{"id":131426,"date":"2021-03-30T16:44:59","date_gmt":"2021-03-30T22:44:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=131426"},"modified":"2021-04-02T07:40:30","modified_gmt":"2021-04-02T13:40:30","slug":"mountain-lions-shine-in-spring-athletic-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=131426","title":{"rendered":"Mountain Lions shine in spring athletic rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/womens-soccer.jpg\" alt=\"A soccer player dribbles\" class=\"wp-image-131427\"\/><figcaption>Photo by Isaiah J. Downing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As UCCS Athletics teams, including Women&#8217;s Soccer and Women and Men&#8217;s Outdoor Track &amp; Field, continue racking up victories, evaluators are taking notice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Women&#8217;s Soccer<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Women&#8217;s Soccer team improved four spots to #7 in the latest United Soccer Coaches National Ranking after improving their record to a perfect 4-0.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The ranking finds the Mountain Lions ranked first in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference, with two of their four victories coming against conference opponents. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gomountainlions.com\/sports\/womens-soccer\/archives\">Tap here to follow coverage of Women&#8217;s Soccer and see upcoming games.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Outdoor Track &amp; Field<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After a successful indoor campaign that saw several shattered records, the Women and Men&#8217;s Track &amp; Field teams continue to shine outdoors. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The U.S. Track &amp; Field and Cross Country Coaches Association announced their Division II National Ratings for the outdoor season with the UCCS Men&#8217;s team ranked 5 in the nation and the UCCS Women&#8217;s team ranked 18.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During their indoor campaign, neither team fell below the top-25 in the same index. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gomountainlions.com\/sports\/mens-track-and-field\/archives\">Tap here to follow coverage of Track &amp; Field and see upcoming meets.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>As UCCS Athletics teams continue racking up victories, evaluators are taking notice.  <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=131426\" title=\"Mountain Lions shine in spring athletic rankings\">(More)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":131427,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,25],"tags":[93,332],"class_list":["post-131426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-more-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/womens-soccer.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1mBpJ-ybM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=131426"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131542,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131426\/revisions\/131542"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/131427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=131426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=131426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=131426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}