Results

PUEBLO, Colo. - Three more records fell on the track as Colorado School of Mines competed in the Chuck Haering Classic at CSU Pueblo on Friday and Saturday.

Jonah Fallon tied the RMAC 200m record in his debut at the distance, Tim Thompson reset his Mines 800m record, and Aani Hardesty, Elizabeth Prescott, Imani Fernandez-Gorbea, and Violet Williams ran the fastest 4x400 in program history to highlight the second weekend of outdoor competition.

Fallon, who had earlier paced Thompson in the 800m, ran a blistering NCAA-provisional 20.83 seconds under legal wind in the 200m, tying Adams State runner Jonah Vigil's time set on the same track in 2022. Fallon had set the Mines outdoor 400m record last week, and also owns the Mines and RMAC records indoors over 400m.

Thompson improved his own outdoor best with an NCAA-provisional 1:48.15 800m time, dropping a tenth off his time of 1:48.24 run in California last year. He wasn't the only fast half-miler on the track for the Orediggers as Liam Currie became the fifth man in program history to run sub-1:50 with his career-best 1:49.74 time, while Ty Krafft ran 1:56.67.

The women's 4x400 finished the meet with a four-second win in an NCAA-provisional 3:43.38, with Hardesty, Prescott, Fernandez-Gorbea, and Williams lowering the previous program record (3:44.45, 2023) by more than a second. 

All four members of that relay also had standout individual performances on the track led by Williams, whose 11.91-second 100m dash was Mines' fastest since 2011 and makes her only the second sub-12.0 runner in program history. A week after running her outdoor-best 800m, Fernandez-Gorbea added a PR in the 400m with a second-place 57.06, moving her to #7 all-time in program history. Prescott ran a strong fourth-place 57.85, Maya Evans clocked 1:00.40, and Kaia Ward 1:01.30. 

Elijah Quinby led Mines hurdlers running his personal-best time of 52.23 to win the men's 400m hurdles, while Hardesty was the women's runner-up in 1:00.74. Lisa Sutherland highlighted the 100m hurdles with a personal-best 14.56 time to finish fourth, while Eli Meyer ran 15.48 for seventh in the 110m hurdles ahead of Nick Stade (15.81), Alejandro Philippart (16.83), and Vaughn Hafner (17.08). Sutherland would later run a 26.19 200m. 

The men's 4x100 of Eric Hill Jr., Thierry Asare, Tegan Daughters, and Jathan Busby ran the #3 time in program history at 41.15. Busby would later run a second-place 10.51 seconds for the #3 100m time in program history, while Ollie Sehr stopped the clock in 11.09 and Alex Dusseau 11.19 with Bode Adeleke in at 11.33. 

Tegan Daughters finished fifth in the men's 200m in 21.65 with Hill running 22.53 and Adeleke 23.43. Avary Catchings finished eighth in the 800m in 2:21.30, and the men's 4x400 won their race in 3:14.67 with Dusseau, Logan Meade, Daughters, and Quinby. 

In field events taking place Friday and Saturday, Jennifer Jarnagin led the throwers with a win in the hammer throw hitting a season-best 55.89m. Audrey Ott was sixth throwing 47.27m and Megan Hopp 10th at 34.73m. Chandler Smoak led the men's hammer with a ninth-place 47.47m ahead of Hayden Swim (45.73m) and Keaton Reiman (43.72m). Reiman had personal-bests in both the shot put and discus, finishing fourth in the discus with a 46.53m best and then hitting his outdoor-best shot put mark of 15.46m for fourth. Cade Whish went 44.55m for sixth in the discus with Smoak eighth (43.64m) and Vaughn Hafner 17th (38.55m); in the women's event, Julianne Sugimae entered the Mines top-10 list at #8 with her sixth-place 40.22m toss, with Hopp marking 36.56m and Ott 34.86m. Whish was also sixth in the shot put (15.17m) with Swim 10th (13.76m).

Kellar Cimini won the men's pole vault clearing 4.75m, while Arabella Chen led the women's vaulters with her personal-best, third-place height of 3.60m, with Taylor Hindman fourth at the same bar. 

Mines' horizontal jumpers had a great weekend highlighted by Zander Besch's 14.38m triple jump - making him the #5 performer in Mines history - and Thierry Asare's 7.09m long jump, which ranks #8. Kelle Vernon hit the Mines #9 triple jump mark of 10.90m, and also long jumped 5.08m. 

The multi-eventers got javelin work in on Friday with Hafner throwing a personal-best 41.20m and Stade 34.90m; Sutherland threw 29.24m in the women's competition. Chloe Hawkins made her outdoor debut in the high jump, clearing 1.48m.

The Orediggers are set for two meets next weekend competing 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.