Championship Central

PITTSBURG, Kan. – Defending their 2024 Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference West Division and NJCAA Region 6 titles, the Cloud County Community College women’s track and field team has won the 2025 NJCAA Region 6 Indoor Track and Field Championship inside the Robert W. Plaster Center on the campus of Pittsburg State University in Pittsburg, Kansas.

Making the most of nine NJCAA Region 6 individual champions and six NJCAA Region 6 individual runner-up finishes, the T-Birds finished the weekend with 175.5 points to outpace NJCAA Region 6 runners-up Barton Community College as the Cougars earned 138.5 points to finish as the only other team of the 13 teams to score at the meet to break the 100-point mark. Hutchinson Community College earned a third-place finish with 85 total points while Fort Scott (75.5 points) and Cowley (74.5 points) rounded out the top five in the team scoring.

Led by the NJCAA Region 6 Indoor Track Athlete of the meet Nontokozo Ncube and NJCAA Region 6 High Point Athlete of the Meet N Vanee Anchike, Cloud County also helped set one of three new NJCAA Region 6 Indoor Track and Field Championship records as the distance medley relay team (Mercy Angaamchaab, Rafiatu Nuhu, Ncube, and Anchike) made the most of the first track event of the weekend on Saturday afternoon by running a time of 12:06.51 to break the previous meet record of 12:14.28 that was set back in 2002 by Barton Community College. Other NJCAA Region 6 Indoor Track and Field meet records to be set included the women’s 4x400 meter relay with Fort Scott (Jayden Piper, Emmanuella Squire, Dayjonique Cato, and Ivana Odonkor) putting together a time of 3:45.25 to best the previous record of 3:47.16 set by Barton in 2016 while Barton sophomore Keliza Smith set the 400-meter dash record in a time of 53.77 seconds to break a record that had by held since 1992 by Inez Turner (Barton).

In the Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference East and West Division scoring, Cloud County also won the West Division by scoring 212 points in the eight-team race with Barton finishing second with 168 points and Hutchinson taking third with 112 points. The East Division team title was won by Cowley College with 193 points followed by Fort Scott in second with 146.5 points and Coffeyville in third with 115.5 points.

KJCCC Coaching honors were earned by Cloud County’s Drew Mahin (KJCCC Women’s Head Coach of the Year) and Barton’s Emmanuel Dixon (KJCCC Women’s Assistant Coach of the Year) with Mahin leading Cloud County to their fourth Region 6 Indoor Track title in the past five years while Dixon was the primary event coach for the Barton sprints and relays that accounted for 41 of Barton’s 138.5 points at the meet.