Championship Central | Region 6 Results | KJCCC East Results | KJCCC West Results

ARKANSAS CITY, Kan. – For the third time in the past four seasons, the Barton Community College women’s track and field team won the NJCAA Region 6 Outdoor Track and Field Championship by outlasting second-place Hutchinson for the team title at the Mark A. Phillips Track and Field Complex on the campus of Cowley College in Arkansas City, Kansas.  

Led by six individual Region 6 championship performances, the Cougars scored points in 13 of the 22 events that took place across the three days, including double-digit point totals in the 100 meters, 100-meter hurdles, 400-meter hurdles, discus, high jump, long jump, triple jump, and heptathlon. Hutchinson also made sure to rack up points throughout the various events taking place over the weekend, scoring in 16 of the 22 events and scoring at least 10 points in seven different events with five individual Region 6 Champions. In third place was Cloud County with 119 points, four points ahead of Coffeyville (115 points), while Cowley College took fifth with 84 total points.

Barton also added the Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference West Division title with 191 total points to finish 18 points clear of Hutchinson Community College (173 points) while Cloud County took third with 170.5 points. In the KJCCC East Division scoring, Coffeyville was able to hold off Cowley College as the Red Ravens scored 236 total points compared to 227 points for the Tigers, while Butler was third with 90 total points.   

Starting with 14 points in the first scored event of the weekend, Barton got off to a quick start thanks in part to a Region 6 Championship performance from Alexia Walker (4,834 points) in the heptathlon, while Destany Johnson (3,911 points) took fifth to help set the tone for a preview of how the rest of the weekend played out. Walker went on to add a fourth-place finish in the long jump with a mark of 5.57 meters (18 feet, 3.25 inches) to finish as one of three Cougars in the top eight, as Celine Riddle won the event with a mark of 6.09 meters (19 feet, 11.75 inches) and Makiya Mosley took fifth with a mark of 5.45 meters (17 feet, 10.75 inches). Riddle managed to also win the women’s triple jump with a mark of 12.21 meters (40 feet, 0.75 inches), and was joined by other Barton Region 6 Champions Jahmeka Brown in the high jump (1.69 meters, 5 feet, 6.5 inches), Natasha Fox in the 400-meter hurdles (1:02.80), and Asharria Ulett in the 100-meter hurdles (13.50 seconds). 

Hutchinson, meanwhile, was led by the 2026 Region 6 High Point Athlete of the Meet, Xylavene Beale who won both the discus (50.98 meters, 167 feet, 3 inches) and shot put (15.60 meters, 51 feet, 2.25 inches) while adding a second-place finish in the hammer throw (50.27 meters, 164 feet, 11 inches) to score 28 of HCC’s points. The Blue Dragons added Region 6 individual championships in the 5,000 meters (Ashara Frater – 18:07.31), 10,000 meters (Mildred Rono – 36:25.47), and the 4x800 meter relay team (Frater, Rono, Kimberlin Lovell, and Sabrina McDonald – 9:25.20).

In addition to Beale being named the Region 6 High Point Athlete of the Meet, Allen’s Ra’Nayla Moten was named the Region 6 Women’s Outdoor Track Athlete of the Meet, and Cloud County’s Natassia Burrell was named the Region 6 Women’s Field Athlete of the Meet. Moten won three individual Region 6 Championships, winning the 100 meters (11.24 seconds), 200 meters (22.96 seconds), and running the second leg of Allen’s 4x100 meter relay team that won with a time of 44.96 seconds. Burrell had three top-three finishes at the meet, including winning the javelin with a throw of 42.59 meters (139 feet, 8 inches) while adding a runner-up finish in the shot put (14.64 meters, 48 feet, 0.5 inches) and third-place finish in the hammer throw (49.98 meters, 163 feet, 11 inches). Coach of the Year awards were earned by Cloud County’s Drew Mahin (Head Coach of the Year) and Garden City’s Juliette Rios (Assistant Coach of the Year), matching the 2026 Indoor Track Coach of the Year honors that were earned in February.