{"id":32055,"date":"2018-05-18T08:15:14","date_gmt":"2018-05-18T14:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=32055"},"modified":"2018-05-21T15:53:49","modified_gmt":"2018-05-21T21:53:49","slug":"11-mountain-lions-qualify-for-national-track-and-field-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=32055","title":{"rendered":"11 Mountain Lions qualify for national track and field championships"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A record 11 student-athletes will compete for national titles in nine events at the 2018 NCAA Division II Outdoor Track and Field Championships May 24-26 at the Irwin Belk Track Complex in Charlotte, North Carolina.<\/p>\n

Skylyn Webb will be the favorite in the women\u2019s 800-meter run with the top time in the nation at 2 minutes, 4.57 seconds. She was the RMAC Track Athlete of the Year and finished third in the same event at the indoor national championships. Webb was the conference champion in the 400-meter dash this season.<\/p>\n

Caleb Simons will compete in three events for the men\u2019s team in the 200-meter dash, 400-meter dash and 4×100-meter relay. He was an All-RMAC First Team performer in all three events and won the conference championship in the relay with Johnathan Douglas, Deshon Elcock and Chris Smith. The relay has the fifth-fastest seed time among qualifiers with an altitude-adjusted 40.42 seconds.<\/p>\n

The women will field multiple student-athletes in the 1,500-meter run and long jump. Molly Klotz and Kayla Wooten will compete in the 1,500-meter run. Klotz has the seventh-fastest time among qualifiers at 4:24.78 and Wooten was an All-American in the indoor mile in 2017.<\/p>\n

Hannah Meek qualified for the long jump in the final meet of the regular season with 19-8 \u00bc, and Kaija Crowe earned her trip after a runner-up performance at the RMAC Championships April 27 with the same mark. Crowe will also compete in the heptathlon after she won the conference championship.<\/p>\n

A pair of freshmen, Sierra Suazo and Kayla Zink, will round out the Mountain Lion competitors. Suazo qualified in the discus throw with 159-8 and has the fourth-best mark among freshman qualifiers. Zink will compete at the national level for the second time this year in the 100-meter dash after she earned three all-conference awards in the sprint events at the championships. She finished No. 15 in the 60-meter dash at the indoor championships in March 2018.<\/p>\n

The championship races, and certain preliminary events as the schedule allows, will be broadcast live on NCAA.com.<\/p>\n

UCCS Schedule of Events (all times Mountain Daylight Time)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thursday, May 24<\/strong><\/p>\n