After a week
off for spring break, the Islander Track team was back in full-swing last week.
On Thursday we had a dual meet with Lincoln which both the boys' and girls'
teams won easily. On Saturday, we took a small group to the Arcadia
Invitational for some high-quality competition. The Arcadia Invite (held at
Arcadia High School) draws some of the best athletes in the country. This year
there were over 700 schools represented. It's a tough meet to qualify for, but
four of our athletes made the cut.
The best
performance out of our small group was turned-in by Alysah Hickey who set a
Personal Record in the high jump with a leap of 5 feet 9 inches. There are two
basic divisions at Arcadia, one in the day, one at "night" (actually
starts around 4 pm.) The night meet is for the best competitors. Alysah
qualified for the night meet in three events, the 100 (in which she's ranked
eighth in the state), the High Jump (in which she's ranked second in the
state), and the Long Jump (in which she's ranked first in the state). Because all three events went off within an
hour of one another, we asked that she be allowed to compete in the day meet
for the high jump. Although there were several girls with marks of 5-6, Alysah
was still a bit of a ringer as she had cleared 5-8 at Mt. Carmel. After 5-3
there were only two girls left with Jada Sims from Xavier College Prep (Phoenix
AZ) having the best day of her life by hanging in and clearing 5-7. Sims went
out at 5-9, and Alysah made the height on her second try. Because our school
record is 5-10.25, she had the bar set at 5-10.5. When you're the only
competitor left you get to choose your next height. Otherwise, the bar goes up
in 2-inch increments. She nearly made it on her second try. After the
competition, group shots and selfies were taken with all the high jump judges.
The night high jump was won by Rachel Glen out of Long Beach Wilson at 5-8.
Glen is currently the state leader at 5-11.
Ian Hurlburt was a surprise state meet qualifier in the 800-meter run
last season, less than a half-second off of Erik Armes' school record of
1:55.22. This season he's won every race he's entered with each a little faster
than the previous. Because of the level of competition, and his tendency to
stay with the pack and outkick everyone at the finish, he won his heat with a
school-record time of 1:55.15. Because he's 2.65 seconds faster than the next
ranked San Diego section runner, he may have to start leading his local races
to continue to improve. Teresa Perez (also the 800-meter school record holder)
improved on her season's best with a time of 2:18.43. Ruthie Grant-Williams
competed in the Heptathlon with a Personal Record of 4017 points. Along the
way, she bettered her School Record in the 100-meter hurdles with a time of
15.34. She's currently ranked second in the San Diego Section in that event.
The "Hep" is a 2-day event consisting of the 100-meter dash, Shot
Put, High Jump, 100-meter hurdles, 200-meter dash, Javelin Throw, and 800-meter
run.
The dual
meet with Lincoln, because of the speed of their boy sprinters, and I suspect a
bit of tail-wind, produced quite a few Personal Records for the 100 and
200-meter dashes. In the 100 Nicholas Dunn ran 11.36 for third and Shane Alihan
placed fourth with 11.72. Other finishers under 13 seconds were Leo Adams
(12.16 PR), Ben Cahill (12.26 PR), Ryan Meachum (12.32 PR), Haden Dunlap (12.48
PR), Kainoa Potter (12.50), and Zakaree Kevicki (12.82). In the 200 our top
finisher was Dunn with a PR of 23.24. Hurlburt, getting in a speed workout before
Arcadia, was third with a PR of 23.50. Other PR's under 27 seconds were by
Alihan (24.56), Cahill (25.16), and Jesse Vernallis (26.14). We surprised
Lincoln by winning the boys 4x100 in a time of 45.07 to their 45.22. The
runners were Alihan, Hurlburt, Cahill, and Dunn. This time is only .85 seconds
off our school record. The boys were able to easily win the meet because Lincon
has no distance runners of note. Luke Klingenberg, Chris Russel, and Nicholas
Inzunza swept the 1600 with times of 4:55, 5:10, and 5:11. Klingenberg and
Russel went 1-2 in the 800 with 2:12 and 2:20. Brad Busby and Danny Mineo
cruised to a 1-2 finish in the 3200 with times of 11:07 and 11:12. The Lincoln
boys entered no hurdlers so Jack Miller won both the 110 and 300 hurdle races.
Potter picked-up second-place points in the 400 with 57.98. Kobuk Van Houten
and Liam Casey went 1-3 in the high jump with 5-8 and went 2-3 in the long jump
with 17-8 and 16-11. For the first time in several years, we have a pretty good
throws team, despite not having a discus facility to practice at. Dunlap won
the shot put with 35 feet 6 inches. Joseph Whalen was third with 32-2 followed
by Nate Kim (28-11), Jack Weisbrod (27-1.5), and Andrew Needham (27-0.5). In
the discus, the order was Weisbrod (2nd with 80-7), Kim (3rd with 80-6), Whalen
(73-9), and Needham (72-0).
For the
girls, Hickey ran only the 100-meter dash as a tune-up for the Arcadia meet.
She won with a time of 12.36 followed by Abigail Whittemore in 13.46, and
Daniela Rassvetaieff in 14.56.
Rassvetaieff also placed 2nd in the 200 with 30.42. As with their boys'
team, Lincoln has no distance runners of note. Madden Hundley, Abigail Hundley,
and Annie Holland swept the 800 running together with times all around 2:37.
Sofia Van Arsdale ran the 1600 for the first time along with the boys' race
with a time of 5:32. She also ran the
300 meter hurdles for the first time with an excellent time of 50.53, over 8
seconds in front of the first Lincoln girl. Jessica Ehret easily won the 3200
with 12:51. We have only one girl thrower, Victoria Perez. Perez had to sit out
the last period because of an interdistrict transfer. She has PRs of 34 feet 4
inches in the shot put and 107 feet 4 inches for the discus. These were while
she was at North Harrison High School in Ramsey Indiana. Her shot put PR is
well over our school record, and both her shot put and discus marks are better
than anyone else in our league. She won both the shot and discus with throws of
31-0 and 105-3 respectively. Other
points were scored by Sydney Zoehrer who won the high jump with 4-6; Regina
Czerewko who won the pole vault with 6-3; Grant-Williams who won the 100
hurdles in 16.14; and Whittemore who won the triple jump with 28-5. Showing a
bit of versatility in the jumps, Czerewko was second in both the triple jump
and long jump with Whittemore placing third in the long jump.
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