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1943: V is Key
Looking Back: The article originally was published Nov. 5, 2012. The most important letter in the alphabet was V. World War II was nearing the halfway point. The dark days of early 1942 were receding and Victory, while not in sight, was coming. V had become a symbol, visible everywhere throughout the country. There were […]
Read More1945 Track: San Diego’s Norman Stocks Led Hilltoppers, Victory Leaguers
There would be no state meet for the fourth consecutive year and the Southern California Divisional and Finals, highlights of the season, were financially inconvenient or unattractive to some schools with San Diego connections. Wartime shortages, away from the battlefields. Only El Centro Central from the Imperial Valley and Army-Navy and Escondido from the Southern […]
Read More2025 Girls And Boys Track Week 8A: Final San Diego Section and State Best Marks
A set of twins and a brother and sister produced some of the San Diego Section’s, and the state’s and the country’s, greatest performances this season. Morgan Herbst of Carlsbad raced to a No. 2 U.S. all-time 330 hurdles clocking of :39.64 and she and her sister each logged :52.5 400 legs on the 4×400 […]
Read More2025 Boys Track Week 7C: Fontenot Lone Gold Medalist at State
105TH STATE FINALS, @CLOVIS BUCHANAN HIGH BOYS EVENT NAME SCHOOL MARK PLACE 100 Burston Helix :10.90 9th 800 Bowman Sage Creek 1:52.55 8th 110 Hurdles Fontenot San Diego :13.21w 1st 300 Hurdles Bailey Mission Bay :39.15 9th 3200 Wilber Cathedral 9:15.96 14th Luecht Rancho Bernardo 9:18.26 16th Beighley Mission Hills 9:34.26 18th 4×400 […]
Read More2025 Girls Track Week 7B: Herbst Twins Win 2 of Section’s Gold Medals
GIRLS 105TH STATE FINALS, @CLOVIS BUCHANAN HIGH EVENT NAME SCHOOL MARK PLACE 400 Gonzales Torrey Pines :54.98 6th Hawkins Olympian :56.51 8th 800 Makenna Herbst Carlsbad 2:02.28 1st 1600 Dailey La Jolla 4:42.30 3rd 100 Hurdles Bowen-Fontenot San Diego :13.07 1st Thomas Grossmont :13.84 4th 300 Hurdles Morgan Herbst Carlsbad :39.64 1st Bowen-Fontenot :40.88 3rd […]
Read More2025 Girls Track Week 7A: Bowen-Fontenot, Echsner Lead Advances at Clovis
GIRLS 105th STATE TRIALS, @Clovis Buchanan High Non-qualifiers places noted with —. Places determined by times in events with more than one heat. EVENT NAME SCHOOL MARK PLACE 100 Frazier University City :11.77 — Gilhooly Coronado :11.82 — Scott Steele Canyon :11.94 — 200 Gonzales Torrey Pines :24.64 — Payne Monte Vista :24.73 — Frazier […]
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