MANHATTAN
Akela Jones did not view her heptathlon title at the NCAA Track and Field championships as a life-changing victory until she returned to Kansas State this week and tried to settle in to her daily routine.
Everyone on campus seemed to look at her differently.
“They have been whispering, ‘Is that Akela Jones?’ behind me,” Jones, a junior from Barbados, said. “I am doing my normal stuff across campus and they are like, ‘Is that that girl? She has done something amazing.’ I am just trying to represent Kansas State to the best of my abilities,” she said.