Aztecs Women's Track & Field Claims First Region I Team Title in 25 Years; Littlewood Named Athlete of the Meet

The Pima Community College women's track & field team captured its first NJCAA Region I Team Championship since 1996 on Thursday at Mesa Community College.

• The Aztecs finished with a team score of 285. Central Arizona College took second place with 232 while Mesa Community College placed third with 157. Glendale Community College (49 points) and Paradise Valley community College (35) rounded out the field.
• The Aztecs took home four individual championships. Sophomore Eliza Littlewood (Campo Verde HS) was named the Region I Athlete of the Meet after she scored 42 points for the Aztecs. She won the Heptathlon with a total of 3734 points She also claimed the Triple Jump title with a mark of 10.74 meters (35-feet, 3-inches). Littlewood also took second place in the High Jump at 1.48 meters (4-10).
• Freshman Dominique Acosta (Nogales HS) won the High Jump with a mark of 1.63 meters (5-4). Sophomore Raelynn Fair (South Mountain HS) won the Long Jump event on Tuesday. Pima head coach Chad Harrison said this was the first time in his 13 years at Pima that the women and men have swept the jumps at Regionals.
• Fair finished with a total of 36 points. In Thursday's events, she took second in the 200 meters with a time of 25.78 seconds. She also placed third in the Triple Jump at 10.51 meters (34-6).
• Freshman thrower Lucy Chavez (Bisbee HS) was second in the Shot Put with a mark of 12.71 meters (41-8) and took third place in the Discus at 38.98 meters (127-9).
• Freshman Cyndasia Miles was second in the Triple Jump with a best-mark of 10.70 meters (35-1) and third in the High Jump at 1.48 meters (4-10).
• The 4x100 relay team of freshman Haylee McLeod (Campo Verde HS), Fair, sophomore Masaada Johnson (Wickenburg HS) and Littlewood placed second with a time of 48.84. The 4x400 relay team of McLeod freshman Alyssa Parton (Sabino HS), freshman Marissa Lopez (Sahuarita HS) and freshman Nyah Torres (Millennium HS) also took second place with a time of 4:14.60.
• Freshman Fatmata Conteh (Glendale HS) earned two 3^rd place finishes in the hurdle events. She finished the 100-meter hurdles with a time of 15.71 seconds and the 400 meter hurdles at 1:10.06.
• Coach's Quote: "The women scored 285 points and I'm 99 percent sure, that's the most in school history," Pima track & field coach Chad Harrison said. "We had a lot of individual gutsy performances. The jumpers kept us consistent and dominated. We had four women sprinters in every final. The throwers were an area of concern but they dominated. Lucy Chavez, Victoria Malaki and Jessica Bright Schade all scored. The coaching staff got them to PR at the right time. It was just a collected energy and effort across the board. The 29 points in the hepathlon was a big deal and we wouldn't have won without it. The kids are fighters and they believed in the process."

Other Pima finishes and points scored at Thursday's Region I Championships:

• Victoria Malaki (Dobson HS) – 4^th in Discus (38.20 meters) 5 points; 7^th in Shot Put (9.96 meters) 2 points
• Masaada Johnson (Wickenburg HS) – 4^th in Triple Jump (10.16 meters) 5 points; 5^th in High Jump (1.33 meters) 4 points; 6^th in 100 meters (12.81) 3 points
• Akira Jones (Saint David HS) – 4^th in Shot Put (11.02 meters) 5 points; 7^th in Discus (33.32 meters) 2 points
• Haylee McLeod (Campo Verde HS) – 4^th in 200 meters (26.49) 5 points; 4^th in 400 meters (1:02.32) 5 points; 7^th in 100 meters (12.88) 2 points
• Ayanna Valenzuela (Marana HS) – 4^th in 100 meter hurdles (16.89) 5 points; 6^th in 400 meter hurdles (1:21.03) 3 points
• Raelynn Fair (South Mountain HS) – 4^th in 100 meters (12.71) 5 points
• Alyssa Parton (Sabino HS) – 5^th in 400 meters (1:02.53) 4 points; 7^th in 200 meters (28.10) 2 points
• Marissa Lopez (Sahuarita HS) – 5^th in 1,500 meters (5:07.05) 5 points; 6^th in 800 meters (2:31.15) 3 points
• Jessica Bright-Schade (Safford HS) – 5^th in 100 meter hurdles (18.98) 4 points; 7^th in 400 meter hurdles (1:24.30) 2 points
• Maddie Warren – 5^th in 400 meter hurdles (1:20.73) 4 points; 6^th in 100 meter hurdles (19.94) 3 points; 7^th in 400 meters (1:07.23) 2 points
• Corteaja Andrews (Betty Fairfax HS) – 6^th in 200 meters (27.67) 3 points; 6^th in 400 meters (1:03.92) 3 points;
• Fatmata Conteh (Glendale HS) – 8^th in 100 meters (13.18) 1 point
• Nyah Torres (Millennium HS) – 8^th in 800 meters (2:42.51) 1 point
• Mykayla Tarwater (Tucson Magnet HS) – 8^th in 5,000 meters (22:26.30) 1 point