Results

EMPORIA, Kan. - Kitt Rupar's sixth-place discus finish highlighted the second day of the 2024 NCAA Division II Outdoor Track & Field Championships for Colorado School of Mines as they competed at Emporia State.

Rupar earned First-Team All-America honors in her debut national meet, while Margaux Basart finished ninth in the steeplechase and both Aryelle Wright and Everett Delate moved on to Saturday's finals in the 800m and 110m hurdles, respectively.

Through two days, the Mines women are tied for seventh with 13 points and the men are tied for 14th with 10.

Rupar - who had to last-chance qualify at the Loper Twilight on May 11 to even make the NCAA discus field - well out-threw her 20th seed in the event, twice throwing personal bests to stand on the podium in sixth. Rupar topped the first flight with a 47.15m second attempt - her career best to that point - then had to wait out the second flight to see if she would qualify for finals. She did so with the seventh-best throw, but didn't improve through two rounds of finals to sit in eighth place. Her sixth and final throw was a massive PR of more than two meters, hitting 49.23m (the Mines all-time #2 performance) to jump up two spots and ensure her first career NCAA podium. Rupar will also compete in the shot put on Saturday. 

Basart ran her personal best for a second day in a row to finish ninth in the 3,000m steeplechase, clocking 10:29.30. The performance earns her Second-Team All-America status for the second time this year (complementing a 10th-place indoor 3K run) as she became the fourth woman in program history to run sub-10:30.

Wright controlled her 800m heat to win it in 2:08.22 and automatically qualify for Saturday's final with the fifth-best time overall. Wright will chase a fourth career podium in the event. 

Delate reset his program hurdles record yet again, shaving two-hundreths off in a time of 13.85 seconds to advance to the final. An indoor 60m hurdles all-American, Delate advances to the outdoor final for the first time and is assured of a podium spot with a finish, qualifying sixth-fastest among the eight advancers. 

Saturday's final day will see Mines compete in the men's pole vault and women's shot put in the field, and track finals in the women's 1,500m and 800m, men's 110m hurdles, and men's and women's 5,000m with action starting at 11 a.m. CT.