By: Emilie Jenson
Public Information Coordinator
The Iowa Central Men's Track and Field Team competed at the NJCAA Region 11 Championships May 3-5.
The Triton men finished third in the team standings with 158 points.
Event champions for the Triton men were Canyon Jones in the Pole Vault (4.00 meters) and the 4x100 Relay team of Youssef Hamed, Waukeem Walters, Miles Reed and Bongumusa Nkosi (40.34 seconds.) The 4x100 also recorded the #9 Triton All-Time best.
Santiago Gonzalez finished second for the Tritons in the Pole Vault with 3.37 meters.
Third place finishers included Youssef Hamed, 100 Meter Dash (10.46 seconds); Bongumusa Nkosi, 200 Meter Dash, (20.79 seconds); Jed Elmbarki, 1500 Meter Run (3:53.18); Adreian Roper, Long Jump (7.10 meters); Waukeem Walters, Triple Jump (14.63 meters); Santiago Gonzalez, Decathlon and the 4x400 Relay team of Trevon Prince, Antoine Tshimanga, Seon Booker and Jadon Boots (3:20.55)
Finishing in fourth place for the Tritons were Youssef Hamed, 200-Meter Dash (21.45 seconds); Antoine Tshimanga, 800-Meter Run, (1:52.32); Seth Cheney, 10,000-Meter Run (33:19.52); Jadon Boots, Pole Vault (3.05 meters); Stephen Sydnor, Long Jump (7.02 meters); Adreian Roper, Triple Jump (14.52 meters).
Taking fifth place were Baylor Bergren, 3000-Meter Steeplechase (10:09.81); Seth Cheney, 5000-Meter Run (16:12.55); Emmanuel Kipkogi, 10,000-Meter Run (34:28.41); Waukeem Walters, Long Jump (7.08 meters);
Seventh place finishers were Trevon Prince, 800-Meter Run (1:55.82); Jadon Boots, 1500-Meter Run (3:58.25); Gavin Stalzer, 3000-Meter Steeplechase (11:25.73) and Garrison Murray, High Jump (1.82 meters).
Rounding out the top-10 regional finishers for the Triton men were Bongumusa Nkosi, 100-Meter Dash (13.83 seconds), eighth place; Emmanuel Kipkogi, 5000-Meter Run (16:31.96), eighth place; Anthony Glay, Long Jump (6.53 meters), 10th place; Anthony Glay, High Jump (1.77 meters), eighth place; Jeremy Brown, Triple Jump (13.27 meters), ninth place and Santiago Gonzales, Javelin (39.94 meters), ninth place.
Recording Triton All-Time Top 10's were Bongumusa Nkosi with the #6 best times in the 200 and 400 meters, Antoine Tshimanga with the #7 all-time best in the 800-meter run, and the 4x100 Relay team with the #9 all time best.
New national qualifiers included Antoine Tshimanga in the 800-Meter Run, and Hamza Mohamed and Jadon Boots in the 1500-Meter Run.
"While we may not have finished where we wanted to as teams, we have nothing to be disappointed about with our athlete's individual performances," said Triton Head Coach Anne Cleary. "We train all year with a goal to have our best performance during the championship season and that's just what many of our team members did this weekend. We also had many athletes sacrifice their individual performance to do different or multiple events this weekend to score team points. We put up great fights to move up in the team races on both genders, unfortunately this weekend it just wasn't enough."