Ottumwa, IA – Sophomore Isiah Thomas of the Indian Hills Men's Track & Field team has been named the Iowa Community College Athletic Conference (ICCAC) Men's Outdoor Track & Field Athlete of the Week after an impressive performance at the Friends University Spring Invite over the weekend.
Thomas becomes the second Warrior to earn the weekly outdoor honor from the conference office, joining teammate Aurel Tchanbi (__). As a program, the Warriors collected three total conference Athletes of the Week this week along with a pair of female honors in Haleigh Hadley and the women's 4x100-meter relay squad.
Thomas competed in three separate events for the Warriors in Wichita, KS this week, setting new personal standards along the way. Thomas ran the third leg of the men's 4x100 relay that ran the third-fastest time in the National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) this year. The quartet's time of 40.15 was the top time at the meet, besting No. 1 nationally ranked Butler Community College.
Individually, Thomas starred in the men's 100-meter dash. In the preliminary round, Thomas set a personal best time of 10.50 to qualify for the national championship. Thomas followed up the finals with a time of 10.39 to place third overall. The time is also the third-best time in school history and currently ranks No. 9 in the NJCAA this year.
The sophomore also ran the team's fastest 200-meter dash at the event, placing sixth overall with a time of 21.64 into a negative 1.0 headwind.
Thomas and the Warriors now head to the KT Woodman Classic in Wichita, KS this weekend.
Two of the fastest to ever do it!
— Indian Hills XC/TF (@IHCCrunning) April 3, 2022
Aurel Tchanbi recovers from a bad start to run a PR of 10.27.
Isiah Thomas blitzes a PR of 10.39.
Both wind legal. Currently #3 & #9 in the NJCAA pic.twitter.com/KIFubtzlSo