GOLDEN, Colo.—24 of Westminster's outdoor track and field student-athletes competed in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Championship.  14 of those athletes were freshmen, six sophomores, one junior, two seniors and one graduate student.

Colorado School of Mines scored 201 points and finished first for the men.  New Mexico Highlands scored 152 points and finished first for the women.

This is only the second season that the Griffins have attended and competed at the RMAC Championship, and a first time for many on the team.  Despite being a young team, the women had their best overall performance and both men and women set several personal and top 10 program records.  Seniors Mitchell Sims and Naena Bland and Graduate Student Shelby Jordan provided leadership to a young team of Griffins that recorded its best overall performance and set several personal records (PR) and top 10 program records.
 
"It was a good meet and good to see us able to compete against the other RMAC schools," Head Coach Dan Quinn said.  "The commitment and leadership provided by Naena, Mitchell and Shelby, was invaluable.  This group showed its potential with the PRs set."
 
The women's team scored 11 points, scoring in the heptathlon (2), shot put (5), discus (3) and hammer throw (1).  The team finished 10^th overall, ahead of Fort Lewis, South Dakota Mines, Metro State and Colorado Christian.
 
Jordan scored in three events and set new personal and program records in the discus and shotput.  She recorded 40.61 m in the discus and 13.04 m in the shot put.  In the hammer throw she se the third longest throw with a distance of 39.65 m.
 
Naena Bland set PR in the 100 hurdles, 800 m, long jump, javelin and heptathlon.  She finished the 100 hurdles in 17.08 seconds and the 800 m in 2:27.46.  She jumped 4.48 m in the long jump and threw the javelin for 31.12 m.  She scored 3895 points in the heptathlon for new personal record and the 10^th highest score in program history.  She recorded the program's second highest high jump of 1.58 m.
 
Katie Scott finished the 800 m in 2:20.39 for a new PR and the third fastest time for Westminster outdoor track and field.
 
The 4 x 400 m relay team of Bland, Hannah Painter, Scott, and Maddy Villhauer recorded a time of 4:30.93 for the fifth fastest time in program history.
 
Kylie Harrison set new PR in the long jump (4.58 m) and high jump (1.39).  Katie Valdez set a new PR in the 100 hurdles (18.06), long jump (4.81 m) and heptathlon (3719).  Molly Dayley set new PRs in the heptathlon (2889), long jump (4.64 m), 800 m (2:51.17), high jump (1.33 m) and 100 hurdles (17.64).
 
The men's team wasn't able to score but set several new PRs and top 10 program records against some very strongn competition.
 
Blake Katona recorded 40.51 m in the discus for a new PR.  He recorded 35.69 m and set a new school record in the hammer throw.
 
Anthony Perryman threw the javelin for 40.49 m and set a new PR and recorded the second longest throw in school history.
 
Skyler Hobbs and Eric Mellmer set new top 10 times in the 3000 m steeplechase and the 10,000 m.  Hobbs finished the 3000 m steeple chase in 10:58.55 to record the eighth fastest time in program history and Mellmer set the third fastest time in the 10,000 m.
 
The 4 x 100 relay team set the second fastest time in the program's history and the 4 x 400 relay team set the fourth fastest time.  Jamin Peacock, Tony Nickerson, Sims and Lasana Trawally ran the 4 x 100 and finished 43.67.  Sims, Urban, Ryan Murphy and Nickerson ran the 4 x 400 and finished in 3:25.98.

Links to the full results can be found on the team's schedule webpage.

About Westminster--Westminster College is in its third year as a provisional member of the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference (RMAC) and NCAA Division II - see NCAA II timeline.  Westminster College was previously a member of the RMAC from 1967 to 1979.  The Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference is a premier NCAA Division II conference located in the states of Colorado, Nebraska, New Mexico, South Dakota, and Utah. The RMAC currently competes in 23 NCAA Division II sports and has earned 52 NCAA Division II national championships and 44 national runner-ups since 1992. Founded in 1909, the RMAC is the most historic athletic conference headquartered in the western United States and also in Division II.