at the HURRICANE COLLEGIATE INVITATIONAL

Results

CORAL GABLES, Fla. - Aryelle Wright and Allison Comer set new Mines records and Hannah Miller matched another to lead Colorado School of Mines at the Hurricane Collegiate Invite at the University of Miami.

Competing against power D-I programs like Georgia, Miami, and Duke, the Orediggers got a chance to find some warm weather and, despite an early-morning weather delay, produced multiple big performances in south Florida. 

Wright's 2:07.08 800m run ranks as the NCAA Division II #2 performance of the season so far as she outran her 2:07.83 time from last year's Bryan Clay Invitational and all but ensured her return to the national meet. Meanwhile, Comer snapped the program 400m hurdles record, running 1:01.94 to take nearly a full second off the previous mark of 1:02.89 set by Kennede Brown in 2019. Aani Hardesty also ran a program top-10 time of 1:04.10, the new #5 performer in Mines history.

In the field, Miller equaled her outdoor personal best of 4.20m, going through her first four bars without a miss to place second in the pole vault. Miller attempted a would-be all-venues PR of 4.30m. Dale Thompson had a career day as well making 3.95m for the first time in her career, an all-venues best that jumps her up to the #3 spot on the program all-time top-10 as she placed fifth overall. Avery Herbold cleared 3.80m for sixth, and Ava Kowalski was a spot back at 3.65m.

Hunter Potrykus won the men's pole vault getting over the 5.10m bar without a miss before bowing out at 5.20m. Noah Kelly placed third with a 4.80m clearance, Kai Miller was fourth at 4.65m, and Aidan Bennet fifth at 4.50m.

Everett Delate picked up another win on the track in the men's 110m hurdles, running 14.20m as he made his season debut. Tim Thompson ran his strongest performance of the year to place second in the 800m, clocking 1:51.81. Among women's track competitors, Aani Hardesty ran 15.48 for 16th in the 100m hurdles, officially entering the Mines top-10 at #9, with Avery Wright two spots behind in 15.54. Avery Wright was also 30th in the 200m in 25.97. Grace Galvin placed eighth in the women's 400m with a 57.98 time. Allison Comer was eighth in the 400m hurdles in 1:01.94 with Hardesty 11th in 1:04.10. The women's 4x400 of Hardesty, Galvin, Comer, and Aryelle Wright combined for a fifth-place 3:46.88, the #3 performance all-time at Mines.

In the field, Grant Redmond cleared 2.06m to place fifth in the men's high jump, while Lexye Wood and Avery Wright competed in the women's long jump, with Wood ninth at 5.49m and Wright 10th with a 5.14m best.
 

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at the SPANK BLASING INVITATIONAL

Results

PUEBLO, Colo. - Mines returned to CSU Pueblo for a second consecutive week to compete against a large field at the Spank Blasing Invitational.

After their great day on Friday, Mines' throwers kept it going on Saturday as Kitt Rupar was the discus runner-up in an NCAA-provisional 45.78m on her opening throw, a massive PR by nearly three meters that ranks #3 in program history. Rupar also placed fourth in the women's shot put with her fifth attempt of 13.36m. Brody Welch placed fourth in the men's shot put with a second attempt of 16.17m, an outdoor PR that made him only the fifth man in program history to surpass 16 meters. Franklin Rambo placed 13th at 13.95m and Hayden Swim was a spot behind with a 13.82m heave. In the discus, Rambo tossed 41.26m for 16th and Cade Whish 38.96m for 20th. 

Matt Mettler finished second in the men's 5,000m run with a career-best time of 14:50.15, the top attached runner in the field behind former UCCS national champion Afewerki Zeru, and Andreas O'Malley finished fourth in 14:56.19 in his official Mines track debut. The Oredigger women also had a successful 5K led by Alayna Szuch, whose 17:52.72 earned her third place in her track debut at the distance. Josie Mejia was fifth (18:09.59) and Callen Nash added another top-10 in ninth (18:27.54). The Orediggers' only other distance performer on Saturday was Alex Shaw, who opened Mines' steeplechase season with a sixth-place 9:34.77

For the men's sprinters, Rhett Cullers ran 15.64 for 13th in the 110m hurdles and Garrett Halbrooks ran 11.25 for 42nd in the 100m dash. On the women's side, both Lisa Sutherland and Andrea Walser got their names into the Mines all-time top-10 with wind-legal 100m hurdle performances, as Sutherland ran 15.40 for 10th overall (#8 at Mines) and Walser was 17th in 15.98 (#10). Randi Higashi clocked 26.45 for 28th in the 200m.

In the women's 800m, Avary Catchings ran a 2:18.05 for 13th, a spot ahead of Higashi who ran a career-best time of 2:19.87. 
 

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NEXT UP

Mines heads back to Pueblo for a third time for the Chuck Haering Open Invitational on March 29-30.