Orediggers Close RMACs In Second Place

By: Tim Flynn

Final Results

GOLDEN, Colo.

– The Colorado School of Mines men and women both finished second as the 2025 RMAC Outdoor Track & Field Championships wrapped up at Stermole Track.

The Oredigger men scored a massive 195 points – their second-most ever – but were tipped in the final event by UCCS (198), while the Mines women scored their most points ever at 157. Jeremiah Vaille completed the distance double in a thrilling finish to the men’s 5,000m, Jenna Ramsey-Rutledge ran away with the women’s 5K, Kitt Rupar won her first RMAC title in the discus, Allison Comer won the 400m hurdle final in school-record time, and Everett Delate defended his 110m hurdles title with a new meet record as the Orediggers crowned five champions on the final day of the meet. 

Two days after winning the 10,000m, Vaille added 5K gold to lead five Orediggers in the top six spots. Vaille and teammate Paul Knight raced to the line where Vaille won in 14:53.38, tipping Knight’s 14:53.46, with Daniel Appleford fourth (15:06.23), Logan Bocovich fifth (15:10.04), and Andreas O’Malley sixth (15:11.98). Dawson Gunn was 10th in 15:24.78, and Chander Wilburn finished 16th in 15:58.88. 

Ramsey-Rutledge ran a masterful 5,000m to win by 22 seconds in 17:27.12. After a pedestrian start, the indoor national champion made a savage move with 2K to go, hitting a 1:15 split to take command of the race and finish with a solo last kilometer. Lexi Herr got in on the scoring with a fourth-place 18:05.35, as did Callen Nash, who was seventh in 18:18.72. Josie Mejia was 12th in 18:49.88.

Mines’ hurdlers had a fantastic day with medals in all four events, led by Comer’s 400m gold and Delate’s 110m title. Delate finished an incredible RMAC career with his sixth consecutive sprint hurdles title, having won both the 60m indoors and 110m outdoors now in three consecutive seasons; he cruised to a new RMAC Championships-record 13.87-second win under legal wind to stand atop the podium. In the women’s 400m hurdles, Allison Comer smashed her program record with the first sub-minute performance in Mines history, running 59.39 to win while Aani Hardesty was third in a personal-best 1:01.09. The men’s race put two Orediggers on the podium as Elijah Quinby ran a collegiate-best 52.67 for second place and Delate added bronze in 52.69. In the women’s 100m hurdles final, Avery Wright added to her medal hail with a personal-best 14.45-second bronze medal performance.

Grace Strongman captured the 1,500m bronze medal running 4:27.46, while the men’s race saw three Orediggers score as Alberto Campa was fourth (4:03.18), Brock Drengenberg fifth (4:03.50), and Andreas O’Malley eighth (4:04.67). Avary Catchings and Tim Thompson both won bronze medals in the 800m as Catchings ran 2:14.86 in the women’s final, and Thompson a personal-best 1:49.92 for third in the men’s final. Liam Currie finished sixth in the men’s 400m final in 48.31.

The men’s 4×100 ended up on the podium in third place as Tegan Daughters, Coulton Chan, Spencer Cedrun, and Jathan Busby clocked 41.34, the #3 time in program history and fastest since 1996. The women’s 4×100 of Avery Wright, Aani Hardesty, Maya Evans, and Claire Kintzley ran 48.08 – less than a tenth off the program record and fastest since 2009 – to place fifth. The women’s 4×400 relay of Comer, Hardesty, Catchings, and Evans ran 3:49.59 for fourth, while the men were also fourth as Currie, Quinby, Thompson, and Daughters ran 3:13.94. 

In the field, Kitt Rupar rode a second throw of 46.42m to win the women’s discus, adding to point-scoring finishes in the shot put and hammer from earlier in the meet to take her team point total to 21, the third-highest among all athletes in the meet. 

Holden Murphy closed out a strong meet with a career-best 17.18m shot put performance to come in fourth place, one of two men to score along with Franklin Rambo, who was sixth at 16.62m. Cade Whish was 13th (14.45m), Keaton Reiman 14th (14.38m), and Hayden Swim 18th (13.67m). For Murphy, it closed out a meet that saw him finish third in the overall men’s MVP scoring with 21 team points, including medals in the hammer and discus and seventh place in the javelin.

Vaughn Hafner, after a collegiate-best high jump performance in the decathlon earlier in the weekend, scored for Mines in the open high jump with a sixth-place 1.89m bar, while Nick Stade came in tied for ninth over 1.79m. In the women’s high jump, Jaysen Eaton finished 12th with a best bar of 1.49m.

Mines will start last-chance competition over the next two weekends, starting at Colorado State and CSU Pueblo next Saturday.