Day 1 Results

GOLDEN, Colo. - Colorado School of Mines got the new indoor track & field season off to a bang, breaking three program records and winning four events on the first day of the Alumni Classic at Steinhauer Fieldhouse.

Avery Wright broke both the Mines pentathlon and the 60m hurdles marks, and Hayley Rayburn snapped the Mines and RMAC indoor pole vault records to highlight a day of strong performances across the board for the Orediggers.

It was the pentathlon duo of Wright and Sutherland who starred during the daytime session on Friday as Wright blazed her way to a program-record 3,822 points, the RMAC's best pentathlon since 2016. Her day started with a program-record and NCAA-provisional 8.52-second 60m hurdles, smashing her own mark of 8.86 set at last year's NCAA Indoors. Wright followed that with a 1.53m high jump clearance, then tied her personal best shot put throw of 12.50m. She surpassed her previous indoor best in the long jump to be first in that event at 5.57m, then finished with a field-best 2:26.32 800m to end up on 3,822 points.

Sutherland finished second with a massive PR of 3,506 points, an improvement of 516 points from per previous best that made her Mines' #2 performer all-time. Sutherland ran a personal-best 8.89 seconds in the 60m hurdles (second only to Wright in Mines history), then high jumped 1.50m and threw the shot 11.19m. Long jump was key for her with a best mark of 5.54m, a personal best, and she then ran 2:34.92 in the 800m to wrap up. 

Rayburn entered the evening pole vault competition at 4.07m and cruised through that height, 4.17m, and then 4.28m without a miss to set the records on her Mines debut, snapping Hannah Miller's 4.27m set at last year's RMAC Championships. The graduate transfer attempted 4.35m before bowing out. Freshman Taylor Hindman had a terrific collegiate debut to place second, clearing two bars to get to 3.72m (#6 all-time at Mines), while Dale Thompson cleared the same height for third. Madeline Obuchowski got over 3.42m for seventh. Hunter Potrykus got his season off to a solid start with a 5.23m win in the men's pole vault, clearing his first two bars before attempting 5.33m. Aidan Bennett was second at 4.78m. 

Kitt Rupar threw an indoor personal best 14.35m to win the women's shot put by nearly two meters, and Jennifer Jarnagin was fourth at 11.86m in her first collegiate entry in the event. Holden Murphy's debut for the Orediggers took him to #4 on the all-time men's shot put performers list, throwing a second-place 16.31m while Franklin Rambo was right behind him with an indoor PR of 15.83m. 

Claire Kintzley hit an indoor personal best of 5.49m to place seventh as Mines' lone long jump entrant.

The meet continues Saturday starting at 11 a.m., while a contingent of Mines distance runners also races at Boston University beginning at 10:50 a.m. ET.