PITTSBURG, Kan.— Sprinter Elijah Williams broke his own school-record and advanced to the 200-meter finals while heptathlete Dawson Heide set two new-personal bests and is in the seventh place after Day 1 and four events of the 7-event competition at the NCAA Division II Indoor Track & Field Championships, which got underway Friday here in the Robert W. Plaster Center on the campus of Pittsburg State University.
 
Maverick Miler Tony Torres and long jumper Justin Thompson were also in action throughout the day.
 
Williams posted a time of 21.33 seconds in the preliminary heats of the 200, breaking his own month- school-record of 21.35, while qualifying sixth for Saturday's final.  The redshirt sophomore from Aurora, Colorado was seeded eighth (tie) coming in.
 
Williams also finished 11^th in the 60-meter dash with a preliminary round time of 6.82 seconds. 
 
He was the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Champion in both events and was named as the RMAC Championship Athlete of the Meet.

The Maverick men have set at least one school-record in all nine meets of the indoor season.

Heide, who came into the meet seeded 11th, scored 3,003 points, two more than he had through the same four events en-route to his RMAC title-winning and national-qualifying effort from a fortnight ago.  He finished second best out of the 16 men in the field in the 60 meters with a time of 6.93 seconds before setting a new career-best of 6.99 meters (22 feet, 11 ¼ inches) to finish sixth best in the long jump.
 
The redshirt junior from Bayfield, Colorado, then turned in another career-best of 11.72 meters (38-5.5) in the shot put before closing out his day by clearing 1.88 meters (6-2) in the high jump.
 
In the mile, Torres finished 13^th with a season-best time of 4:09.79.  The redshirt junior out Oro Valley, Arizona finished second at last year's national championships with a school-record time of 4:00.86.
 
Thompson, a redshirt sophomore from Carbondale, Colorado, took 11^th in the long jump, posting a mark of 7.30 meters (23-11.5) on his opening attempt.
 
CMU will also have four athletes competing on Saturday as Mica Jenrette will kick things off for the Maverick women in the pentathlon, which begins at 10 a.m. CST (9 a.m. Mountain).  Heide will then resume the heptathlon two hours later at Noon CST (11 a.m. Mountain).
 
Gunner Rigsby will then contest the triple jump, slated to start at 5:35 p.m. CST (4:35 p.m. Mountain) before Williams will run in the 200-meter finals at 6:45 p.m. CST (5:45 p.m. Mountain).  Rigsby is seeded second coming in.