Wichita, KS – The Indian Hills Women's Outdoor Track & Field team have made a name for themselves in Wichita. For the second consecutive week, the Warriors competed in the south-central Kansas city and brought home a number of school records.
Competing at the KT Woodman Classic at Cessna Stadium on the Wichita State University campus, a flurry of individuals put together impressive performances. Indoor national champion Aliyah Simmons (Miami, FL/North Miami) led wire-to-wire in the women's 800-meter run with a time of 2:15.64 to set the school record. In a 32-runner field consisting of both four-year and junior college student-athletes, Simmons topped the list.
The Warriors boasted two strong efforts in the women's 100-meter dash as Kayla McCray (Miami, FL/North Miami) set the all-conditions school record with a time of 11.49 to place third overall, just .08 seconds outside of first. Kahliyah Anderson (Texarkana, TX/Texas) placed seventh overall for the Warriors at 11.78.
McCray added a second school record to her performance on Saturday in the 200-meter dash. McCray placed second out of 85 athletes with a time of 24.09 to set the Indian Hill school record and currently ranks sixth in the nation this year.
Aimaya Drummond (San Antonio, TX/San Antonio Brennan) placed seventh overall in the women's 400-meter dash with a personal best time of 57.16, narrowly missing the national qualifying mark.
Matayah Naylor put together two impressive showings in the hurdles, placing sixth overall in the 100-meter hurdles with a time of 14.54. Naylor also set a personal best in the 400-meter hurdles with a time of 1:09.74.
The women's 4x400-meter relay squad, consisting of Drummond, Simmons, Anderson, and Temira Goods (Des Moines, IA/Des Moines Hoover), placed fourth overall with a school record time of 3:50.17.
Monse Guerrero (Ottumwa, IA/Ottumwa) qualified for the upcoming national championships in the women's 10,000-meter run with a time of 40:33.30. Teammate Morgan Klaus (Bloomfield, IA/Davis County) finished just behind Guerrero with a time of 41:36.14, just 15 seconds shy of the national qualifying mark.
In the jumps, both Haliegh Hadley (Gilbert, IA/Gilbert) and Siby Yao (Leesburg, VA/Riverside continued to shine for the Warriors. Hadley placed sixth overall in the high jump with a mark of 1.63-meters. Yao checked in at fifth overall in the long jump with a mark of 5.61-meters.
The Warriors' strong schedule continues with a trip to the Sooner Invitational hosted by the University of Oklahoma on April 15-16 at the John Jacobs Complex.
That's an all-conditions school record for McCray! https://t.co/uWHkMLF4ps
— Indian Hills XC/TF (@IHCCrunning) April 9, 2022
