SEATTLE, Wash. – After the first day of competition, the University of Colorado track and field program took home a pair of Mountain Pacific Sports Federation individual titles in the women's 5,000 by Tayler Tuttle and men's 200 by Duane McClurkin Jr. in Seattle, Wash., Friday evening.
Tuttle took home the first title for the Buffaloes. The junior held onto the leader for 4,700 meters of the race before taking the lead and running away with the title at 16:29.60. She let Oregon's Philippa Bowden pace the majority of the race after a group of eight broke off of the pack of 24 after a mile.