Results

COLORADO SPRINGS - Colorado School of Mines women's track & field won its third consecutive RMAC Indoor championship, hanging on to the team lead in a dramatic final day of the meet at UCCS.

Mines scored 140.5 points, clinching the title on the final event over UCCS (131.5). Meanwhile, the Mines men scored 160 points to finish second on a day filled with podium performances as Everett Delate (60m hurdles), Nick Stade (heptathlon), Jonah Fallon (400m), Tim Thompson (800m), and Loic Scomparin (3,000m) all won gold medals on Saturday.

Avery Wright was named the Athlete of the Meet after scoring 22.5 team points thanks to her pentathlon gold, silver in the 60m hurdles, a sixth-place shot put performance, and anchoring the 4x400 relay to bronze. Margaux Basart earned the RMAC Summit Award for her academic work; the honor goes to the competitor at the championship meet with the highest overall GPA.

The team title came down to the final event as Mines led UCCS by eight points and needed to finish better than sixth in the 4x400 to assure they would win. They did better than that, getting on the podium in 3:54.25 as Maya Evans, Avary Catchings, Allison Comer, and Wright - who was a late substitute to the lineup - combined to run 3:54.25 and beat UCCS outright. Meanwhile, the men's 4x400 of Liam Currie, Thompson, Elijah Quinby, and Fallon finished in a dead heat with UCCS for the silver as both ran 3:17.671. 

After Mines dominated the 5K on Friday night, the 3K also proved to be productive as the Oredigger men and women combined for three medals. Loic Scomparin made it a sweep of the two long-distance events, setting a new fieldhouse record of 8:18.88 with an impressive final-lap kick to outclass the field by six seconds. Alberto Campa and Max Bonenberger finished third and fourth in 8:25.41 and 8:31.73 - both NCAA provisional times - and Ethan Grolnic scored in seventh with an 8:42.88 time. In the women's 3K, Emily LaMena claimed silver with one of the fastest at-altitude runs in program history, closing in 9:50.78, while Margaux Basart took a point with her eighth-place 10:28.60. Grace Strongman and Lexi Herr both scored in the women's mile as Strongman closed fourth in 5:04.78, and Herr was seventh from the first heat in 5:08.02. The men's race saw Brock Drengenberg claim bronze in 4:18.31 as Andrea O'Malley finished ninth in 4:24.38.

Second overnight in the heptathlon standings, Nick Stade put together three strong events on Saturday to win the multi at a personal-best score of 5,123. Stade was second in the 60m hurdles in 8.64 seconds and second in the pole vault over 4.30m to take the lead, then ran 2:56.37 in the 1,000m to secure the overall crown. Freshman Vaughn Hafner scored in seventh place, compiling 4,374 points, while Jake LaFore came in 11th with 4,147; both were personal-best scores.

A day after resetting his RMAC Championships record in prelims on Friday, Delate cruised to his third consecutive RMAC 60m hurdles gold with a 7.85 finals time. Coulton Chan ran 8.49 for eighth. Wright earned silver in the women's 60m hurdles, running 8.59 seconds for second place, while Allison Comer's strong fourth-place 8.84 gave Mines 13 total team points from the event.

Fallon captured the men's 400m gold medal in impressive fashion, running a championship- and fieldhouse-record 47.84 seconds to win by four-hundreths. Elijah Quinby also scored with his sixth-place 49.63. Comer led Mines in the women's 400m final finishing fourth in a personal-best 57.65 as Grace Galvin was eighth. Thompson added to the middle-distance medal haul with his 1:53.46 800m victory, defending his title by winning more than a second clear of the field. Avary Catchings was seventh in the a very fast women's 800m final, scoring two points with a 2:16.97 time. Tegan Daughters ran 22.42 for seventh in the 200m final.

In the field, Kitt Rupar reset her Mines indoor shot put record to take the bronze medal in an outstanding back-and-forth competition between three all-Americans on the podium. Rupar threw 14.89m on her fifth attempt before two CSU Pueblo throwers went over 15 meters on their next attempts. Rupar was one of three Oredigger finalists as Wright produced a strong 12.89m third attempt to take sixth, and weight throw gold medalist Jennifer Jarnagin hit a personal-best 12.24m on her third throw to end up eighth. Franklin Rambo and Holden Murphy took second and fourth, respectively, in the men's shot put. Rambo claimed silver on a best throw of 16.85m, while Murphy - the weight throw silver medalist - threw 16.02m for fourth. Keaton Reiman made his RMACs debut with a 17th-place 13.06m. Claire Kintzley claimed the bronze and six valuable team points in the women's triple jump, recording 11.76m on her third attempt.

The Orediggers will now await qualifiers for the 2025 NCAA Division II Championships, set to begin March 13 in Indianapolis.