RAPID CITY, S.D. --- After a schedule change, instead of opening up their season in Spearfish at Black Hills State, the track & field teams will open up their outdoor season at the Spank Blasing Invitational at CSU Pueblo.
 
On Friday, events will begin at 2 p.m. with mainly throwing events, while Saturday is scheduled to be a much more eventful day with both field and track events beginning at 10 a.m.
 
The indoor season was a successful one for the track and field teams, culminating in six student-athletes being named to All-Conference based on their performances at the RMAC Championships, including three school records being broken.
 
Jade Cass just missed qualifying for nationals after winning the pole vault with a 2.07-meter jump and placed second in the heptathlon with 4,939 points, both were school records. Aidan Thompson and Travis Kleinsasser also were named All-Conference after finishing fourth and sixth in the heptathlon. In outdoor track & field, the multi-event switches to the 10-event decathlon but those three athletes look to carry over their success to the new event after finishing the Indoor season ranked fourth in USTFCCA's squad rankings in the heptathlon.
 
Eli Barbot finished sixth in the pole vault and looks to improve upon that in the outdoor season.
 
Jaycie Stubbs and Kamryn Scully had great seasons for the women's team, setting multiple school records in the shot put and the pole vault. Stubbs set the school record three times in the shot put, finishing the RMAC Championships with a school record mark of 13.55m, finishing in fifth. Scully fell short of a school record at the conference championships but also took home a fifth-place finish with a pole vault jump height of 3.53 meters.
 
MEET INFORMATION

Host School: CSU Pueblo
Date/Time: Friday, Mar. 24 – Saturday, Mar. 25 / 2:00 p.m., 10:00 a.m.
Site: Pueblo, Colo.
Arena: CSU Pueblo Thunderbowl 
 
Schedule:
                       
A Schedule of events is attached here and at the top of the article.
 
Events and Participants:
 
Men:

Men's 100m Dash:
        Nicolaus, Kort
        Record, Maxemus
        Snyder, Brent
        Winter, Rowan

Men's 200m Dash:
        Johnson, Eddie
        Winter, Rowan
        Pitlick, Ethan

Men's 800m Run:
        Greisen, Thomas
        Mashlan, Carson

Men's 1,500m Run:
        Hansmann, Owen
        Hentschel, Zach
        Quammen, Justin

Men's 5,000m Run:
        Captain, Tyler
        Flerchinger, Brett
        Prather, Hunter

Men's 110m Hurdles:
        Cass, Jade
        Harrington, Cody
        Kleinsasser, Travis
        Thompson, Aidan

Men's 3,000m Steeplechase:
        Lamoreaux, Joran      
Wagner, Owen

Men's 4 x 100m Relay:
        A: 43.00 (Johnson,Pitlick,Storlie,Nicolaus)

Men's 4 x 400m Relay:
        A: Pitlick,Kleinsasser,Mashlan,Thompson

        B: Barbot,Winter,Johnson,Greisen

        C: Hansmann,Harrington,Quammen,Wagner

Men's High Jump:
        Cass, Jade

Men's Pole Vault:
        Barbot, Eli
        Storlie, Cole
        Harrington, Cody

Men's Shot Put:
        Colman, Erick
        Fritzler, Henry
        Heersink, Gabe
        Kaiser, Reid
        Osmanski, Kevin
        Rowe, Josh

Men's Discus Throw:
        Cass, Jade
        Cone, Ian
        Heersink, Gabe
        Kaiser, Reid
        Kleinsasser, Travis
        Osmanski, Kevin
        Rowe, Josh
        Thompson, Aidan

Men's Hammer Throw:
        Colman, Erick
        Cone, Ian
        Fritzler, Henry
        Heersink, Gabe
        Kaiser, Reid
        Osmanski, Kevin
        Rowe, Josh
        Huot, Eli

Men's Javelin:
        Osmanski, Kevin
        Record, Maxemus
        Snyder, Brent
 
Women:
 
Women's 200m  Dash:
        May, Melissa
        Krumpus, Abby
        Mathieu, Katherine

Women's 1,500m  Run:
        Knudtson, Lillian
        Saline, Abbie
        Magni, Katie
        Tvrdy, Kat
        Wilson, Adeline

Women's 3,000m  Run:
        Knudtson, Lillian
        Magni, Katie
        Tvrdy, Kat
        Wilson, Adeline
        Saline, Abbie

Women's 5,000m  Run:
        Fischer, Clare
        Heiden, Allyson
        Howard, Alana

Women's 400m  Hurdles:
        Mannes, Laine
        Scully, Kamryn

Women's 4 x 100m  Relay:
        A: Mathieu,May,Krumpus,Mannes

Women's 4 x 400m  Relay:
        A: Mathieu,Mannes,May,Krumpus

Women's Pole Vault:
        Scully, Kamryn

Women's Shot Put:
        Jurrens, Olivia
        Sayler, Jenna
        Schenck, Adisyn
        Stubbs, Jaycie
        Van Ruler, Abbie
        Cooley, Amanda

Women's Discus Throw:
        Jurrens, Olivia
        Sayler, Jenna
        Schenck, Adisyn
        Van Ruler, Abbie
        Merz, Jansi

Women's Hammer Throw:
        Jurrens, Olivia
        Sayler, Jenna
        Merz, Jansi

Women's Javelin:
        Stubbs, Jaycie
 
About South Dakota Mines
The South Dakota School of Mines & Technology is a member of the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference (RMAC) and NCAA Division II offering 11 men's and women's varsity intercollegiate athletic programs. The Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference is a premier NCAA Division II conference with 15 members, as well as four associate members, located in the states of California, Colorado, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Dakota, and Utah.