2025 USTFCCCA NJCAA D1 Outdoor Track Postseason Awards

NEW ORLEANS, La. -   Postseason awards for the 2025 NJCAA Division I Outdoor Track & Field season were announced on Wednesday (May 21) by the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA), with three members from Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference schools bringing home national hardware.

Included in the list of postseason awards were National Women’s Field Athlete of the Year Cedricka Williams (Barton), National Women’s Track Athlete of the Year Maimuna Jallow (Cloud County), and National Women’s Assistant Coach of the Year Ted Schmitz (Cloud County).

Cedricka Williams (Barton) – USTFCCCA National Women’s Field Athlete of the Year
Cedricka Williams was named the National Women’s Field Athlete of the Year for the 2025 NJCAA Division I Outdoor Track & Field season. Williams, who hails from Ocho Rios, Jamaica, won the discus at the 2025 NJCAA Division I Outdoor Track & Field Championships, twice raising her own NJCAA record in the process. It was the fifth and sixth time this year that she improved her record, and her efforts there noteworthy in NJCAA history with the first over 60 meters – Round 1 at 60.23m (197-7) – before the first over 200 feet – Round 3 at 61.07m (200-4). She also scored in the hammer with a PR 52.79m (173-2) for third place.

Maimuna Jallow (Cloud County) – USTFCCCA National Women’s Track Athlete of the Year
Maimuna Jallow was named the National Women’s Track Athlete of the Year for the 2025 NJCAA Division I Outdoor Track & Field season. Jallow, who hails from Sare-Futa, Gambia, swept the 100 and 200 meters at the 2025 NJCAA Division I Outdoor Track & Field Championships with times of 11.56 and 22.92, respectively. Her time in the 200 matched her seasonal-leading mark that made her No. 3 all-time among NJCAA athletes. Her 100 seasonal best of 11.18 two weeks prior was the fastest by an NJCAA athlete since 2003 and made her No. 4 all-time NJCAA. She also ran a leg on Cloud County’s victorious 4×400 that clocked 3:34.05 in becoming the No. 2 program in NJCAA history.

Ted Schmitz (Cloud County) – USTFCCCA National Women’s Assistant Track Coach of the Year
Ted Schmitz was named the National Women’s Assistant Coach of the Year for the 2025 NJCAA Division I Outdoor Track & Field season. Schmitz, in his 43rd year as assistant coach of sprints, middle distances, relays, and high jump at Cloud County (Kan.) CC, coached athletes who accounted for 69.33 of the Thunderbirds’ 82.33 in finishing fourth at the 2025 NJCAA Division I Outdoor Track & Field Championships. Two of his athletes combined for three individual national titles – Maimuna Jallow in the 100 and 200 and Rafiatu Nuhu in the 400 – and his 4×400 and 4×800 teams also won national titles.