GUNNISON, Colo.— Colorado Mesa University multi-event athletes Mica Jenrette and Dawson Heide combined to set four personal-bests as they led the Maverick indoor track & field teams during first day action here at the Mountaineer Open & Multi on Friday afternoon.
 
Jenrette set a new personal-best time of 9.16 seconds in the 60-meter hurdles to win that event before taking three other sub-disciplines as she scored an improved NCAA Division II Championship provisional qualifying 3,511 points to win the women's pentathlon by a massive 575-point margin.
 
Meanwhile, Heide won two of the four men's heptathlon events contested on Friday while setting three new personal-best marks to open up a 29-point lead with an overall score of 2,925 points.
 
He was the only Maverick in the 7-man field and was competing for the first time in more than two years.
 
Heide, a redshirt junior out of Bayfield, Colorado won the 60-meter dash in 6.92 seconds to move into the No. 4 (tie) spot of program history for that discipline.  He also recorded a winning and personal-best long jump mark of 6.74 meters (22 feet, 1 ½ inches) before finishing second in both the shot put and high jump with marks of 11.47 meters (37-7.75) and 1.87 meters (6-1.5).  The shot put mark was a massive 1.13-meter (3-8.5) improvement over his former best.
 
Jenrette, the Maverick school-record holder, returning all-American and defending Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Champion also fared best in the 5-women pentathlon field in the shot put, long jump and 800 meters after taking second in the high jump portion of the event.  Her aforementioned hurdling time moved her into a tie for ninth in program history.
 
She recorded marks of 10.80 meters (35-5.25) in the shot put, 5.15 meters (16-10.75) in the long jump and a time of 2:27.31 in the 800 meters after taking second with a high jump clearance of 1.59 meters (5-2.5).
 
Teammates Hope Matteson, Sophie Lindauer and Jordan Brockman were also competing and took third, fourth and fifth, respectively.  Matteson scored 2,691 points with a pair of season-bests while Lindauer tallied 2,612, finishing second behind Jenrette in the day-ending 800 meters with a time of 2:35.16, one of four new career-bests, including her overall score.
 
Brockman scored 2,182 points and set a new career-best mark of 8.10 meters (26-7) in the shot put.
 
The remainder of the men's heptathlon and the majority of the meet will resume at 11 a.m. on Saturday and can be seen on the RMAC Network.  Live results are also available at the link above.