2026 Boys Track Week 4: Calendar Closes in on Season’s Biggest Events
Dual meets wrap this week, heading into league finals May 8-9, San Diego Section divisional championships May 16, Section finals May 23, and the 106th state meet May 29-30 in Clovis at Buchanan High. Mater Dei’s Jasir Fontenot, state 100 hurdles champion as a ninth grader in 2025, lost for the first time since a […]
Read More2026 Boys Track Week 3: 4×800 Meters is Go-To Race for Del Norte
Del Norte set a San Diego Section record in the four-man, 800-meter relay with a time of 7:44.70 at the 65th Mt. San Antonio Relays in Walnut Last week. The team of Finn Butler, Isaac Bradshaw, Nick Echsner, and Cam Yarbrough bettered the mark of 7:48.39 by a Torrey Pines foursome at Mt. Sac in […]
Read More2026 Track Week 2 Girls: Vikings’ Dailey Leads State in Two Events
La Jolla’s Chiara Dailey won the Arcadia Invitational mile in 4:41.12 last week, which converted to a 4:39.31 for 1,600 meters and put Dailey at the top of the list in California, along with her state-leading 9:53.8 for 3,200 meters. Dailey ran 4:37.08 after the state meet and conclusion of her high school season in […]
Read More2026 Track Week 2 Boys: Bowman’s Blazing Arcadia 800 Takes State Lead
Josiah Bowman’s 1:49.54 victory in the 800 meters last week at the Arcadia Invitational put the Sage Creek senior in a neighborhood visited only by Bob Hose, a legendary runner from Madison in 1964. Hose, running in the 1964 Pre-Olympic Invitational against college and international competitors, was hand timed in 1:49.2 for 880 yards in […]
Read More2026 Track Week 1: San Diego Section Versus California
The performances and the performers keep getting better, the latter fueled by evolution, diet, training, equipment, and facilities, beginning sometimes indoors in December with a long eye toward the state track meet, which will be held again at Clovis Buchanan High in the 106th renewal May 29-30. There have been several big meets through March, […]
Read More1981 Track: El Cajon Valley Jumper Lone State Champion
San Diego County competitors had been stalwarts in track and field since the California Interscholastic Federation was formed 67 years before. But equipment, training, evolution, and population growth also had taken place in other parts of the state and competition had correspondingly stiffened. El Cajon Valley’s Chris Mose was the only individual champion when she […]
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