PUEBLO, Colo.  The final session of the 2026 Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Men's and Women's Outdoor Track & Field Championships closed out Sunday afternoon, a three-day event that saw Western Colorado's men's program finish in seventh place while the women's team finished in eighth.

The Mountaineers picked up their highest single event total in the Sunday's men's 1,500-meter run, scoring 15 points toward the team's final total of 50 points, while the women received their highest single event points, 9, from the 800m run to add to the team's total of 34 points.

In that men's 1,500, Western's Tyler Nord finished second by one stride, posting a runner-up time of 3 minutes, 52.77 seconds, less than a half-second behind the race winner.

Adding to the Mountaineer points from the event were Oliver Diaz (3:57.90) in sixth place, Gable Rial (3:58.03) in seventh, and Wyatt Hoover (3:58.68) in eighth.

Sunday's women's 800 earned a bronze medal for Peyton Weiss who crossed the finish line in a time of 2:10.73 to nab third place, with Alissa Rall (2:14.83) adding team points from her sixth-place finish.

The women's 1,500 on Sunday also added to the team total as Emma Kjellsen (4:35.35) and Lauren Willson (4:39.37) finished fourth and seventh, respectively.

Also picking up points on the track Sunday for the men were John Houdeshell, Jeffrey Poku, and Will Stone.

In the final men's individual event, Houdeshell ran to a seventh place in the 5,000m run with a time of 15:15.68. Midway through Sunday's event schedule it was Poku sprinting to an eighth-place finish in the 100m dash, posting a time of 10.78 seconds, and Stone placing seventh in the 400m hurdles (58.43).

The initial event and the final event Sunday claimed points for the men.

The 4x100 relay of Giovonni Borjas, Cole Newman, Arvell Amos and Poku combined for a time of 41.14 seconds to place fifth in Sunday's first race on the oval. And Borjas led off the 4x400 Mountaineer foursome in the last event as he, Rial, Jack Boyt and Amos teamed up to place seventh.

The field events saw Western pick up points in the men's triple jump and the hammer throw as well as in the women's high jump.

In the opening event of the morning, Shawn Carter placed third in the triple jump with a leap of 14.79-meters (48 feet-6.25 inches) that ranks as the 37th-longest jump in NCAA Division II this season.

Brock Baumgart registered a personal best throw in the men's hammer, placing seventh with a toss of 51.39m (168-7).

The women's high jump produced a tie for sixth place between teammates Kyla Wolitzky and Nykole Meshew who both cleared a finishing height of 1.57m (5-1.75).

NEXT UP
Many of the Western competitors will attend the May 2 Western Slope Conversion Classic in Grand Junction, Colo., to earn or improve NCAA provisional times or marks.

Mountaineers with NCAA provisional marks will then look to learn if they are among the top 22 in the individual events or within the top 16 in combined events or relays for the NCAA DII outdoor championship meet in Emporia, Kansas, on May 21-23.