COLORADO SPRINGS – Sophomore Ben Timmer broke the school record in the pole vault and senior Bailey Hoover reestablished the program mark in the hammer throw as the Colorado School of Mines outdoor track and field teams concluded the three-day Air Force Relays at the Cadet Outdoor Track and Field Complex in Colorado Springs.

Timmer recorded his second NCAA Provisional in as many weekends, clearing 15-7.00 (4.75 meters) on his second attempt Saturday and breaking the 10-year old Mines record of 15-6.00, set by Zane Prickett in 2003. The fourth-best effort of the afternoon leads the RMAC by 2.5 inches and is tied for 22nd nationally.

Hoover improved her school-record hammer throw of 156-3 from last year's RMAC Championships by over five feet with a launch of 161-6 (49.22 meters), finishing as the day's top Division II thrower and seventh overall out of 23 competitors.  

Hoover also bettered her personal-record in the discus with relative ease, taking seventh out of 20 with a distance of 131-9 (40.17 meters).

In the men's throws, sophomore Austin Roup logged his second Provisional of the outdoor season in the hammer with a new career-best and the No. 3 distance in program history of 184-0 (56.09 meters), good for ninth overall in the 22-thrower field. Roup was also tops among the Division II ranks and 12th overall in the discus with a personal-record of 148-8 (45.31 meters).

Both Roup and Hoover rank first in the RMAC and No. 13 and No. 30, respectively, in Division II in the hammer.

Adding top-four finishes was freshman McKenzie Zeman in the 400 hurdles with a third-place time of 1:08.27 and junior Kayla Johnson in the triple jump, totaling 37-11.25 (11.56 meters) for fourth out of 13.

Senior Cody Walega placed sixth in the pole vault with a height of 14-1.25 (4.30 meters).

Juniors Casie Ratzlaff and Kristina Gallmeyer were 14th and 16th in the hammer throw with respective tosses of 143-4 (43.68 meters) and 132-10 (40.49 meters). Ratzlaff also led non-Division I throwers in the shot put, ranking eighth (36-3.5; 11.06 meters).

The sprint medley relay foursome of freshmen Ian Rozier and Nicholas Masching, sophomore Austin Shaffer and red-shirt freshman Kodi Burns took second behind Northern Colorado in 3:40.15.

Red-shirt freshman Andrew Eberle and sophomore Kento Okamoto went 9-10 in a field of 16 in the long jump with respective efforts of 19-1.50 (5.83 meters) and 17-11.00 (5.46 meters).

The men and women make a return trip to Boulder next Saturday, April 13 for the Colorado Invitational, hosted by CU at Potts Field.