SPEARFISH, S.D.— Mica Jenrette and Meleeah Holmes-McKown each set school-records as Jenrette won the pentathlon with an improved NCAA Division II Championship Provisional qualifying effort of 3,560 points to lead the Colorado Mesa University women to a strong first day at the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Indoor Track & Field Championships on Friday here at Black Hills State University's Donald E. Young Center Field House.
 
The Mavericks also had two NCAA provisional qualifying sprints in the 60 meters and qualified three women for Sunday's final in that event while also qualifying the top 400-meter finalists.
 
Jenrette fared the best in the 11-woman field in each of the last two disciplines and set two new personal-bests while matching two others in an overall strong day, which saw her win by 219 points with a score that will rank her as high as ninth nationally.  Her total score was also 73 points better than Bacall Sterling's 7-year old school-record and allowed the Los Lunas, New Mexico redshirt sophomore to become the first Maverick woman to ever win a RMAC title in a multi-event.
 
Meanwhile, Holmes-McKown smashed the weight throw record turning in four separate throws better than the former record of 15.58 meters (51 feet, 1 ½ inch), including her best of 16.32 meters (53-6.5) to smash Danielle Pickert's CMU standard by more than two feet as she and Jenrette got CMU off to a good start in the early hours of the meet.  In the process, the freshman thrower from Minden, Nevada, finished fifth and along with Jenrette's 10 points and another one from eighth-place mile finisher Kira MacGill gave the Mavericks 15 team points through four events, good for a fourth place standing.
 
Jenrette had started her day with a time of 9.39 seconds in the 60-meter hurdles, equal to her career-best.  She then cleared 1.58 meters (5-2.25) to again match her best before taking second in the shot put with a solid throw of 10.30 meters (33-9.5).  She then won the long jump with a career-best mark of 5.39 meters (17-8.25) in the long jump to move into a tie for No. 10 in program history for that individual discipline.  Jenrette then won the 800 meters in 2:21.65 to move up four spots to fifth in program-history cementing her history-making day.
 
In the 60 meter preliminaries, Rachel Crutcher won her heat in 7.60 seconds while teammate Sierra Arceneaux finished right behind in 7.64 to move up a spot to fourth in program history.  Both were under the NCAA provisional qualifying time of 7.66 even with the slight altitude-adjustment penalty.
 
Shaya Chenoweth also reached the finals, qualifying seventh in a career-best seventh to take over the No. 7 spot in program history.  Haley Golden also ran a personal-best of 7.90 seconds to take the No. 10 spot in Maverick lore but missed out on the finals by just one place and a single hundredth of a second while finishing ninth.
 
In the 400-meter heats, McKenna Molder was the top overall qualifier as she won her race in 57.59 seconds.  Senior teammate Jill Payne also won her heat in 58.90 seconds and was the second overall qualifier.    Freshman Jordyn Pittman took 11^th in 1:01.05.
 
In the mile, MacGill turned in a time of 5:06.83 to move into the No. 2 position in CMU history ahead of Lauren Lipski and only behind 2010 NCAA Division II National Championship runner-up Alexis Skarda, who holds the school-record of 4:52.09.
 
In the 800 meters, Sydney Trichler just missed out on the points taking ninth in 2:21.54.
 
The Maverick men also won two of Friday's four events and sit third in the team standings with 22 points.