Barton's Hamilton and Young earn weekly track and field honors #GoBarton

Week one of the indoor season produced a pair of recognitions for the Barton Community College track and field program.

The Cougars opened their season this past weekend at the Stan Scott Memorial at Texas Tech University with performances from sophomores Treneese Hamilton and Christopher Young being named the KJCCC's Field Athletes of the Week with Young adding the national NJCAA Athlete of the Week honor to his accolades.

Hamilton posted pair of national qualifying marks in the shot put (14.41m) and weight throw (16.36m) finishing in 6th and 5th place respectively behind four-year competitors. Ranking first in the early season national junior college results in both events, Hamilton especially shined in the weight throw by marking a personal best to sit just outside the program's top ten all-time performances. Although not reaching her best in the shot put, Hamilton already has the program's 6th best throw achieved as a freshman in a ground denting 15.05m.

Also picking up from last season's achievements, Young bettered both his shot put and weight throw marks for national leading standards after week one results were posted. Beginning the day in the weight throw, Young marked a personal best 17.40m to rank just ahead of teammate's Christopher Crawford's 16.46m for 5th place. Concluding his trip to Texas in the shot put, Young not only won the event by nearly five feet but marked an 18.40m distance in moving from fourth to the second spot all-time in Barton history and less than a foot behind Fred Moudani's leading 18.64m top mark.

As a team the Cougars racked up twenty-one national qualifying performance in the one day meet while etching four impacts on the storied top ten list.

Barton's next meet is Saturday in Topeka, Kansas, competing in the Washburn Rust Buster at the Washburn University Indoor Athletic Facility.