{"id":153404,"date":"2023-12-18T12:23:01","date_gmt":"2023-12-18T19:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=153404"},"modified":"2023-12-18T12:25:15","modified_gmt":"2023-12-18T19:25:15","slug":"alumni-train-for-olympic-trials-at-the-hybl-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=153404","title":{"rendered":"Alumni train for Olympic Trials at the Hybl Center"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow aligncenter\" data-effect=\"slide\"><div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_container swiper-container\"><ul class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_swiper-wrapper swiper-wrapper\"><li class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_slide swiper-slide\"><figure><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_image wp-image-153405\" data-id=\"153405\" src=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/XC-1200x900.png\" 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1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_caption gallery-caption\">Marcus Graham, Afewerki Zeru, Lexie Greitzer and Jessica Watychowicz<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_slide swiper-slide\"><figure><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_image wp-image-153406\" data-id=\"153406\" src=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/XC1-1200x900.png\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/XC1-1200x900.png 1200w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/XC1-1067x800.png 1067w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/XC1-768x576.png 768w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/XC1-1536x1152.png 1536w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/XC1-326x245.png 326w, 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class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_pagination swiper-pagination swiper-pagination-white\"><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">UCCS alums Marcus Graham, Afewerki Zeru and Lexie Greitzer, as well as University of Wisconsin alum Jessica Watychowicz, took advantage of the high altitude chamber at the UCCS Hybl Sports Center to train for the USA Olympic Trials Marathon on Feb. 3, 2024 in Orlando, Florida.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Although it was a snowy day outside, the altitude chamber was adjusted to be humid and warm, to more closely mimic the conditions the athletes will face in Florida. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In order to qualify for the USA Olympic Trials Marathon, the women had to run under 2:37:00 for a marathon or 1:12:00 for a half-marathon, and the men had to run under 2:18:00 for a marathon or under 1:03:00 for a half-marathon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All four athletes live, work and train in Colorado Springs and are part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/cospeliterunco.github.io\/CSERC\/\">Colorado Springs Elite Running Coalition<\/a>. The four of them have competed in multiple in NCAA II National Championships for cross country and track while achieving school records, all-conference, all-region and all-American honors. Graham, Zeru and Greitzer competed for UCCS, and Watychowicz for University of Wisconsin-Parkside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">UCCS alum Mason Frank has also qualified to compete in the Trials, which will be his third (2016, 2020 and 2024).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>UCCS alums Marcus Graham, Afewerki Zeru and Lexie Greitzer took advantage of the high altitude chamber at the Hybl Center to train for the USA Olympic Trials Marathon. <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=153404\" title=\"Alumni train for Olympic Trials at the Hybl Center\">(More)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":153405,"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_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,427,25,13],"tags":[93,332,60,279],"class_list":["post-153404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all","category-alumni-stories","category-athletics","category-photo-features","tag-athletics","tag-more-news","tag-student-success","tag-william-j-hybl-sports-medicine-and-performance-center"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/XC.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1mBpJ-DUg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153404","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=153404"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":153415,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153404\/revisions\/153415"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/153405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=153404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=153404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=153404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}