Council Bluffs, IA – The Indian Hills Women's Track & Field collected four National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) Region 11 titles on Saturday to post a third-place team finish in Council Bluffs. The Warriors posted 118 points.
Indian Hills saw individual championship performances from Shanice Cox (Minneapolis, MN/Minneapolis South) in the 100-meter dash, Dymonde Nave (Sioux Falls, SD/Sioux Falls Lincoln) in the 100-meter hurdles, and Adalin Robinson (Riverdale, MD/Eleanor Roosevelt) in the 400-meter dash. In one of the top highlights of the weekend, the women's 4x100-meter relay squad made headlines with the fifth-fastest time in the nation this year to take the top spot on the podium.
In total, the Warriors saw 13 top-five performances at the Region championship, including 10 top-three efforts.
The relay squad of Cox, Nyla Norman (Evansdale, IA/Waterloo East), Destiny Mitchell (Milwaukee, WI/Milwaukee Riverside), and Zekira Snow (Brandon, FL/Bloomingdale) ran to a first-place finish with a time of 46.04, 0.19 seconds ahead of Iowa Western, the current No. 1 ranked relay team in the nation. The victory is the first 4x100m relay championship in women's program history. Both Mitchell and Snow were a part of the women's 4x400-meter relay championship team during the indoor season.
Robinson continued her standout sophomore campaign for the Warriors with a pair of dominant performances. The sophomore captured the 400m dash with a school record mark of 53.42. Robinson also added a silver medal in the women's 200-meter dash with a personal best mark of 23.63, the third-fastest time in the nation this year and just .02 seconds off the school record.
The women's 400m event also saw Laurie Louis (Miami, FL/North Miami) check in at third-place with a time of 58.12, a new personal best mark.
Nave posted a school record in the 100-meter hurdles to run away with the title. Nave posted a time of 14.06 to score 10 team points for the Warriors. In her first competition in the women's 400-meter hurdle event this year, Nave posted a fourth-place finish with a time of 1:08.19.
The Warriors dominated the women's 100-meter dash, taking home three of the top four finishes led by Cox's first-place effort. Cox posted a time of 11.88 to edge Snow who clocked in at 11.89. Mitchell rounded out the scoring for the Warriors with a time of 12.00, good enough for fourth overall.
The Warriors have now won back-to-back women's NJCAA Region 11 Outdoor 100m championships.
In the distance events, the Warriors were once again led by Amaree Hamilton (Lansing, IL/Hillcrest) and Selket Reid-El (Jacksonville, FL/Raines). Hamilton posted a second-place showing in the women's 800-meter run with a time of 2:19.73, a new personal best. In the 1,500-meter run, Reid-El posted a personal best performance with a time of 4:55.27 to place third overall for the Warriors, qualifying for the national championship in doing so.
Mitchell added a runner-up finish in the women's high jump with a mark of 1.58. Snow took home a third-place finish in the long jump with a distance of 5.63 meters followed by a fifth-place showing from Nave who posted a mark of 5.53 meters.
The Warriors will now prepare for the upcoming NJCAA DI Outdoor Track & Field Championships in West Monroe, LA May 16-18.
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