Chuck Haering Invitational
Friday-Saturday - hosted by CSU Pueblo - Pueblo, Colo. [Live Results] [Prelim Schedule]

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OREDIGGERS RETURN TO PUEBLO
After a tremendously successful start to the outdoor season last week at CSU Pueblo, Colorado School of Mines returns to the Thunderbowl for this week's Chuck Haering Invitational, which will take place Friday and Saturday. The two-day meet will start with a selection of field events at noon on Friday and continue with the track program and remainder of the field events beginning 9 a.m. Saturday.

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

WHAT TO WATCH
The preliminary schedule lays out similarly to last week's meet with the hammer, javelin, and triple jump slated for Friday at noon starts, with the shot put, discus, pole vault, long jump, and high jump set for Saturday between 10 a.m. and noon. On the track, Mines will compete at 800m with a full complement of relays beginning after the 9 a.m. heats of the 5K and steeplechase. 

SPRINTS SET RECORDS TO OPEN SEASON
Last Saturday was a fast one for the Orediggers at the outdoor-opening Dr. Dan Caprioglio Invitational in Pueblo with four sprint records falling on an unseasonable 90-degree day. Jonah Fallon shattered the men's 400m record in 46.07, Jathan Busby became Mines' fastest man breaking the 37-year-old 100m dash record in 10.40, Violet Williams broke the women's 200m mark in 23.82, and the men's 4x100 relay of Eric Hill Jr., Crockett Becker, Tegan Daughters, and Busby ran 40.84 to break the 30-year-old program record. In total, Mines sprinters etched nine all-time top-10 program performances into the record book at 400m or below. 

ON THE NATIONAL LIST
Mines came away from the opening meet of outdoor season with 13 NCAA provisional performances, including a number that will likely hold up for national qualification. Jonah Fallon (400m, 46.18 converted), Brock Drengenberg (800m, 1:48.36 converted) and Imani Fernandez-Gorbea (800m, 2:06.76 converted) set the early pace with the national lead in their events, while Violet Williams ran the #3 200m time of the weekend (23.89) and Liam Currie added the #3 800m (1:50.21). Jathan Busby (100m), Dominik Davis (110mH), Elijah Quinby (400mH), Aani Hardesty (400mH), Aidan Bennett (PV), Taylor Hindman (PV), Jennifer Jarnagin (HT), and the men's 4x400 relay also notched NCAA provisional performances at the Dr. Dan Caprioglio Invitational.

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
Distance runner Margaux Basart was honored as the NCAA Elite Scholar-Athlete for women's indoor track & field on March 14, 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 10th NCAA Elite Award, the most by any D-II program.

RMAC INDOOR RECAP
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.

LOOKING AHEAD
Mines will split up to run at the Jerry Quiller Classic in Boulder on April 3-4 while the distance runners make their outdoor debut at the Stanford Invitational on April 3.