KJCCC Claims Five Individual Women's Indoor Track and Field National Titles, Barton Women Finish Fourth
TOPEKA, Kan. - Five Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference women’s track and field athletes claimed individual NJCAA Indoor Track and Field National Titles as the conference had four teams placed inside the top 10 of the final team standings at the 2026 NJCAA Indoor Track and Field National Championships inside the Washburn University Indoor Athletic Facility in Topeka, Kansas.
In team scoring, Barton Community College led the nine conference schools that scored points with a fourth-place team finish and 60 total points and two points out of a podium finish, while seeing Iowa Western (111 points), New Mexico Junior College (89 points), and Odessa College (62 points) finish in the top three. Finishing three points back of the Cougars in fifth was Hutchinson with 57 points, while Cloud County (42 points, eighth) and Cowley (30 points, ninth) also managed to earn top 10 team finishes among the 33 teams that scored at least one point at the meet.
Individually, the conference saw individuals from four different schools win a national title, with Barton finishing as the lone KJCCC school to have multiple individual national champions. The Cougars saw Alexia Walker lead a group of four conference athletes to finish in the top eight of the pentathlon after finishing over 200 points ahead of national runner-up Hannah Droeg of Pima Community College to win the event with 3,564 points, while Asharria Ulett won the 60-meter hurdles in a time of 8.25 seconds. Other KJCCC athletes to finish in the top eight of the pentathlon included Cloud County’s Tahlia Lienert (third), Barton’s Natasha Fox (fourth), and Dodge City’s Olivia Leatherman (seventh).
After winning the NJCAA Region 6 Indoor Track and Field title in the 60 meters two weeks ago, Allen’s RaNayla Moten set a new facility record on her way to winning the 60 meters National Title in a time of 7.22 seconds, while Cowley’s Aaliyah Treat (pole vault, 3.70 meters, 12 ft. – 1.5 in.) and Hutchinson’s Xylavene Beale (shot put, 15.94 meters, 52 ft. – 3.75 in.) both win individual national titles in field events.