Payton Jordan Invitational
Friday - hosted by Stanford - Stanford, Calif. [Live Results] [Final Schedule]

Doug Max Invitational
Saturday - hosted by Colorado State - Fort Collins, Colo. [Live Results] [Final Schedule] 

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LAST CHANCES FOR OREDIGGERS AT TWO MEETS THIS WEEKEND
Coming off a hugely successful conference championship weekend, Colorado School of Mines begins two weekends of last-chance qualify for the NCAA Championships with a pair of meets, competing at Stanford's Payton Jordan Invitational on Friday and Colorado State's Doug Max Invitational on Saturday. Mines student-athletes are ultimately trying to rank in the top 22 nationally in individual events to qualify for the NCAA Division II Championships in Emporia, Kan. on May 21-23. 

LIVE COVERAGE
Both meets will have live results, linked above. No video coverage is available for either meet.

WHAT TO WATCH
At the Payton Jordan Invitational at Stanford on Friday, three Oredigger distance runners are entered looking to punch tickets to Emporia. Margaux Basart will try to earn her trip to nationals in the women's steeplechase (5:28 p.m. PT), currently sitting two spots off the NCAA bubble at #24 (10:38.97), while Garrett Mackey will run the men's steeplechase (6:09 p.m. PT) looking to solidify his national standing, currently in at #19 in D-II (9:00.91). Ethan Grolnic, holding a season's best 14:20 at the Bryan Clay in mid-April, will look for a national 5,000m time (7:56 p.m. PT) to end the night. The current D-II cut time in the 5K is 14:06.

At Colorado State's Doug Max Invitational on Saturday, seven Orediggers will hunt their championship chance. Cole Fiorillo will compete in the steeplechase (9:20 a.m.) after a breakout sixth-place RMAC Championships performance last weekend as he is currently 30th in D-II (9:05.26) hunting a time around 9:00. Jenna Ramsey-Rutledge, the national leader in the 10K, will look to double qualify in the 5,000m (10:15 a.m.) in her first time at the distance this season. The 2025 NCAA D-II national champion over 5K, Ramsey-Rutledge (15:33 PR) will try to be the third Oredigger woman to qualify for the event as Grace Strongman and Emily LaMena currently rank #1 and #2 nationally. Andreas O'Malley is entered in the men's 1,500m (11 a.m.) holding a season's best time of 3:53.95 to wrap things up on the track.

In the field at CSU, freshman Lily Cobb will throw the javelin as she currently sits 37th in D-II with her program-record 43.29m set earlier this month. Taylor Hindman and Aidan Bennett will compete in the pole vault looking to shore up their positions on crowded national lists. Hindman, the RMAC bronze medalists, is currently in but on the bubble at #21 with her best of 3.92m, while Bennett, the RMAC champion, ranks #15 nationally at 5.16m. Kai Miller will also compete in the men's vault coming off his two best performances of the season including a sixth-place 4.62m at the RMAC Championships. 

MINES MEN CAPTURE RMAC TITLE
Mines won the RMAC outdoor men's team title for the first time since 2019 on Sunday, scoring 188 points to lead the pack in Pueblo. Paul Knight (10,000m), Max Bonenberger (steeplechase), and Aidan Bennett (pole vault) won individual titles on Saturday, and the gold run continued on Sunday with crowns for Alejandro Philippart (110m hurdles), Jonah Fallon (400m), Tim Thompson (800m), Dawson Gunn (5,000m), and the 4x400 relay. The women finished a strong third behind individual crowns for Sierra Wall (steeplechase), Imani Fernandez-Gorbea (800m), Jennifer Jarnagin (hammer throw), and the 4x400 relay. 

OLDEST MINES RECORD BROKEN
Lisa Sutherland broke the oldest record on the books at Mines as part of her silver-medal heptathlon effort at the RMAC Championships, running a 14.28-second 100m hurdles to snap the mark that had stood since 1987. It was one of three Mines records to go down at the conference meet along with the men's 4x100 relay's (Eric Hill Jr., Crockett Becker, Tegan Daughters, Jathan Busby) time of 40.66 and Aani Hardesty's 400m hurdles performance of 59.17 seconds. The men's 4x400 relay (Liam Currie, Tim Thompson, Elijah Quinby, Jonah Fallon) also came away with a new RMAC Championships record of 3:09.74.

IN THE RANKINGS
Mines' women hit their highest-ever team ranking - indoors or out - last week, jumping up three spots to match the men at #4 in the USTFCCCA rankings, and both teams stayed at those spots this week. Mines is very well-represented in the EventSquad rankings as the men's 10,000m group is #1, men's 800m and steeplechase are #2, 5,000m is #3, and 110m hurdles is #5. The women's steeplechase group ranks #3 and 5K squad #4. 

ON THE NATIONAL LIST
The Orediggers hold four national leads on the NCAA D-II performance list - Jenna Ramsey-Rutledge in the 10K, Sierra Wall in the steeplechase, Grace Strongman in the 5,000m, and Dawson Gunn in the 5K - and have 18 top-10 NCAA D-II slots overall heading into May. If the NCAA Championships started today, the Orediggers would have 27 total entries - 15 individuals and a relay for the men and 11 individual for the women.

LOOKING AHEAD
The Orediggers finish the regular season May 7 at the Franson Last Chance at Azusa Pacific.