Dr. Dan Caprioglio Invitational
Friday-Saturday - hosted by CSU Pueblo - Pueblo, Colo. [Live Results] [Schedule]

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OREDIGGERS HEAD OUTSIDE TO START SPRING
There's no rest for the weary as Colorado School of Mines transitions straight from last weekend's NCAA Indoor Track & Field Championships to start the outdoor season at CSU Pueblo's Dr. Dan Caprioglio Invitational this Friday and Saturday. The two-day meet will be held at the Thunderbowl, home of last year's NCAA Outdoor Championships and the host of this year's RMAC Championships. Temperatures are forecast to be in the lower 90s in an unusually hot start to the outdoor season.

LIVE COVERAGE
Live results for the meet are available from Rapid Results Timing. The meet will not be streamed. 

WHAT TO WATCH
The meet's final schedule has javelin, hammer, and triple jump on Friday and noon, and then the entire track program starting at 8 a.m. Saturday with the remainder of field events beginning at 10 a.m. Mines will send a large group highlighted by four newly-minted First-Team All-Americans in competition coming off last weekend's NCAA Indoor Championships as Jonah Fallon runs the men's 400m, Tim Thompson and Brock Drengenberg the men's 800m, and Imani Fernandez-Gorbea the women's 800m. Jennifer Jarnagin, ninth in the NCAA weight throw, opens her hammer throw season while NCAA long jump qualifier Violet Williams switches gears to run the 200m. Mines is also slated to run a full-strength men's 4x400 with two pieces of their ninth-place NCAA DMR - Liam Currie and Tim Thompson - along with Logan Meade and Fallon, and NCAA pole vault qualifier Aidan Bennett will be in action as well.

NCAA INDOOR REWIND
Mines had 10 podium finishers as both the men and women's teams finished ninth at last weekend's NCAA Division II Indoor Track & Field Championships in Virginia Beach. Dawson Gunn was the national runner-up in the men's 5,000m while Emily LaMena earned third in the women's 5K, and Grace Strongman was on the podium in both the 3K and 5K. Brock Drengenberg (mile), Jonah Fallon (400m), Paul Knight (5000m), Tim Thompson (800m), Imani Fernandez-Gorbea (800m), and Sierra Wall (5000m) also earned First-Team All-America Honors, while Mines also racked up 11 Second-Team All-America awards. 

BASART EARNS ELITE HONOR
Margaux Basart was honored as the NCAA Elite Scholar-Athlete for women's indoor track & field, given to the top student-athlete at each of the NCAA's championships. Basart, who has a B.S. in engineering physics and is in a master's program for quantum engineering, earns Mines cross country/track & field's 10 NCAA Elite Award, the most by any D-II program.

RMAC INDOOR LOOK BACK
Mines crowned six champions at the 2026 RMAC Indoor Championships on Feb. 27-28 as the men were team runners-up and the women tied for third. Aidan Bennett (pole vault), Dawson Gunn (5,000m), Lisa Sutherland (pentathlon), and Violet Williams (long jump) won titles on the first day before both 4x400 relays took gold to wrap up the meet's second day. Williams, who anchored the 4x400 to victory in addition to her long jump win, was named the meet's Freshman of the Year.

RECORD SETTERS
Mines has a strong group of active program recordholders, and continues to add to that group as the year develops. One new record was set at the NCAA Championships as Grace Strongman snapped teammate Margaux Basart's 3,000m mark. In February, Imani Fernandez-Gorbea set the new 800m record and Jonah Fallon lowered his 400m mark, while Jenni Jarnagin took the program lead in the weight throw Tim Thompson set the indoor 800m record. Fallon and 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 Avery Wright (60m hurdles and pentathlon) as a double individual recordholder, 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
The Orediggers head right back to Pueblo on March 27 for the Spank Blasing Invitational.