The Tribune

By RENALDO DORSETT

Tribune Sports Reporter

rdorstt@tribunemedia.net

THE NAIA Indoor Track and Field National Championships featured both team and individual success for its Bahamian participants.

Antonishka Deveaux and her Indiana Tech Warriors clinched the second programme title in school history at the 41st edition of the meet, hosted at Ruth Donohoe Fieldhouse on the campus of Mount Marty in Yankton, South Dakota, on Friday.

Deveaux teamed with Xuxa Peart, Brianna Tillman and Destinee McGrady and took the bronze medal in the 4x400m relay in 3:50.80 seconds to earn six points for the Warriors.

The team finished third in heat two and in the fastest heat of the day, produced the third fastest time overall.

Southeastern University finished first in 3:49.12 followed by Dordt in second place at 3:50.05. Each of the top three teams came out of heat two. The Warriors opened competition with a first place finish in heat one of the preliminaries in 3:55.20 to earn automatic qualification.

The Warriors headed the field with a total of 111 points.

Coshan Campbell and the Wayland Baptist women took seventh place at the meet. Campbell won silver in the 600m in 1:34.07. Aileen Gurrola of Friends University finished first in 1:33.21 and Mika Kooistra of Dordt was third in 1:34.62.

“Our girls did a really good job to be seventh with only four of them,” Wayland coach Brian Whitlock said. “We were so close to getting a trophy. In fact, if Coshan holds off the girl in the 600, we get one. That close with four girls.”

Campbell has a season with several milestones, most notably being named Sooner Athletic Conference Women’s Indoor Track Athlete of the Week on February 1.

She turned in a season-best time of 1:38.15 in the 600 metres at the South Plains College Invitational in Levelland. The time placed in the NAIA. She also posted the fourth-fastest time in the NAIA in the 800 (2:15.94).

“Coshan ran really well in the 600. She was leading with 50 metres to go but couldn’t hold on,” Whitlock said, “All of our women ran their best times of the season on a 200 flat track in the finals.”