Iowa Western Track & Field Dominate in the Region XI Championships
COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa - For the first time in school history, Iowa Western Track & Field brought home both the men's and women's Region XI Outdoor Championships.
The four-day event began with the multi meet on May 1st. Iowa Western's Antonia Sealy and Cadence Stanley went 1-2 in the women's heptathlon, with Sealy winning five of the seven events en route to a 960-point victory. Forest Pribbernow would finish as the runner-up in the men's decathlon with a score of 5002.
The Reivers would race out to an early lead the following weekend, with the women pacing the field by 61 points after day one of the track meet and the men would have a narrow 11-point edge after the first events. That Saturday would see Iowa Western win both the men's and women's hammer throw (Nemoy Cockett, 52.42m) (Elizabeth Sebera, 45.18m), men's and women's long jump (Michael Buchanan, 7.58m) (Miracle Ailes, 6.30m), and the women's 10000m (Hilda Chebet, 37:16.60).
On day two, Miracle Ailes would break the Region XI record in the women's high jump with a mark of 1.85m, besting the record of 1.80m set last year by sophomore Alliyah McNeil. The Reivers would take home titles in the men's high jump (Roman Smith, 2.00m and Tyler Missick, 2.00m), women's discus (Cheyenne Fearon, 41.93m), men's shot put (Christian Turner, 15.48m), men's triple jump (Nicholaus Smith, 14.88m), women's 4x100m relay (48.09), women's 100m hurdles (Dyandra Gray, 13.92), men's 110m hurdles (Cortney Watkins, 13.87), women's 1500m (Hilda Chebet, 4:40.98), men's 400m dash (D'Andre Anderson, 46.90), women's 100m dash (Tirecia Walcott, 11.67), men's and women's 400m hurdles (Cortney Watkins, 53.18) (Dyandra Gray, 1:02. 86), women's 200m dash (Tirecia Walcott, 23.93), and the women's 5000m (Mercy Biwott, 18:36.78).
Iowa Western's women's team would win their fourth Region XI title in five seasons with a score of 310.5 defeating the field by a whopping 132 points. The Reiver men would put up 280 team points, good for a 68-point victory.
The teams will now head to the NJCAA National Championships in Hutchinson, KS which begin on Thursday, May 19th.
