By Ken Hansard
When one is already a state champion in multiple events, meeting personal goals often means leaving a mark on Kansas’ track and field record books. Oxford senior Makhila Maupin is already a multiple-time state qualifier and a three-time state champ. She also owns the 2A record in the 200. This spring, she is looking to best those marks and more.
Oxford is classified as a 1A school this year, and Maupin has her sights set on several targets. Currently the top-seeded runner in 1A in the 100, the 200 and the 400, Makhila would like nothing more than to take down the state marks in each of those events, “I would love to hold my seeding all the way up to state, and then the goal is to take state titles and hopefully set state records for all of my events. This season my main goal is simply to be better than last year.”
Being “better than last year” will likely be good enough for Maupin to end up atop the podium at Cessna Stadium this year and to write her name in the record books a few more times, as her P.R. in each of those events either tops or approaches the all-time Kansas 2A marks.
Maupin has already signed with Pittsburg State University to continue her running career and study nursing in the fall. “I am so excited for this opportunity. I can’t wait to get there so that I can compete with and against the very best.”
