Barton Finishes Third At 2026 NJCAA D1 Women's Outdoor Track Championships, KJCCC Athletes Win Seven National Titles
Final Results | 2026 NJCAA D1 Women's Outdoor Track Championships
HOBBS, NM – Behind seven NJCAA Division 1 Women’s Track National Championship performances, the Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference was led by a third-place team finish from Barton Community College at the 2026 NJCAA Division 1 Women’s Track and Field National 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.
Included in the seven individual NJCAA National Championship performances were three different individual titles for Barton athletes, with Cougar Asharria Ulett winning the 100-meter hurdles (12.89 seconds), Alexia Walker winning the heptathlon (5,200 points), and the BCC 4x100-meter relay team of Sethunya Majama, Thomphang Basele, Camoy Binger, and Kayda Austin combining for a time of 45.00 seconds. As a team, Barton finished with 78 total points to earn a podium finish, trailing only National Champion and host New Mexico Junior College (107.50 points) and Iowa Western (107 points) in what became a two-team battle for the National Title. Ulett’s time set a new meet, stadium, and NJCAA national record, eclipsing the previous time of 13.07 seconds set in 2021 by Iowa Central’s Hannah Connell, while Walker finished over 400 points ahead of NJCAA National Runner-Up Tahlia Lienert (Cloud County).
Other KJCCC teams to earn top 10 team finishes included a sixth-place finish from Cloud County (46 points), a seventh-place finish from Allen Community College (44 points), and an eighth-place finish from Hutchinson Community College (40 points). Garden City finished in 11th with 26 total team points, two points ahead of 12th-place Butler Community College (26 points), while Coffeyville (22.33 points) took 13th, Cowley College (17 points) tied for 16th, and Colby Community College finished in 24th place with eight total points.
In addition to the three individual titles earned by Barton, two different KJCCC athletes were able to secure multiple National Titles as Allen’s Ra’Nayla Moten swept the 100 meter dash (10.94 seconds) and 200 meters (22.51 seconds) while Hutchinson’s Xylavene Beale won both the discus (54.94 meters, 180 feet, 3 inches) and shot put (16.07 meters, 52 feet, 8.75 inches). Moten’s National Championship performance in the 100-meter dash came over fellow KJCCC athlete Maimuna Jallow (Cloud County) on her way to setting a new meet, stadium, and NJCAA National Record in the event before doing the same just three events later when she set the meet, stadium, and NJCAA record in the 200 meters on the final day of competition. Beale, meanwhile, won the shot put over teammate Deisheline Mayer Scott on Friday afternoon by being the only competitor in the 17-athlete field to clear the 50-foot mark before adding the discus National Title the next day by winning the event by nearly 17 feet over runner-up finisher Shamoyea Morris (Barton).
The lone other National Title won by a KJCCC athlete came in the 800 meters as Butler’s Amanda Kotambe picked up a National Title in her lone event that she competed in by running a time of 2:10.51 to hold off Indian Hill’s Cindy Rose, who ran a time of 2:13.93. Kotambe’s time was just .21 seconds off the stadium record set in 2018 by Ja’lanna Williams (Wayland Baptist University).
