Albuquerque, NM - Across two days of competition at the Lone Star Conference Indoor Championships, the Texas A&M - Kingsville men's and women's track and field teams brought home nine individual LSC Championships, broke four program records, and each finished as the runner up in the conference.

In total, the teams produced a staggering 18 different top-3 placements, eight on the women's side and 10 on the men's, broke three women's school records and one men's, and had five individual LSC Champion performances on the men's side and four on the women's. For the women's team, it is the first time in program history that the team has finished in second place, marking the highest team placement ever. 

"We saw the team put together one of the best weekends the team has ever had," Assistant Coach Zachary Hall said.

The teams' success was historic in more ways than one, with three different school records - women's pentathlon, and both men's and women's 4x400m relay - falling during the weekend. Sophomore Afaf Benhadja was the first Kingsville athlete to topple a record, as she started the weekend off by posting a 3579 in the women's pentathlon and becoming the Javelinas' first individual conference champ of the year. 

On Saturday, senior Cynai Christopher helped Kingsville break two different records, the first of which came in the women's 400m, where she ran a 53.87, coming in fourth in the event and destroying the old record by more than a full second. It is the sixth fastest women's 400m run in the nation this season.

At Saturday's final event, TAMUK's 4x400m relay teams ended the weekend with bang, as the women's crew of senior Vitiana Robert, freshman Sakara Wade, freshman Oneika Brissett, and Christopher ran a 3:39.62, winning the event and shattering the record they set less than a month ago in Boston. The time is the second fastest run in all of D2 this year.

The men followed suit, and the team of senior Sterling Riles, and juniors Tony Benitez, Cody Fountain, and Taylor Chaney, also won the event and crushed the school record, running a 3:10.30. In addition to the win, the run was also the fifth-fastest in the nation this season. 

The team posted five other LSC Champs, including senior Ronald Grueso Mosquera, who won two different events. He started his incredible weekend with a win in the men's weight throw, putting up a throw of 18.82m, the 20th-longest in the nation. He ended it the next day by posting an 18.11m shot put throw, the eighth-longest in the nation this season. 

The teams' two Madisons, senior Madison Alegria and junior Madison Ramos, went 1-2 in the high jump. Alegria won the LSC, clearing 1.73m, the 14th-highest jump in the nation this year. Ramos wasn't far behind, clearing 1.70m and placing second in the event.

That wasn't the only event that the Javelinas stacked up. They also went 1-2 in the men's 400m. With the 21st- and 24th-fastest 400m in the nation this year, Sterling's 47.42 won the event and, just behind him, Chaney's 47.59 took second. Even that wasn't the end of TAMUK stacking the podium, as the Javelinas also went 2-3 in the men's pole vault. Senior Thomas Nieto cleared 5.34m, the fourth-highest vault in the nation this season, enough for second place. Just below him, Django Segovia cleared 5.14m and took third place.

"It seemed like every event we were scoring points," Hall said. "The athletes rose to the challenge we gave them this year."

Senior Katryna Hernandez podiumed twice for Kingsville, including an event-winning shot put of 15.42m. She also placed third in the women's weight throw with a 16.32m throw. Freshman David Guzman joined teammate Grueso Mosquera and Hernandez as Javelina throwers with multiple podium trips, as he took third in the men's weight with a 17.71m throw, and second in the men's shot put with a 17.27m throw.

The final individual champ of the weekend was sophomore Jhonatan Rodriguez-Osorno, who ran a 1:52.06 in the men's 800m, the new 40th-fastest time in the nation.

Fresh off of a school record jump just one week ago, senior Jazmin Ray posted another 12m jump, leaping 12.16m in the triple jump, coming in second place.

"The women will come home with the best performance in their history and the men finished with one of their best performances in history," Hall said.

The next stop for your Javelinas will be San Angelo for the first meet of the outdoor season in two weeks, one week before the NCAA Indoor National Championships meet.