Results

COLORADO SPRINGS - While Colorado School of Mines cross country program was still celebrating its historic championship-winning day in Seattle, the calendar turned to indoor track & field season in Colorado Springs as the Orediggers got things started at the Air Force Holiday Open on Friday.

The abbreviated meet saw a full slate of field events plus track distance at a mile and under to begin the new year. It was a chance not to just to get in early-season work, but to do so against a good field filled with Divison I competition at the Academy. 

For the women, Avery Herbold won the pole vault with a new PR and Mines all-time #2 mark of 3.95m, clearing the bar on her first attempt; she headed a group that included Ava Kowalski in fifth at 3.50m and Gabbi Varela in sixth at the same height.

On the track, the 4x440m relay of Allison Comer, Avary Catchings, Aryelle Wright, and Grace Galvin won the event by more than seven seconds, in 4:01.22. Miranda Manfre led the Orediggers individually on the track with a second-place 1:39.40 in the 600m, and Galvin and Comer finished 25th and 26th at 8.13 and 8.17, respectively, in the 60m dash. Avery Wright (9.66) was 19th in the 60m hurdles with Sidney Walshaw 22nd (9.90). 

Lexye Wood cleared 1.55m for ninth in the high jump, with Abbi Gillespie matching her indoor best at 1.55m for 13th, Claire Kintzley finishing 15th (1.50m), and Avery Wright 17th (1.50m). 
Walshaw hit 5.00m in the long jump to place 19th, and in the circle, Kitt Rupar threw 11.89m for seventh in the shot put and 12.44m (40-9.75) for 16th in the weight throw.

In the men's meet, Mines' sprinters got things going as Andy Gebhardt ran the rarely-seen 600m and finished second in 1:22.90, and Everett Delate was also the runner-up and the top D-II competitor in the 60m hurdles at 8.08, a new career best. Garrett Halbrooks took 18th in the 60m dash in 7.04, and Zack Raake was 21st in 7.09. 

The men's 4x440m relay finished second in 3:24.73 with Jonah Fallon, Joey Maguire, Delate, and Tim Thompson. 

In the field, Grant Redmond opened his season with a fourth-place 2.00m clearance in the high jump, and Mines had plenty of success in the pole vault as Hunter Potrykus and Kai Miller both cleared the 4.75m bar to finish fourth and fifth, respectively. Jackson Wray was 11th at 4.30m. In the throws, Brody Welch (14.36m) and Hayden Swim (14.28m) finished 7-8 in the shot put, with Welch entering the all-time indoor top-10 with his mark; Welch was also 14th in the weight throw at 13.91m.

NEXT UP
Mines will head back to Colorado Springs to compete in the Colorado Running Company Pre-Holiday Invite & Multi at UCCS on Dec. 9-10.