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COLORADO SPRINGS - Jennifer Jarnagin's huge field series broke the Colorado School of Mines weight throw record among plenty of results to love at UCCS' Colorado Running Company Mountain Lion Open.

Jarnagin - whose previous best was 18.99m - had flirted with the 19-meter mark all season but finally hit it in the day's first event, surpassing it five times in her series including an opening effort of 19.51m and her final record-breaking throw of 19.82m. Jarnagin's performance surpassed Gina Coleman's program record of 19.61m set in 2019, and puts her into the season lead in the RMAC while ranking #6 nationally. This season, Jarnagin owns five of the top 10 throws in Mines history.

Mines' distance runners were busy getting in RMAC Championships-qualifying times for the 3,000m led by event wins from Daniel Appleford and Gabi Boeckman. Mines took 10 of the top 12 spots in the men's 3K led by Appleford's NCAA-provisional 8:31.53, with Max Bonenberger second in 8:41.13 and Jeremiah Vaille finishing third in 8:41.46 with Ethan Grolnic fourth in 8:48.76. Charlie Welch ran 8:50.36 and Mines' depth was on display with strong times from Jack Sheehan (8:51.96), Kai Wagner (9:00.77), Cole Fiorillo (9:01.66), Skyler Gillham (9:02.12), and Quinton Rodriguez (9:04.72). Boeckman won the women's race in 10:25.24 to cap a 1-2-3 Oredigger finish along with Callen Nash (10:27.81) and Josie Mejia (10:28.40). Maria Forster ran 10:51.59, Kara Tokubo 11:14.18, and Sasha Kelly 11:29.47.

In the sprints, Jathan Busby was only a hundreth over his program record to run third in the men's 60m dash finals at 6.79 seconds; Eric Hill Jr set a time of 7.14, Bode Adeleke came in at 7.23, and Crockett Becker's official Mines debut was in 7.26. Along with his 6.86-second prelim time, Busby now owns the top six 60m times in program history, all set this season. In the women's 60m, Violet Williams made finals on a 7.72 prelim and later ran 7.70 for fifth. The men's 200 was led by Tegan Daughters' fourth-place 23.10 with Becker a spot behind in 23.11, Hill in at 23.88, and Adeleke 24.26.

Mines' men notched multiple PRs in the 60m hurdles led by Dominik Davis, who ran a new personal-best 8.11 seconds - tying him as the #3 all-time performer in program history. Mason Znamenacek clocked a personal-best 8.30 in prelims - #7 all-time - while Cooper McGinnis' 8.45 prelim was lowered to a personal-best 8.36 in finals. Nick Stade ran 8.73 seconds, and Eli Meyer 8.74. Lisa Sutherland led the women's hurdles with identical 9.02 times, placing third overall.

James Beam led a trio of Oredigger men's milers with his fourth-place 4:34.22 time ahead of Julien Frazier (4:35.06) and Jackson Rogers (4:42.73); Ella Kenly's ninth-place 5:37.79 paced the women with Brooke Bundt in at 5:58.16.

Mines had some standout long jump performances led by Thierry Asare, whose new personal-best 7.22m is an NCAA provisional mark and makes the freshman the #6 all-time performer at Mines. Violet Williams hit 5.88m for second in the women's competition while Lisa Sutherland marked a big personal-best of 5.65m taking her to #5 on the Mines all-time list. In the triple jump, Zander Besch's personal-best 13.82m - Mines' longest since 2022 - took sixth for the men and Kelle Vernon placed 10th in the women's event at 10.65m.

Vaughn Hafner and Nick Stade continued to prep for postseason multis with the high jump, where Hafner cleared 1.89m and Stade 1.79m. Kellar Cimini's personal-best 4.72m clearance led Mines in the pole vault in second place, with Kai Miller fourth at 4.57m and Tony Peonio sixth at 4.42m. Taylor Hindman's 3.60m bar led Mines' women in third with both Madeline Obuchowski and Arabella Chen clearing 3.45m.

Jarnagin wasn't the only Oredigger making noise in the throws circle as Keaton Reiman's season of PRs continued with new bests in both the shot put and weight throw; Reiman led Mines' men in the weight throw with a fifth-place 16.37m, and later added 15.73m for fifth in the shot put. Hayden Swim took seventh (15.35m) in the weight along with Landon Mays (13.91m), Jonah Pfender (13.81m), and Chandler Smoak (13.15m), while Franklin Rambo's second-best 16.50m led shot putters with Pfender hitting 15.52m for seventh and Hafner (13.34m) and Stade (11.09m) also getting in work. In the women's events, Audrey Ott had an eighth-place 13.86m mark in the weight throw with Violet Mazenko 11th in 11.45m and Harper Tuffly a spot behind at 10.86m; the shot put was led by Ott's 10.98m and Mazenko marked 10.88m.

Mines will close the regular season next Friday with last-chance meets at Arkansas and Colorado-Boulder before the RMAC Championships begin Feb. 27.