The Colorado College men's cross country team opened the 2022 season on Saturday with a fifth-place finish at the UCCS Rust Buster Meet in Monument Valley Park.
 
Junior James Settles led the Tigers with a 36th-place individual finish, running the 8K race in 27 minutes, 41.03 seconds. Fellow junior Devlin Swanson was close behind in 38th place with a time of 27:42.41.
 
Sophomore Brett Kitazono placed 43^rd, followed by freshman Joe Bullock, who finished 44^th in his first collegiate race. Freshman Huck Whittemore, who also ran his inaugural race, rounded out the scoring for CC in 55^th place.
 
"We kept the efforts very much under control today and had some really solid groups forming," head coach Alex Nichols said. "It was great to see teamwork and supportive racing out there. Today was just what we needed to get the season started."
 
Team Results
1. UCCS – 37
2. CSU-Pueblo – 40
3. NM Highlands - 124 
4. Metro State – 125
5. Colorado College – 141
 
Colorado College Individual Results

Place	Name	Time	Pts.
36	James Settles	27:41.03	24
38	Devlin Swanson	27:42.41	26
43	Brett Kitazono	28:07.13	28
44	Joe Bullock	28:12.24	29
55	Huck Whittemore	28:51.94	34
57	Axel Komplarens	29:01.53	(35)
61	Jennings Wilson	29:06.45	(36)
65	Mason Castle	29:14.33
66	Theo Snowdon	29:21.10
68	Luc Santos	29:34.49
70	Andrew Han	29:41.75
71	Liam Mullen	29:43.65
72	Ruben Margolis	29:52.20
75	Dominic Schwein	30:03.05
77	Lucaiah Smith-Miodownik	30:10.85
78	Emerson Worrell	30:12.99
81	Ethan Castette	30:32.26
83	Jay Moran	30:41.77
85	Aidan Santos	30:58.58
87	Rabbit Barnes	31:16.79