJ McInnis,
Realiti Smith,
Willie Tran,
JJ Nsubuga)
Men's Mile: 10
th – 4:09.85 (
Jagger Zlotoff,
Brett Davis,
Joseph Impellitteri,
Enzo Knapp)
Women's Pole Vault: 10
th- 3.54m (
Brooke Peterson,
Phia Edwards,
Brianna Spencer,
Josie Gates)
The Mountain Lions will head home to Mountain Lion Fieldhouse for the Colorado Running Company Mountain Lion Open on Saturday, Feb. 15 with the meet scheduled to begin at 9:00 a.m.
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