Results | 2026 NJCAA D1 Men's Outdoor Track Championships

HOBBS, NM – Five Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference men’s track and field student-athletes from four different conference institutions, along with one relay team put their names into the NJCAA Men’s Track and Field record books by winning individual NJCAA National Championships at the 2026 NJCAA Division 1 Outdoor Track and Field Championships held at the Ross Black Field of Champions on the campus of New Mexico Junior College in Hobbs, New Mexico, May 14-16, 2026.

As part of the individual NJCAA Championship performances, both Barton (56 points) and Hutchinson (34.50 points) earned top 10 team finishes at the meet, with the Cougars placing fifth among the 37 scoring teams while the Blue Dragons placed ninth. Butler (32 points), Cloud County (29.33 points), and Coffeyville (27 points) placed 11th, 12th, and 13th, respectively, while Allen took 18th (16 points), and Cowley tied for 20th with 11 points. Colby placed 23rd (eight points), and Garden City placed 31st (three points). Winning the 2026 National Title was host New Mexico Junior College, scoring 97 total points to edge out South Plains College, which scored 93 points to finish as the only two schools to eclipse the 75-point mark in the meet.

The lone KJCCC school to have two individual National Champions, Cloud County’s Bailey Burns won one of the first National Titles of the three-day meet by recording a first-attempt mark of 7.80 meters (25 feet, 7 inches) in the long jump to win over New Mexico Junior College’s Pavashe Muzokomba who was able to record a mark of 7.74 meters (25 feet, 4.75 inches) on his sixth and final attempt of the meet. No other athlete in the 24-competitor field was able to record a mark further than 7.54 meters, with all three of Burns’ legal attempts in the event clearing every other competitor besides Muzokomba. The T-Birds also saw sophomore Alpoha Mpofu win a National Title for CCCC, turning in a time of 46.04 seconds in the 400 meters to best Indian Hills’ freshman Devonni Ferguson, who ran a time of 46.41 seconds.

Also earning individual National Titles on the track, Cowley College’s Esteban Boisseau followed up his NJCAA Division 2 Cross Country National Title from November by winning the 3,000-meter steeplechase in a race that was dominated by KJCCC athletes as each of the top three finishers in the event came from the Sunflower State. Boisseau ran a time of 9:17.97 to beat Butler’s Kamohelo Ramatsebe’s time of 9:18.19, while Colby’s Kenan Delestre ran a time of 9:34.06 to take third. The KJCCC also saw the Allen Community College 4x100 meter relay team of Maurice Conner, Kasiya Daley, Jalil Cooper, and Ali Dargan combine for a National Title time of 39.21 seconds to beat out Indian Hills who ran a time of 39.33 seconds as the Red Devils set a meet, stadium and NJCAA National Record in the preliminary round of the event with a time of 38.85 seconds to eclipse the previous record set by Odessa College in 1987.

The final two individual National Championship performances from KJCCC student-athletes both came in throwing events, with Barton’s Ilia Ciui picking up a title on the opening day of competition with a throw of 63.79 meters (209 feet, 3 inches) in the hammer throw to best Haydn Stockdale (Iowa Central) while Hutchinson’s Joshua Sweetnam was the lone competitor in the shot put to eclipse the 60 foot mark with a National Title winning toss of 18.47 meters (60 feet, 7.256 inches) to win the event by over four feet.