PITTSBURG — The Pittsburg State University women's indoor track & field team breezed to the 2026 MIAA Indoor Championship Sunday (Mar. 1) at the Robert W. Plaster Center on the PSU campus.
Pitt State finished the three-day meet with an MIAA record 212 points, besting second-place Northwest Missouri State University by 106 points. The Bearcats finished the meet with 106 points. Washburn University posted 90 points to finish in third place.
Pitt State just missed recording the highest scoring total in MIAA Indoor Championships history for a third straight year. The Gorillas tallied a record 222 points at the 2025 MIAA Indoor Championships at Maryville, Mo., topping the previous high point total of 221 points set by Pitt State at the 2024 MIAA Indoor Championships at Topeka.
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The Gorillas secured three individual MIAA crowns on the day:Â
Lily Brown in the triple jump (40-3);
Kayvon Nubine in the 60-meter hurdles (8.29) and
Paige Mullen in the 3,000 meters (9:49.15).
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Mullen earned the MIAA High Point Award for a second straight year by scoring 26 points in the meet. She won both the 3,000m and 5,000 meters races and placed third overall in the mile run (4:56.42).
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The Gorillas also registered a trio MIAA runner-up performances Sunday:Â
Jazmine Williamson in the triple jump (39-11.25);
Zyra Shivers in the 60m hurdles (8.34) and the 4x400m relay of
Nikole Cozort,
Isabel Abdouch,
Kinleigh Hall and
Mikah Edwards (3:40.50).
Other Sunday point scorers included: Â
Makayla Pavelka, triple jump (3
rd, 38-9.25);
Piper Hula, 600-yard run (3
rd, 1:23.48);
Kaci Singer, 3,000m (3
rd, 9:49.61);
Alexa Binkley, triple jump (4
th, 38-8.25); Edwards, 400m (4
th, 55.19);
Abby Lasiter, shot put (5
th, 45-7.25);
Kinley Smith, triple jump (5
th, 37-5.5);
McKinlee Walker, 60m hurdles (5
th, 8.63); Hall, 400m (5
th, 55.27);
Jakayla Morgan, 600-yard run (6
th, 1:25.06); Abdouch, 200m (6
th, 24.50); Cozort, 400m (7
th, 55.38); and
Kelsey Bruening, 800m (7
th, 2:15.56).
The Gorillas won their fifth straight title and ninth MIAA indoor crown in the last 10 years. Pitt State had won four indoor titles in a row between 2017 and 2020 before UCM claimed the 2021 crown.
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