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Lobo Dünninger vaults to Mountain West heptathlon crown

University of New Mexico multi-event athlete Camillo Dünninger doesn’t do anything halfway.
As a matter of fact, the exact opposite would be far more accurate.
Dünninger, a junior from Ratingen, Germany, returned from the virus-erased season with vengeance as he not only entered the Mountain West Indoor Track & Field Championships as the top heptathlon seed, but he made that ranking stand up with 5,489 points, well ahead of runner up Wyatt Murphy of Air Force with 5,227 points on Friday at the Albuquerque Convention Center.

And the Lobos women’s distance squad thoroughly dominated the 5,000-meter run, with a three-pack at the front that sped through the race unchallenged, lapping virtually the entire field and propelling winner Amelia Mazza-Downie to a championship meet record in 16 minutes, 7.