PUEBLO, Colo.— Teo Casados and
Izaak Siefken both set Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Championship and Colorado Mesa University records and won three combined events while leading the Maverick men to a strong third place finish at the conference's outdoor track & field meet, which wrapped up Sunday at the CSU Pueblo ThunderBowl.
Casados swept the 100 and 200-meter titles for the second straight year and set records in the 200 with his time of 20.79 seconds. He also helped the Maverick men's 4x100-meter relay team to a second place finish and ended up as the meet's MVP by scoring 22 team points.
Meanwhile, Siefken successfully defended his javelin throw title, registering a RMAC and a school-record throw of 68.75 meters (225 feet, 7 inches), breaking his own school-record from earlier this year by seven inches. He also broke the 25-year old conference championship record, which had been set by Fort Hays State's Zach Kindler in 2021, by nearly a meter.
Led by those efforts, the Mavericks added 83 team points on Sunday and finished the meet with 113 ½ points.
Casados, who now has six career RMAC titles, the most of any CMU track & field athlete, won the 100 in 10.45 seconds while teammates
Joseph Randolph (10.64) and
Marik Cummings (10.75) 1finished fourth and seventh, respectively.
Less than an hour later, Casados claimed the 200, breaking the former RMAC Championship electronic timing record of 20.84, set 12 years ago by Adams Stae's Chaz Butler. Casados' mark also broke Elijah William's CMU record of 20.88 from 2022. Randolph was also in the race and took seventh in 21.69.
Earlier,
Amaris Mora, Randolph, Cummings and Casados combined for a fast time of 40.06 seconds in the 4x100-meter relay, second fastest in program history only to the same quartet's school-record mark of 39.62 from March.
Elsewhere on the track,
Aidan Brownell set a career-best and NCAA provisional qualifying time of 52.19 seconds to take second in the 400-meter hurdles.
Blake Ames also finished fifth with a career-best of 54.89 seconds.
In the 800 meters, freshman
Vasileios Salpas took fifth in the 800 with a NCAA provisional effort of 1:49.50.
Fellow freshman Clayont Wilson also took fourth in the 5,000 with a time of 14:55.76 while
Justin Blanton,
Blake Ames, Alonzo Lieba and Brownell combined for fifth place time of 3:15.75 in the 4x400-meter relay. That time is the third fastest in program history.
In the field, the Mavericks had four of the top eight finishers in the triple jump.
Salem Brunk led the way finishing fifth with a season-best mark of 14.58 meters (47-10).
Antone Higgs took sixth just a centimeter shorter at 14.57 meters (47-9.75).
Jalen Hale finished seventh at 14.49 meters (47-6.5) while
Weston Domich was a centimeter off to finish eighth at 14.48 meters (47-6.25).
Austin Schultz led three Mavs in the hammer throw with an 11
th place mark of 48.93 meters (160-6).
The Maverick women also had an event winner and school-record setter and matches a program-best finish by taking second.
