IHCC national championship celebrations continue

Mar. 6—OTTUMWA — The week-long celebration of two national championship-winning teams at Indian Hills Community College will continue this week at both the Centerville and Ottumwa campuses.

The Indian Hills women's wrestling team will be honored on Thursday in Centerville at the IHCC wrestling facility starting at 5 p.m. The Warrior women secured the program's fourth consecutive national championship, scoring 307.5 points while crowning a pair of national individual champions (Genesis Gilmore and Elaina Bommarito) and 16 All-Americans at this past weekend's NJCAA National Women's Wrestling Invitational Tournament.

On Saturday, both the IHCC women's wrestling team and men's track and field team will be honored at the Hellyer Student Life Center in Ottumwa before and during the Region XI men's basketball championship game. The public is welcome to enjoy pre-game food and drinks during a meet-and-greet with members of both national championship-winning teams inside the booster club room at 5:30 p.m.

Both the Warrior women's wrestling and men's track teams will be honored at halftime of the regional championship men's basketball game. The IHCC men's track and field team secured the program's first-ever national indoor title on Saturday, scoring 91.5 points to outlast national powerhouse programs New Mexico Junior College, South Plains College, Barton Community College and Iowa Western Community College.