GOLDEN, Colo. – Led by a runner-up finish from Creighton Trembly and five other top five finishes (two individual and three relays), Chadron State had a strong closing day at the 2025 RMAC Outdoor Track and Field Championships. 

With an individual second and two fourths plus fourth and fifth place finishes in relays, the Chadron State men rose their total up to 57 points, ranking fifth in the team standings for a substantial improvement from ninth a season ago. The Eagle men scored 28 of their 57 points on the final day of the three-day meet. 

The CSC women's team had a strong closing to the meet, running a top five time in program history to finish fourth, score five points, and raise CSC's meet total to 10 points for a 12th-place finish in the women's standings. 

Creighton Trembly capped his senior season by becoming the first CSC athlete other than Chayton Bynes to finish in the top two at this year's RMAC Championships. Trembly ran the 110 hurdles in 14.38 seconds, coming in second behind Colorado School of Mines's Everett Delate, who set an RMAC record with his meet-winning time. Trembly's time was his season-best by nine one-hundredths of a second. 

Another hurdler, Kingston, Jamaica's Nicquaine Henry, came fourth in the 400 hurdles with a time of 52.99 seconds. Henry's time not only met the provisional NCAA qualifying standard but was also Henry's Chadron State career best and the fourth-fastest time in Chadron State history. 

The only three 400 hurdle times by CSC runners faster than Henry's on Sunday – 52.39 by Gavan Archibald in 2014, 52.49 by Lincoln Proud in 2012 and 52.56 by Archibald in 2013 – were all fast enough to win RMAC Championships. 

Freshman Christopher Cormier placed in the 400-meter dash, crossing the line fourth in 47.87 seconds. Cormier's finals time was just short of his prelims time of 47.78, which was the fifth-fastest time in that event in CSC history (and also would have been fourth in the finals). 

All three relays that were entered in the RMAC Championships for Chadron State ended up placing in the league's top five. The women's 4x100 relay team of Shantae Morgan, Laynie Goertz, Eva Nitschke and Camila Salvucci placed fourth with a time of 47.90 seconds, which is the fifth-fastest lap around the track and CSC women's outdoor history. It is the second fourth-place finish of the meet for Salvucci, who took fourth in the triple jump Saturday. 

The men's side equaled the women with a fourth-place finish, circling the track in 41.63. The Eagle quartet of Christopher Cormier, Ryan Clapper, Dylan Sup and Creighton Trembly was competing together for the first time this season as normal leadoff leg Esosa Iyengunmwena has not competed at this year's RMAC Championships. 

In the final event of the meet, the Eagles placed fifth in the 4x400 relay, finishing in 3:14.61 for the fourth-best time in CSC history and over a five-second improvement from last year's RMAC Championships time. Three of the runners were the same as CSC's 4x100 squad (Sup, Clapper and Cormier), with Nicquaine Henry running the anchor leg. 

Chadron State's final points of the meet came early in the day from the shot put, when Parker Gonser launched a career-best heave of 51 feet even, 4.75 inches farther than he has thrown before. Also in the shot put, freshman Casey Miller finished 12th and out of the points places, but threw 48 feet, 3 inches, a whole 17 inches farther than his previous career best. 

CSC women's athletes who just missed out on top-eight finishes for points scoring during Sunday's competition were Kendall Petty (javelin, 12th, 110-11.25), Ashlyn Tapio (discus, 10th, 134-2.5) and Megan Baloun (high jump, 12th, 4-10.5). 

On the team side, UCCS ended up sweeping the men's and women's team titles, with Colorado School of Mines coming in second for both genders. 

The men's race was incredibly close, with UCCS scoring 198 points to Mines's 195, with CSU Pueblo a distant third with 101 and Colorado Mesa at 71 before the Eagles in fifth with 57. The women's team standings had UCCS on top with 172 points, Mines in second with 157 and New Mexico Highlands earning third place with 110. 

As a summary, here are Chadron State's top-eight finishers from the three days of competition at the RMAC Outdoor Championships:

Men's Events
Javelin—5, Trace Hanchett, 180-3.25. 
Hammer—4, Parker Gonser, 187-7.5.
Long jump—1, Chayton Bynes, 24-2. 
Decathlon—7, Ethan Norris, 5,688 points. 
Triple jump—2, Chayton Bynes, 48-2.5.
Shot put—8, Parker Gonser, 51-0.
4x100 relay—4, Chadron State (Christopher Cormier, Ryan Clapper, Dylan Sup and Creighton Trembly), 41.63.
110 hurdles—2, Creighton Trembly, 14.38.
400 meters—4, Christopher Cormier, 47.87.
400 hurdles—4, Nicquaine Henry, 52.99.
4x400 relay—5, Chadron State (Dylan Sup, Ryan Clapper, Christopher Cormier, Nicquaine Henry), 3:14.61.

Women's Events
Triple jump—4, Camila Salvucci, 38-7.75. 
4x100 relay—4, Chadron State (Shantae Morgan, Laynie Goertz, Eva Nitschke, Camila Salvucci), 47.90.

Rodeo Qualifies Two For Nationals After Final Event

LARAMIE, Wyo. – While the Chadron State College rodeo team only mustered three top-five finishes in last weekend's Laramie rodeo hosted by the University of Wyoming, the end of the regular season meant two CSC seniors who had previously built up enough points have officially qualified for the College Finals Rodeo in Casper, Wyoming from June 15-21.

They are breakaway roper Brooke McCully and tie down roper Jake Chasek. The two Nebraska natives will be CSC's first representatives at the national rodeo since 2021, when the entire women's team qualified and Brianna Williams placed fourth in breakaway roping. 

McCully finished as the runner-up in this year's regional breakaway standings while Chasek tied for third in the tie down competition. Normally, just the top three in each event are eligible to advance to nationals, but both Chasek and Cory Bomhoff of Laramie County Community College, who each finished with 495 points to share third in the regional standings, will be qualifiers. Dalton Porch of Gillette College is the tie down regional winner with 815 points and Tate Talkington of Northeastern Junior College at Sterling, Colo., is the runner-up with 710.

McCully finished the regional breakaway standings with 456 points to claim second for the season in an event that had nearly 100 contestants at all 10 rodeos. She tallied a bulk of her points last fall when she was the breakaway winner at two rodeos and placed second at a third event. University of Wyoming cowgirls took first and third in the region, as the regional winner is Landry Haugen with 489.33 points while Jordyn McNance is the third CFR qualifier with 400.

Chadron State freshman Mejrusa Rustemovic of Kiowa, Colorado, made a strong bid to qualify for the national finals in the barrel race. She and her gray gelding, Player, placed among the top six in the barrels at five of the 10 rodeos during the year. They won first twice and were second once. They tallied 520 points, but it left them in fourth place, 50 points shy of making the top three. 

Last weekend in Laramie, Rustemovic was 12th among the 95 entries in the long go-round at the UW rodeo in 15 seconds flat.  It was only 12 hundredths of a second shy of making the top 10 and advancing to the finals.  

McCully caught her calf in 2.2 seconds in the first go-round a Laramie this past weekend, but failed to catch the calf in the finals on Sunday. Chasek did not score at the UW rodeo because he broke the barrier in the long go-round, but at the Casper College rodeo two weeks ago, he won the tie down title to earn 135 points. That was just enough, as it turned out, to forge the tie for third and earn the right to return to Casper in June.

One of Chadron State's highest placers this past weekend was senior Elle Ravenscroft of Cody, Nebraska, who was fifth in breakaway roping with times of 2.2 and 3.3 seconds. Two CSC bareback riders from Nebraska, Tanner Olsen of Gordon and Cinch Kiger of Overton, placed sixth and seventh, respectively, in that event. Olsen scored 73 and 75 points on his broncs while Kiger earned 72 and 74 points.  Also, Rex Day of Bartlett, Nebraska, tied for fifth in steer wrestling after completing his runs in 4.9 and 9.5 seconds.