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December 06, 2018 | Track and Field

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Wichhart-Donzo fourth woman to score 3,900 in CU history

By: Shaun Wicen, Assistant SID

GOLDEN – Three women of the University of Colorado track and field program posted top marks in the pentathlon Thursday evening to kick off the 2018-19 indoor track and field season at the Mines Alumni Classic & Multi in Golden.

Maja Wichhart-Donzo, Michaela Wenning and Drianna Mustin all posted marks that replicated or bettered their marks from the MPSF Championships last indoor season. Wichhart-Donzo won the event with a mark of 3,909, a 100-point improvement from the end of last indoor season. Wenning was second with a score of 3,832, and 80-point improvement, while Mustin scored 3,506 which was three points from matching last season's best mark.

Wichhart-Donzo's score was just four points from tying the national-leading mark in the early season. She is just the second woman to break 3,900 this season in the NCAA with teammate Wenning sitting third in the rankings. Mustin's mark will put her fifth in the very-early rankings.

The senior duo of Wichhart-Donzo and Wenning went 1-2 to quick off the compilation in the 60 hurdles. Wichhart-Donzo won the event with a time of 8.75, bettering her best hurdle time of 8.86. Wenning was second with a mark of 8.85. The tandem took the top two spots in the high jump as well with equal jumps of 1.70 meters (5-foot, 7-inches).

In the third event, the shot put, Wenning took her first advantage of the evening with a toss of 11.23 meters (36-10¼). Wichhart-Donzo threw two feet shorter, resulting in a 20-point Wenning lead going into the long jump. Wichhart-Donzo took third in the long jump with a leap of 5.76 meters (18-10¾).

The 800-meter final event was where Mustin shined the most, jumping from ninth in the rankings to fifth with a winning run of 2:25.77 to barely lean past Wichhart-Donzo by four-thousandths of a second.

Wichhart-Donzo's final point total puts her fourth in school history with the sixth-best ever result in the event. It is also the best mark ever run in the state of Colorado in school history, beating Abrianna Torres's mark in 2015 at the Air Force Academy by more than 20 points.

On the men's side in the heptathlon, freshman Josh Farmer sits fourth after a day of competition while Davis Butte sits ninth and Aaron Carmichael is 16^th.

Farmer was fifth in the 60-meter dash at 7.17, jumped 6.73m (22-1) for the third-best mark, threw the shot 11.50m (37-8¾) and closed out the first day with a fourth-place finish in the high jump with a clearance of 1.88m (6-2).

The gentlemen will begin tomorrow's events with the 60-meter hurdles, followed by the pole vault and conclude the meet with the 1,000-meter run.

Also for Colorado, Gunner Rigsby jumped 6.99m (22-11¼) in the long jump to place fourth.

Running events begin tomorrow at 11:20 a.m. with the women's hurdles, an event CU will have three in. Field events start at 10 a.m. with triple jump. The throwers this weekend will be in action at the Air Force Holiday Open and begin competition in the afternoon.