RONO SETS 2 NEW RECORDS TO LEAD DRAGONS AT REGION 6

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ARKANSAS CITY – Freshman Mildred Romo broke one individual school record and ran a leg of a record-breaking 4x800-meter relay to lead the Hutchinson Community College women's track and field team on Day 2 of the 2026 Region 6 Outdoor Track and Field Championships at the Mark A. Phillips Track and Field Complex.

The Blue Dragons won three events on Friday and are right in the thick of the team title chase. Through 6 of 22 events, the Blue Dragons are in second place with 49 points. Barton leads the women's team standings with 52 points.

Rono started her fabulous Friday by running the second leg of Hutchinson's regional winning 4x800-meter relay. The relay of Ashara Frater, Rono, Kimberlin Lovell and Sabrina McDonald won the event with a national-qualifying and school-record time of 9:25.20. The old record was 9:33.92 set in 2024.

Then in the final women's event of Friday, Rono came back from 13 seconds down to dominate the women's 10,000 meters. Rono's winning time was a school-record and national-qualifying mark of 36 minutes, 25.47 seconds. Rono beat the old record of Serenity Larson by 1 minute 6 seconds (37:31.41).

Rono trailed Garden City's Maryeme Mai by 13 seconds at the 3,200-meter mark. She erased that deficit over the next three laps and won the event by 31 seconds.

Lovell finished fifth in the 10,000 meters with a time of 42:52.26 seconds.

Freshman Xylavene Beale won the third regional title by the Blue Dragons on Friday winning the Discus Throw. Beale won with a mark of 167-3 (50.98 meters). That throw came on her third attempt in the preliminary round. Sophomore Deisheline Mayer Scott placed sixth in the discus with a mark of 133-4 (40.04 meters).

The Blue Dragons picked up 12 points in the Javelin Throw. Freshman Kora Rex was fourth at 127-10 (38.97 meters). Mayer Scott was fifth at 126-11 (38.69 meters) and Taya Orth was sixth at 118-3 (36.04 meters).

Freshman Anecia Campbell missed a third school record on Friday by 0.02 seconds when she advanced to Saturday's 200-meter Friday. Campbell was sixth in Friday's prelims with a time of 24.46 seconds, the second-fastest 200-meter time in Blue Dragon women's outdoor history. 

Freshman Britney-Ann Powell advanced to Saturday's 100-meter finals with a Friday preliminary time of 11.97 seconds. That time was the sixth-fastest qualifying time and is the sixth-fastest time in Blue Dragon outdoor history.

The Dragons had two athletes advance to Saturday's 100-meter hurdle finals. Valentine Titren qualified fourth in 15.10 seconds. Sierra Brooks was eighth in qualifying and advanced to the finals with a time of 15.69 seconds. 

Brooks also finished 11th in the heptathlon with 3,441 points. That point total is the sixth-best heptathlon in team history.

Saturday's final day of competition will begin at 10 a.m. in Arkansas City.