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2021-22 Women's Track & Field Roster

Erin Perez
UCCS Athletics
RMAC Office
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Clayton Jones

Rachel Crutcher

  • Height 5-5
  • Events Sprints
  • Hometown Denver, Colo.
  • High School Far Northeast
  • Prev School New Mexico JC
  • Indoor Yr. Redshirt Junior
  • Outdoor Yr. R-Jr.

Biography

TFRRS Career Results Page (CMU)
TFRRS Career Results Page (New Mexico JC)

Career Honors
  • 3x USTFCCCA All-Region
    • 2020 Indoor (60m & 200m)
    • 2021 Indoor (60m)
    • 2022 Indoor (4x400m Relay)
  • RMAC Champion (2020 Indoor-200m)
  • 5x Overall RMAC
    • 2x First Team
      • 2020 Indoor (60m & 200m)
    • 3x Second Team
      • 2021 Outdoor (4x100m Relay)
      • 2022 Indoor (60 & 200m)
  • 2021 Outdoor NCAA Championship Participant (4x100m Relay)
2022 Outdoor (Redshirt Junior): Redshirt season.

2021-22 Indoor (Redshirt Junior): Competed in six meets, including the RMAC Championships… Earned Second Team All-RMAC honors in both the 60 and 200 meters… Ran the 60 meters at each of her six meets, finishing fourth at the RMAC Championships with a season-best time of 7.61 seconds… Posted a season-best time of 25.06 in the 200 to take fifth place… Was ranked sixth on the season-long RMAC performance lists in both events with her altitude and track-size converted times of 7.65 and 24.82… Both were NCAA provisional qualifying times that ranked her 43rd (tie) in the 60 and 50th in the 200 meters on a national scale… Won the 400 meters at the Mountaineer Open & Multi in her lone effort at that discipline… Posted a time of 58.61 to rank ninth in program history… Also ranked ninth on the season-long RMAC performance list with a converted time of 58.06… Also ran on the Mavs’ 4x400-meter relay team that posted a time of 3:49.08 at the Don Kirby Open & Elite in Albuquerque, New Mexico, second fastest in program history... Earned USTFCCCA All-Region honors thanks to that effort.

2021 Outdoor (Redshirt Sophomore): Competed in three meets, including the RMAC and NCAA Division II National Championships… Finished second in the 100 meters at the Maverick Sun Classic, her only individual effort of the season as she worked back from injury… Had a time of 12.30 seconds, which ranks her sixth in school history… Earned Second Team All-RMAC honors in the 4x100-meter relay after helping the Mavs post a time of 47.20 seconds to finish second in that event at the conference meet… That time ranks 13th in program history… Was named as an alternate to the Mavs’ national meet relay team… Ended up running a leg on the team that finished 12th as she made her NCAA Championship debut.
 
2021 Indoor (Redshirt Junior):
Competed in four meets, including the RMAC Championships…Posted four wins while finishing no lower than second… Ran the 60 meters at each, posting a season-best and NCAA provisional qualifying time of 7.60 to finish second in the preliminary round before being unable to compete in the remainder of the meet due to injury… Also won the event in 7.63 seconds at the Western Slope Challenge to begin the campaign… Had won the 200 meters Adams State Grizzly Open with a time of 25.73 seconds… Helped the Mavs win the 4x400-meter relay at both the Western Slope Challenge (3:56.86) and CRC Open (3:58.55)… Those times rank seventh and tenth best in CMU history… Was ranked third on the RMAC’s season-long performance list in the 60 meters with a altitude-adjusted mark of 7.62 seconds… Earned USTFCCCA All-South Central honors in that event… Was tied for 18th nationally… Finished eighth on the RMAC list in the 200 meters at 25.48.

2020 Outdoor: Season canceled due to the COVID-19 outbreak.

2019-20 Indoor (Redshirt Sophomore): Competed in five meets, including the RMAC Championships… Earned two First Team All-RMAC honors and a conference title as she won the 200 meters in 24.83 seconds while placing second behind teammate Brooklynn York in the 60 meters… Had a time of 7.59 seconds in that sprint… Both marks were NCAA provisional qualifying times and career-bests... Sits third on the Mavs’ all-time 200-meter chart and tied for third in the 60 meters… Her converted 200-meter time of 24.59 seconds led the RMAC’s season-long performers list and ranked her 27th nationally… Was ranked third in the RMAC and tied for 40th nationally with her altitude-adjusted 60-meter time of 7.63… Was CMU’s lone 2-event USTFCCCA All-South Central Regional performer of the campaign… Also ran on three 4x400-meter relay teams throughout the season… Helped the Mavs to a fifth place finish at the RMAC meet in a time of 4:00.98… Had helped the Mavs to an even quicker time of 3:58.29, ninth fastest in program history at the Don Kirby Elite Invitational on Feb. 14.

JC: Qualified for the NJCAA National Championships during both the 2019 indoor and outdoor seasons as a redshirt freshman at New Mexico Junior College in Hobbs... Helped the Thunderbirds finish third in the 4x100-meter relay at the outdoor meet... That helped the team win their third straight national title... Placed 14th individually in the 400 at the outdoor meet... Had season-bests of 7.88 (60) and 58.87 (400) indoors before clocking a time of 25.37 in the 200 in her lone reported outdoor meet prior to nationals... Redshirted in 2017-18.

Prep: Finished fifth in the 200 and sixth in the 100 at the 2017 5A State Championships for the Far Northeast Warriors... Attended the Montbello HS portion of the co-op program... Had PR times of 12.11 and 25.04 at that meet... Went on to finish eighth in the 100 at the Great Southwest Classic.

Personal: Is majoring in biology and wants to become a radiologist.

Why I Chose CMU: "I chose CMU because of the athletics and they have the radiology program that I want to go into."

Historical Player Information

  • 2019-20Redshirt Sophomore

    Sprints/Jumps
    5'5"
  • 2020-21Redshirt Junior

    Sprints/Jumps
    5'5"
  • 2021-22Redshirt Junior

    Sprints
    5'5"