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PUEBLO, Colo. - It was a record-setting Saturday for Colorado School of Mines' sprinters as they opened their outdoor season at the Dr. Dan Caprioglio Invitational at CSU Pueblo's Thunderbowl.

Unseasonabe March temperatures pushing into the 90s led to outstanding performances on a fast track as Jonah Fallon shattered the men's 400m dash mark, Jathan Busby snapped the 37 year-old men's 100m dash record, Violet Williams set a new women's 200m standard, and the men's 4x100 relay bested the 30-year-old Mines record.

A week after earning all-America honors over 400m indoors, Fallon ran his all-conditions best of 46.07 to win the event and surpass the record of 46.90 co-held by Dayven Johnston (2000) and Jared Peacock (2005). His time is an NCAA provisional qualifying mark and he now owns both the indoor and outdoor Mines records at 400m. 

Busby, who set the Mines indoor 60m record in the winter, became Mines' undisputed fastest man with an NCAA-provisional 10.40 clocking in the 100m, beating Andy Stewart's long-standing record of 10.48 set in 1989. Busby earlier had anchored the 4x100 relay to a 40.84 time along with Eric Hill Jr., Crockett Becker, and Tegan Daughters, becoming the first Mines 4x100 to slip under 41 seconds and best the previous program standard of 41.09 set in 1996. 

Williams had come close to the indoor 200m dash record during her freshman season but smashed it in her first try outdoors, running 23.82 to take down Kiera Benson's 24.50 time from 2009. Williams placed second overall in the event with her NCAA provisional performance. 

There were plenty more big sprint performances on Saturday as Hill Jr. ran 10.89 in the 100m dash to move to #10 all-time at Mines, and Dominik Davis' debut in the 110m hurdles, 14.23 seconds, ranks #5 in that event with Elijah Meyer grabbing the #10 spot at 14.83 seconds. Daughters ran just off his personal best with a wind-aided 21.48 200m time, while Lisa Sutherland ran 14.67 in the 100m hurdles and Nick Stade added a personal-best 15.62 in the 110m hurdles. 

In the 400m, Logan Meade's personal-best 48.17 takes him to #9 all-time in program history, and Alex Dusseau debuted with a 48.80 ahead of Thierry Asare (50.02) and Ollie Sehr (50.92). Elizabeth Prescott became the #8 women's performer in the 400m in a 57.74 time with Maya Evans running 59.42 and Kaia Ward 1:00.84. The men's 4x400 relays ran 3:13.13 and 3:16.85, while the women put together a 3:56.23 time.

Brock Drengenberg, Liam Currie, and Imani Fernandez-Gorbea all set personal outdoor bests and NCAA provisional times in the 800m as Drengenberg, fresh off the mile podium at NCAA Indoors, ran the new #4 Mines performance of 1:48.94 to win and Currie hit his PR of 1:50.80, #9 all-time. Coming off her all-America indoor performance last weekend, Fernandez-Gorbea ran an impressive 2:07.44, the #2 time in program history outdoors. Ty Krafft ran 1:54.35 for sixth on the men's side, and Avary Catchings crossed in 2:27.15 for the women.

Aani Hardesty set a new personal best in the 400m hurdles in 1:00.07 to win the women's event in an NCAA provisional time, while Elijah Quinby had a solid season start with his third-place and NCAA-provisional 52.92 showing in the men's hurdles. In hot conditions not ideal for the milers, Jack Sheehan ran 4:01.39 and Julien Frazier 4:05.25 in the 1,500m.

Aidan Bennett started his spring with an outdoor best and NCAA-provisional 5.05m bar to finish second in the men's pole vault, and both Taylor Hindman (3.79m, 5th) and Madeline Obuchowski (3.49m, 9th) hit outdoor bests in the women's competition. Kai Miller took seventh on the men's side of 4.45m. 

Zander Besch was runner-up in the long jump becoming the eighth man in program history to leap seven meters (23 feet), setting a 7.01m marker. Lisa Sutherland placed ninth in the women's competition at 5.27m and Kelle Vernon was 18th at 4.77m. Decathletes Nick Stade and Vaughn Hafner got high jump work in with Stade clearing 1.86m and Hafner 1.80m.

After opening the meet yesterday, Mines' throwers returned to the circle for the shot put and discus on Saturday. Cade Whish led the discus squad with a 10th-place 44.44m ahead of Keaton Reiman (44.11m), Chandler Smoak (40.85m), and Hafner (37.48m). Two freshmen led the women with Julianne Sugimae throwing an 11th-place 38.97m and Megan Hopp 14th at 36.86m, while Audrey Ott was a place behind hitting 36.33m. In the shot put, Reiman marked a new outdoor best of 15.40m for sixth place (#10 in program history) while Whish recorded a 14.31m best attempt and Hayden Swim 13.57m. 

The Orediggers return to Pueblo next weekend for the Spank Blasing Invitational.