2023 Track and Field: Boys’ Best Marks (2)
Current as of May 12, 2023. EVENT NAME, SCHOOL MARK/STATE RANK STATE 100 Wells, La Costa Canyon :10.55w, 19th tie :10.09w, Pleasant, Gardena Serra Arrington, Helix :10.58w, 21st, tie 200 Adren Parker, Helix :21.26, 13th :20.53, Pleasant Arrington :21.29w, 14th 400 Parker :46.63,3rd :45.92, Stanley, Granada Hills McCoy, Hilltop :48.52, 22nd, tie 800 Correia, Point […]
Read More2023 Track and Field: Girls Best Marks (1)
League championship meets are complete and San Diego Section athletes charge into the final three weeks of the season. Trials in San Diego Section boys and girls competition will be held May 13 at Del Norte (large schools), University City (medium) and Canyon Hills (small). Finals are May 20 at Mt. Carmel. The state meet […]
Read More2023 Track and Field: Boys’ Best Marks (1)
Twenty-nine San Diego Section athletes, plus three relay teams, rank in the state top 25 in the 17 events that will be contested at the 103rd state championships May 26-27 at Clovis Buchanan High. Ten athletes are in the top 10, including Ranch Buena Vista’s Tyler Knowles, second in the discus and eighth in the […]
Read More1969 Track: Section Comes Up Short at State; Track Ovals, Too?
Dick Tomlinson, assistant coach and in charge of weight events at Mount Miguel, was suspicious, so he got a long tape measure and began surveying. Tomlinson said he discovered that the 440-yard oval track at his school was six feet short (two yards) of regulation distance. The coach told Evening Tribune writer Bill Finley that […]
Read More1959 Track: Tripp’s Great Day in Southern Section Finals
Arnold Tripp took charge early in the Southern Section championships at Long Beach Veterans’ Stadium when he upset hometown favorite Dee Andrews of Long Beach Poly in the broad jump, then followed with a second in the 100 to San Bernardino’s John Howard, and ran down Howard in the stretch of the 220-yard sprint, bettering […]
Read More1958 Track: Lincoln’s Drive to CIF Southern Section Title Crashes
Always striving for higher, faster, further, San Diego -area track and field competitors delivered a bevy of outstanding marks and a consensus that Lincoln, in its fourth season, could become the Southern California team champion, following San Diego’s 1957 championship. The Hornets didn’t make it, their season ending in disappointment. Lincoln’s troubles in the Southern […]
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