JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The women of Xavier University of Louisiana won 12 events and set a meet record for winning margin Saturday in the Gulf Coast Athletic Conference Track and Field Championships.
        XULA won all 11 track events, and its 119-point margin over runner-up Dillard was 23 points better than its 2018 record. XULA finished with 255 points to win this meet for the fourth consecutive time — there was no meet in 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic — and the seventh time in its last eight attempts.
        XULA's Yhann Plummer was chosen GCAC Coach of the Year by his peers for the second straight time. Ariel Ford, the meet's high scorer, was named MVP.
        Dillard scored 136 points, followed by host Edward Waters with 127 and Talladega with two.
        Twenty of XULA's 21 women scored, and a school-record 14 of them scored 10-or-more points. XULA's leading scorers were Ford with 31 points, Reagan Collins and Alexis Williams with 23 piece and Emerald Carter and Jalyn Jenkins with 22 1/2 apiece.
        Two more from the team met qualifying marks for NAIA nationals: Destiny Tolliver and Shennare Williams in the 100-meter hurdles.
        XULA won all three relays; it had won just four of those races in the previous eight GCAC meets.
        XULA's second-day individual event winners were:
        •  Emerald Carter in the 100 and 400 hurdles.
        •  Jenkins in the 1,500 and 5,000.
        •  Collins in the 800.
        •  Alexis Williams in the 400.
        •  Ford in the 200.
        •  Jada McBean in the 100.
        •  Zhanye Vines in the shot put.
        XULA's winning relay teams were:
        •  Collins, Alexis Williams, Darryan Horton and Jenkins in the 3,200.
        •  Ebone Stingley, Ford, Emerald Carter and McBean in the 400.
        •  Horton, Collins, Ford and Alexis Williams in the 1,600.
        XULA produced champions in 13 of the 18 events overall. DaNya Horne won the discus Friday.
        XULA pulled away from Dillard and Edward Waters, outscoring the Lady Bleu Devils 149-63 and the Lady Tigers 149-47 during the second half of the meet (nine events).
        The championship was the ninth by a XULA team at the conference or group level during the 2020-21 academic year. That tied the school record set in 2011-12 and equaled the following year. This was XULA's final GCAC championship title; the school will join the NAIA's Red River Athletic Conference July 1. XULA won 6-of-10 GCAC titles this year and had three runner-up finishes.
        Here are all XULA results from the second and final day of the GCAC Championships:
        100:  Jada McBean, 1st in 11.79; Ariel Ford, 2nd in 12.32; Ebone Stingley, 4th in 12.50; Aniya Diggs, 5th in 12.71
        200:  Ariel Ford, 1st in 25.14; Ebone Stingley, 2nd in 25.37; Loren Carter, 5th in 27.12; Jada McBean, did not finish
        400:  Alexis Williams, 1st in 59.20; Ariel Ford, 2nd in 1:01.10; Darryan Horton, 3rd in 1:01.41
        800:  Reagan Collins, 1st in 2:36.02; Alexis Williams, 2nd in 2:42.29; Darryan Horton, 6th in 2:54.03
        1,500:  Jalyn Jenkins, 1st in 5:29.61; Resgan Collins, 2nd in 5:44.52; Amber Parks, 5th in 6:13.74
        5,000:  Jalyn Jenkins, 1st in 22:38.85
        100 Hurdles:  Emerald Carter, 1st in 14.40; Destiny Tolliver, 2nd in 14.73; Shennare Williams, 3rd in 14.81; Hannah Young, 5th in 16.80
        400 Hurdles:  Emerald Carter, 1st in 1:08.52; Hannah Young, 4th in 1:10.86; Shennare Williams, 6th in 1:18.41
        400 Relay:  Ebone Stingley, Ariel Ford, Emerald Carter and Jada McBean, 1st in 46.76
        1,600 Relay:  Darryan Horton, Reagan Collins, Ariel Ford and Alexis Williams, 1st in 4:03.88
        3,200 Relay:  Reagan Collins, Alexis Williams, Darryan Horton and Jalyn Jenkins, 1st in 10:33.37
        High Jump:  Hannah Young, 2nd in 1.40 meters (4 feet, 7 inches)
        Long Jump:  Destiny Tolliver, 2nd in 5.25 meters (17 feet, 2 3/4 inches); Shennare Williams, 5th in 5.07 meters (16 feet, 7 3/4 inches); Olevia Brown, 7th in 4.92 meters (16 feet, 1 3/4 inches); Alysia Terry, 8th in 4.82 meters (15 feet, 9 3/4 inches)
        Shot Put:  Zhanye Vines, 1st in 11.48 meters (37 feet, 8 inches); Elise Adama, 2nd in 10.96 meters (35 feet, 1 1/2 inches); Diamond Bolden, 5th in 10.29 meters (33 feet, 9 1/4 inches); DaNya Horne, 11th in 8.60 meters (28 feet, 2 3/4 inches)
        Triple Jump:  Shennare Williams, 4th in 11.23 meters (36 feet, 10 1/4 inches); Alysia Terry, 5th in 11.01 meters (36 feet, 1 1/2 inches); Hannah Young, 6th in 10.61 meters (34 feet, 9 3/4 inches)