A busy Saturday for Colorado School of Mines proved to be record-setting as three program records went down and the Orediggers established numerous NCAA-provisional performances.

Mines split its squad across three meets, hosting the second day of the Mines Winter Classic & Multi, running at the Colorado Invitational in Boulder, and competing at the Terrier Classic in Boston. 

at the MINES WINTER CLASSIC & MULTI [Results]
Claire Kintzley shattered the program triple jump record to pace Mines on the second day of their home Winter Classic & Multi at Steinhauer Fieldhouse.

Kintzley, already the Orediggers' outdoor recordholder, became the first woman to leap beyond 12 meters in any venue as she hit a best of 12.15m, going beyond her previous PR and the program record three times in her series. It broke the oldest indoor record on the books for the Mines women as Gina Nichols' 11.70m mark had stood since 2003. Kintzley's NCAA-provisional distance ranks #8 in D-II and atop the RMAC this season.

Jennifer Jarnagin became the #2 women's weight throw performer in program history as she won the event in an NCAA-provisional and RMAC-leading 17.87m, a season-best mark by any Oredigger. Jarnagin surpassed her previous PR three times in her series including a final throw of 17.66m. Abbi Gillespie was third at 16.55m, and Audrey Ott took sixth with a 14.42m best. Holden Murphy won the men's weight throw with an 18.93m toss ahead of Franklin Rambo's 15.00m in third and Keaton Reiman's PR of 13.71m in fourth.

Lisa Sutherland and Jaysen Eaton wrapped up Mines' day in the high jump as Sutherland cleared 1.51m for fifth and Eaton a collegiate-best 1.46m for sixth. 

Nick Stade and Vaughn Hafner wrapped up the heptathlon as Stade became the sixth man in program history to eclipse 5,000 points, scoring the new D-II #9 mark of 5,085 points ahead of Hafner's 4,188. Stade ran 8.68 in the 60 hurdles, then went big in the pole vault with a new personal-best 4.60m bar before running 3:01.12 in the 1,000m. Hafner clocked 9.46 in the hurdles, cleared two bars to reach 2.80m in the pole vault, and ran the kilometer in 3:15.41. 

at the COLORADO INVITATIONAL [Results]
Jonah Fallon smashed the long-standing program 400m record, then anchored the 4x400 relay to another school record, to highlight the day on the track for Mines at the Colorado Invitational in Boulder.

After coming close on his previous visits to the big 300m oval this winter, Fallon blew away the 400m record with the first sub-48.0 time in program history, winning in 47.34. That snapped Mines' oldest men's indoor record, a time of 48.08 set by Ben Lengerich in 2002, and leads the RMAC this season well within the national top-10. 

The history wasn't done as Liam Currie, Logan Meade, Tim Thompson, and Fallon closed the meet with a blistering NCAA-provisional time of 3:12.66, the new program record by exactly a second snapping a time set at the same meet in 2018. Fallon anchored in an unofficial 46.6 after sub-49 splits by Currie, Meade, and Thompson. 

Everett Delate added another event win in the men's 60m hurdles, running twin times of 7.98 seconds. Coulton Chan also ran identical times of 8.28 seconds to finish fourth. Tegan Daughters ran the #2 200m time in program history, blazing to a third-place 21.91 to join Elias Limon (2018) as the second Oredigger to run sub-22.0. Jathan Busby was 22nd in the event in 22.60, earning the #5 slot in program history, while Waylon Weeks finished 38th (23.50) and Prince Owusu-Ansah was 44th (23.95). 

Also in the 400m, Elijah Quinby was 13th in 49.50, Mark Leoni 15th in 49.72, and Austin Schmidt 23rd at 50.83.  Weeks finished 29th (52.08) and Owusu-Ansah 35th (52.81). Owen Schneider ran 1:54.81 for 10th in the 800m, with Aiden Bram 26th (2:00.11). The men's 4x400 B relay of Daughters, Leoni, Busby, and Schmidt ran a fourth-place 3:20.11.

Mines had a group of men's 3,000m runners turn in solid at-altitude results led by Nicholas Rowan, who finished 25th in 8:47.19. Jeremy Gillett was 36th in 8:53.01, and Alex Shaw ran 9:04.96 for 53rd. 

It was a strong day for the women's milers led by Grace Strongman and Emily LaMena, who ran NCAA-provisional times of 4:53.78 and 4:56.53, respectively. Lexi Herr ran 5:06.64 for 12th, Margaux Basart 5:20.52 for 31st, and Nicole Perez-Escobar 5:47.35 for 58th.

Allison Comer ran a season-best 57.75 for 11th in the women's 400m, a spot ahead of Aani Hardesty in 58.17. Maya Evans clocked 59.12 for 15th. Hardesty also finished 20th in the 200m (25.99) ahead of Evans in 23rd (26.26). In the women's 3,000m, Karina Anderson finished 32nd in 10:43.17 and Maria Forster was 56th in 11:25.76.

at the TERRIER CLASSIC [Results]
Six Orediggers competed in the 5,000m at Boston University's banked track, and five notched NCAA-provisional times on a fast night in Beantown.

Paul Knight paced the Orediggers with a 13:43.17 time, his personal-best time and #5 on the Mines all-time list; that slots in as the NCAA D-II #4 performance of the winter. Loic Scomparin's 13:45.04 is right behind that on the national performance list, and the provisional times kept going with Logan Bocovich (14:09.94), Dawson Gunn (14:15.42), and Ethan Grolnic (14:18.63), with Matt Mettler running 14:51.65.


NEXT UP
Mines will compete at Kansas State next weekend.