GUNNISON, Colo.— All-Americans Dawson Heide and Mica Jenrette turned in impressive opening-day performances to lead a group of eight Colorado Mesa University multi-event athletes on Friday at the Mountaineer Open & Multi indoor track & field meet.
 
Heide fared best in all four of the first-day men's heptathlon disciplines and opened a commanding 674-point lead over the rest of the 7-man field while Jenrette won the women's pentathlon with a NCAA Division II Championship provisional qualifying score of 3,449 points as the Maverick women swept the top three places in the overall event.
 
Hope Matteson took second in the pentathlon with 3,229 points and set a national championship provisional qualifying clearance of 1.69 meters (5 feet, 6 ½ inches) in the high jump portion of the 5-discipline competition.  She was also just off the NCAA pentathlon provisional qualifying standard of 3,247 points before the altitude and track-size conversions are figured in.
 
Freshman Katie Thomson finished third with 3,144 points in her Maverick debut moving into fifth on the Mavs' all-time performers chart.
 
Jordan Brockman also set a personal-best of 3,082 points to place fifth and rank sixth in CMU lore while another CMU freshman in Natalie Smythe finished seventh out of nine women with 2,642 points.
 
Meanwhile, freshman Logan Hafey is in sixth place in the heptathlon with 2,305 points while Jay Shuman, competing for the first time in more than three years, is seventh with 2,185.
 
Heide, who finished fifth at the 2022 NCAA Division II Championships in the heptathlon after winning the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference title, set a pair of new personal records on Friday, dominating the long jump with a leap of 7.12 meters (23-4.5), more than a full meter better than any other man in the field.  He now ranks third in CMU history for the long jump.  Heide also won the shot put with a PR throw of 12.70 meters (41-8).
 
Heide was also just off his PRs in the other two events, winning the 60 meters in 6.83 seconds before closing out the opening day with a high jump clearances of 1.92 meters (6-3.5).
 
Hafey was second behind Heide in the 60 meters with a time of 7.14 seconds.  Shuman took fourth in the shot put with a mark of 9.92 meters (32-6.5).
 
The Mavericks fared best in four of the five pentathlon disciplines as Jenrette set a PR of 11.25 meters (36-11) to dominate the shot put before closing out the day with an 800-meter win with a time of 2:28.06.
 
Meanwhile, Brockman took the early overall lead, winning the 60-meter hurdles in a personal-best 9.17 seconds, ahead of Jenrette (9.22). 
 
Matteson then set her provisional qualifying high jump mark to win that discipline while moving into a tie for second place on CMU's all-time performers' chart in it.  Jenrette was third in the high jump, clearing 1.57 meters (5-1.75).
 
Brockman was second in the long jump with a mark of 5.17 meters (16-11.5) while Thomson was second in the 800 meters behind only Jenrette, finishing in 2:33.59.
 
Saturday's portion of the meet will begin at 10:30 a.m., 30 minutes before the original schedule, and will include the resumption of the heptathlon.  A live stream of Saturday's events be available on the RMAC Network and live results can be accessed here.