BLUE DRAGON WOMEN BREAK 8 RECORDS OVER WEEKEND
Hutchinson CC Sports Information
For the second-straight meet, the Hutchinson Community College women's track and field team worked over the record book, breaking eight school marks at two different meets over the weekend.
In addition to the new school records, the Blue Dragon women also earned four more national qualifications between the two meets at the Washburn Open and the Wichita State Coach Wilson Invitational.
Off this week, the Blue Dragons now have nine total national qualifiers for the 2026 NJCAA Indoor Championships in March. Also, through two weeks, 13 school records have been broken.
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At the Coach Wilson Invitational, freshman Xylevene Beale broke the school record in the weight throw with a top effort of 58 feet, 5 inches (17.81 meters). Beale broke the 2019 mark of Hannah Smith (53-5 3/4).
Beale also broke her own Blue Dragon record in the shot put with a top distance of 50-6 3/4 (13.76 meters).
Beale won both events and also is currently ranked No. 1 in the NJCAA in the weight throw and shot put.
The other six records fell at the Washburn Open in Topeka.
In her first race since winning the 2025 NJCAA Division I Cross Country individual championship, freshman Mildred Rono made her first entry into the Blue Dragon record in the 5,000 meters. Rono finished second in the 5,000 with a school-record time of 16 minutes, 45.20 seconds. That mark obliterated the 2025 record set by Jordyn Picolet of 18:06.64. Rono's time ranks No. 2 in the NJCAA.
Freshman Anecia Campbell qualified for the indoor national championships with a school-record mark in the 200 meters. Campbell was 14th at Washburn with a time of 24.83 seconds. She broke the old mark of Kemeshia Dominique in 2024 of 25.34 seconds.
Sophomore Sidney Holt set the Blue Dragon record for the second-straight meet in the 60 meters. Holt made it to the Washburn Open 60-meter semifinals and ran a time of 7.69 seconds to place 14th and improved her own Blue Dragon school record by 0.10 seconds and she qualified for nationals.
Freshman Ashara Frater earned her second individual event qualification with a school record in the Mile run with a time of 5:01.09. She beat the 2024 mark of Taylor Hoskinson (51:12.62).
Sophomore Sabrina McDonald placed 10th in the 600-yard run with a time of 1:26.93. Her converted-to-metric time to 600 meters was 1:36.49 was a school record and national qualifying mark. McDonald unseated Leah Nelson's 2017 mark of 1:39.23.
Hutchinson's eighth record came in the 4x400 relay. The relay team of Holt, Campbell, Valentine Titren and McDonald placed 15th in the Washburn Open with a time of 1:01.70. The Blue Dragons knocked off the 1997 record of 4:22.75.
In other notable Blue Dragon performances from last weekend:
+ Freshman Britany-Ann Powell placed third in the Coach Wilson 60 meters with a time of 7.75 seconds. She is just .01 seconds off the national qualifying mark and is the second-fastest 60 meter time in Blue Dragon indoor history.
+ National qualifier Daisehline Mayer-Scott placed second in the Coach Wilson shot put. She boosted her personal best mark to 45-1 3/4 (13.76 meters), which is the fourth-best Blue Dragon indoor shot put mark.
+ Titren finished 34th in the Washburn Open 60-meter hurdles with a PR time of 9.39 seconds, which is the seven-best time in program history.