RENO, Nev. — Different discipline, same dominance from Portland State runner Emma Stolte. After a standout fall cross country season in which she earned five top 10 finishes, Stolte opened her indoor track & field season with a 20-second win in the women's mile Friday at the Silver & Blue Invitational.
  
Stolte won the mile while establishing a new facility record at Reno Sparks Convention Center with her time of 4:54.25. She led wire-to-wire in the race, stretching her lead with every lap and finishing with her fastest lap of the race. Stolte's time put her 20 seconds ahead of No. 2 finisher Maya Crimin of St. Mary's (Calif.), as well as 13 seconds ahead of her previous best at the distance from last year's Spokane Invitational.
 
Stolte now ranks fifth all-time in the indoor mile at Portland State. She's the first Viking since Bára Stýblová in 2023 to enter the top 10 in the mile.
 
Freshman Jack Macdonald highlighted the day for the Viking men. The freshman sprinter finished fourth in the finals of the men's 60 meters. Macdonald shaved six-hundredths of a second off his time in the prelims while finishing in 6.93 seconds. The time represented the second-fastest mark ever by a Viking freshman, trailing only Josh Pikes' time of 6.86 seconds from 2018. Additionally, Macdonald moved up to sixth in the overall rankings in the 60 meters.
 
Tori Forst finished second in the finals of the women's 60 meters. Forst finished in 7.67 seconds, not a personal best but nine-hundredths of a second faster than her season opener last year when she finished in 7.76 seconds at the Spokane Invitational.
 
Sienna Rosario also qualified for the final of the women's 60 meters and set a personal best while finishing seventh in 7.92 seconds.
 
Three other Vikings provided event wins for the program. Amir Ahmed and Hannah Butterfield swept the men's and women's 1,000 meters in what were both two-person races. Ahmed finished close to 22 seconds ahead of Trey Ciccio of San Jose State while winning the men's race in 2:41.49. Butterfield, meanwhile, finished three and a half seconds ahead of Isabela Arreola of San Jose State while finishing in 3:07.26.
 
Butterfield's time put her fourth in the freshman top 10 in the 1k. She was within half a second of the overall top 10, as Honisty Baek set the current No. 10 mark at 3:06.81 in 2008.
 
Daniel Coppedge won the first event of the day for the Vikings in the men's weight throw. Coppedge won in a three-athlete field with a throw of 50-10.75 (15.51m). Teammate Carter Green set a personal best with his mark of 36-05.75 (11.12m), as he placed third.
 
Freshman Natalie Fisher moved up to eighth in the freshman top 10 on the women's side of the weight throw. Fisher placed third Friday with a mark of 38-04.00 (11.68m), which came on her second attempt of the day.
 
The program's hurdlers set three other personal bests for the Vikings. Deghlan Johnson and Aidan Sweeney both advanced to the finals on the men's side of the 60-meter hurdles. Johnson finished fourth in 8.60 seconds, beating his best coming into the day by a tenth of a second. Sweeney finished fifth in the final in 8.68 seconds. His personal best came in the prelims when he placed fourth in 8.66 seconds.
 
Savannah Beasley did not advance to the finals of the women's 60-meter hurdles but still set a personal best by close to three-quarters of a second with her finish in 9.66 seconds.
 
The Vikings will continue at the Silver & Blue Invitational Saturday. Fisher will open the day for the Vikings again with the women's shot put at 10 a.m. Stolte will return to the track for the women's 800 meters at 11:30 a.m.

Silver & Blue Invitational
Reno Sparks Convention Center
Reno, Nev.
Jan. 9, 2026
 
Women's Results:
60m (Prelims): 3. Tori Forst, 7.74; 7. Sienna Rosario, 7.94; 11. Aida Wheat, 8.14. 60m (Final): 2. Tori Forst, 7.67; 7. Sienna Rosario, 7.92. 1,000m: 1. Hannah Butterfield, 3:07.26. Mile: 1. Emma Stolte, 4:54.25; 9. Sam Sharp, 5:33.24; 11. Libby Fox, 5:45.67. 60H (Prelims): 15. Savannah Beasley, 9.66. Weight Throw: 3. Natalie Fisher, 38-04.00 (11.68m).
 
Men's Results:
60m (Prelims): 4. Jack Macdonald, 6.99. 60m (Final): 4. Jack Macdonald, 6.93. 1,000m: 1. Amir Ahmed, 2:41.49. Mile: 5. Luke Gillingham, 4:29.48; 6. Farhan Ibrahim, 4:31.46. 60H (Prelims): 4. Aidan Sweeney, 8.66; 5. Deghlan Johnson, 8.68. 60H (Final): 4. Deghlan Johnson, 8.60; 5. Aidan Sweeney, 8.68. Weight Throw: 1. Daniel Coppedge, 50-10.75 (15.51m); 3. Carter Green, 36-05.75 (11.12m).