Council Bluffs, IA – Aliyah Simmons (Miami, FL/North Miami) set a new National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) Region XI Outdoor Track & Field record on her way to winning the 800-meter run title. As a team, the Indian Hills Women's Track & Field team placed third overall at the region championship.
Simmons, who has continued to set the standard at Indian Hills during her sophomore campaign, took home the region championship in the 800m after running a 2:13.80 to set a new region record. The 2022 NJCAA Indoor National Champion and Region XI Indoor champion broke the previous record by 0.03 seconds to score 10 team points for the Warriors.
The Warriors took home third place for the second consecutive season at the region meet after scoring 105 team points. The Warriors were one of just three teams in the seven-team meet to eclipse the 100-point mark. Indian Hills recorded 14 top-five finishes over the course of the two-day event.
Along with Simmons' title, the Warriors took home top honors in the women's 4x400-meter relay with a school record time of 3:52.15, winning by 21 seconds to score for the Warriors. The relay squad consisted of Aimaya Drummond (San Antonio, TX/San Antonio Brennan), Kalen Pryor (Chicago, IL/South Shore International Prep), Temira Goods (Des Moines, IA/Des Moines Hoover), and Simmons.
Drummond recorded a second school record in the women's 400-meter dash to place third overall with a time of 56.13. Goods placed fourth overall at 58.64 followed by Kahliyah Anderson's (Texarkana, TX/Texas) 58.91 in fifth place.
The women's 200-meter dash featured a number of solid Warrior performances. Kayla McCray (Miami, FL/North Miami) sprinted to a 24.00 in the prelims. In the finals, Anderson placed second overall at 24.63 followed by McCray in fourth and Goods in sixth.
Monse Guerrero (Ottumwa, IA/Ottumwa) placed third overall in the women's 10,000-meter run at 42.23.76. Isabelle Mellin (Ottumwa, IA/Ottumwa) hit a new personal record in the women's 1,500-meter run at 5:21.41.
Matayah Naylor (Johnston, IA/Johnston) checked in at 14.50 in the women's 100-meter hurdles to place fourth overall
Both Siby Yao (Leesburg, VA/Riverside) and Haleigh Hadley (Gilbert, IA/Gilbert) excelled in the jumps for the Warriors. Yao hit a new school record in the long jump on two separate occasions at 5.84 before hitting a 6.15-meter mark in the finals to place third overall. Yao also took third in the triple jump at 11.62-meters.
Hadley scored six team points for the Warriors in the high jump after placing third overall at 1.60-meters.
The women's 4x800-meter relay placed second overall for the Warriors. Julie Granahan (Corydon, IA/Wayne County), Mellin, Pryor, and Lizeth Flores (Harvard, IL/Harvard) powered the Warriors with a time of 10:21.89, a new Indian Hills school record.
The Warriors are now set for the NJCAA DI Outdoor National Championship May 19-21 at Gowans Stadium in Hutchinson, KS.
Region XI Championship Recap
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1️⃣ Region Record
4️⃣ School Records
4️⃣ National Qualifiers
7️⃣ Region Champions
1️⃣4️⃣ Top 5 All-Time IHCC Marks pic.twitter.com/Iqwy9TEy88
