List of United States community college records in track and field
This is a list of records in the sport of Track and Field at the Community College level in the United States. The national governing body of athletics at that level is the National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA). However, the California Community College system, the largest in the country with over 100 institutions, is not a member of the NJCAA, instead governing its sports through the unaffiliated California Community College Athletic Association (CCCAA). Merging the records between these organizations has been left to the independent publication Track and Field News (T&FN) primarily in the person of Robert Hersh, who also supervises records for USA Track and Field (USATF).
Starting in the 1970s, many community colleges began recruiting foreign born athletes. With some of the best athletes in the world competing against American college freshmen and sophomores, an additional set of records for the best American born athletes was also included. T&FN was not 100% accurate when assessing which athletes are not Americans. They were not given assistance by the colleges, who tended not to discuss the foreign roots of some of their recruits. Additionally, with the less restrictive eligibility regulations (as compared to the very strict NCAA regulations), foreign born athletes could be older than the 18- to 20-year-old Americans who entered community college immediately following high school.
All of these records appear to be exclusively from Community College level competition, as opposed to the means T&FN uses in calculating High School records, where they allow all attempts by a high school affiliated athlete made against Open level competitors.
Men
Key:
Awaiting ratification Record by American-born athlete
' after name = non-U.S. citizen (A) = altitude-aided mark--over 1000m of altitude (in affected events only) i = made indoors (banked-track marks not acceptable)
Women
Event | Record | Athlete | School | Place | Date | Ref | Video | |||||||||||
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100 m | 11.12 | Natasha Mayers' ![]() |
LA Southwest College | Walnut, California | 5/12/01 | |||||||||||||
11.23 | Zelda Johnson | Mt. San Antonio College | Bakersfield, California | 5/26/84 | ||||||||||||||
200 m | 22.39 | Veronica Campbell' ![]() |
Barton Community College | Odessa, Texas | 5/18/02 | |||||||||||||
23.12 | Zelda Johnson | Mt. San Antonio College | Bakersfield, California | 5/26/84 | ||||||||||||||
22.86p | Ashton Purvis | Laney College | Norwalk, California | 5/19/12 | ||||||||||||||
400 m | 50.92 | Sandie Richards' ![]() |
San Jacinto College | Odessa, Texas | 5/16/87 | |||||||||||||
52.68 | Gwen Gardner | West Los Angeles College | Westwood, California | 5/16/82 | ||||||||||||||
800 m | 2:01.92 | Claudine Williams' ![]() |
Barton Community College | Edwardsville, Illinois | 5/16/98 | |||||||||||||
2:03.9 | Ruth Wysocki | Citrus College | Fresno, California | 5/06/78 | ||||||||||||||
1500 m | 4:17.82 | Sylvia Mosqueda | East Los Angeles College | Stanford, California | 3/29/86 | |||||||||||||
3000 m | 9:13.0 | Trina Painter | Phoenix College | Walnut, California | 4/26/86 | |||||||||||||
3000 m steeplechase | ||||||||||||||||||
5000 m | 15:52.5 | Sylvia Mosqueda | East Los Angeles College | Walnut, California | 5/16/86 | |||||||||||||
10000 m | ||||||||||||||||||
34:29.36 | Jessica Mildes | Community Colleges of Spokane | Walnut, California | 4/17/14 | ||||||||||||||
100 hurdles | 13.13 | Nichole Belcher | Essex County College | Odessa, Texas | 5/20/95 | |||||||||||||
400 hurdles | 56.92 | Tanya Jarrett' ![]() |
Central Arizona College | Walnut, California | 4/20/97 | |||||||||||||
58.96 | Margaret Hemmans | El Camino College | Bakersfield, California | 5/26/84 | ||||||||||||||
4 × 100 m relay | 43.83 | Barton Community College (Dionne Rose' ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Austin, Texas | 4/05/91 | ||||||||||||||
4 × 200 m relay | 1:33.63 | Barton Community College (Natalee Sterling' ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Lawrence, Kansas | 4/21/00 | ||||||||||||||
4 × 400 m relay | 3:30.66 | San Jacinto College (Jackie Gayle' ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Austin, Texas | 5/08/92 | ||||||||||||||
4 × 800 m relay | 8:37.75 | Barton Community College (Nancy Torres 2:15.0, Karen Bennett' ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Austin, Texas | 4/03/93 | ||||||||||||||
Sprint Medley Relay (1-1-2-4) |
1:38.93 | San Jacinto College (Karlene Haughton' ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Austin, Texas | 4/03/93 | ||||||||||||||
Sprint Medley Relay (2-2-4-8) |
3:46.37 | San Jacinto College (Andrea Giscombe' ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Austin, Texas | 4/09/94 | ||||||||||||||
Distance Medley Relay | 11:37.17y | Barton Community College (Inez Turner' ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Lawrence, Kansas | 4/17/93 | ||||||||||||||
High Jump | 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in) | Shaunette Davidson' ![]() |
Barton Community College | Levelland, Texas | 5/08/04 | |||||||||||||
1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) | Phyllis Bluntson | El Camino College | Bakersfield, California | 5/16/79 | ||||||||||||||
Kathy Raugust | Hartnell College | Porterville, California | 5/10/81 | |||||||||||||||
Shenell Searcy | Odessa College | Odessa, Texas | 5/18/91 | |||||||||||||||
Hyleas Fountain | Barton Community College | Odessa, Texas | 5/16/02 | |||||||||||||||
Pole Vault | 14-4 | Becky Holliday | Clackamas Community College | Spokane, Washington | 5/24/01 | |||||||||||||
Long Jump | 22-6¼ | Elva Goulbourne' ![]() |
Central Arizona College | Tucson, Arizona | 5/03/01 | |||||||||||||
21-3½ | Sheila Nicks | College of the Sequoias | Modesto, California | 5/21/83 | ||||||||||||||
Triple Jump | 46-3½ | Yuliana Perez | Pima Community College | Odessa, Texas | 5/18/02 | |||||||||||||
Shot Put | 55-3¾ | Grace Apiafi' ![]() |
Mt. San Antonio College | Santa Barbara, California | 5/19/90 | |||||||||||||
16.31 m (53 ft 6 in) | Janeah Stewart | Iowa Central Community College | Des Moines, Iowa | 4/30/16 | ||||||||||||||
Discus | 183-2 | Ilona Rutges' | Central Arizona College | Tucson, Arizona | 3/16/02 | |||||||||||||
181-2 | Stacy Ainlay | Glendale Community College | Odessa, Texas | 5/16/91 | ||||||||||||||
Hammer | 197-6 | Kate Burton | Clark College | Vancouver, Washington | 5/07/05 | |||||||||||||
Javelin | 169-5 | Trina Rogers | Clackamas Community College | Eugene, Oregon | 5/27/99 | |||||||||||||
Heptathlon | 5687 | Lisa Wright' ![]() |
Barton Community College | Odessa, Texas | 5/15-16/96 | |||||||||||||
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5673 | Hyleas Fountain | Barton Community College | Odessa, Texas | 5/16-17/02 | ||||||||||||||
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See also
References
- General
- Specific
- ^ "Merritt's Kemarley Brown's 9.93 cracks into Northern California's Historic Center of Speed! By Fred Baer, PAUSATF Media Chair - RunBlogRun". 23 May 2014.
- ^ "200m Result". Track & Field Results Reporting System (TFRRS). 29 April 2023. Retrieved 29 September 2023.
- ^ "Talawah, Jamaican track field, ottey, veronica campbell, juliet Cuthbert, grace Jackson, deon Hemmings, sherone simpson, michelle Freeman, kerron Stewart, kenia sinclair".