alGRAND JUNCTION, Colo.— The Colorado Mesa University track and field teams racked up 19 event wins and seven new facility records while breaking five school records in an impressive set of performances on Sunday at the Maverick Invite & Multi, the first of three meets the Mavericks will host this month at the CMU Track & Field Complex.
 
Justin Blanton, Kelsey Montague, Christina Palmer and Augustine Hancock all had double record-setting performances as they broke both the facility and school records in their respective victories.  Meanwhile, Justin Thompson also added a school-record performance in the men's long jump while Gaby Horton, Josie Coffey and Kaiya Graves all added facility record performances as the Mavericks also set a dozen new or improved NCAA Division II Championship provisional qualifying marks in the meet, which will wrap up on Monday with the second day of the men's decathlon and women's heptathlon events.
 
Coffey also set a national-leading effort in the women's high jump.
 
The Maverick men won 11 events throughout the day while the CMU women combined for another eight victories.
 
Montague won the 400-meter hurdles in 53.07 seconds to break the CMU record for the second straight meet while also setting a new facility record and NCAA provisional qualifying time. 
 
Blanton also broke an 11-year old school record with a track record time of 48.22 seconds in the 400-meter dash.
 
Meanwhile, Thompson won the long jump with a school-record setting jump of 7.61 meters, one of CMU's five new or improved NCAA qualifying marks set during a jumping event sweep.  Freshman Miller Jones won the triple jump for the second straight outing with a NCAA mark of 15.37 meters while Zace Buckhold took second in both horizontal jumps, claiming NCAA marks of 7.31 and 14.91 meters in the long and triple jumps, respectively, while Thompson added a third place finish and NCAA qualifying effort of 14.80 meters in the triple.
 
Eddie Kurjak also won the men's high jump, clearing 2.08 meters.
 
That win came after Josie Coffey thrilled the crowd with a winning women's high jump clearance of 1.80 meters, just one centimeter off her own school-record and well over her 3-year old facility record of 1.75 meters.  Coffey also took over the NCAA Division II performance list lead.
 
The Mavs were also able to claim four wins and three new facility records in the throwing events as Palmer won the discus throw with a NCAA provisional qualifying and school-record throw of 45.53 meters in her home debut.  Hancock also smashed the CMU and stadium records in the hammer throw with a heave of 53.61 meters while freshman Kaiya Graves broke the facility record in the javelin throw with an effort of 38.14 meters after breaking the CMU record just 16 days earlier in her collegiate debut.
 
Meanwhile, Nathan Jones won the men's discus throw with an effort of 43.12 meters while Bulgarian freshman Venesa Handzhiyska won the women's long jump with a leap of 5.79 meters in her home debut to move into a tie for third on the Mavs' all-time performers chart.
 
Back on the track, Teo Casados won the men's 100 meters in a wind-aided 10.49 seconds, just a single one hundredth of a second off the track record of 10.48, held by Elijah Williams, who won the 200 in 21.11 seconds.
 
Horton set a women's 100-meter track record of 11.79 seconds, breaking Sierra Arceneaux's former facility best of 11.84 and later came back to finish third in the 200 with a time of 24.41 seconds.  Jordan Burnett was second in 24.40.
 
The Mavs were also able to win four distance running events as Kirstin Williams dominated a small 3-woman field in the women's 10,000 meters with a solid time of 36:41.73 to win by nearly three minutes.  Her effort will also be well lower than the NCAA Championship provisional qualifying standard of 36:21.84, when converted for altitude, and puts her third on the Mavs' all-time performers list.
 
The Mavs then swept the 5,000 meters as Kate Linstedt won the women's event in 18:53.10 before Triston Charles then won the men's race in 15:26.22 while Kevin DeGree won the 3,000-meter steeplechase in 9:48.66 becoming just the fourth Maverick to ever break the 10-minute mark in the discipline.
 
The Maverick "B" team of Walker Mathews, Blanton, Amaris Mora and Jeremiah Reed also won the men's 4x100-meter relay in 41.13 seconds while the "A" squad had a faulty baton exchange.  The CMU women's relay team of Serenity Burnett-Perry, Horton, Burnett and Sylvia Johansen also managed a NCAA provisional qualifying time of 46.35 seconds to take second.
 
Returning all-American Dawson Heide scored 3,842 points in the first five decathlon events and leads the group of four Maverick men heading into Monday's action.
 
Katie Thomson leads the women's heptathlon by three points while Hope Matteson is third after setting a NCAA provisional qualifying jump of 1.67 meters in the high jump portion of the overall event.
 
The decathlon will resume on Monday at 11 a.m. while the women's heptathlon will resume at 11:30 a.m.  Live results for Monday's portion of the meet can be found here.