1970: Culp Cleared 7 feet Three Times, Won State Title
Jerry Culp starred on a vanishing stage. The Oceanside High senior became the eighth prep high jumper to clear seven feet, scaling the height three times and winning the state championship with a leap of 7 feet, ¼ inch. But since an Oregon State high jumper had perfected a new, drastically event-changing style and won […]
2023 Track (5A): Girls Top Boys in Final State Top 25 Rankings
San Diego Section boys and girls accounted for 19 Top 5 performances in California, according to Athletic.net; 34 Top 10, and 87 top 25 in the season which ended last weekend at the 103rd State Championships before a two-day total of 14,134 persons at Clovis Buchanan High. The season belonged to the females. They were […]
2023 (5): Results of the 103rd State Track and Field Championships
@CLOVIS BUCHANAN HIGH San Diego Section athletes scored two first places in the waning hours of the two-day, 103rd state track meet at Clovis Buchanan High over the weekend. The Section had no gold medals in 2022 and the meet was canceled in 2020 and ’21. The results, although not as impressive as the record […]
2023 Track (4): Warmer Weather and State Meet Beckons Area Hopefuls
More than 60 athletes from the San Diego Section will leave a cloudy, drizzly May gray for very warm Clovis and the 103rd state track meet Friday and Saturday. First three finishers plus others who finished from fourth and beyond in their events and who met the state meet standard in last week’s Section finals […]
2023 Track and Field: Girls Best Marks (3)
Current as of May 20, 2023 EVENT NAME, SCHOOL MARK/STATE RANK STATE 100 Shaheed, Madison :11.58, 4th Redmond, L.A. Carson, :11.45 Shaheed 24:06w, 9th :23.36w, Neal, Gardena Serra 200 Smith, La Jolla :24.08w, 10th 400 Smith :54.12, 4th :52.71, Luckey, L.B. Wilson Burkhardt, Steele Canyon :55.13, 12th 800 Riggins, Del Norte 2:06.69, 2nd 2:03.7, Browne, […]
2023 Track and Field: Boys Best Marks (3)
Current as of May 20, 2023 Current as of May 20, 2023 EVENT NAME, SCHOOL MARK/STATE RANK STATE 100 Wells, La Costa Canyon :10.49, 16th :10.09w, Pleasant, Gardena Serra Arrington, Helix :10.58w, 21st, tie 220 Parker, Helix :21.26, 13th :20.53, Pleasant Arrington :21.29w, 14th 400 Parker :46.48, 2nd :45.92, Stanley, Granada Hills Slaughter, Mt. Carmel […]