Glendora Track and Field

This year’s CIF Divisional Finals will be held at the famous track stadium at Mt.SAC.  This is a great facility and a fast track and has been the site of many world records.  This Saturday, we’re hoping it will be the site of several new GHS records.  All of our competitors are already the best Tartans ever in their events – but we can always be better!

All four CIF divisions will compete back to back.  Each event begins with the Div. IV girls, then Div. III, then Div. II, and will finish with the Div. I boys.  All of our events are right around the same time.  After this meet, the best nine competitors or teams in lane races, and the best twelve in distance races and field events, combining all four divisions, will advance to next week’s CIF-SS Masters Meet, which is the qualifier for the California State Meet.

Last year at this meet, Anthony Castro was the sole GHS athlete taking part, running in the 1600m Final.  Anthony is now on the team at Cal-Berkley.

We’ll start with the girls 4×100 relay.  Coming off a GHS record 49.20 effort at Prelims, Makayla Jacoub, Joanna Kantiok, Brittney Johnson and Monica Thayer will be looking to go even faster and earn a medal.  Their event is the first one on the track, and they’ll run shortly after 1:00.

We have two of the nine Div. II finalists in the discus – juniors Rocki Bartholomew and Kaylee Fink.  Kaylee began the season as the GHS record holder and Rocki is the holder now.  They will both contend for medals and have an excellent chance to move on to Masters.  Their event should also begin around 1:00, and as far as we know right now, they’ll throw in the ring on the infield of the stadium, so the best place to sit will be near the ring on the middle of the back stretch.

At 2:00, GHS record holder Makayla Jacoub will jump in the PV.  Her best of 11’4″ ranks her 2nd in Div. II this year, so she also has an excellent chance to win, and move on to Masters.  The girls PV will be on the pit in the warmup area near the southwest corner of the track.

Please arrive early.  Their is major construction on Temple, the normal way into Mt.SAC.  An alternate route would be to take Grand Ave south over the hills and turn into the campus on Mountaineer Rd – the first turn into the campus.  If you follow that road through the campus, you will come out at the usual track parking lot.

So, let’s do this.

Meet Details

• CIF Finals Schedule
• Admission: $9, kids and students with ASB – $5   Cash only
• Parking: $5 in the main lot on the north side of Temple, $10 in lot R on the south side.

We took our biggest team ever to CIF Prelims – 22 athletes – but only six had been there before, so we had a mix of expectations.  We ended the day with a school record, four spots in CIF finals (with six athletes) and 5 PR’s.

Our girls 400 relay got us going with a GHS record 49.20.  Finishing third in their heat, we had to wait for three more heats to find out if we’d advanced.  In the end, we were .007 seconds ahead (that’s about 2 inches) of the next placed team, and so we advanced our first girls relay team to Finals since the late 80′s.  Seniors Makayla Jacoub, Joanna Kantiok & Monica Thayer and soph Brittney Johnson will line up Saturday at Mt.SAC

In the 1600′s senior Aaron Forburger ended his GHS career with a strong effort that he couldn’t quite bring to the line, while frosh Micaela Lamb made her CIF debut with a 5:19.41 PR, making her 7th All-Time GHS.

In the first section of field events Brittney just missed advancing in the long jump, her 16’10″ PR (8th AT GHS) leaving her just 2-1/2″ from advancing.  In the discus, junior Kaylee Fink was just off her PR and advanced, while Rocki Bartholomew made it a nail-biter, waiting until her final throw to move into the top nine and advance.  This is the first time we’ve advanced one girl thrower to the finals, let alone two!

We sent four sophs and a junior into the 800, and Emily Hoey (2:21.06 – 5th AT GHS) and Kayla McGarrell (2:23.55 – 6th AT-GHS) were able to notch PR’s.

In latter field event section, Makayla needed only one jump to advance in the pole vault and she’ll move into the final ranked second.  Senior Blake Mitchell didn’t have the finish he’d hoped for in the discus, but he finishes his career as #4 AT GHS on the strength of his win at the SGV Champs.

So congrats to the six girls who moved on, and congrats and good luck to Aaron and Blake as they move on from GHS.

Updated Top 10:   ghs-top-ten-5-12-12

Complete Results

Twenty-two Tartans, double the amount from 2011, will travel to Moorpark High School to compete in the CIF Southern Section Division II Prelims.  The CIF-SS, which serves a population area of about 19 million, divides up for track in four enrollment based divisions of about 120 schools each.  We’re in Division II, the second largest division, and because the SS is so big, just advancing to CIF Prelims is like advancing to the State meet in almost any other state.

The top nine finishers in each event will advance to next week’s CIF-SS Divisional Finals at Mt.SAC and a nice number of Tartans are likely to qualify.  Senior Makayla Jacoub is ranked 2nd based on seasonal bests in the pole vault, and junior Rocki Bartholomew is ranked 4th in the discus.  Ranked in the top 15, which gives them a strong chance to advance, are soph Briton Noskoff (400m), junior Cade Lindsay (110m hurdles), junior Kaylee Fink (discus) and soph Brittney Johnson (triple jump).  We’ve had a CIF finalist every year since 2001, ranging from a high of six in 2006 to just one, as in the last two years when Anthony Castro (’11 – now at Cal) was our only athlete.

This is the second biggest group we’ve take to CIF after 2010, our last year in the Sierra League, and that year our numbers were expanded by advancing all four relays.  So nearly our biggest, and it may be our best group ever.  So let’s go find out how good we are.

Meet Details

• Meet Schedule   (Only the start of each section is exact)
• GHS Entries by Event
• CIF-SS Div. II Performance List  (Ranked by seed mark from League Finals)
• Adult admission $7, Parking $5
• Directions

Senior Makayla Jacoub and junior Rocki Bartholmew defended their league titles last Friday to lead the Tartans at the Baseline League Championship Finals.  They were two of six league champions and part of 21 athletes that advanced to next weekend’s CIF Prelims.  In the unofficial team scoring of the meet, the girls were runaway winners while the boys were narrowly 4th

Makayla was the easy winner in the girls pole vault and led off our CIF bound 4x100m relay team.  Rocki had the top individual GHS performance on the day – her 133’1 throw in the discus was a new GHS record and it tied the Baseline League record.  Rocki was also second in the shot, and will move on in that event, too.  Both girls are ranked second in CIF-SS Div. II in their primary events.

Our girls swept the distances, taking eight of the nine CIF spots.  Soph Kayla McGarrell was a come-from-behind winner in the 800m with a PR 2:24.47, moving from 8th to 7th All-Time GHS.  Emily Hoey was the easy winner in the 1600m and frosh Micaela Lamb finished strongly to win the 3200m.

Our only win on the boys side came from senior Blake Mitchell in the discus.  He threw 143’6″, just short of his best.  Our other top performances were a pair of 2nd places – Cade Lindsay (110mHudles) PR 14.93 – 6th AT GHS, Mike Duke (800m) PR 1:58.98.

We had a number of other All-Time performances in the meet – soph Briton Noskoff is now 8th AT GHS in the 200m (22.45) and 400m (50.19) and advances to CIF in the 400.  Soph Brittney Johnson had AT performances in three events 12.81/100m – 9th AT, 16’8-3/4″/Long Jump – 9th AT, and 34’8-1/2″/Triple Jump – 7th AT – she’ll advance to CIF in both jumps.  Senior Joanna Kantiok was 26.29 to move to 4th in the 200m and soph Alyssa Perez moved to 7th AT in the 300 hurdles at 48.24.

Special honor goes to seniors Aaron Arenas and Laura White who competed in their final meet for the Tartans.  Aaron was 9th in the discus with a PR 124’4″ and Laura was 8th in the 100 hurdles and 10th in the triple jump.

This was also the first year that the Baseline League had Frosh/Soph Competition at Finals, and the Tartans were easy team winners for both boys and girls.  Boys F/S League Champs were: Nick Lliteras (shot & discus), Robert McAloney (pole vault), James Reyes (400m), Richard Johnson (800m) and Matt Hyer (300m hurdles).  Girls champs were Devyn Dohleman (long jump) and Kindal Cubak (triple jump)

Full results are here: Baseline 12 – Friday Results

On a cold windy afternoon, the Tartans showed up and competed at the Baseline League Prelims.  Even though the main purpose in the Varsity events was just to advance, many, many Tartans scored PR’s despite the unfriendly conditions.

Our League Champion girls showed their quality – we advanced at least one person to the final in every event, and three or more in all but four events!  Our distance girls continued their season long dominance winning all four qualifying heats in the 800 and 1600.  Micaela Lamb and Taylor Butler were heat winners in the four lap race.  Danielle York and Emily Hoey topped the 800 heats and we had the top five qualifiers in that race.  Rocki Bartholomew and Kaylee Fink were top qualifiers in the discus, and both had nice PR’s to be among the top qualifiers in the shot.

We had a number of statistically significant performances.  Senior Joanna Kantiok‘s 26.32 PR in the 200m makes her the 4th All-Time GHS Performer.  Soph Alyssa Perez jumped onto the list with a 48.92 in the 300 hurdles, good for 10th AT, and soph Brittney Johnson picked up the 10th spot in the 100m with a 12.90 despite stumbling across the line.  Rocki stayed number four but improved her best to 35’3″ in the shot.

The guys competed equally well, with finalists in every event but the 100m and shot.  Soph Briton Noskoff was an easy winner in his 400m heat and advanced with a PR in the 200m, and senior Aaron Forburger won his 1600 heat with PR.  But the big performance came from junior Cade Lindsay’s 14.94c in the 110 highs.  He was the leading qualifier, and the mark moves him to 6th AT GHS.

This was also the first year ever for Frosh/Soph competition in the Baseline League, and the field events and 3200 finals were part of prelims.  On Monday, Nick Lliteras became the 1st Baseline F/S discus champion with a PR throw, and followed that up with a win in the shot on Tuesday.  Nick was joined by sophs Devyn Dohleman (long jump), Kindal Cubak (triple jump) and  Robert McAloney in the pole vault as first time Baseline Champs.

Complete results: Baseline 12 – Day 1&2 Complete Results

League Finals are Friday, again at Los Osos.  Admission is $3 for adults, free for kids and students with ASB cards.

League Finals Details

• Field Events at 4:00, Running Events at 5:00
• Athletes released from class at 2:15, bus leaves from Palopinto at 2:40.
• Meet Schedule: 12-Baseline Finals Schedule FINAL
• Glendora Entries: Baseline Entries by Event

So here we go.  Our culminating meet is this week, and over 100 of our athletes will have one final chance to compete and improve at the 2012 Baseline League Championship Finals.  In this meet, we meet the other five Baseline League schools over three at days with, for the first time, two levels of competition. The meet will be held at Los Osos HS, beginning at 3:00 on Monday/Tuesday and 4:00 on Friday.

Monday and Tuesday are mostly preliminaries, with athletes facing off to qualify for Friday’s finals.  The exceptions are in the new Frosh/Soph division, the F/S event finals will all be on Monday and Tuesday, and the F/S distances have no prelim and will advance straight to Friday.  Look closely at the schedule below, many of the F/S races also advanced straight to Friday’s final without a prelim.

On the Varsity level, the top three finishers in each event advance to the CIF divisional preliminaries.  We’re in a very strong league, so just making the final is an achievement, and advancing to CIF is a big deal.  In last year’s meet, Lauren Justus (1600, 3200), Makayla Jacoub (pole vault) and Rocki Bartholomew (discus) were league champs, and Makayla and Rocki return to defend as top ranked in league and ranked in CIF.  Other returning CIF qualifiers are Cade Lindsay (110m hurdles, long jump), Sean Williams (400m), Blake Mitchell (discus), Kaylee Fink (discus), Hannah Nelli (high jump), and Erin Bracy (pole vault)

We’ll post entries as they’re finalized

• Complete GHS Team (103 athletes!): Baseline Entries by Athlete
• Schedules: Prelims  Finals (Friday)
• Bus departs: 2:00pm Monday/Tuesday, 3:00pm Friday

Also our part of the shared work of running the meet is to oversee the long and triple jumps and to take tickets and sell programs at the gate – More info and sign-ups at this Google doc – link

Our girls were crowned San Gabriel Valley Champs on Saturday and today they clinched our first League Championship in a generation with an 86-50 win over a strong Etiwanda team.  Notable performances came from our 4×100 with a stirring, come-from-behind win in 49.84c, just off our school record.  Hannah Nelli had a PR 5’2″ to win the high jump and senior Makayla Jacoub continued her good run of form with an 11’4″ pole vault to set a new GHS record.  Hannah and Maykayla, along with double throws winner Rocki Bartholomew all rank in the Top 10 of CIF-SS Div. II in their evnets

The guys, missing key athletes, looked ahead to League Finals and were edged 74-60 by the Eagles.

Our timing system broke down, so complete results will be awhile.

But… We Won!