Women win Jayhawk West title; Burchell and Busienei honored

February 18, 2012

MANHATTAN, Kan. - The Butler track and field teams were highly decorated following the 2012 Jayhawk Conference/Region VI championships on Sunday at Ahearn Fieldhouse on the Kansas State University campus.

The Butler women were named the 2012 Jayhawk West Conference champions, edging out Barton County and Cloud County. The ladies also finished sixth in the Region VI standings.

The men were thrd in the Jayhawk West and also finished sixth in Region VI.

Individually, Butler claimed two of the highest honors at the meet as Remona Burchell was the female winner and and Kelvin Busienei was the male winner of the the Track Athletes of the Meet honors. Burchell won the 60, 200 and ran the fastest leg on the 4 x 400 relay (along with Latesha Bigby, Carole Idolphone and Juliet Gourdet) that finished third overall. Busienei won the 1000, Mile and ran the fastest leg on the 4 x 800 relay that also won the Region VI title.

Other Butler runners with high finishes were Cesar Sanabria, who finished second in the mile, posting the exact same time as Busienei in an event where either runner could have been named the winner. Sanabria also placed third in the 3000.

Devery Robley finished second in the men's 800 to qualify for nationals, while the men's distance medley relay (Mathew Komen, Aaron Cain, Coty Williams and Heber Jimenez) finished third. Leroy Moore qualified for nationals in the 400.

For the women, Butler scored well in the pentathlon as Latesha Bigby finished second in the event with a score that is the second-best in Butler history. Paige Slayton finished fourth in the event.

Those athletes that have qualified for nationals will now gear up for the NJCAA Championships on March 2-3 in Charleston, Ill.

Track

Women

60M 1^st Place Remona Burchell 7.57P/7.48F

Cydnie Brown 8.35P

200M 1^st Place Remona Burchell 24.98

Cydnie Brown 27.01

400M Latesha Bigby 1:01.16

600M Carole Idolphine 1:42.89

Kelsey Camien 1:44.83

Paige Slayton 1:50.99

800M Juliette Gourdet 2:34.80

Alex Jones 2:37.72

Martha Avila 2:55.81

1000M Fiona Masai 3:14.18

Alex Jones 3:26.71

Tracy Rausch 3:41.06

Mile Fiona Masai 5:39.20

Sylvia Tomno 6:08.36

Tracy Rausch 6:20.04

3000M Aadrian McCollum 11:57.19

Sylvia Tomno 12:28.28

5000M Sylvia Tomno 20:50.44

Aadrian McCollum 20:55.39

60MH Carole Idolphine 10.26P/ 9.93F

Latesha Bigby 10.00P/ 10.00F

Paige Slayton 10.41P

4 x 800M 10:44.73

(Splits- Gourdet- 2:31.1, Jones- 2:39.3, Rausch- 2:54.9, Masai- 2:37.1)

4 x 400M 3^rd Place 4:03.02 National Qualifier

(Splits- Bigby- 61.5, Burchell- 58.9, Idolphine- 59.9, Gourdet- 62.2)

Men

60M Jamelle Ardis 7.15P

200M Lonell Watkins 23.06

Jamelle Ardis 23.29

400M Leroy Moore 50.05 National Qualifier

Taylor Parker 54.73

Alejandro Carbajal 56.84

600M Aaron Cain 1:25.01

Emanuel Thornton 1:26.34

Toland Holloway 1:26.42

800M 2^nd Place Devery Robley 1:59.33 National Qualifier

Drake Brown 2:02.80

Dale Nuckolls 2:04.41

1000M 1^st Place Kelvin Busienei 2:30.57 11^th All Time @ Butler/ INQ

Jameson Fay 2:40.06 National Qualifier

Coty Williams 2:43.63

Mile 1^st Place Kelvin Busienei 4:25.51

2^nd Place Cesar Sanabria 4:25.51

Jameson Fay 4:44.43

3000M 3^rd Place Cesar Sanabria 9:01.00

Joseph Metcalf 9:08.19

Heber Jimenez 9:38.45

5000M Joseph Metcalf 16:01.55

Heber Jimenez 16:54.72

60MH Emanuel Thornton 8.73P

4 x 800M 1^st Place 7:54.17 N. Qualifier/ 8^th @ Butler

(Splits- Busienei- 1:54.1, Sanabria- 1:57.3, Robley- 2:01.8, Williams- 2:00.4)

DMR 3^rd Place 10:56.87

(Splits - Komen (1200) - 3:21.1, Cain (400)- 52.1, Williams (800)- 1:58.2, Jimenez (1600)- 4:43.3

4 x 400M 3:22.78

(Splits- Moore- 50.1, Thornton- 50.8, Cain- 51.6, Ardis- 49.8)

Field

Women

Long Jump Paige Slayton 15'2 ¾"

High Jump Latesha Bigby 5'1"

Pentathlon 2^nd Place Latesha Bigby 2991 pts. 3^rd All Time @ Butler

Paige Slayton 2524 pts. 10^th All Time @ Butler

Men

Pole Vault AJ Bales 13'9 ¼"

Heptathlon Koy Watkins 2714

All Region VI

Remona Burchell 60M

Remona Burchell 200M

Latesha Bigby 4 x 400M

Remona Burchell 4 x 400M

Carole Idolphine 4 x 400M

Juliette Gourdet 4 x 400M

Latesha Bigby Pentathlon

Devery Robley 800M

Kelvin Busienei 1000M

Kelvin Busienei Mile

Cesar Sanabria Mile

Cesar Sanabria 3000M

Kelvin Busienei 4 x 800M

Cesar Sanabria 4 x 800M

Devery Robley 4 x 800M

Coty Williams 4 x 800M

Mathew Komen DMR

Aaron Cain DMR

Coty Williams DMR

Heber Jimenez DMR

All Jayhawk West Conference