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Butte Leads Multis With Nation’s Best mark
December 07, 2018 | Track and Field
CU boasts four top-four multis in the nation after the second weekend of competition
GOLDEN – Just a day after the CU women posted the first and third best marks in the nation in the pentathlon, the University of Colorado track and field program's male heptathlon student-athletes Davis Butte and Josh Farmer posted the first and fourth-best marks in the nation Friday in Golden at the Mines Alumni Classic & Multi.
After finishing the first day of competition in ninth place, Butte exploded in the second day of competition to take over the national-leading mark at 5,011. The first event of day two was the 60 hurdles in which he ran 8.69 for a fourth-place finish. The lone event that he won was the men's pole vault in which he posted a huge personal best with a jump of 4.80 meters (15-feet, 9-inches). He finished out the second day of competition with a sixth-place finish in the 1,000-meter run with a time of 2:54.22. His total score was nearly 400 points more than his season-best last year. He also became just the eighth Buff to break the 5,000-point mark in school history.
Butte was not alone in the endeavor as Farmer opened his collegiate competition with a mark of 4,874 in the heptathlon, good for fourth in the very-early national results list and the best by a freshman in the opening two weekends. Farmer actually bested Butte in five events but fell off the pace with a 400-point difference than his teammate in the vault. He finished off the competition with a 2:52.37 1,000-meter run that was third in the event.
Also for CU, junior Aaron Carmichael put together a respectable opening heptathlon with an overall score of 4,401, good for 16th in the nation.
The other key event for the Buffaloes this Friday was the women's 60-meter hurdles. A trio of CU women made it to finals in the event, making up nearly half of the field. Eriana Henderson inched out the win against teammate Valerie Welch as the duo were so close they actually hit each other numerous times in the race. Henderson picked up the win with a personal-best time of 8.67, edging out Welch by just two-hundredths of a second. Teammate Kylie Davis also eclipsed the 9-second barrier with a race of 8.99 for fourth place.
With the duo of Maja Wichart-Donzo and Michaela Wenning posting times of 8.75 and 8.85 yesterday in the pentathlon, CU boasts five women under 9-seconds in the 60 hurdles.
A handful of other Colorado athletes competed in field events across the front range this weekend. High jump duo Giancarlo Narvarte and freshman Jeremy Cody both had good performances at Mines with leaps of 2.01m (6-7) and 1.98m (6-6), respectfully. Gunner Rigsby posted an early season mark of 13.72m (45-0¼) in the triple jump, while on the women's side Sarah Hopkins nearly matched her season-best of last year with a jump of 11.64m (38-2¼). Cheyenne Cheshier also performed well with a mark of 11.41m (37-5¼) as the women finished third and fourth in the event.
Down South to the Air Force Academy, four CU throwers took to the ring in the Air Force Holiday Open. The women posted a pair of top-four finishes in the weight and shot put, while Brock Knechtel threw for the first time indoors in his career with a mark of 14.02m (46-0) in the weight. Mariah Walker threw 13.71m (44-11¾) for a third-place finish in the shot put, while Elisa Grandemange threw 16.61m (54-6) in the weight to finish fourth. Walker also threw 14.15m (46-5¼) in the weight.
It was a short and quick prelude to the upcoming season as the team will be off for more than a month before it returns to action at home January 11-12 for the Potts Indoor Invitational.
After finishing the first day of competition in ninth place, Butte exploded in the second day of competition to take over the national-leading mark at 5,011. The first event of day two was the 60 hurdles in which he ran 8.69 for a fourth-place finish. The lone event that he won was the men's pole vault in which he posted a huge personal best with a jump of 4.80 meters (15-feet, 9-inches). He finished out the second day of competition with a sixth-place finish in the 1,000-meter run with a time of 2:54.22. His total score was nearly 400 points more than his season-best last year. He also became just the eighth Buff to break the 5,000-point mark in school history.
Butte was not alone in the endeavor as Farmer opened his collegiate competition with a mark of 4,874 in the heptathlon, good for fourth in the very-early national results list and the best by a freshman in the opening two weekends. Farmer actually bested Butte in five events but fell off the pace with a 400-point difference than his teammate in the vault. He finished off the competition with a 2:52.37 1,000-meter run that was third in the event.
Also for CU, junior Aaron Carmichael put together a respectable opening heptathlon with an overall score of 4,401, good for 16th in the nation.
The other key event for the Buffaloes this Friday was the women's 60-meter hurdles. A trio of CU women made it to finals in the event, making up nearly half of the field. Eriana Henderson inched out the win against teammate Valerie Welch as the duo were so close they actually hit each other numerous times in the race. Henderson picked up the win with a personal-best time of 8.67, edging out Welch by just two-hundredths of a second. Teammate Kylie Davis also eclipsed the 9-second barrier with a race of 8.99 for fourth place.
With the duo of Maja Wichart-Donzo and Michaela Wenning posting times of 8.75 and 8.85 yesterday in the pentathlon, CU boasts five women under 9-seconds in the 60 hurdles.
A handful of other Colorado athletes competed in field events across the front range this weekend. High jump duo Giancarlo Narvarte and freshman Jeremy Cody both had good performances at Mines with leaps of 2.01m (6-7) and 1.98m (6-6), respectfully. Gunner Rigsby posted an early season mark of 13.72m (45-0¼) in the triple jump, while on the women's side Sarah Hopkins nearly matched her season-best of last year with a jump of 11.64m (38-2¼). Cheyenne Cheshier also performed well with a mark of 11.41m (37-5¼) as the women finished third and fourth in the event.
Down South to the Air Force Academy, four CU throwers took to the ring in the Air Force Holiday Open. The women posted a pair of top-four finishes in the weight and shot put, while Brock Knechtel threw for the first time indoors in his career with a mark of 14.02m (46-0) in the weight. Mariah Walker threw 13.71m (44-11¾) for a third-place finish in the shot put, while Elisa Grandemange threw 16.61m (54-6) in the weight to finish fourth. Walker also threw 14.15m (46-5¼) in the weight.
It was a short and quick prelude to the upcoming season as the team will be off for more than a month before it returns to action at home January 11-12 for the Potts Indoor Invitational.
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