Robles, Meek Named RMAC Women’s Indoor Athletes of the Week
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Adams State’s Brianna Robles and University of Colorado Colorado Springs’ Hannah Meek are the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Women’s Indoor Track and Field Athletes of the Week, respectively, the league announced Wednesday.
Robles earns Women’s Track Athlete of the Week after a 13th-place finish in the 5,000-meter event over the weekend at the 2022 Husky Classic in Seattle, Wash. She shot out to a strong start and kept the pace for a 16:03.76 finish, setting the Adams State program record along the way. She was the top NCAA Division II finisher in the race and accomplished the feat in a field of 52 competitors, which was stacked with a plethora of Division I student-athletes.
The Grizzlies return to action this weekend at the Western Colorado Alumni Open in Gunnison, Colo., for their final regular-season meet of the 2021-22 indoor campaign. Events begin at 4 p.m. MT Friday, Feb. 18, inside WCU’s Mountaineer Field House.
Meek stamps her third RMAC Field Athlete of the Week award this season after a pair of strong performances for the Mountain Lions in Topeka, Kan., last week. The senior competed in two meets for UCCS and nabbed a pair of gold medals in the long jump events at Thursday’s Ichabod Mid-Week Challenge and Saturday’s Ichabod Invitational. On Thursday, Meek leaped to a 6.17m (20-03.0 feet) long jump mark, earning the gold medal and shattering the Washburn facility record in the process.
UCCS will compete in one final meet before the postseason and will do so this weekend at the Air Force Collegiate Open in Colorado Springs, Colo. Competition will get underway Friday, Feb. 18, at 2 p.m.
Women’s Track Athlete of the Week: Brianna Robles, Adams State – So. – Palmview, Texas
Robles set a school record in the 5,000m after finishing the race with a time of 16:03.76 in a stacked field at the Husky Classic. She broke the Grizzlies’ previous program record of 16:16.09, which was set by Roisin Flanagan in the 2019 season. The time saw her finish in 13th place in a field of competitors that saw ten NCAA Division I athletes and two professional runners. She was the first DII finisher in the race and now ranks first on the NCAA Division II qualifying list by a 15-second margin.
Women’s Field Athlete of the Week: Hannah Meek, UCCS – Sr. – Pueblo, Colo.
Meek had an impressive week in the sand, competing in a pair of meets for UCCS at Washburn University. On Thursday, at the Ichabod Mid-Week Challenge, Meek took first place in the long jump by a wide margin, jumping to a mark of 6.17m and shattering the Washburn facility record. Meek nearly matched her performance on Saturday at the Ichabod Invitational, earning another first-place nod and jumping to 6.14m. Both of Meek's marks fall short of her season-best and Division II leading long jump mark of 6.37m, but sit in the top-five of the NCAA Division II performance list for this season.