Final Results

GUNNISON, Colo. - Colorado School of Mines secured gold in both the men's and women's 4x400 to wrap up the 2026 RMAC Indoor Track & Field Championships at Western Colorado.

Mines took its championship total to six with those wins as the Oredigger men finished second overall with 84 points, and the women tied with Western for third with 70 points. UCCS won both the men's and women's titles. Dominik Davis, Jathan Busby, Nick Stade, Imani Fernandez-Gorbea, and Jennifer Jarnagin all medaled on Saturday, as well.

The men's 4x400 relay ran a 3:15.02 behind Logan Meade, Tim Thompson, Liam Currie, and Jonah Fallon to mint gold, while the women's relay of Aani Hardesty, Elizabeth Prescott, Fernandez-Gorbea, and Violet Williams ran 3:50.27 to stand atop the podium. Both were NCAA provisional performances, and for Williams it represented her second gold medal of the meet to go with Friday's long jump win. 

Three Oredigger freshmen ran the 60m hurdles final with Davis earning silver in 8.13 seconds, with Cooper McGinnis running 8.26 for sixth and Mason Znamenacek 8.28 seconds for seventh. Jathan Busby ran 6.80 seconds in the 60m final to secure bronze, while Williams clocked 7.65 for fourth in the women's final. 

Fernandez-Gorbea earned silver in the 800m final with her 2:11.84 time, with Avary Catchings scoring on her seventh-place, season-best 2:18.48 showing. Ty Krafft placed eighth in the men's final in 1:55.25 ahead of Owen Schneider's 17th-place 1:58.98. Hardesty ran the 400m final in a fifth-place 57.26. 

In the distance events, Daniel Appleford scored with a seventh-place 8:36.98 3,000m performance, and Max Bonenberger was 12th in 8:49.38. Chris Pietrak was Mines' lone miler finishing 16th in 4:27.39. 

Nick Stade mounted an impressive comeback to land on the podium in the heptathlon, rising from fifth to third on strong hurdle and pole vault results. Stade ran 8.83 in the 60m hurdles and then vaulted 4.40m, and ran the kilometer in 3:07.52 to end with 4,759 points. 

In Saturday's field events, Jarnagin hit 19.00m even to take the silver medal in the women's weight throw, while Audrey Ott was 13th (14.45m) and Keaton Reiman 16th on the men's side (15.57m). In the triple jump, Zander Besch took 10th in the men's event at 13.65m and Kelle Vernon was 14th in the women's competition marking 10.82m.

The Orediggers now look forward to the announcement of the NCAA selections on Tuesday with the national championship meet happening March 13-14 in Virginia Beach.