The Tribune

By BRENT STUBBS

Chief Sports Editor

bstubbs@tribunemedia.net

GRAND Bahamian quarter-miler Collinique Farrington couldn’t ask for a better way to close out her senior indoor track and field campaign for the Southwest Baptist University Bearcats women’s track and field team.

The Tabernacle Baptist Academy graduate was named the U.S. Track & Field and Cross-Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) Midwest Female Indoor Track Regional Athlete of the Year. 

Farrington becomes the second Bearcat ever to win a Regional Athlete of the Year award and the first ever to win the track regional award.

This award is coming off a dominant performance not only at the conference level but at the national level as well. She finished runner-up in the 200-metres at the 2025 NCAA DII Indoor Championships. In the 400 metres, she finished one spot back in third place gathering a second All-America honor. She also won her third straight GLVC Track Athlete of the Year Award continuing to assert her dominance in the conference. In this last meet, she won the 200 & 400 and was a leg on the 2nd place 4x400m relay.

Prior to this award being announced, she also earned All-Region Honors in the 200m, 400m, and 60m races. These awards are given to those athletes who finish with a top-5 time within the Region. 

While Farrington took the top honor, her fellow Grand Bahamian team from Tabernacle Baptist Stepanique Dean, a junior at Southwest Baptist College, earned an All-Region honor in the 200-meter dash.

The Bearcat track and field team will now get to compete on their home turf this weekend when Farrington will be among the list of seniors recognized on Saturday, beginning at 11:30 am.

The meet, which got started yesterday with the heptathlon and decathlon events and continues through Saturday with the field and running events, is the annual Bearcat Invite hosted at Plaster Stadium in Bolivar.