Ottumwa, IA – For the third time in his Indian Hills Men's Track & Field career, Tate Joens (Cedar Rapids, IA/Cedar Rapids Prairie) has been named the Iowa Community College Athletic Conference (ICCAC) Field Athlete of the Year. Joens was tapped as the 2024-25 ICCAC Indoor Field Athlete of the Year, announced Friday afternoon.
Joens took home two individual titles at the National Junior College Athletic Conference (ICCAC) Region 11 Indoor Track & Field Championships in Storm Lake, IA over the weekend. Joens has now captured back-to-back indoor field athlete of the year honors along with the outdoor honor as a freshman.
Joens, the reigning ICCAC Athlete of the Week, put together one of the most dominant performances in school history with a pair of individual region championships. Joens captured both the shot put and weight throw titles for his third and fourth career individual championships.
Competing at Buena Vista University for the indoor championships, Joens shattered the meet record in the men's shot put with a personal-best mark of 18.04 meters, more than a half meter improvement from his previous top performance to clinch the title. Joens tossed a mark of 18.99 meters in the weight throw to sweep the two events for the Warriors.
The sophomore currently owns three school records, including the program's top indoor shot put and weight throw marks. A three-time NJCAA All-American, including a two-time national runner-up, Joens owns four total region championships after capturing the 2025 indoor men's weight throw and 2025 outdoor hammer throw titles.
Along with Joens' honor, freshman Raynier Galvez (Paterson, NJ/Passaic County) was named the ICCAC Track Athlete of the Year.
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Joens and the Warriors will now head to the upcoming NJCAA Indoor Track & Field National Championships in Lubbock, TX March 7-8.
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