Final Results | NJCAA Recap

LUBBOCK, Texas - Three individuals from three different Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference etched their names into history by winning individual National Titles at the 2025 NJCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships held inside the Sports Performance Center on the campus of Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas March 7-8.

Team scores saw two KJCCC teams finish inside the top 10, with Barton scoring 36 total points to take seventh while Coffeyville Community College earned a total of 25 points to finish 10th. Just outside the top 10 was Butler in 11th with 24 points, while Garden City earned a top 15 finish by scoring 18 points to take 13th.

Within individual events, all three National Championship performances came on the second day of competition and was led off by the men’s weight throw where Broncbuster Rhet Punt followed up his Region 6 Indoor Track Championship record throw by uncorking a massive toss of 19.83 meters (65 feet, 0.75 inches) on his fifth attempt of the event to outduel Tate Joens of Indian Hills who finished as national runner-up with a throw of 19.36 meters. The duo were the only two athletes in the meet to surpass the 19-meter mark as only three athletes were able to record throws above 18 meters.

While the weight throw was ongoing, another NJCAA Region 6 Indoor Track meet record holder was making his mark on the national stage as Barton’s Trevon Hamer outdid his triple jump mark from two weeks earlier by recording a leap of 16.47 meters (54 feet, 0.5 inches) to win the National Title after coming up just short the day before in the long jump. Hamer was the only athlete in the meet to eclipse 16 meters and did not take a jump in either of his last two attempts while winning the event by nearly two feet over his next closest competitor.

The lone individual national champion to come on the track was in the 800 meters, where Hutchinson’s Leo LeGrand found himself in a tight race throughout as the final top three runners in the race were separated by just six tenths of a second at the finish line. Moving his way up the field throughout and going from sixth place after the opening 400 meters up to fifth heading into the final 200 meters, LeGrand put together a split of 28.27 seconds down the stretch and ran down each of the four runners in front of him to finish with a time of 1:50.12. Nicholas Power of Indian Hills was .54 seconds behind LeGrand in second, followed by Butler’s Ishmael Acheampong, who took third with a time of 1:50.72.