COLORADO INVITATIONAL

Results
Day 1 Recap

BOULDER, Colo. - Everett Delate and Aryelle Wright each broke program records to lead a contingent of Orediggers on the second day of the Colorado Invitational in Boulder. 

Personal bests were the order of the day as Delate reset his program 60m hurdles mark, while Wright added the Mines 400m record to her existing 800m standard as the Orediggers had a selection of top runners at the meet.

Wright ran an NCAA-provisional 56.10 400m time, her personal best by nearly two seconds, to edge Elizabeth Gabel's 2015 program record of 56.11. Finishing fourth overall, she was only one of five strong performances in the race as Aani Hardesty improved her PR to finish ninth in 57.69 (making her the new #6 all-time performer at Mines), Grace Galvin was a spot behind at 58.15, Allison Comer ran her personal best 58.16 for 11th (making her the #10 Mines performer), and Randi Higashi was 12th at 58.34. Higashi also ran 26.54 to end 12th in the 200m dash. Avary Catchings stamped another PR and NCAA provisional time with her 2:14.85 run in the 800m, finishing fifth overall. That slashed more than three seconds off her previous best set last week at Steinhauer Fieldhouse.

Three Orediggers hit NCAA provisional times in the 3,000m, with Zoe Baker improving her national standing at 9:47.55, currently the D-II #10 performance, and Holly Moser doing the same at 9:51.88, the #13 time. Molly Maksin ran 10:06.62, and Jenna Ramsey-Rutledge came in at 10:21.96.

A few weeks after running their fastest at-elevation 4x400 in program history, the women's 4x400 did it again to win the event in 3:51.95, the second-fastest performance overall in program history. Hardesty, Galvin, Comer, and Wright were on the baton. 

Only two Oredigger men were in action and both had big results. Delate twice ran 7.89 seconds, finishing second in the 60m hurdles and besting his time of 7.92 set at the same meet last year. Meanwhile, Tim Thompson ran a season-best 1:52.45, an NCAA provisional mark currently 16th in D-II, to place sixth in the 800m. 
 

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BIG RED MACHINE OPEN

Results

GUNNISON, Colo. - Colorado School of Mines racked up event wins and personal bests as sprinters and field athletes competed at Western Colorado's Big Red Machine Open. 

Mines's pole vaulters continued their event dominance to lead the men's field entries. Hunter Potrykus won once again, clearing 4.96m, to lead a sweep of the top five spots. Noah Kelly got over 4.81m for second, Aidan Bennett and Kai Miller tied for third at 4.66m, and Jackson Wray was fifth over 4.51m, with Shane Conley seventh at the same height. 

The wins kept coming as Grant Redmond topped the high jump with a 2.06m clearance, and Brody Welch and Franklin Rambo went 1-2 in the shot put as Welch threw 15.47m and Rambo hit a PR of 15.10m. Davin Kiesby was eighth in the weight throw (15.23m), Nicholas Nijkamp placed third with a 13.14m triple jump best, and Prince Owusu-ansah had a 6.05m long jump mark for seventh to round out the field competitors.

On the track, Coulton Chan and Rhett Cullers finished second and third in the 60m hurdles running 8.33 and 8.38, respectively, the latter representing a PR for Cullers. Garrett Halbrooks ran 7.03 to finish 10th in the 60m dash.

Avery Wright ran a 7.68 prelim and 7.69 final for fourth place in the 60m, marking her personal best, the #2 performance all-time at Mines, and the Orediggers' fastest 60m since 2011. Wright added a fifth-place 25.96 200m time, which puts her at fourth all-time on the Mines list, and Andrea Walser was 13th in that event at 26.96. All three of Mines' 60m hurdlers set new personal bests as Andrea Walser improved hers by a tick running 9.26 in finals for third, and Lisa Sutherland was fifth on a time of 9.35, also a PR. Ryan Kennett ended 10th in 9.47.

The women's field performances were highlighted by Hannah Miller's facility record 4.05m clearance to win the pole vault, leading five Orediggers in the top five spots. Avery Herbold and Dale Thompson finished tied for second at 3.80m, Ava Kowalski cleared 3.50m for fourth, and Madeline Obuchowski hit a new PR at the same height for fifth. 

Lexye Wood scored a high jump win clearing 1.63m and later jumped 5.40m for second in the long jump, with Sutherland fourth at 5.26m, her new personal best. Claire Kintzley marked 11.46m for second in the triple jump. Kitt Rupar made it a Mines sweep of the shot put, throwing 13.28m on her third attempt to win. Wright's 10.59m mark was eighth. In the weight throw, Abbi Gillespie improved her season and career best placing third at 15.59m, and Rupar did the same to be fourth at 15.57m with Jennifer Jarnagin throwing 15.31m for seventh.