Re­yare Thomas and Janiel Bellille were crowned dou­ble cham­pi­ons at the Na­tion­al Ju­nior Col­leges Out­door Track and Field Cham­pi­onships in Level­land Texas, USA which took place from May 15-17. Thomas of Iowa Cen­tral Com­mu­ni­ty Col­lege sped to gold in the women's 100 and 200m. In the short­er sprint Thomas crossed the line in 11.30, a per­son­al best and was one hun­dredth of a sec­ond off the Olympic A stan­dard of 11.29. The 2009 World Cham­pi­onships sprint re­lay fi­nal­ist im­proved on her sec­ond place fin­ish in the last year's fi­nals and added the out­door crown to the 60m in­door ti­tle she cap­tured ear­li­er this year. Thomas ad­vanced the fi­nals clock­ing the sec­ond fastest in the heats (11.50). The 21-year-old then took the 200m in 23.67, mov­ing up from her bronze medal run in 2011. In the heats Thomas was sec­ond best with 24.04. Thomas end­ed the cham­pi­onships with four medals, as she helped her school to sil­ver medals in women's 4X100 (45.85) and 4X400 (3:44.88).

Bellille blazed to vic­to­ry in the women's 100m hur­dles and 400m hur­dles events. The South Plains stu­dent took the sprint hur­dles in a per­son­al best of 13.47 sec­onds. In the heats Bellille clocked 13.99, the sec­ond fastest. The 2008 World Ju­nior sil­ver medal­list then land­ed the 400m hur­dles crown­ing 56.00, a new Cham­pi­onships record, eras­ing the 57.88 clock­ing by the 2008 Olympic cham­pi­on Melanie Walk­er of Ja­maica. Bellille's time is quick­er than the Olympic B Stan­dard of 56.65 and just off her sea­son's best of 55.91. Her school mate Sparkle McK­night was third in 59.03 be­hind an­oth­er South Plain stu­dent Shana-Gaye Tracey of Ja­maica (58.62). In the pre­lims Bellille was the quick­est (58.73) with Mc Knight third fastest (1:00.86). Mc Knight earned a sec­ond medal tak­ing sec­ond in the women's 400m flat in 53.56. (54.87 in the heats). The 2010 dou­ble Carif­ta sil­ver was the favourite for gold af­ter com­ing in­to the cham­pi­onships with the fastest time of 53.29 but was beat­en to the line by team-mate Ja­maican Amoy Blake (53.49). Mc Knight im­proved on her third place fin­ish in 2011. Bellille and McK­night paced South Plains to the women's 4X400m ti­tles in 3:37.45. Bellille was on course for an­oth­er gold the 4X100m fi­nals but South Plains failed to fin­ish in the fi­nals.