Throughout the 2010 year, the Athletic Department at Wayland Baptist University will celebrate its Team of the Decade for each in-season sport. The final team honored this spring is the Pioneer Men's Track and Field Team of the Decade.

The All-Decade team is composed of outstanding performers on the track from 2000 through 2009.

Five members of the Wayland Baptist track and field team have been named as 2010 Daktronics-NAIA Scholar Athletes. Seniors Kirby Dunn, Kydia Echols and Keliesha Ross, along with juniors Bradley Sell and Diana Gutierrez were honored in ceremonies last Saturday at the NAIA Outdoor Track and Field Championships.

MARION, Ind. --- Wayland Baptist is bringing home its third straight NAIA Outdoor Track and Field Team Championship, only this year it's the Pioneer men's team that will be hanging the banner. Led by the Outstanding Male Athlete Award winner, Kennedy Kithuka, the WBU men captured the title with 70 points, 19 better than second place Dickinson State University.

Both Pioneer track and field teams accumulated 13 points on the second day of the NAIA Outdoor Championships. The Wayland men took second place in the 4x800m relay and Myran Roundtree came in fourth in the long jump, while the women also took second in the 4x8 and got a fourth place finish in the 100m from Kimberly Smith.

MARION, Ind. --- After the first day of competition, the Wayland Baptist track and field teams already have two individual national champions and an All-American. Sophomore Bianca Grant took first place in the long jump for her first individual title, and freshman Kennedy Kithuka lapped the entire field in the 10,000m to win ten points for the Pioneers. The Wayland men also got three points from junior Brandon Mansfield in the hammer throw.