Portales, NM - Across three days of competition at the 2025 Lone Star Conference Outdoor Championships, the Texas A&M - Kingsville women's and men's track and field teams won five different events, placed top three in 12 more, and finished in third place in the team standings on both sides.

The men found themselves in a photo-finish with Angelo State, coming up just one half point short of Angelo State's team score, with one full point standing between Kingsville and a second-place finish to match the one the team grabbed during the indoor season. The women finished with 71 total team points, beating out Midwestern St. by six points for the third spot.

For the Second time this calendar year, senior thrower Ronald Grueso Mosquera led the men's team with a pair of individual LSC Championships. Just as he did during the Indoor season, Grueso Mosquera will bring home two gold medals from the conference championship after winning both the discus and the shot put. His shot put throw of 18.71m is the new best throw in all of D2 this year. 

In addition to his efforts, the throws crew put up four more podium finishes, with senior Paxton Hair coming away with both a silver and a bronze medal. He threw 51.00m in the discus, placing second, and 52.20m in the hammer throw, coming in third. While Grueso Mosquera went 1-2 alongside Hair in the discus, it was sophomore David Guzman who joined him to do the same in the shot put. Guzman's 17.88m throw gave him a second place finish. Sophomore Kaylea Demetrius's season-best throw of 13.18m in the shot put gave the women's team a podium finish for the throws crew as well, as she finished in third place.

Day one was capped off by senior Thomas Nieto, who took home a gold medal with a 5.46m in the men's pole vault, a new season best clearance for him, the new third-highest jump in the nation this season, and the best vault of the day in the Lone Star. Not far behind the new LSC Champ was junior Django Segovia, who cleared 4.96m, placing third in the event.

Two more Javelinas were crowned LSC Champs after the second day of competition at the 2025 LSC Outdoor Championships with the 1-2 punch of high-jumping Maddys bringing in a pair of medals. Just as they did during the indoor season, Madison Alegria took home the gold medal, with junior Madison Ramos nabbing the silver. Alegria won the battle against her teammate by clearing 1.73m, just 0.01m off of her season best, while Ramos cleared 1.70m for second place.

The third and final day of competition, brought, in addition to three of the throws teams' podium finishes, four other top-three placements and an LSC Champ. It was the familiar crew of All-Americans, seniors Cynai Christopher and Vitiana Robert and freshmen Sakara Wade and Oneika Brissett, who brought home an LSC title, as the squad ran a 3:41.06 in the women's 4x400m relay, enough for the gold. The men's All-American quartet of senior Sterling Riles and juniors Tony Benitez, Taylor Chaney, and Michael Samihamba took second place in the 4x400m relay with a 3:10.18. They weren't the only relays to grab a medal, however, as freshmen Nathaniel Grant and Dorian Aranda, and seniors Jean Paul Castro and Jonathen Macareno ran a 40.54 in the men's 4x100m relay, the 57th-fastest time in the event in the nation this year, enough for a bronze medal.

In addition to his work with the 4x400m relay, Chaney also took third as an individual in the men's 400m with a 46.97. Meanwhile sophomore Jhonatan Rodriquez Osorno's 1:52.87 in the men's 800m gave him a second-place finish.

The multi events, which span across the first two days of competition, saw sophomore Afaf Benhadja taking home a second-place finish in the heptathlon with a 4827 final score. On the men's side, graduate student Roel DeLeon finished with 5304 points in the decathlon, good for third place.

After a trip to Azusa for a Last Chance meet next weekend, the Javelinas will have a week off ahead of the NCAA Outdoor National Meet in Pueblo, CO.