COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – The University of Colorado Colorado Springs men's and women's track & field teams engineered a sweep of the 2025 RMAC Outdoor Track & Field Championships with a huge performance on Sunday as the women's team held on for a 15-point victory over Colorado School of Mines with 172 points and the men's squad made a thrilling comeback to secure a three-point win over Mines with 198 points. The Mountain Lions also had a plethora of outstanding individual accomplishments on the third and final day of the conference championship meet as the men's and women's teams combined for 13 podium finishes and nine NCAA provisional qualifying marks.
 
INSIDE THE 2025 RMAC OUTDOOR TRACK & FIELD CHAMPIONSHIPS
UCCS Men's Final Score: 1^st place – 198 points
UCCS Women's Final Score: 1^st place – 172 points
Host School: Colorado School of Mines
Location: Stermole Track & Field Complex | Golden, Colo.
Elevation: 5,739 ft
 
HOW IT HAPPENED

• The path to victory for the UCCS men's team went down to the wire on Sunday afternoon as the Mountain Lions trailed Mines by just two points headed into the final event of the day, the 4x400m relay. With the potential title on the line, junior Sebastien Jean opened the relay with a blistering first leg, giving the baton to freshmen Peyton Nelson and Sean Donelson with a slight edge over the rest of field. When Donelson completed the third leg of the relay race and handed the baton to sophomore Ashton Whisler for the anchor leg, UCCS was in a tight battle with Adams State and CSU Pueblo for the lead with Mines sitting in fourth place just behind the group. Whisler managed to beat out all of his competition on the final leg of the race to earn a first-place finish for UCCS in the event with a school record and NCAA provisional qualifying time of 3:11.81 that was good for 10 points and vaulted the Mountain Lions into the team lead with Mines finishing fourth in relay and scoring only five points.
• The Mountain Lions also had a huge performance in the men's 4x100m relay earlier in the day as senior Kymani Sterling, junior Daryn Ofori-Kuragu, Jean, and redshirt senior Donovan Mini carried the baton around the track in a season-best NCAA provisional qualifying converted time of 40.06s for the first-place finish. The group's raw time of 39.94s registered as new facility record and an RMAC Outdoor Championship meet record.
• Jean continued his incredible day in the open men's 400m as he shattered his own school record in the event with an NCAA provisional qualifying converted time of 46.15s and cruised to a gold medal in the event. In addition to the 10 points scored by Jean, the rest of the Mountain Lions' 400m runners in the final combined to add 12 more points with Whisler posting a season-best NCAA provisional qualifying converted time of 47.11s for a third place finish, Donelson taking fifth place in a personal best converted time of 48.13s, and Nelson finishing seventh with a converted time of 48.48s.
• Redshirt sophomore KJ McInnis brought home a gold medal and scored 10 points in the men's high jump as he cleared a season-best bar height of 1.99m for event title. Freshman Alex Emers joined him on the podium in third place overall with a mark of 1.94m that was good for six more points, while junior Dillon Arvayo matched his personal best in the event with a bar clearance of 1.89m to finish seventh overall and score two points.
• On the women's side, the conference title came by means of contributions from nearly every event on the schedule, but it was sophomore Krissie Sanders that came through with a team-leading 16 points on Sunday with second place finishes in both the 110m hurdles and 400m hurdles. Sanders posted a season-best NCAA provisional qualifying converted time of 1:00.41 in the 400m hurdles to secure eight points before adding eight more in the 100m hurdles with a season-best converted time of 14.39s. UCCS also got other contributions in the hurdles races with freshman Payton Rodgers finishing fifth and scoring four points in the 100m hurdles with a season-best converted time of 14.66 and redshirt junior Gigi Douillard taking seventh place overall and scoring two points in the women's 400m hurdles with a converted time of 1:04.00.
• Senior Anna Fauske added eight more points for the women's team in the 5,000m race as she earned a second-place finish with a converted time of 17:13.43. Redshirt sophomore Kaya Pillivant collected one more point in the event, finishing eighth overall in a converted time of 17:43.23.
• The men's team tallied 12 points in the men's shot put with junior Kyle Demos coming up just shy of his season-best with an NCAA provisional qualifying toss of 17.52m that was good for a second-place finish and eight points. Redshirt sophomore Kane Fobare also contributed four points in the event as he recorded a personal best and NCAA provisional qualifying mark of 16.83m to finish fifth overall.
• Redshirt junior Jagger Zlotoff raced to a second-place finish in the men's 1500m, posting a converted time of 3:54.96 to grab eight points in the event.
• Senior Logan Cole secured six crucial points in the men's 5,000m race as he put together a gritty performance that saw him finish third overall in the field with a converted time of 14:32.53. Sophomore Brett Davis collected one more point in the event with an eighth-place finish as he galloped to a converted time of 14:44.97.
• After contributing to a monster showing in the 4x100m relay earlier in the day, the trio of Sterling, Ofori-Kuragu, and Mini kept it rolling throughout the day with big point scoring performances in the 100m and 200m dashes. In the 100m, the three outstanding sprinters combined to score 11 points and Sterling found himself with a podium appearance after clocking a converted time of 10.55s that was good for third place. Ofori-Kuragu took fifth in the event with a converted time of 10.61s, while Mini was eighth at a converted time of 10.80s.
• Just about an hour later, the trio went on to add 10 more points to the team tally in the 200m dash as Sterling once again led the group with a fourth-place finish at a season and personal best NCAA provisional qualifying converted time of 20.99s. Ofori-Kuragu joined Sterling in hitting the provisional qualifying threshold in the event as he finished fifth overall with a season and personal best converted time of 21.02s, while Mini clocked a season and personal best converted time of 21.32s to finish in eighth place.
• The Mountain Lions secured 8.5 points in the women's high jump as sophomore Lilyana Delagarza earned a fourth-place finish with a bar clearance of 1.67m and sophomore Dallis Robinson finished in a tie for fifth place with a mark of 1.59m.
• Redshirt freshman Olivia Sargent posted a strong effort in the women's 800m as she claimed fourth place and scored five points in the event with a converted time of 2:17.42. Redshirt senior Rachel Goodrich added two more points in the event with a converted time of 2:22.32 that placed her seventh overall.
• In the women's discus throw, senior Victoria Malaki posted a mark of 43.66m to finish in fourth place overall and score five points. Junior Savannah Jorgens recorded a personal best in the event by more than two meters and wound up finishing eighth overall and securing one more point at a mark of 42.93m.
• Sophomores Danaya Kinnard and Zane Bullock teamed up to score seven points in the women's 200m dash with Kinnard posting a converted time of 24.25s to finish fifth overall and Bullock registering a personal best converted time of 24.38s for a sixth-place finish.
• Sophomore Nigel James was the top finisher for the Mountain Lions in the men's 110m hurdles as he posted a converted time of 14.73s to finish fourth overall and score five points. Sophomore Bryce Joshlin added one more point in the event with a converted time of 15.15s that put him in eighth place.
• About 35 minutes prior to running the 800m race, Goodrich competed in the women's 400m dash and posted a sixth-place finish with a personal best converted time of 57.54s. In addition to Goodrich's three points, senior Alyssa Lopez notched one more with an eighth place converted time of 58.36s.
• Lopez also teamed up with Kinnard, Delagarza, and Douillard in the 4x400m relay to finish the day and the group clocked a season-best converted time of 3:50.66 to score three points with a sixth-place finish.
• Freshman Dyanna Parra posted a personal best in the women's javelin throw by more than 2.5 meters as she posted a toss of 39.18m to finish sixth in the competition and push three points to the women's team.
• Freshman Madison Brosig shaved nearly eight seconds off her previous personal best in the women's 1500m as she recorded a converted time of 4:34.77 to finish seventh in the event and score two points.
• In the women's 100m dash, senior Victoria Farinas scored two points as she earned a seventh-place finish with a converted time of 12.23s. Bullock also added a point, finishing in eighth place with a converted time of 12.44s.
• Farinas and Bullock opened their day in the 4x100m relay, teaming up with redshirt junior Madissyn Moore and Kinnard to record a converted time of 49.19s for an eighth place finish.

BEYOND THE RESULTS

• UCCS recorded updates to the top five lists in the outdoor record book for seven different events on the third and final day of the RMAC Outdoor Championships, including the men's and women's 200m, men's 400m, men's 4x400m, men's shot put, women's discus throw, and women's javelin throw.
  • Kymani Sterling – Men's 200m (2^nd all-time)
  • Daryn Ofori-Kuragu – Men's 200m (3rd all-time)
  • Zane Bullock – Women's 200m (5^th all-time)
  • Sebastien Jean – Men's 400m (School Record)
  • Ashton Whisler – Men's 400m (2^nd all-time)
  • Jean, Nelson, Donelson, Whisler - Men's 4x400m (School Record)
  • Kane Fobare – Men's Shot Put (3^rd all-time)
  • Savannah Jorgens – Women's Discus Throw (4^th all-time)
  • Dyanna Parra – Women's Javelin Throw (2^nd all-time)
• The Mountain Lions tallied a total of 28 podium finishes across the three-day conference championship meet, including 17 on the men's side and 11 on the women's side. Of those podiums, UCCS had nine gold medalists, 10 silver medalists, and nine bronze medalists.
• McInnis was named the Dr. Randy Rhine Men's RMAC Athlete of the Meet as the highest point scorer among all men's student-athletes. The redshirt sophomore jumper scored a total of 26 points as he earned gold medals in the triple jump and high jump in addition to a bronze medal in the long jump.
• After the conclusion of the conference championship meet, UCCS has recorded a total of 33 NCAA provisional qualifying marks for the outdoor season, with 19 coming on the men's side and 14 on the women's side.

FINAL TEAM STANDINGS (MEN)

1. UCCS – 198 points
2. Colorado School of Mines – 195 points
3. CSU Pueblo – 101 points
4. Colorado Mesa – 71 points
5. Chadron State – 57 points
6. MSU Denver – 45 points
7. Western Colorado – 36 points
8. South Dakota Mines – 34 points
9. Black Hills State – 33.5 points
10. Adams State – 30 points
11. Fort Lewis – 12 points
12. Westminster – 4.5 points
13. Colorado Christian – 2 points

FINAL TEAM STANDINGS (WOMEN)

1. UCCS – 172 points
2. Colorado School of Mines – 157 points
3. New Mexico Highlands – 110 points
4. CSU Pueblo – 104 points
5. Colorado Mesa – 79 points
6. Western Colorado – 61.5 points
7. Adams State – 41 points
8. MSU Denver – 23 points
9. Regis – 17 points
10. Black Hills State – 14.5 points
11. Westminster – 11 points
12. Chadron State – 10 points
13. Colorado Christian – 10 points
14. Fort Lewis – 8 points

UP NEXT

• The Mountain Lions have a handful of last chance meets on their schedule before the participant field for the 2025 NCAA Division II Outdoor Track & Field Championships is revealed on Tuesday, May 13, at approximately 4 p.m. (MT). The three-day national championship meet will take place inside the CSUP ThunderBowl in Pueblo, Colo., on May 22-24.  

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As a member of the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference, the University of Colorado Colorado Springs competes in 14 varsity sports in NCAA Division II intercollegiate athletics.