Track Preview - RMAC Indoor Championships -photo of Elizabeth Prescott and Aani Hardesty running the 400m

PREVIEW: RMAC Indoor Championships Ahead For Mines

2/26/2026 2:31:00 PM

2026 RMAC Indoor Track & Field Championships
Friday-Saturday - hosted by Western Colorado - Gunnison, Colo. [RMAC Network] [Live Results] [Meet Site]



OREDIGGERS SET FOR RMAC INDOORS IN GUNNISON
The postseason begins this weekend for Colorado School of Mines as they head to the highest collegiate track in the nation at Western Colorado for the 2026 RMAC Indoor Track & Field Championships. The two-day meet begins Friday to crown the best in one of D-II's premiere track & field conferences.

LIVE COVERAGE
The RMAC Championships will stream live on the RMAC Network (subscription required), and live results are available from Rapid Results Timing. A full event schedule, heat sheets, and more are available on the RMAC's meet site. 

WHAT TO WATCH
The Orediggers have a number of top seeds entered, including Dominik Davis in the 60m hurdles, Lisa Sutherland in the pentathlon, Dawson Gunn in the 5,000m, Violet Williams in the long jump, Aidan Bennett in the pole vault, and Jennifer Jarnagin in the weight throw. Returning and defending champions from 2025 include Jarnagin and Nick Stade in the heptathlon, while Bennett was the 2024 co-champ in the pole vault. 

Friday's action starts at 10 a.m. with the multis, while first-day field events include the pole vault, shot put, and long jump, with the 5K and DMR the only track finals along with sprint prelims. Saturday picks up at 10 a.m. with the conclusion of the heptathlon, and the high jump, triple jump, and weight throw are slated for the field with all track finals beginning at noon. 

THE CHAMPS ARE HERE
The Oredigger women are the three-time defending RMAC indoor champions, winning in 2023, 2024, and 2025, while the men won their sixth title all-time in 2024 before finishing second a year ago. This year, the Oredigger women hope to complete the second leg of the RMAC triple crown having already won the conference cross country title in the fall.

IN THE RANKINGS
Mines jumped up in this week's USTFCCCA rankings, with the women at #6 and the men #7. In the EventSquad rankings, Mines ranks #1 in the women's 5,000m, #2 in the women's 3,000m, and #10 in the women's long jump, while on the men's side they hold the #3 rankings in the 800m, 3,000m, and 5,000m.

FALLON, FERNANDEZ-FORBEA WIN RMAC WEEKLY AWARDS
Jonah Fallon and Imani Fernandez-Gorbea earned the final RMAC Track Athlete of the Week awards for the indoor season on Wednesday following record-breaking runs last weekend. Fallon lowered his Mines and RMAC records in the indoor 400m on Friday at the Arkansas Qualifier, running 46.48 seconds. Fallon's time tops the RMAC by nearly a second this season (though he will skip the open 400 at RMACs to run the 4x400 relay) and is the new NCAA Division II #3 performance. Fernandez-Gorbea ran a more than four-second personal-best in the 800m at Arkansas, 2:07.06, to break the Mines record indoors and almost assuredly punch her ticket to nationals in the half-mile. Fernandez-Gorbea's time is #5 in NCAA Division II this season. 

RECORD SETTERS
Mines has a strong group of active program recordholders, and continues to add to that group as the season develops. Imani Fernandez-Gorbea owns the new 800m record and Jonah Fallon lowered his 400m mark last week; two weeks ago, it was Jenni Jarnagin taking the program lead in the weight throw, and earlier this month Tim Thompson set the indoor 800m record. Fallona nd Thompson make up half of the record-setting men's 4x400 relay (along with Liam Currie and Logan Meade) that reset their program record in January. Mines added new records in December by Violet Williams in the long jump and Jathan Busby in the 60m dash. Franklin Rambo (shot put) set a new individual mark last year, while three of four legs of the distance medley relay (Brock Drengenberg, Fallon, and Thompson) return from last year's record-setting group. The women have Margaux Basart (3,000m) and Avery Wright (60m hurdles and pentathlon) as individual recordholders, while Grace Galvin is also a member of Mines' record-holding 4x400 and distance medley relays, joined by Imani Fernandez-Gorbea on the DMR.

LOOKING AHEAD
Selections for the NCAA Division II Championships will be announced March 3, with the meet held in Virginia Beach on March 13-14.
 
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