Kit Mayer Classic
Friday-Saturday - hosted by Mines [RMAC Network] [Live Results/Entries] [Final Schedule]

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OREDIGGERS HOST KIT MAYER CLASSIC THIS WEEKEND
The region's best track & field programs in NCAA Divisions I and II will descend on Golden this weekend as Colorado School of Mines hosts the Kit Mayer Classic at Stermole Track on Friday and Saturday. The large two-day meet will enjoy a terrific weather forecast as the Orediggers host the first of three consecutive home meets culminating in the RMAC Championships later this month.

IMPORTANT FAN INFORMATION
Saturday will be a very busy day in Golden with Mines track, baseball, and softball all hosting home events during E-Days Weekend, the campus' annual spring festival. Fans coming to the meet are reminded of these important notes:

PARKING: Track fans should park in the parking garage (1350 Maple St.) or Lot S (1250 Maple St.) and not park in Lot K next to Stermole Soccer Stadium. Q Lot (above the track) is closed due to fireworks set up. Drop-off only is available at the cul-de-sac next to the track on 12th Street. Please see this article for important parking details. 
ADMISSION: There is no admission charge to the Kit Mayer Classic
SCHEDULE: The final event schedule can be seen here.
SEATING: There is bleacher seating along the track home stretch, but fans watching field events are encouraged to bring their own chairs and will be permitted on the turf infield to sit in designated areas. No spectators will be allowed on any part of the throwing field grass at any time during the javelin, discus, and hammer; spectator viewing will be from within the west "D" zone or from beyond the throws field fence by the baseball stadium.
FIREWORKS: The annual E-Days fireworks will take place at approximately 9 p.m. Saturday night after the conclusion of the meet. For safety, Stermole Track will be cleared prior to the fireworks but there are great viewing spots just outside the Clear Creek Athletics Complex.

LIVE COVERAGE
The Kit Mayer Classic will be streamed live and for free on the RMAC Network. Live results, entries, and start lists are at minesathletics.com/tracklive. 

LAST WEEK
Mines' distance runners made the most of their trip to the Bay Area with a pair of program records and multiple nationally-elite times set at the Stanford Invitational and Mike Fanelli Classic. At Stanford, Grace Strongman shattered the Mines 1,500m record with the NCAA #11 time of 4:22.68, and Emily LaMena broke the steeplechase record in 10:21.58 with Margaux Basart running 10:28.71 for the NCAA #4 and #5 times, respectively. Logan Bocovich and Paul Knight all but punched their NCAA tickets in the 10,000m running the #2 time for Bocovich (28:25.38) and #4 for Knight (28:38.87) while Max Bonenberger ran the D-II #3 steeplechase performance of 8:49.13. At San Francisco State, Lexi Herr and Callen Nash hit big PRs to set the #11 and #14 5,000m times of the season in D-II.

IN THE POLLS
Mines was a big mover in this week's USTFCCCA Outdoor Ratings Index with the women jumping to #9 and men to #12 on the strength of last weekend's distance performances.

SPARKS, POTRYKUS, RAMSEY-RUTLEDGE, WRIGHT TOP ALL-RMAC INDOOR AWARDS
Head Coach Matt Sparks was named the men's and women's coach of the year, Jenna Ramsey-Rutledge the co-women's track athlete of the year, and Avery Wright the women's field athlete of the year to headline the 2025 All-RMAC teams for the indoor track & field season announced April 1. Mines accumulated 38 all-RMAC honors in total, with four Orediggers - Allison Comer (60m hurdles, 400m), Emily LaMena (3K, 5K), Loic Scomparin (3K, 5K), and Avery Wright (pentathlon, 60m hurdles, shot put) - recording multiple honors. 

In the Academic All-RMAC awards announced April 8, Hunter Potrykus was the men's academic athlete of the year to lead 42 total Oredigger honorees. Potrykus was one of four First-Team Academic All-RMAC selections for the Mines men along with Everett Delate, Jonah Fallon, and Loic Scomparin, while the women garnered five first-teamers in Margaux Basart, Emily LaMena, Jenna Ramsey-Rutledge, Grace Strongman, and Dale Thompson. The Orediggers' nine total first-team honorees led the RMAC.

MINES MEN TOP PROGRAM OF THE YEAR STANDINGS
The Mines men were first and the women fifth after the indoor season in the USTFCCCA's Program of the Year standings announced last week. The award combines NCAA team finishes in all three seasons - cross country, indoor track & field, and outdoor track & field - to crown the best overall program nationally each spring. Teams get the same number of points as their finish, and the Mines men lead the standings with four points (first in cross country, third indoors) and the women are fifth with 16 (fifth in cross country, 11th indoors). It marks the Mines men's lowest point total through the first two seasons after they notched their best-ever NCAA Indoor finish earlier this month.

SPARKS, VAN SICKLE WIN REGIONAL COACHING HONORS
Mines head coach Matt Sparks and middle distance coach Scott Van Sickle earned the USTFCCCA's South Central Head Coach and Assistant Coach of the Year awards, respectively, on March 21. Sparks, in his 12th year as the Orediggers' head coach, led the men's team to a best-ever third-place finish at the 2025 NCAA Division II Indoor Championships, earning First-Team All-America honors in six events including three silver medals. Mines also finished in second at the RMAC Indoor Championships despite scoring its most points ever with 160, winning six men's events. Van Sickle guided the Oredigger middle distance runners to a resurgent 2025 season, coaching new program records in the 400m, 4x400 relay, and distance medley relay. His runners contributed greatly to the Orediggers' RMAC and NCAA success as Jonah Fallon and Tim Thompson won the RMAC titles at 400m and 800m, respectively, and the DMR finished on the NCAA podium in fifth place. 

RECORD SETTERS
Program records continue to fall for Mines, and the 2025 Oredigger squad now includes 17 active individual recordholders, plus two relays. The newest names on the list are Emily LaMena, who set the 3,000m steeplechase mark, and Grace Strongman, who broke the 1,500m record last week at Stanford. For the men, Loic Scomparin (3K), Delate (60H, 110H), Jonah Fallon (400), the men's 4x400 and DMR, Holden Murphy (WT), Franklin Rambo (SP), and Hunter Potrykus (PV) are all atop their events, while LaMena, Strongman, Avery Wright (60H and pentathlon), Margaux Basart (3K), Ramsey-Rutledge (indoor 5K, outdoor 10K), Kitt Rupar (SP), Claire Kintzley (TJ), Jarnagin (WT) and Hayley Rayburn (PV) have their names on the women's record wall. Allison Comer also owns the outdoor 400 hurdles record set last season, and Wright has the outdoor heptathlon mark from 2024. 

LOOKING AHEAD
The Orediggers are back home next weekend, April 18-19, to host the Pre-Conference Meet, with a selection of athletes also headed to the Bryan Clay Invite in California.