NEW ORLEANS, La. – The University of Colorado Colorado Springs men's outdoor track & field team ranks 21
st in the nation with 86.37 TFRI points in the Week 1 United States Track & Field & Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) National Outdoor Track & Field Rating Index.
Pittsburg State University holds the top spot in the men's rankings in the first week with 499.84 TFRI points followed by West Texas A&M University and Grand Valley State University.
Through the first two weeks, the Mountain Lions have tallied a total of 12 NCAA Division II provisional qualifying marks, with eight coming from the men's side and four on the women's side. UCCS currently has two marks that rank inside the top 10 for their respective event.
Sebastien Jean: 400m- 47.06* (10
th NCAA DII)
Ashton Whisler: 400m- 47.15* (14
th NCAA DII)
Anna Fauske: 5,000m- 16:21.36* (4
th NCAA DII)
Logan Cole: 10,000m- 29:54.83* (11
th NCAA DII)
Rachel Richtman: 3,000m Steeplechase- 10:58* (13
th NCAA DII)
Donovan Mini,
Daryn Ofori-Kuragu,
Kymani Sterling,
Luke Trinrud: 4x100m- 40.58* (14
th NCAA DII)
Victoria Farinas,
Zane Bullock,
Danaya Kinnard,
Madissyn Moore: 4x100m- 46.19* (14
th NCAA DII)
Alex Emers: High Jump- 2.05m (T11
th NCAA DII)
Madissyn Moore: Long Jump- 5.94m (11
th NCAA DII)
Kyle Demos: Shot Put- 17.42m (11
th NCAA DII)
Kyle Demos: Discus Throw- 52.20m (15
th NCAA DII)
Luke Hard: Hammer Throw- 57.86m (14
th NCAA DII)
*Converted for altitude
In the first edition of the outdoor track and field USTFCCCA South Central Regional Rankings, the UCCS men's team begins at second with 574.64 TFRI points and the women's team ranks third with 611.77 TFRI points. West Texas A&M University holds the No. 1 spot in the South Central Region with the men tallying up 832.56 TFRI points, and the women ending the week with 753.02 TFRI points.
2025 USTFCCCA OT&F National and Regional Rankings
Week 1 (4/01): MEN: #21 (#2 South Central Region)
WOMEN: NR (#3 South Central Region)
In the first edition of the USTFCCCA Division II Outdoor Track & Field Event Squad Rankings, the Mountain Lions had eight event groups ranked inside the top ten for their respective event.
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.
Women's Steeplechase: 1
st- 11:11.47 (
Rachel Richtman,
Audrey Brunken,
Molly Breuer,
Brooke Moss)
Women's 5,000m: 1
st- 17:11.53 (
Anna Fauske,
Kseniya Nikanorov,
Audrey Brunken,
Kaya Pillivant)
Men's 400m: 2
nd- 47.95 (
Ashton Whisler, Sebastian Jean,
Andrew Muncy,
Peyton Nelson)
Men's 10,000m: 4
th- 30:40.01 (
Logan Cole,
Caden Leal,
Koy Cunningham,
Turner Schad)
Women's 10,000m: 4
th- 37:53.56 (
Emma Finchum,
Abby Bartel,
Lara Murdock,
Madison Chavez)
Women's Long Jump: 5
th- 5.61m (
Madissyn Moore,
Danaya Kinnard,
Chelsea Howard,
Lilyana Delagarza)
Men's Hammer Throw: 5
th- 52.73m (
Luke Hard,
Michael Roberts,
Hayden Cuevas,
Alex Johnson)
Men's Discus: 7
th- 45.60m (
Kyle Demos,
Michael Roberts,
Kane Fobare,
Joseph Bjegovich)
The Mountain Lions will split up next weekend with the distance runners heading to the west coast to compete at the Mike Fanelli Track Classic and Stanford Invitational on Friday, April 4 and the rest of the team making their way to Denton, Texas for University of North Texas' Bill Schmidt Invite on April 4-5. Stay tuned to gomountainlions.com for the start times for the weekend's meets.
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