Mines Midweek & Multi
Wednesday-Thursday - hosted by Mines- Stermole Track [Live Results] [Prelim Schedule]

Kit Mayer Classic
Saturday - hosted by Mines - Stermole Track [Live Results] [Prelim Schedule]

Spec Towns Invitational
Friday-Saturday - hosted by Georgia - Athens, Ga. [SEC Network+] [Live Results] [Prelim Schedule]

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OREDIGGERS READY FOR BUSY WEEK
Colorado School of Mines will host two home meets this week, with a stormy weekend weather forecast forcing the addition of the Mines Midweek & Multi on Wednesday and Thursday, and truncating the Kit Mayer Classic to a single day on Saturday. In addition to those two meets, an exciting opportunity awaits three Mines runners - Jonah Fallon, Tim Thompson, and Imani Fernandez-Gorbea - as they head to the University of Georgia's Spec Towns Invitational on Friday and Saturday hoping to lay down nationally-elite performances.

LIVE COVERAGE
Live results for the Mines Midweek & Multi and the Kit Mayer Classic will be available at minesathletics.com/tracklive. Due to an uncertain weather forecast, the meets will not be streamed on the RMAC Network. Admission to both meets is free, but fans are reminded that they must pay for parking during the day on Wednesday and Thursday; Saturday parking is free.

The Spec Towns Invitational will stream on SEC Network+ for subscribers. Live results are available as well.

WHAT TO WATCH - MINES MIDWEEK & MULTI
The Mines Midweek & Multi is set for Wednesday with the conclusion of the decathlon and heptathlon on Thursday. The track program, which tentatively starts at 4:20 p.m. Wednesday, will be sprint focused, while the hammer throw, javelin, long and triple jumps will be offered in the field. The Orediggers plan to enter a large group aiming for big performances to continue an outstanding outdoor season for the sprinters. 

A preliminary meet schedule is available at the links at the top of this article; a final schedule will be posted on the Mines track & field schedule page Tuesday evening after entries close at 5 p.m.

WHAT TO WATCH - KIT MAYER CLASSIC
Saturday's Kit Mayer Classic will be the "inverse" of the Midweek Meet with a distance-focused track program tentatively set to begin at 10 a.m., which will include the distances from 400m to 10,000m and the steeplechase. In the field, it will be the discus, shot put, high jump, and pole vault beginning at noon. A final schedule and entries will be available Thursday evening.

WHAT TO WATCH - SPEC TOWNS INVITATIONAL
Big opportunities await the trio of Jonah Fallon, Tim Thompson, and Imani Fernandez-Gorbea as they visit the University of Georgia for the Spec Towns Invitational. The schedule has not yet been set and they could run either in the collegiate 400m (Fallon) and 800m (Thompson and Fernandez-Gorbea) on Friday, or the Invitational races on Saturday depending on seeding. All three already rank in the top five nationally this season in NCAA D-II, but aim to go lower against P4 competition. The meet will open Georgia's spectacular new $60 million Spec Towns Track.

IN THE RANKINGS
The second USTFCCCA rankings of the season were announced this week with the Mines men moved up two spots to #3 while the women made a big jump up 10 spots to #7. Mines' men's 800m group sits atop the EventSquad rankings thanks to three Orediggers - Tim Thompson, Brock Drengenberg, and Liam Currie - ranking in the national top six.

RECORDS SHATTERED AT STANFORD
Mines' distance starts opened their outdoor season at Friday's Stanford Invitational, producing some eye-popping times and four national leads in the process. Jenna Ramsey-Rutledge reset her RMAC and Mines records running the #2 10,000m time in NCAA Division II history at 32:24.23, while Emily LaMena lowered her program steeplechase standard to 10:14.67, and Grace Strongman shattered her Mines 1,500m record in 4:22.68. All three of those represent season-bests in NCAA Division II along with Dawson Gunn, who ran a career-best 5,000m of 13:36.23, while Paul Knight ran the D-II #2 10K of 28:59.36. 

SPRINTERS HAVE STRONG OUTDOOR START
The first two weekends of the outdoor season were fast ones for the Orediggers in Pueblo as they rewrote the program record book with seven new records. At the Dr. Dan Caprioglio Invitational, Jathan Busby (100m), Violet Williams (200m), Jonah Fallon (400m), Tim Thompson (800m), and the men's 4x100 relay of Eric Hill Jr., Crockett Becker, Tegan Daughters, and Busby all broke Mines records, and they followed that up at the Chuck Haering Classic as Fallon snapped the 200m record and the women's 4x400 (Aani Hardesty, Imani Fernandez-Gorbea, Elizabeth Prescott, and Violet Williams) went fastest in program history. In all over the past three weeks, Mines sprinters and middle-distance runners have set 24 program all-time top-10 performances. 

ON THE NATIONAL LIST
As mentioned, the Orediggers hold four national leads on the NCAA D-II performance list - Jenna Ramsey-Rutledge in the 10K, Emily LaMena in the steeplechase, Grace Strongman in the 1,500m, and Dawson Gunn in the 5K - and also have Tim Thompson's #2 800m, Jonah Fallon's #2 400m, and Paul Knight's #2 10K. The Orediggers have an impressive 17 top-15 marks as of April 7 including 14 in the top 10. 

LOOKING AHEAD
The Orediggers will be home again next weekend with the Mines Pre-Conference along with action at the Bryan Clay Invite in California.