Hutchinson Blue Dragon sophomore Ty’Rique Roland wins the national championship in the men’s high jump on Friday at the 2025 NJCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships at Gowans Stadium. (Andrew Carpenter/Digital Fox Photography)
By John Mesh and HutchinsonCC Sports Information
Ty’Rique Roland is the fourth Hutchinson Community College athlete in men’s track and field history to win a national championship in the high jump.
Roland accomplished the milestone Friday at the 2025 NJCAA Division I Outdoor Championships at Gowans Stadium.
With only one miss at earlier heights, Roland cleared a career-best 6 feet, 10.75 inches (2.10 meters) to win the Blue Dragons’ first outdoor national championship of the meet and second this season when combined with the indoor season.
Roland’s victory helped the Blue Dragons remain in the Top 10 of the overall team standings with 8 of 22 events completed with 20 points. New Mexico Junior College leads with 39 points and Iowa Western is right behind with 38 points.
Roland becomes the first Blue Dragon to win a national championship in the high jump since Richard Newman in 2019.
Roland’s height of 6 feet, 10.75 inches is the sixth-best by a Blue Dragon in a national meet and seventh-best all-time in Blue Dragon track and field history.
Roland joins Leo LeGrand (indoor 800) as national track and field event champions for the Blue Dragons in the 2025 season.
Freshman sprinter Kebba Makalo placed second in the 200-meter dash with a time of 20.64 seconds and was sixth in the 100-meter dash with a time of 10.49 seconds.
Makalo finished second in the 200 preliminaries on Friday with a time of 20.61 seconds, which is the second-fastest 200-meter time in Blue Dragon outdoor history.
Hutchinson’s record holder in the 100 already, Makalo qualified third in the 100-meter preliminaries Friday with a time of 10.38 seconds.
Hutchinson sophomore David Thid placed second in the men’s 400-meter hurdles with a time of 50.09 seconds. He won the national championship in 2024.
Thid was upset by Central Arizona’s Richard Hall, who won the national title with a time of 49.95 seconds.
Thid advanced to Saturday’s final in the men’s 400-meter hurdles with the third-best preliminary time of 51.6 seconds.
Hutchinson’s Malique Parkinson placed 13th in the men’s triple jump with a mark of 47 feet, 9 1/2 inches.
In the women’s javelin competition Saturday, Hutchinson’s Deisheline Mayer Scott placed seventh with a throw of 137 feet, 6 inches.
Hutchinson sophomore Jordyn Picolet placed ninth in the women’s 5,000-meter run with a time of 18 minutes, 15.13 seconds.
Before the third day of competition at the meet, it was announced that HutchCC’s Robert Spies was named the USTFCCCA Central Region Men’s Coach of the Year.
The Hutchinson men’s team placed seventh with 39 points, one point ahead of Barton Community College.
South Plains, Texas, won the men’s team title with 119 points. Iowa Western won the women’s title with 98 points, followed by Barton CC with 90.33.
NJCAA Division I meet results — https://milesplit.live/meets/645932
Blue Dragon men’s performances on Friday:
• D’Antonio Warren was 13th in the 100-meter prelims with a time of 10.38 seconds.
• LeGrand ran his 800 preliminary and finished 15th with a time of 1:53.06 and did not move on to Saturday’s final.
• Grady Bare was 16th in the shot put at 45-6.75 (13.89 meters).
Day 1 Thursday: Kiprotich smashes his own 10,000 record
Hutchinson sophomore Titus Kiprotich concluded Day 1 of the 2025 NJCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships Thursday at Gowans Stadium by smashing his own 10,000-meter record with a fourth-place finish.
Kiprotich lowered the Blue Dragon 10,000 men’s record to 29:53.34, the first Hutchinson runner to break 30 minutes in the event.
Kiprotich owns three HutchCC indoor and outdoor men’s track and field records.
Blue Dragon teammate Cornelius Kogo also joined Kiprotich on the podium with a seventh-place time of 30:24.69. That is the second-fastest 10,000 time in Blue Dragon men’s track and field history.
Kiprotich and Kogo combined for 7 of the 10 points scored by Hutchinson on the opening day of the national championships.
Sophomore Elisha Williams battled an injury to place sixth in the men’s long jump on Thursday. Williams’ best attempt was his final jump in the preliminary round of 23 feet, 5 inches. Williams was fifth going into the finals and wound up sixth.
The Blue Dragon 4×100 relay team of D’Antonio Warren, Giavonni Jones, Rickyle Telemaque and Kebba Makalo ran a time of 40.39 to finish 10th in the preliminaries.
That time was just .10 seconds from earning a spot in Saturday’s final and was .01 second off the Hutchinson school record.
Freshman Da’Shawn Lester missed the finals in the 400 meters, but posted the third-best time in Blue Dragon outdoor history of 47.07 seconds. Lester with 16th in the 400 preliminaries.
Other Blue Dragon performances on Day 1 Thursday:
• Pole vaulters Gregory Martinez and Jace Spencer finished 11th and 12th, respectively, after both cleared 13 feet, 11 3/4 inches.
• Tayler Zehr placed 18th in the men’s hammer throw with a top performance of 134-6.
Day 2 Friday women: Deisheline Mayer Scott 7th in women’s shot put
The HutchinsonCC women’s track and field team scored its first points of the 2025 NJCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships at Gowans Stadium on Friday, thanks to freshman Deisheline Mayer Scott.
Making her second of three national meet appearances this weekend, Mayer Scott placed seventh overall in the women’s shot put on Friday.
Mayer Scott had a personal-best performance in the event on Friday with a top attempt of 43 feet, 6 inches, which came on her final attempt of the preliminary round.
That mark is the eighth-best in Blue Dragon women’s outdoor history and the fourth-best by a Blue Dragon in a national meet in program history.
The Blue Dragons have two points through eight of 22 events. The final day of competition begins at 10 a.m. Saturday.
Other performances by the Blue Dragon women’s team on Friday:
• Sprinter Sidney Holt ran in both the 100- and 200-meter preliminaries. She was 25th in the 100 with at time of 11.97 seconds and 31st in the 200 at 25.41 seconds.
• Sophomore Jordyn Picolet was 24th in the 1,500-meter prelims with a time of 5:02.16
• Sophomore Abigail Grantham placed 17th in the 3,000-meter steeplechase with a time of 12:09.75.
• Sophomore Aiyanna Green was 17th in the shot put at 37-0.5.
Day 1 Thursday women: Picolet shatters 10,000 personal record
Whether it be in cross country or on the track, Hutchinson sophomore Jordyn Picolet had firmly entrenched herself as one of the Blue Dragon women’s top distance runners in program history.
Officially running on her home track at Gowans Stadium in competition for the first time on Thursday night, Picolet scorcher her own personal record in the NJCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championship’s 10,000-meter run.
Running in a field where the top seven times posted were among the 10 best times in Gowans Stadium history, Picolet finished 10th overall in a time of 37 minutes, 48.48 seconds.
Already in possession of the second-fastest time in Blue Dragon women’s history in the 10,000, Picolet shattered her own PR set at the 2024 national championships by 2:06.03.
Blue Dragon athletes were scheduled in only two other events on the opening day of the national championships, contested at Gowans Stadium for the eighth time since the 2006 renovation.
Mayer Scott finished 16th in the women’s hammer throw with a throw of 136 feet, 11 inches.
Pole vaulters Alycea McCoy and Grace Bender finished 10th and 12th, respectively. McCoy cleared 10-4 1/2. Bender cleared 9-10 1/2 (3.01 meters).