CU Results

BOULDER, Colo. - Record-breaking middle distance performances were the order of the day as Mines competed in the Colorado Invitational at CU.

The men's 4x400 relay broke their RMAC and program records on the same track that they set it on last year, clocking an NCAA-provisional 3:12.33. Liam Currie, Tim Thompson, Logan Meade, and Jonah Fallon - who ran a blistering unofficial anchor split of 46.62 - improved on the previous record of 3:12.66 with the same lineup. 

Individually, Thompson ran the fastest at-altitude 800m time in program history, winning against a largely D-I field in 1:49.47. That dropped nearly two seconds off his personal best of 1:51.25 set in December in Golden, and ranks #2 all-time at Mines, joining Patrick Weaver as the only sub-1:50 half-miler in program history; the time keeps him at #3 on the national list with the elevation conversion.

That wasn't the only personal-best 800m time on the track as Imani Fernandez-Gorbea, running in her home town, notched an NCAA-provisional 2:12.62, the new #3 performance in Mines history. Avary Catchings was eighth in 2:20.08, while for the men, Owen Schneider finished seventh in 1:53.11, Currie who was ninth in 1:53.88, and Ty Krafft, who was 11th in 1:55.08.

Logan Meade moved into the Mines indoor top-10 list in the 400m, running a third-place 49.06 with Elijah Quinby hitting 49.30 for fifth. Aani Hardesty led the women's quarter-milers with a third-place 57.80, and Elizabeth Prescott debuted with a 1:00.19 time for seventh. 

In the 200m dash, Tegan Daughters ran 22.27 and Jathan Busby was a tick off his personal best at 22.61 as the duo opened their seasons at that distance.

Mines' distance runners got work in led by Cody Wyman in the 3,000m as he finished eighth in 8:32.87. Four Orediggers stayed together to finish 11th through 14th with Chris Pietrak (8:37.42), Charlie Welch (8:40.29), Jack Sheehan (8:42.24), and Cole Fiorillo (8:43.10), with Julian Ryter placing 21st in 8:52.13, Qunton Rodriguez 22nd in 8:52.17, Skyler Gillham 24th in 8:52.84, and Garrett Mackey 26th in 9:02.09. The Oredigger women also had a big group of 3K competitors led by Jemma Petrie, who was 17th in 10:49.58 ahead of Kara Tokubo (19th, 10:50.34), Maria Forster (20th, 10:53.44), and Lilly Lukens (23rd, 11:10.99). 

Connor Graves led a quartet of men's milers with a 4:25.58 time. James Beam clocked 4:30.70, Julien Frazier ran 4:32.94, and Kai Wagner came in at 4:38.67. Sasha Kelly ran a 13th-place 5:20.26 in the women's mile. The women's 4x400 relay of Hardesty, Catchings, Prescott, and Fernandez-Gorbea was third in 3:55.73. 
 

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UCCS Results

COLORADO SPRINGS - Mines' field athletes and sprinters got back in the swing of things as they competed at the UCCS Invite at Mountain Lion Fieldhouse.

Violet Williams starred on the track for the Orediggers with a speedy 25.07 time to win the 200m, clocking the #2 performance all-time in program history and fastest since 2011. Williams also ran a 9.44 time for eighth in the 60m hurdles, with Chloe Hawkins a spot behind in 9.76.

Mines won two events in the field with Franklin Rambo capturing the shot put and Kellar Cimini the pole vault. Rambo took the men's shot put with an NCAA-provisional 16.71m, while Cimini won the men's vault with a collegiate-best 4.65m clearance, with Kai Miller and Tony Peonio tying for third at 4.50m. Taylor Hindman finished second in the women's competition at 3.60m, with Madeline Obuchowski fourth (3.45m) and Julia Acker fifth (3.30m). 

Keaton Reiman highlighted the men's weight throw with a huge personal-best mark of 16.28m, putting him eighth on the Mines all-time list as he finished third in the competition. Reiman also finished 11th in the shot put with a 13.30m best mark. Hayden Swim took sixth in the weight throw with a PB of his own at 14.85m. Jennifer Jarnagin led the women's weight throwers with her second-place 17.83m best, with Audrey Ott hitting 14.70m for fifth.

Zander Besch was third in the men's long jump with a 6.67m best, while Kelle Vernon was 10th for the women at 5.26m. Hawkins was Mines' lone women's high jumper clearing the 1.52m bar for eighth. 

Multi-eventers Nick Stade and Vaughn Hafner got some event work in starting in the 60m hurdles, where 
Stade ran 8.91 and Hafner 9.48; Hafner cleared a personal-best 1.94m for sixth in the high jump with Stade ninth at 1.84m, and Hafner added a 14.40m shot put mark - only a centimeter off his best - for fifth in that event as Stade marked 11.85m. Women's multis Avery Wright and Lisa Sutherland worked on the shot put, with Wright marking 11.73m for sixth and Sutherland 10.52m for ninth.
 

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Mines is back home next weekend, hosting the Winter Classic at Steinhauer Fieldhouse on Jan. 30-31.