2024 Track Week 2: Atilano Adds Distance, Earns No. 1 Ranking
Cathedral’s Vincent Atilano lost his California lead in the 300 hurdles, but gained a first, and national standing, in another at the 64th Mount San Antonio Relays over the weekend. Atilano eschewed his usual 300 race, in which his :37.42 ranked first until a runner from Eastvale Roosevelt ran :37.06. The Dons’ senior instead entered […]
2024 Week 1A: Arcadia Invitational Results, Second Day
GIRLS EVENT NAME SCHOOL MARK PLACE Seeded 100 Lauren Gilhooly Coronado :11.70 First Open 100 Ily Barclay Steele Canyon :12.20 — Taylore Hoagland Rancho Bernardo :12.29 — Tianna Rustkovich Mt. Carmel :12.32 — Chanel Burton Helix :12.36 — Laraigh Allen Helix — — Open 220 Gilhooly :24.82 11th Rustkovich :25.26 — Arynn Sanders Otay Ranch […]
2024 Week 1: Arcadia Invitational, First Day
Opening event of the marathon 56th Arcadia Invitational was Friday afternoon, April 4, followed by a Saturday spectacular that goes from not long after sun-up to late-night TV. San Diego Section boys and girls Friday participated in many events, some with four classifications, Invitational, Open, Seeded, and Rated. “Rising Stars” events below, usually are reserved […]
1975 Track: Jefferson Close, But Missed Third in Row
Elijah Jefferson’s quest for a record, third consecutive state meet 100-yard dash championship was short circuited by the blindingly fast start (a “flyer”, some suggested) on the Balboa Stadium track by Kevin Williams of San Fernando. Jefferson had tied his meet record of :09.4 in the trials and Williams, known for tremendous acceleration at the […]
1974 Track: Banks and Jefferson Bring Home Gold Again
Willie Banks of Oceanside and Elijah Jefferson of Crawford offered a historic footnote to the 56th state meet in Bakersfield. Banks and Jefferson we’re the first from the San Diego Section to win successive state championships since Chula Vista’s Tim Danielson in 1965-66 and only the second and third from the area to repeat since […]
1973 Track: Jefferson and Banks Carry the Day in 55th State Meet
Elijah Jefferson went where no San Diego County athlete had gone in 45 years. Willie Banks won an event that was known by another name when it was last contested 34 years before. Jefferson became the first from the area since 1929 to win the 100-yard dash in the state track meet when he followed […]