Xylavene Beale Throws Blue Dragon Track and Field Into Mix

By Chris Lachenmaier
Sports Editor
IG: @chrissylach

Hutchinson Community College’s women’s track team has done phenomenal during the indoor season.

Xylavene Beale a freshman thrower from Australia, has shown her compassion and sacrifices to where she is today in helping the Blue Dragons.

Even though Beale might be far away from home, Kansas has felt like home to her.

“It does remind me of home sometimes, being from a country town, I’m not used to the big cities and stuff,” Beale said. “I love taking classes here. It is very easy for me to work around sports as well. I can tell that they’re very flexible with people when it comes to sports, I think coach gets my humor a lot better than some people and that’s why we get along so well.”

Beale has had an amazing year in her 2026 indoor track season. She was the Region 6 indoor champion in the weight throw and shot put.

“This is my first time ever doing indoor track. We don’t have any indoor track in Australia. It does get a bit hot, maybe some rain. But it doesn’t snow in Australia,” Beale said.

Beale got to see her first snow in Kansas.

“I was like a child, you can ask anyone in the dorms,” Beale said. “I built a snowman. And did everything that little kids usually do. The only downside is that I couldn’t feel anything, we were very into the snowball fight that we threw on campus. I saw my track team getting attacked by snowballs from the football players. So I went outside without a jacket, without gloves, just to go help out. You must do it for the team. They needed reinforcements.”

Beale is a huge music lover. With her always having her headphones anywhere that she goes.

“I have my own music, but the thing is, I love all music,” Beale said. “I’ve always had it at competitions, I tell the team, pick a record, so I leave my phone open. Anyone is open to a song recommendation. I usually have a playlist that has a little bit of everything. Theres a little bit of country in there, there is a little bit of everything, so everyone can get a taste of time. I love R&B and reggae those are my top two that I am listening to consistently. I love older music. I’m not the biggest rap fan but there’s a few that I like.”

Beale has had to add more structure to her everyday life since she moved to HutchCC.

“I was by myself a lot at home,” Beale said. “I have to choose when I go to the gym, I choose when to throw. When I was home, it was easy to be non-consistent with my training set. So being able to come here where I must be up at a certain time for classes, being around other throwing has most definitely helped me mentally because I knew it was hard to do everything by yourself. I’m always going to put other people first instead of myself.”

Beale has had her parents through everything. They have had her back ever since she was a little kid.

It was hard for me as a parent to try and get a feel for the coach and the school, the enrollment process and getting all the details and everything that we needed from the school was very easy,” said Beale’s dad, Adam. “They were good and they were quick. All the contracts came through quickly.

“When Xylavene left, it went dead for a while. Like there was a big hole missing in our house because everything we have done sport wise, training, has been situated through Zai being our oldest daughter. But in the sense, she’s left; we were able to focus a lot more on our two other children. We are spending more than one-on-one time with our children at home now. But we noticed when Zai came home, that being out in the big world and meeting all the people at Hutch, she’s seen a whole different world outside of Australia, and there’s a place for her and she’s going to fill it well.”

Beale has enjoyed her time at Hutch and has filled in well.

“It’s been very easy with teachers, and I have gone to the right help from other people to make sure that my grades don’t drop my teachers are very understanding,” Beale said.

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