2026 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 […]
Read More1944 Track & Baseball: Hoover (Track), San Diego, Hoover, and Sweetwater (Baseball) Are First
Baseball and track and field continued to feel the effects of the World War II with shorter seasons and limited participation. Teachers and students were answering the call from Uncle Sam and leaving for the military. Allied forces continued to fight fierce battles in Europe and the Pacific. No official count of the number of […]
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 […]
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