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Results
Day 1 Recap

PUEBLO, Colo. - Colorado School of Mines outdoor track & field continued its record-breaking start to the season, setting four new program marks and adding numerous national standards at the Spank Blasing Invite at CSU Pueblo.

Aryelle Wright again doubled up as she reset her Mines 800m mark and helped the 4x400 relay do the same, while in the field, Hannah Miller became the first Oredigger woman to clear four meters in the pole vault and Arvid Veidmark IV made a big improvement on his shot put record.

MORE MIDDLE DISTANCE RECORDS
A week after breaking the Mines 800m record, Wright did it again as she ran 2:11.20 to better her best by more than a half-second. Wright - the RMAC Athlete of the Week - ran 2:11.72 at Pueblo last weekend, and improved her NCAA provisional standing with what is now the D-II #3 time as she finished third overall. In the men's 800, Ben Abueg ran 1:54.42 for seventh place.

The women's 4x400 also reset their week-old record in a big way as Randi Higashi, Amena Nelson, Layla Moriarty, and Wright slashed four seconds off the time from last week to place second in 3:52.01, behind only the team from Colorado State. A thrilling men's 4x400 race saw Mines take second by just four-hundreths behind UCCS as Hayden Sather, Ben Abueg, Troy Kneese, and Joey Maguire ran 3:18.04.

Higashi won the women's 400m in a time of 57.60, a new personal best that puts her third all-time on the Mines top-10 list. Moriarty was third in 58.03, another PR that ranks fifth at Mines, while Nelson finished seventh in 59.97 and Natalie Pollock 15th in 1:02.89. Maguire was fifth in the men's 400m dash (second among D-II) in 48.73 with Kneese 12th in 50.35.

MILLER CLEARS POLE VAULT RECORD AGAIN, POTRYKUS AND HERBOLD PROVO
For the second straight week, Hannah Miller improved on Mines' outdoor pole vault record as she cleared 4.04m (13-3) to win the women's event, moving her to third place on the D-II national performance list. Miller had cleared 3.90m last week. Teammate Avery Herbold surpassed what had been the record, making the 3.94m (12-11) bar to place second and also set an NCAA provisional mark. Ava Kowalski was eighth clearing 3.19m (10-5.5) and Lauren Kelly ninth at 3.04m (9-11.75). 

For the men it was Hunter Potrykus leading the way, tying for the best clearance at 5.06m (16-7.25) but being judged second. That's an NCAA provisional mark for the freshman as he becomes the third Oredigger to pass five meters in height. Ben Twombly was sixth in 4.51m (14-9.5).

VEIDMARK RESETS SHOT PUT MARK
Arvid Veidmark IV reset his Mines shot put record by more than a foot, placing third overall and first among collegiate competitors in the men's shot put with a 17.04m (55-11) best. He had thrown 16.60m (54-5.5) last week, and his new mark vaults him into the NCAA D-II top 10 at #8 pending this weekend's other results. Veidmark also placed ninth in the discus (46.75m/153-4).

Davin Kiesby was 23rd in the shot put at 11.64m (38-2.25). Kathleen Tomon led the women's shot putters in sixth with a best of 13.22m (43-4.5), and Reilly West was 17th in 37-2.5. Krista Carlo and Tomon placed eighth and ninth, respectively, in the discus as Carlo hit a new PR of 40.59m (133-02) and Tomon 39.78m (130-6).

MCLEAN HITS LONG JUMP BEST
Connor McLean was the top D-II long jumper in second place, hitting an NCAA-provisional 7.28m (23-10.75) on his fifth attempt to surpass his previous outdoor best by more than a foot and move up to a tie for second all-time at Mines. Hayden Sather was 14th in the event at 6.59m (21-7.5).

In the women's long jump, Sophia Collins had another good outing placing fourth at 5.81m (19-00.75) while Lexye Wood was 14th in 5.36m (17-7). Fischer Argosino placed 12th in the triple jump at 13.46m (44-2).

Grant Redmond led the high jumpers with a 2.00m (6-6.75) clearance for third, with Koby Dudley 13th at 1.90m (6-2.75). Wood topped the women's high jumpers in 11th (1.55m/5-1) with Abigail Gillespie 17th (1.45m/4-9). 

SPRINTERS FIND SUCCESS
In the 100m dash, John Sass led the men placing 10th in 11.11 with Garrett Halbrooks 16th in 11.29. Both 4x100 relays placed fifth as the men ran 42.99 (Sass, Halbrooks, Argosino, Delate) and the women 48.76 (Collins, Nelson, Higashi, Miller). 

In the men's 110m hurdles, Everett Delate led three Orediggers with a sixth-place 14.65 time, which was second among D-II runners. Joe Whitney was 12th in 15.54 and Hayden Sather 18th in 15.90. The 400m hurdlers were led by Danny Fuhr on the men's side, finishing fifth in 54.14, with Delate seventh in 55.01 and Whitney ninth in 56.89. The women were paced by Allee Beach's seventh-place 1:05.83 and Lauren Kelly's 11th-place 1:07.38, which earned her a spot on the Mines top-10 list in eighth. 

The sprinters continued in the 200m dash with Sass placing ninth in 22.17 and Halbrooks 16th in 23.15 for the men, with Natalie Pollock 27th in the women's field in 27.31.

DISTANCE HIGHLIGHTS
Mines had a limited group of distance runners in action on Saturday as Melina Endsley led the Orediggers in the 5,000m to start the morning, placing third in 18:28.49, with Holly Moser eighth in 18:55.75 and Emma Arterbury 14th in 19:31.69. Alex Raichart was the lone Oredigger in the 1500m, placing 16th in 4:46.59.

NEXT UP
Mines heads the other way on I-25 to visit Colorado State University for the Doug Max Invite next Saturday.