PITTSBURG, Kan.— Triple jumper Gunner Rigsby and sprinter Elijah Williams both claimed third-place finishes multi-event stars Dawson Heide and Mica Jenrette joined them as first team all-Americans on an impressive day of Colorado Mesa University Track & Field performances on Saturday here at the NCAA Division II Indoor National Championships.
 
Heide placed fifth in the men's heptathlon and along with Rigsby and Williams, pushed the Mavericks to 16 team points on the second and final day of the meet.  Those points allowed the Mavericks to finish in a tie for 13th, the second best in program history.
 
Meanwhile, Jenrette took sixth in the pentathlon for the second straight year as the lone Maverick woman to qualify for the championships and the first of the four to compete on Saturday.
 
Finishing in a tie for 39^th as the 1-woman team with her three team points, Jenrette posted a score of 3,706 points over the five disciplines of the pentathlon.  She set new career-bests in two of them, season-best in two others and recorded the second best pentathlon score in Maverick history, just 75 points off her 2021 national meet effort.  She was the final of 14 qualifiers into this year's championship but stepped up in a big way.
 
The redshirt sophomore is now a 3-time all-American and set a new career-best time of 9.13 seconds in the 60-meter hurdles putting her ninth in Maverick history for that individual discipline.  She also had a career-best shot put effort of 11.08 meters (36-4.25) after clearing 1.58 meters (5-2.25) in the high jump.  Jenrette also scored 677 points in the long jump with a season-best leap of 5.42 meters (17-9.5) before finishing third in the 800 meters with a season-best time of 2:19.20.
 
Not to be outdone, Heide also had a fine day on Saturday recording a pair of third-place finishes in the 16-man field to score a career-best 5,408 points over seven disciplines.  He had entered the day in seventh place with 3,003 points, and posted a solid time of 8.13 seconds in the 60-meter hurdles before clearing a career-best 4.45 meters (14-7.25) in the pole vault to take over the No. 9 spot in Maverick history for that event.
 
The redshirt junior then closed out his day with a time of 2:55.36 in the 1,000 meters to earn his first career all-America honor.
 
In the evening, Rigsby broke his own school-record with a triple jump effort of 15.93 meters (52-3.25) on his third attempt.  Now a 2-time overall all-American, Rigsby had a clean and impressive day of jumps as he went over 50 feet on all six attempts.
 
Williams then blazed to a time of 21.42 seconds as he won the first heat of the 2-heat, 8-man final, which ended up being faster than two of the four men in the second heat, which had the top four seeds after Friday's preliminaries.  Williams had come in to the final seeded sixth and joined Heide as a first-time all-American with his effort on Saturday.