CHADRON, Neb.— Sierra Arceneaux successfully defended her title as the fastest woman in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference, winning both the 100 and 200-meter dashes for the second straight year as the Maverick women's track and field team set a new program-record for Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Outdoor Championship team points (102) en-route to a fourth place team finish.
After winning two gold medals on Saturday, Arceneaux doubled the Mavs' total on Sunday while
Jordan Burnett,
Kira MacGill and
Kiana Jackson also climbed on to the medal podium throughout the final day of competition here on the campus of Chadron State College.
Virginia Tomon also set a new CMU record in the shot put.
Arceneaux, who won seven RMAC titles throughout her career, which will continue at next month's NCAA Division II Championships, dominated both of her individual events posting times of 11.61 and 23.51 seconds defeating UCCS's Audrey Bloomquist, the RMAC Athlete of the Meet, by 0.29 seconds in the 100 before winning the 200 by a wide-1.17 second margin over Black Hills State's Breanne Fuller.
Before that, Burnett won the silver in the 400 with a personal-best and NCAA Division II Championship provisional qualifying time of 55.63 seconds, moving up to second in CMU history behind Arceneaux, who set a school-record of 55.52 earlier in the season. Arceneaux did not contest the 400 this weekend.
Elsewhere, MacGill placed sixth in the 1,500 meters in a personal-best 4:30.90 before coming back to take third and the bronze medal in the 5,000 meters with another NCAA qualifying time of 16:59.99 as one of three women to go under the former meet record of 17:03.86, set way back in 1999 by Adams State's Kim Bosen.
Katie Doucette of Western Colorado set the new record of 16:28.45, edging Colorado School of Mines' Zoe Baker (16:29.31) for the win.
The Mavs also picked up team points in the hurdling events as
Averie Griffith placed fourth in the 100-meter variety (14.83) before taking eighth over 400 meters in 1:12.87.
Jordan Brockman also added her fourth team-point scoring effort of the meet, taking seventh in the 100 hurdles at 14.87 seconds.
Gaby Horton,
Elaina Arcand,
Lexie Williams and
Emma Dikken then completed the track events with a seventh place time of 3:55.36 in the 4x400-meter relay, eighth quickest in CMU history.
Meanwhile, the Mavs scored in all three of Sunday's field events as Jackson claimed the bronze medal with a triple jump mark of 11.91 meters (39-1) to cap her RMAC Championship career with her 11
th career All-RMAC honor.
In the shot put, Tomon placed seventh with an opening-round and school-record setting heave 12.97 meters (42-6.75), nearly a foot further than Danielle Pickert's 6-year old former mark of 12.68 meters (41-7.25).
Daisy Rinehart also scored a team point with an eight place pole vault clearance of 3.26 meters (10-8.25).
The Maverick men also set a new program-record for team points (125.5) and claimed a second place team finish, their highest ever.
