2016: Locals Have Hopes in 98th State meet
Do well in the section finals. Get to the state meet. Qualify in the Friday trials. Rest up for the finals. Finish in the top 5 Saturday. Get a “PR”*. Score a point or more and earn a medal. Maybe finish first. That’s the season goal. Ninety-six San Diego Section entrants, less a few because of those […]
Read More1957: Cook’s and Cavers’ Great Day
Roscoe Cook, Bobby Staten, Willie Jordan, and Charles (Sugar Jet) Davis comprised a swift foursome of San Diego High athletes who surprised the field and brought home a Southern California track championship. The biggest surprise was by Cook, who entered the season as the most important and accomplished of the quartet. Some background: Cook was […]
Read More2015: San Diego Section’s State Track Top 10 Marks
It’s been a slow year in San Diego Section track and field, although business picked up a little in the last couple invitationals, Arcadia and Mt. St. Antonio. Two more weeks of dual meets, plus the annual Escondido Invitational, will take girls and boys competitors into league trials, the first step toward the state meet […]
Read More2015: San Diegans Close With a Rush
Five bests in the state meet, nine in the season’s final two weeks and some competitive efforts in the finals at Clovis Buchanan High allowed area tracksters to finish on a strong note. Weak in the flat races as compared to the rest of the state and with only one sprinter in the state’s Top 10, San Diego Section athletes still […]
Read More2015: Gail Devers, Meet Dani Johnson
CLOVIS–Dani Johnson of Cathedral set two San Diego Section records and was part of another as area athletes qualified in 20 boys and girls events last night in trials of the 100th anniversary state track meet at Buchanan High. Including double advancers Jordan Miller, Charles Lemford, and Suzie Acolatse, the section totaled 22 qualifiers for tonight’s […]
Read More2015: Morton, Gehring, Sam Edwards
Lance Morton, Rich Gehring, and Sam Edwards are among former San Diego prep athletes who recently passed away. Morton, 81, a founder of the Brigantine Restaurant chain, was a second team all-City Prep League end on the 1951 Point Loma squad that finished with a 6-2 record, losing only to San Diego, 15-6, and La Jolla, […]
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