{"id":341666,"date":"2026-06-18T18:47:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T18:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/341666\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T18:47:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T18:47:12","slug":"texas-tech-brings-home-two-ustfccca-regional-honors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/341666\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Tech brings home two USTFCCCA regional honors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW ORLEANS \u2013 Head coach Wes Kittley and high jumper <a href=\"https:\/\/texastech.com\/sports\/track-and-field\/roster\/temitope-adeshina\/14117\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14117\" target=\"_blank\">Temitope Adeshina<\/a> were recognized Thursday afternoon with USTFCCCA regional honors. Kittley was named the Mountain Region Men&#8217;s Coach of the Year, while Adeshina earned the Women&#8217;s Field Athlete of the Year.<\/p>\n<p>Kittley, who wrapped up his 27th season last weekend, takes home his 17th overall Coach of the Year honor and his 13th on the men&#8217;s side. Back in May, Kittley led the Red Raiders to their second-straight Big 12 outdoor title, winning the meet by 26 points and producing two champions \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/texastech.com\/sports\/track-and-field\/roster\/malachi-snow\/14164\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14164\" target=\"_blank\">Malachi Snow<\/a> (110m hurdles) and <a href=\"https:\/\/texastech.com\/sports\/track-and-field\/roster\/titus-kimaru\/14147\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14147\" target=\"_blank\">Titus Kimaru<\/a> (steeplechase). At the NCAA Outdoor Championships last weekend, Tech came away with three First Team All-Americans in Kimaru, <a href=\"https:\/\/texastech.com\/sports\/track-and-field\/roster\/zaid-latif\/14150\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14150\" target=\"_blank\">Zaid Latif<\/a> (long jump) and <a href=\"https:\/\/texastech.com\/sports\/track-and-field\/roster\/jonathan-seremes\/14191\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14191\" target=\"_blank\">Jonathan Seremes<\/a> (triple jump). The Red Raiders ranked as high as No. 2 this season with six weekly appearances in the top 10.<\/p>\n<p>Adeshina brought her first national title in the high jump outdoors clearing 1.96m (6-5) for a season best and collegiate lead. The junior accomplished an undefeated season, clearing at least 1.90m (6-2 \u00be) in three meets as she completed the season sweep of both indoor and outdoor NCAA titles. The honor is the fourth of her career and second one outdoors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW ORLEANS \u2013 Head coach Wes Kittley and high jumper Temitope Adeshina were recognized Thursday afternoon with USTFCCCA&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":341667,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-341666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}