Meet Recap: 2025 NJCAA Indoor T&F Championships

Champions were crowned at the 2025 NAIA Indoor Track & Field Championships!

The meet was held at the Texas Tech Sports Performance Center in Lubbock, Texas.

From The USTFCCCA InfoZone: Meets & Results
Related: National Championships Central

Men’s Recap

No. 1 South Plains (Texas) won its first NJCAA men’s indoor track & field team title since sharing the 2023 crown, scoring 119.5 points while winning six events. It gives the Texans at least a share of four of the meet’s last five titles.

New Mexico JC was runner-up with 86 points, followed by Iowa Western CC (81), Indian Hills (Iowa) CC (72) and Odessa (Texas) (48).

South Plains was led by triple winner Hamdani Benahmed, who won the mile (4:06.91) and 1000 meters (2:27.88) in just over an hour on Saturday after anchoring the winning distance medley relay team (9:49.82) on Friday. Other winners for the Texans were Denzel Simusialela in the 200 (20.67), Shamar Reid in the shot put (17.82m/58-5¾) and the 4×400 team (a meet-record 3:06.10).

Runner-up New Mexico JC was the only other program to win multiple events, claiming five including the 400 by Bovel McPherson with an NJCAA record time of 45.58. That bettered the 45.84 set by Rondell Bartholomew of South Plains in 2011. Also victorious for the T-Birds were David Nyamufaira in the 60 (6.60), Mawali Osunniyi in the high jump (2.12m/6-11½), Samuel Estrada Ospina in the pole vault (5.12m/16-9½) and Ilias Arifi in the heptathlon (5054 points).

Another NJCAA record was broken as Tavon Davis of Hinds (Miss.) CC won the 600 in 1:15.61, taking more than half a second off the 1:16.22 set by Jaymes Dennison of ASA (N.Y.) in 2015.

There was one repeat champion – Trevon Hamer of Barton (Kan.) CC in the triple jump with a lifetime best of 16.47m (54-0½) that puts him No. 6 all-time among NJCAA athletes. He also was runner-up in the long jump (PR 7.75m/25-5¼) and third in the 60 (6.67 after a PR 6.64 in the prelims).

Women’s Recap

No. 3 Iowa Western CC upset the rankings, winning a second-straight team title as their 114 points were nine more than the 105 put up by Barton (Kan.) CC, which was co-champion with the Reivers last year. Iowa Western now has a share of four of the last five team crowns.

Rounding out the top-5 were New Mexico JC (86), Cloud County (Kan.) CC (84) and Odessa (Texas) (63).

Iowa Western won five events, with four coming from Juliana Sakat, who won the 5000 (16:56.55) and 3000 (9:35.93) on Friday before taking the mile (4:49.18) and 1000 (2:55.84) on Saturday. Sakat had 42 points as she also anchored the Reivers’ distance medley relay team (11:49.90) to second place on Friday.

The other victory for Iowa Western came from Mercy Honesty, who was one of three women to successfully defend a title as her PR 13.11m (43-0¼) moved her to No. 5 on the all-time NJCAA triple jump list.

Cloud County also won five events, with two coming in NJCAA-record time by Maimuna Jallow. Her 7.19 time in the 60 took down the 23-year-old 7.26 mark set by Veronica Campbell of Barton. Less than two hours later Jallow clocked 22.86 to smash the 200 record, which she shared at 23.27 from the prelims with Campbell (also from 2002). Runner-up in both events was Barton’s Keliza Smith with PRs and high all-time ranking marks of 7.28 (No. 3) and 23.08 (No. 2).

In addition to Honesty, two others repeated from last year – Sophia Do Amaral Salvi of Vincennes (Ind.) in the pole vault (4.15m/13-7¼) and Tania Da Silva of New Mexico in the weight throw (20.70m/67-11). Salvi improved her position at No. 2 on the NJCAA all-time list, while Da Silva was just shy of her PR 20.82m (68-3¾) in posting the No. 3 performance in NJCAA history.