Anchorage’s Jessica Todd had a pretty memorable weekend at the Colorado Invitational college meet. The senior sprinter helped set a pair of relay school records for the University of Colorado-Colorado Springs. She was the common link between the team teams. Todd, of Dimond High fame, ran the second leg of the 400-meter relay and helped… Read more »
UC Colorado Springs senior runner Jessica Todd just missed winning a medal but settled for a school record at the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference indoor championships in Colorado. Her 4×400-meter relay team finished fourth with an altitude-adjusted time of 3:56.39, beating the previous record by a second and a half. Todd, of Dimond High fame,… Read more »
University of Colorado-Colorado Springs hurdler Jessica Todd of Anchorage turned in the fastest 400-meter hurdles race of her life when it mattered most. The junior earned all-conference honors for the second straight year after placing second at the RMAC Outdoor Championships in Colorado. Her time of 1:03.83 was a school record. She finished third in… Read more »
Jessica Todd of Anchorage earned a pair of all-conference finishes for University of Colorado Colorado Springs at the RMAC Track and Field Championships in Golden. The sophomore finished third in the 400-meter hurdles with a PR time and then placed sixth in the long jump, coming an inch of her PR. Todd, of Dimond High… Read more »
Two University of Colorado-Colorado Springs track stars from Alaska are headed to Alabama next week for the NCAA D2 Indoor Track and Field Championships. Anthony Davis of Fairbanks will compete as part of the distance medley relay team on March 8. The UCCS team has the seventh-fastest time among the dozen in the men’s field…. Read more »
University of Colorado-Colorado Springs freshman Jessica Todd of Anchorage set a personal best in the pentathlon, scoring 2,942 points at the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Championships. During the competition she also broke the school record in the long jump with a new best of 5.22 meters. Todd, of Dimond High fame, also played a vital… Read more »
Call it love at first sight, because that’s how Anchorage’s Jessica Todd felt about the University of Colorado-Colorado Springs at first glance. “It just clicked,” she told me. Todd, of Dimond High fame, made her commitment official recently after signing her letter of intent to attend the school and participate in track and field. “I’ve… Read more »
Anchorage nordic skier Jessica Yeaton turned in an extraordinary performance to win the 46th American Birkebeiner, the biggest cross-country ski race in North America. There were 766 women in the 50-kilometer freestyle race, and for about 20 kilometers or so, Yeaton didn’t see a single one of them. Yeaton, a APU skier and 2018 Olympian,… Read more »
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