Steve Miller Invitational - Manhattan, Kan.
Friday, 1:45 p.m. CT [Live Results] [Final Schedule] [Entries]

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OREDIGGERS VISIT KANSAS STATE FRIDAY
Colorado School of Mines will take on top Power-4 competition this Friday as a selection of athletes heads to Kansas State's Steve Miller Invitational in Manhattan, Kan. The one-day meet will begin at 1:45 p.m. Friday and continue into the evening's invite races on the track. It will be the Orediggers' first visit to the new Cliff Rovelto Indoor Track, which opened last year and features a 200-meter banked track.

LIVE COVERAGE & FAN INFO
Live results of the Steve Miller Invitational are available from FlashResults.

WHAT TO WATCH
The Orediggers will hope to push themselves against athletes from the host Kansas State along with Kansas, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, and Wichita State (among others) in attendance. Mines holds 24 entries into the meet, and will feature on the track Tim Thompson (800), Avery Wright (60H), Everett Delate (60H), Jonah Fallon (400), and the men's 4x400. Mines' biggest track group will be in the women's 3,000m Invite where Grace Strongman, Margaux Basart, Emily LaMena, and Lexi Herr go for national times.

In the field, the Oredigger throwers will have Holden Murphy and Kitt Rupar doubling in the weight throw and shot put, plus Abbi Gillespie and Jennifer Jarnagin in the WT and Franklin Rambo on the SP. Wright competes in the long jump and Claire Kintzley the triple jump, and Mines will have five pole vaulters entered in Dale Thompson, Ava Kowalski, and Hayley Rayburn for the women and Hunter Potrykus and Noah Kelly for the men.

A RECORD-SHATTERING WEEKEND
Mines athletes broke or reset four program records last weekend, including taking out the oldest records in both the men's and women's record books. Jonah Fallon was part of two of them, running 47.37 at the Colorado Invitational for the new program 400m record (the previous mark of 48.08 had stood since 2002), while anchoring the 4x400 relay to a 3:12.66 time along with Liam Currie, Logan Meade, and Tim Thompson. At the Mines Winter Classic, Claire Kintzley took out the triple jump mark that had stood since 2003 with a leap of 12.15m, and Hayley Rayburn not only reset her indoor pole vault record, but broke the RMAC's all-venues mark as well with a bar of 4.40m. 

RAYBURN EARNS NATIONAL, CONFERENCE HONORS
For her pole vaulting performance, Hayley Rayburn was named the USTFCCCA's National Women's Athlete of the Week for NCAA Division II on Monday and the RMAC Women's Field Athlete of the Week on Thursday. She becomes the third Oredigger - and second this season joining Jenna Ramsey-Rutledge - to win the national award.

IN THE POLLS
Mines stayed in the top 10 of this week's USTFCCCA indoor ratings index as the men maintained their #3 ranking and women fell two spots to #8. The men's ranking is equal to its best since the 2022 season and their best debut poll since 2020. The women's #6 ranking last marked their best poll debut ever.

FRONT OF THE PACK
Heading into February, Mines has two individuals and a relay who rank atop their respective events in NCAA Division II. Loic Scomparin (3K, 7:43.96), Jenna Ramsey-Rutledge (5K, 15:40.98), and the men's distance medley relay (9:40.65) lead the national performance list, and both Scomparin and Ramsey-Rutledge's performances were NCAA Division II records in those events. A number of Orediggers rank in their respective event's top five including Tim Thompson (800), Everett Delate (60m), Hunter Potrykus (PV), Hayley Rayburn (PV), Paul Knight (5K), Scomparin (mile), and Avery Wright (pentathlon). All national performance list marks are converted for altitude and track size. 

RECORD SETTERS
The 2024-25 Oredigger squad now includes 13 active individual recordholders, plus one relay. For the men, Loic Scomparin (3K), Everett Delate (60H), Jonah Fallon (400), the men's 4x400, Holden Murphy (WT), and Hunter Potrykus (PV) are all atop their events, while Avery Wright (60H and pentathlon), Margaux Basart (3K), Jenna Ramsey-Rutledge (5K), Kitt Rupar (SP), Claire Kintzley (TJ) and Hayley Rayburn (PV) have their names on the women's indoor record wall. Allison Comer also owns the outdoor 400 hurdles record set last season, and Wright has the outdoor heptathlon mark.

THE CHAMPS ARE HERE, PART I
Mines men's cross country lifted its fourth NCAA Division II national championship since 2015 on Nov. 23, coming back in the final two kilometers to edge Wingate in a thrilling race in Sacramento. Logan Bocovich, Loic Scomparin, and Ethan Grolnic finished 7-8-9 while Paul Knight was 21st and Dawson Gunn 25th to beat the Bulldogs by three points. The women placed fifth led by Jenna Ramsey-Rutledge, whose third-place individual run marked the best finish ever by an Oredigger woman.

THE CHAMPS ARE HERE, PART II
The Mines indoor program made history in 2023-24 by winning both the RMAC men's and women's championships, the first time in program history they have won both at the same time. It was the second consecutive title for the women and the third since 2016 for the men. 

EARNING SILVER
Six current and former Mines track & field student-athletes earned degrees at the university's winter commencement ceremonies on Dec. 13. Two current squad members - Shane Conley and Alex Shaw - earned the B.S. degrees in Chemical and Biological Engineering and Mechanical Engineering, respectively, while four alumni earned master's degrees in Duncan Fuehne (Applied Physics), Bo Raadam (Earth Resources Development Engineering), Zoe Baker (Computer Science), and Aryelle Wright (Quantitative Biosciences & Engineering). 

LOOKING AHEAD
Mines will take part in the Colorado Running Company Mountain Lion Open at UCCS on Feb. 14-15.