PUEBLO, Colo.— Dawson Heide broke his own school-record en-route to a fifth place finish in the men's decathlon while the two Colorado Mesa University women in action also fared well on Friday, the second day of NCAA Division II Outdoor Track & Field Championship action here at the CSU Pueblo ThunderBowl.
 
Heide finished with 7,241 points, 34 more than his championship qualifying and former school-record mark of 7,207 from last month and earned his first outdoor and third overall career U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association All-America honor.
 
Meanwhile, Josie Coffey tied for ninth in the high jump with a clearance of 1.68 meters (5 feet, 6 inches) to earn second team all-America plaudits while Sierra Arceneaux set the fastest all-conditions 200-meter mark in CMU history to qualify for Saturday's final.
 
Mica Jenrette was also scheduled to compete but did not start the second day of heptathlon events.
 
Heide set three career-best marks and matched another in Thursday's five decathlon events and entered with a small 3-point lead over eventual champion Elvis Kryukov of Angelo State.  Heide then doubled that lead to six points with another personal-record and winning time of 14.47 seconds in the 110-meter hurdles to begin the day on Saturday before falling back to third after a discus throw effort of 33.88 meters (111-2).  He then slipped to fourth after clearing 3.90 meters (12-9.5) in the pole vault before remaining in that spot after a third round javelin throw of 49.43 meters (162-2) following a substantial lighting delay.
 
Heide then ran to a time of 5:06.10, just off his PR of 5:02.80 and season-best of 5:05.46, in the 1,500 meters to complete his fifth place overall finish, which was the spot he was seeded coming into the meet.
 
His overall score is believed to be second best in Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference history.
 
In the high jump, Coffey cleared each of her first three bars before running into trouble at 1.71 meters (5-7.25), a height that knocked three jumpers out.  Coffey is now a 3-time all-American.
 
In the 200, Arceneaux blazed to a time of 23.19 seconds with a 5.2-meter-per-second wind behind her back finishing second in her heat while qualifying sixth for Saturday evening's (7:45 p.m.) 9-woman final.  Arceneaux also holds the official wind-legal school-record of 23.47 seconds and had a wind-aided time of 23.33 seconds to qualify her for the NCAA Championships 13 days ago at the Loper Twilight.
 
She will be one of three CMU women in action on Saturday evening as Kiana Jackson will contest the triple jump, slated to start at 5:30 p.m. before Kira MacGill will run in the 5,000 meters at 8:05 p.m.