Final Results

PUEBLO, Colo. - Arvid Veidmark IV was named the Men's Athlete of the Meet to highlight the final day of the 2021 RMAC Outdoor Track & Field Championships for Colorado School of Mines.

Veidmark won the shot put with a new Mines record to match his discus gold from Saturday and hammer fourth place on Friday, earning the conference's top honor. Connor McLean added gold in the men's pole vault, and Mines collected nine medals overall on Sunday.

Both the Mines men and women finished third as the men scored 106 team points and the women 98. UCCS won both team titles with Western Colorado the runner-up on both sides. 

SHOT PUT
Veidmark added to his medal haul with a huge shot put PR of 17.97m (58-11.5), resetting his own program record once again while also moving up the national performance list. He hit the mark on his fifth throw, outclassing the field by more than five feet; that should move him up to 12th on the D-II list. Veidmark bettered his previous best of 17.62m. 

In the women's shot, Kathleen Tomon snared the bronze medal with her best throw of 13.60m (44-7.5), while Reilly West finished 15th at 11.37m (37-3.75). 

POLE VAULT
Mines' biggest points of the day came in the men's pole vault where Connor McLean and Hunter Potrykus went 1-3 and Ben Twombly finished sixth. McLean cleared 5.13m (16-10) on his second attempt to win, while Potrykus made 4.93m (16-2) for third. Twombly scored thanks to a 4.73m (15-6.25) clearance.

HIGH JUMP
Lexye Wood earned the silver medal in the women's high jump clearing 1.65m (5-5), a 5.5-inch PR that moves her into a tie for the #2 all-time performance at Mines. Wood cleared the highest bar by an Oredigger since 2005.

Grant Redmond finished sixth to lead Mines in the high jump, clearing 2.00m (6-6.75). Redmond made the 2-meter bar and passed at 2.03m, but did not make 2.06m with only champion Jaxon Hinch of CCU making it over. Koby Dudley was 13th at 1.85m (6-0.75)

JAVELIN
Garrett Lanker snagged two team points with a seventh-place finish in the javelin, hitting 52.85m (173-5) on his second throw. That represented a three-foot PR and the #4 all-time performance at Mines - and best since 2015 - for the sophomore.

TRIPLE JUMP
Fischer Argosino placed 11th in the triple jump at 14.50m (47-7), setting a new PR by six and a quarter inches.

SPRINTS
Layla Moriarty earned the bronze medal in a photo finish for third in the 400m dash, clocking a time of 57.37. That was three-hundreths ahead of CSU Pueblo's Yasmine Hernandez. Amenda Nelson scored three team points with her sixth-place 58.37 time. 

Danny Fuhr earned the 400m hurdles silver medal with an NCAA-provisional time of 52.98 seconds, a half-second PR and the #4 all-time performance at Mines. Everett Delate placed ninth in the 110m hurdles in 19.93 seconds.

In the 4x400 relays, the Mines men (Fuhr, Abueg, Kneese, and Maguire) ran 3:18.32 for sixth, while the women's relay (Nelson, Pollock, Moriarty, and Keniry) clocked 4:15.12 for seventh.

DISTANCE
Luke Julian placed third in an incredible 1,500m men's final, crossing in 3:57.43 in a race where just two-tenths of a second separated the top three finishers. Heather Keniry scored a team point for the women with her eighth-place 4:46.28 time.

In the 800m, Aryelle Wright finished fourth in the women's race in 2:11.80, while Ben Abueg was sixth in the men's final in 1:54.44. Maddie Geesen finished seventh in the women's 5,000m run in 18:51.60.

NEXT UP
Mines will await the selections for the 2021 NCAA Division II Championships that are set to begin May 27 in Allendale, Mich.