Glendora Track and Field

In track and field, we measure performance by victories and by measurement against certain standards, which is why you see frequent references to our Top Ten List and to PR’s or Personal Records.

Each week in practice, we honor the event winners from dual meets and top then finishers from the big weekend meets.  But we also honor those who have succeed against certain statistical standards.  The first the GHS All-Time Performers List or the Top Ten List.  These are the ten best performers in each event in the 53 years of GHS track and field.  Already this year, we’ve had 6 athletes put themselves on the list for the first time, joining 4 others who were already on the list from the previous weeks. [Read more →]

The Tartans turned in a slew of great performances at Saturday’s prestigious Distance Meet of Champions, led by junior Anthony Castro’s 9:16.71 in the 3200 – good for 7th in one of the toughest fields in the nation, and setting 2010’s first GHS School Record – breaking the old mark of 9:19.74 by Sean DiFilippo from 2003.

Anthony ran with the leaders for the first half of the race, and when the eventual top six finishers broke away at 2000m, Anthony drove the chase group to the end, finishing with a 62 second last lap for his record.

Earlier in the day, four other Tartans turned in particularly strong performances.  In the Frosh/Soph Invite 1600, Austin Mendoza displayed a strong drive over the final lap to finish 4th in a big PR of 4:29.03.  In the earlier heats of the 3200, juniors Kelly Hernandez and Lauren Justus turned in big PR’s, with Lauren’s 11:18.62 moving her from 5th to 2nd on the GHS All-Time Performers List, while Kelly’s 9:36.67 puts him 5th on the list.  The morning’s invite heat of the 800 saw Austin Goodheart finish 5th (video here) behind the nation’s top two performances with strong 1:56.57.

You can view Glendora results here, and complete meet results here.

Our dual meet with Damien and St. Lucy’s, the second on the Sierra League schedule, is now on Tuesday, March 30th, at Glendora High School.

The corrects the error about the date on the post below, and reflects another change in location, back to GHS to where the meet was originally scheduled to occur.

Parents, this means we’ll need our full slate of volunteers, so please be ready to say yes when you’re called or emailed for help.

This Saturday, our distance runners will complete in the Meet of Champions at Azusa Pacific University.  This is a huge meet, beginning at 7:30am and ending around 10:00pm.  Last year at this meet, Chris Ramsey (‘09) PR’d by six seconds and broke the existing meet record by two in finishing second to the eventual State Champ with a 1:53.15 in the 800.  At the end of the day, Corey Bullock (‘09) broke into the GHS AT-Top Ten in the 3200.

In this year’s event, three athletes are in feature events.  Senior Austin Goodheart is the third seed in the 800 – which should be run around 9:50am, while soph Austin Mendoza is also the third seed the Frosh/Soph 1600 at 2:20pm.  At the end of the day, at 10:00pm junior Anthony Castro will step to the line in loaded invite heat of the 3200.

At the same, many of our sprinters and and field event athletes will take part in the Chino Relays at Chino HS.  This is a low key, fun, relay oriented event – with some rarely run events like the 8×100 and 8×200 relays.

Our Sierra League dual meet season got off to a great start – with 7 GHS All-Time top performances and big 68-64 win by our guys over a resurgent Chino Hills teams.  Our girls and frosh/soph boys teams lost narrowly.

The guys were led by senior Bubba Ostrowski who PR’d in three of his events (110h, 300h, LJ, and Discus) and won three, along with wins from Cameron Duffy (above) (Sr-100 PR), Austin Mendoza (So-1600), Kelly Hernandez (Jr-3200), Brad Beckwith (Sr-Shot PR), Kevin Blayney (Fr-High Jump), Nick Harrington (So-Pole Vault PR), and Charles Johnson (So-Triple Jump PR).

The girls were led by doubles from junior Lauren Justus (1600 & 3200) and senior Valerie Brain (High Jump & Discus PR) and wins from Taylor Oberlander (Sr-800 PR) and Amie Jepsen (So-Triple Jump PR).

The additions All-Time GHS Top Performers List began with the first race of the day in the boys 4×100 relay – Chris Gribble, Derrick Erwing, Jordan Lopez, and Duffy- running 44.54c to rank 10th.  Cameron’s 11.24c to win the 100 puts him =7th AT, while Jordan’s 11.34c 2nd place ranks him =9th.  Bubba’s hurdle PR’s (15.04c and 40.34c) moved him from 7th to =5th in the 110h and 3rd to 2nd in the 300h.  Amie enters the Triple Jump list at 9th with her 34′2-1/2″ jump.

Available results (missing most jumps and 200m times) are here, and you can view a great photo album from Steve Brunett here.

Five Tartan Athletes competed on Friday in the first day of the elite California Relays at Cerritos College, site of the CIF Championships and Masters meets.

Senior Alex Ostrowski led off the day with a 15.50 effort in the high hurdles heats, good enough to advance to Saturday’s final.

A bit later, our Distance Medley team, led by a particularly strong anchor 1600 leg by junior Anthony Castro finished in a dead heat for 4th in 10:38.63 among a very strong field.  Anthony was joined by Kelly Hernandez (Jr) and seniors Neill Netzeband and Austin Goodheart.

You can view compete Friday results here

On Saturday, Bubba will compete in the 110 hurdles finals, along with the Invite heat of the 300 hurdles and the discus.  Austin is in the Invite section of the 800, while Anthony will be in the very strong 3200 field.  Kelly will be joined by soph Austin Mendoza in the 1600.

Our whole team competed in the same meet on Thursday against Walnut High School. Walnut is a strong team and many of our best athletes were held out of the meet due to injury or competition the next day, with the result that our guys lost 89-39 and the girls 81-54.  Nevertheless, our very young team made great progress, with many athletes making big strides as they learn to compete.

Our top performer among the girls was junior Lauren Justus.  She was a double winner in the 1600 (5:42.10) and the 3200, where she put up a PR 11:41.15, while keeps her 5th best GHS All-Time Performer.  Senior Hayley Cooke also doubled, winning both of the hurdles (17.66/51.74).  Our 4×100 of Amie Jepsen (So), Joanna Kantiok (So), Hayley, and Makayla Jacoub (So) also won and moved from 10th to 6th AT GHS with their 51.46 win.  Other winners were seniors Valerie Brain in the High Jump (4′6″) and Taylor Oberlander (800 – 2:33.33).

Among the boys, our winners were soph Austin Mendoza (800 – 2:04.56), junior Shin Yamamura (1600 – 4:43.20), senior Brad Beckwith (Shot – 42′4″ PR) and our 4×400 relay, which closed out the night led by a big carry from senior Chris Gribble.

You can view meet results here, but there appears to be a few mixups in the results.  More to follow.