{"id":32132,"date":"2018-05-30T13:28:42","date_gmt":"2018-05-30T19:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=32132"},"modified":"2018-06-24T09:14:34","modified_gmt":"2018-06-24T15:14:34","slug":"webb-wins-800-meter-national-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=32132","title":{"rendered":"Webb wins 800 meter national championship"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Skylyn Webb on top of the podium at the 2018 NCAA Division II Outdoor Track & Field Championships<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Skylyn Webb won the first women’s individual national championship in UCCS history with a meet record time of 2 minutes, 2.47 seconds in the 800-meter run at the 2018 NCAA Division II Outdoor Track & Field Championships. She is the second overall national championship and the first since Moses Tum won the 1,500-meter run at the 2005 outdoor championships.<\/p>\n

Along with Webb, six more Mountain Lions earned All-America honors at the championship meet, hosted by Johnson C. Smith University in Charlotte, North Carolina.<\/p>\n

Kaija Crowe earned a pair of second team All-America accolades. She finished No. 11 in the heptathlon with 4,843 points and No. 15 in the long jump with 18 feet, 8 1\/2 inches.<\/p>\n

The men’s 4×100-meter relay team finished seventh for a first team All-America award. John Douglas, Deshon Elcock, Caleb Simons and Chris Smith crossed the finish line in 40.78 seconds in the finals May 26.<\/p>\n

Following the relay, Molly Klotz placed eighth out of 12 runners in the women’s 1500-meter finals to earn a spot on the All-America first team honors. She recorded a time of 4:27.39.<\/p>\n

Kayla Zink, Hannah Meek and Sierra Suazo also competed for the women’s team in the 100-meter dash, long jump and discus throw, respectively. Simons also competed in the preliminaries for the 200-meter and 400-meter dashes.<\/p>\n

The UCCS women’s team recorded 11 points and tied for No. 29 in the national results. The men’s team finished the meet with two points from the relay performance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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