Johnson City, Tenn. --- Both the men's and women's teams from Wayland Baptist captured second place at the NAIA Indoor Track and Field Championships, which concluded Saturday afternoon. The Pioneer men scored 52 points on the final day of competition to finish with 56. Azusa Pacific University won it's fourth straight title and seventh since 2002 with 71 points.

The Pioneer women narrowly missed out on their third straight National Indoor Championship. WBU was edged out by Oklahoma Baptist, 68 points to 67. Wayland won each of its previous two NAIA titles by a single point.

Three Pioneer men earned national championship honors in individual events. Myrun Roundtree won the triple jump on Saturday with a leap of 15.72-meters or 51-07, establishing a new school mark. The freshman from Bonham, Tex. rebounded from a disappointing day on Friday when he fouled on all his attempts in the long jump, an event in which he was the favorite.

Kirby Dunn, a senior, won the 1,000-meters in a school-record time of 2:25.19, and freshman Kennedy Kithuka established a new school record in the 3,000-meters with a winning time of 8:08.53.

Also on the men's side, the 4x400-meter relay team of Jerry-Lee Davis, Andre Hamilton, Fernando Barrio and Caleb McLean won a national championship with a time of 3:12.91.

Kithuka was the runner-up in the Mile, establishing yet another school record with a time of 4:08.89. He also anchored the Distance Medley Relay team which was the fourth place team. Dunn, Jarrod Morris and Mario Scott joined Kithuka on the DMR.

On the women's side, Kimberly Smith swept the sprint events for the third straight year, capturing the national championship in both the 60- and 200-meters. She set a new meet and school record in the 60 with a time of 7.20, and was named the Women's Outstanding Performer by the championship committee, her first such award. A junior from Jamaica, Smith was not beaten in a race during the 2010 indoor season.

"I had an open mindset going into it," commented Smith. "I had all the confidence that I could do it, but I knew I just had to go out there and do my best. If I didn't win I would have to accept it, but I am going out there to win and that is what I did."

Joining Smith in the 60-meters were sophomore Bianca Grant, who finished fourth with a time of 7.62, and Keliesha Ross, a senior, who crossed the finish line in fifth place at 7.72.

Kydia Echols captured her first individual national championship with a win in the 600-meters. The senior, who ran a 1:32.19 to set a new school record in the preliminary round, ran a 1:32.47 in the finals.

WBU's Latanya Nation, one of the favorites in the triple jump, severely injured her hamstring on her fourth attempt of the morning on Saturday and was unable to make her final two jumps. She wound up earning one point in the event, jumping 11.98 meters (39-03.75) on her third attempt, but Nation was also forced to withdraw from the finals of the 60-meter hurdles. The runner-up in the hurdles a year ago, she had the top time coming out of the semi-finals on Friday.

As it has the past two years, the women's race came down to the meet's final event, the 4x400-meter relay. The Lady Bison crossed the finish line in the event first, just under two seconds faster than the second place Pioneer team of Ross, Smith, Leandria Lee and Echols. Both teams beat the winning time of a year ago, with OBU running a 3:44.94 and Wayland a 3:46.48.

Pioneer coach Brian Whitlock was extremely pleased with the performance of both his squads. "The guys did a phenomenal job of coming back and getting up on the podium. They did everything that they were supposed to do to give us a shot. I'm very proud of them.

As far as the women, things fell perfectly into place in the past two years to give us those titles. When Latanya went down today, our luck ran out, but still I couldn't be more proud. The girls gave it there all."