Day 1 Results

GOLDEN, Colo. - Colorado School of Mines crowned three champions on the opening day of the 2025 RMAC Outdoor Track & Field Championships at Stermole Track.

Jennifer Jarnagin won the women's hammer, Dale Thompson captured the women's pole vault, and Jeremiah Vaille took the men's 10,000m title to lead the Orediggers on a cold and wet Day 1 of the championships. Through the first day of action, the Mines men lead the competition with 63 points ahead of UCCS' 39. The Oredigger women are in second with 47, trailing UCCS' 64.5.

The Oredigger men went first through sixth in the 10,000m to close the night led by Vaille, who ran an NCAA-provisional 30:01.58 to win. Loic Scomparin did much of the early work to end in second place (30:25) while Braden Struhs claimed bronze in 30:34.40. Paul Knight (30:55.34), Logan Bocovich (30:55.36), and Dawson Gunn (30:55.47) rounded out the top six to produce a combined 36 points. Chandler Wilburn placed 10th (31:15.29) with Ethan Grolnic 16th (31:47.17) and Rowan Nicholas 17th (31:48.04). The women's 10K saw Callen Nash finish fourth in 37:06.24, with Ashleigh Loe ninth in 37:58.45 and Karina Andersen 12th at 38:30.02.

The women's hammer throwers highlighted the Orediggers' day in the throws as Jennifer Jarnagin claimed gold, Abbi Gillespie silver, and Kitt Rupar scored in fourth. Jarnagin threw 57.35m to add to her indoor weight throw title, while Gillespie earned her first RMAC medal thanks to a 56.00m best. Ripar threw 52.40m for fourth to give Mines 23 valuable points, while Audrey Ott had a personal-best 46.73m for 11th. 

Dale Thompson claimed gold with her 3.88m bar in the women's pole vault, winning the title and taking 10 team points with it. Three more Orediggers scored as Taylor Hindman tied for fourth (3.53m), Arabella Chen was sixth (3.53m), and Madeline Obuchowski tied for seventh (3.38m)to total 19 team points. Aidan Bennett took home the men's pole vault silver with a clearance of 4.87m, and Kai Miller got over 4.77m for fourth with Shane Conley scoring in a tie for seventh at 4.47m; the Orediggers tallied 14 total team points. 

Holden Murphy was the men's hammer throw silver medalist, hitting 59.22m as Hayden Swim came in 12th (49.00m) and Keaton Reiman was 20th (32.16m). The Mines men took five points away from the javelin as Kolby Denke finished sixth (53.27m) and Murphy seventh (51.20m) after the latter qualified out of the first flight. Franklin Rambo came in 10th at 48.38m. Claire Kintzley placed 10th in the women's long jump at 5.32m as Mines' lone horizontal jumper of the day.

Avery Wright and Lisa Sutherland lead the heptathlon through four events, as Wright has 2,985 points and Sutherland 2,701. Wright's day started with a 14.71-second 100m hurdles and she topped the shot put competition at 11.94m before earning 904 points with a 24.81-second 200m. Sutherland scored big with her 14.87 hurdles time and cleared 1.46m in the high jump before a strong 26.71-second 200m. In the decathlon, Vaughn Hafner is second and Nick Stade third through five events. Hafner had an impressive first day scoring 3,491 points topped by his 1.94m high jump and a 12.99m shot put; Stade is right behind on 3,480 points with an 11.15-second 100m to start and a 50.96 400m to end the day.

In track preliminaries, Grace Strongman pushed through to the women's 1,500m final winning the opening heat in 4:43.47, while Alberto Campa topped the men's qualifying in 3:51.37 with Andreas O'Malley and Brock Drengenberg going through as well in 3:53.12 and 3:55.63, respectively. Allison Comer and Aani Hardesty both qualified for the women's 400m hurdle finals as Comer ran a strong 1:01.54 and Hardesty cruised in her heat in 1:02.12. Elijah Quinby topped the men's times with a 52.78 prelim, and Everett Delate will join him in the final with a 53.61 performance. Liam Currie moved into the men's 400m final with a 48.25-second run, as Ollie Sehr finished 13th (49.39) and Austin Schmidt 22nd (50.32). Maya Evans finished 13th in the women's 400m in a time of 59.67 seconds. Jathan Busby ran 10.91 seconds for 11th in the 100m dash.

Day 2 of the meet starts Saturday morning at 10 a.m.