ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – On the opening day of the Mountain West Indoor Championships, Fresno State claimed two of the Top 4 spots in the pentathlon, with Madison Hutton and Kaja Bins earning a combined 11 points for the team.
Hutton, who came into the meet third in the conference, finished in that spot but did so with a big jump in her personal best. The sophomore scored 3,984 points, 113 points better than the total she posted a season ago. Hutton started the day with back-to-back PBs, going 8.77 in the 60-meter hurdles before a 1.73m/5-8 in the high jump. An indoor best of 11.38m/37-4 in the shot put came in event No. 3.
Already fifth on the program's all-time list, Bins jumped two spots after scoring 3,748 points on Thursday. The senior entered this week fifth in the conference this season in the pentathlon but moved up one spot with three personal bests, matching another and posting an indoor best in the 800 meters. Bins scored new personal bests in the 60-meter hurdles (9.21), shot put (12.72m/41-8.75) and long jump (18-2.5).
Kaitlynn Perez finished 13th with 3,283 points. The junior earned a new PB in the 60-meter hurdles (9.64) and an indoor best in the long jump (5.17m/16-11.5).
Day 2 for the 'Dogs will begin tomorrow at 12 p.m. PT with the long jump featuring Hutton.
Notes
Madison Hutton's total of 3,984 points is 98 shy of Jestena Mattson's school record which was set in 2019.
Hutton joins Mattson as the only Bulldogs to score in the pentathlon in back-to-back Mountain West championships.
Hutton is the second Bulldog to earn a spot on the podium at a MW championship meet.
Adding an additional 155 points to her previous personal best, Kaja Bins passed both Katie Christianson and Tieara Norman on the all-time list to move to third.
Bins scored in the pentathlon for the second time in her career, placing eighth in 2020.
Fresno State had two athletes score in the pentathlon in the same meet for the first time since 2018 (Mattson and Norman).