CHADRON, Neb.— Mica Jenrette and Josie Coffey both won Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference titles while Heather Yackey claimed an historic bronze medal in the discus throw as the Colorado Mesa University women surged into second place at the RMAC Outdoor Track & Field Championships after the second of three days of action on Saturday here on the campus of Chadron State College.
 
Jenrette claimed her third successive heptathlon title and her sixth straight RMAC Championship multi-event win, scoring 4,884 points to win in come-from-behind fashion. The Los Lunas, New Mexico product has also won the last three RMAC indoor pentathlon titles and now has seven career conference crowns to her credit, including a 2021 indoor 4x400-meter relay title.
 
Meanwhile, Coffey won the high jump on tie-breaking procedures after clearing 1.66 meters (5 feet, 5 ¼ inches) on her second attempt to edge CSU Pueblo's Mikayla Jones who needed three attempts to get over that height.  Coffey now has three career RMAC high jumping crowns to her credit, having last won the 2022 indoor title after winning the 2021 indoor title en-route to conference freshman of the year honors.
 
In the discus, Yackey became the first CMU women's thrower to ever win a RMAC Championship medal, placing third with a heave of 43.80 meters (143-8).
 
The Maverick women also received a pair of fifth place finishes from Jordan Brockman, who cleared 1.61 meters (5-3.25) in the high jump while scoring 4,503 points in the heptathlon.  Freshman Katie Thomson also took sixth with a score of 4,264.
 
In total, the Mavericks now have 45 team points with eight of 21 events in the books, trailing 3-time defending champions UCCS by just 3 ½.  CSU Pueblo is in third with 41.
 
Saturday's other action included preliminary heats in four running events.  The Mavericks were represented in three as redshirt senior Sierra Arceneaux emerged as the top qualifier in the 200-meter dash, winning her heat by 1.21 seconds in a time of 23.61, nearly a second quicker than any other runner.
 
Jordan Burnett also safely reached Sunday's final, finishing fifth overall and second to Arceneaux in the opening heat with a season-best time of 24.82 seconds.
 
Averie Griffith and Brockman also reached the finals in the 100-meter hurdles as Griffith turned in a time of 14.67 seconds to automatically qualify as the runner-up in her heat while Brockman got through on time at 14.87 seconds.
 
Meanwhile, Alyssa Britton placed 12^th in the 800 meters with a career-best time of 2:19.18.
 
Jenrette also used the 800 meters to win the heptathlon title.  She trailed Colorado School of Mines freshman Avery Wright by a single point after Friday's four events before falling 15 points behind after Wright slightly out-jumped her in the long jump.
 
However, Jenrette out-scored Wright by 33 points and more than five feet in the javelin before capping her title with the 800-meter win in 2:24.55.  Wright was 3.25 seconds and 42 points behind as Jenrette ended up with a 60-point final margin of victory.
 
Thomson was second to Jenrette in the 800 by just seven one-hundredths of a second (2:24.62) while Brockman matched her long jump PR of 5.62 meters (18-5.25) to take second in that discipline, the highlight of her Day 2 events.
 
On the men's side, sophomore Becker Ell cleared 4.53 meters (14-10.25) to place fourth in the pole vault.  Garrett Searls also claimed a team point with an eighth place finish and clearance of 4.38 meters (14-4.5) as the Mavs now stand seventh in the team standings with 19 points through seven completed events.
 
Mark Testa also scored four of those, placing fifth in the 3,000-meter steeplechase with a school-record smashing time of 9:23.60, a more than 15-second improvement on his former career-best.  His Saturday mark was also more than 12 seconds better than Trevor Smith's 2022 effort of 9:35.63, the former CMU standard.
 
Elsewhere, Elijah Williams won his heat of the 200 meter preliminaries to qualify third overall in 21.26 seconds while Zayden Davis also qualified third in the 110-meter hurdles with a season-best and NCAA Division II Championship provisional qualifying time of 14.49 seconds.  Davis won last year's RMAC title in a school-record time of 14.42 seconds.
 
Teammates Dawson Heide (14.50) and Nate Hanson (15.33) also qualified for Sunday's final.  Heide's time was a new personal-best and has him seeded eighth for Sunday's race.  Hanson was the final qualifier.
 
Sunday's all-finals portion of the championships will begin at 9:30 a.m. with the men's javelin throw.