2011 Track and Field Highligts!
California State Meet June 3-4th @ Buchanan High School
Congratulations to our track and field athletes that participated in the 94th annual California State Track and Field Championships at Buchanan High School in Clovis.
El Toro was well represented as our boys finished the highest place in school history as they tied for 3rd place overall. Our girls team finished in 34th place overall. 5 athletes earned medals and a trip to the podium for the most in our school’s history. The following are the results of our athlete's performances:
| ATHLETE |
EVENT |
MARK |
PLACE |
| Hanna Edwards |
800 meters |
2:09.55** |
5th |
| Adam Bragg |
Pole Vault |
15' 6" |
3rd |
| Jake Fraser |
Discus |
172' 0" |
4th |
| Jake Fraser |
Shot Put |
61' 3.50" |
2nd |
| Sullivan Parker |
Shot Put |
57' 9.25" |
6th |
| Brad Bolton |
Shot Put |
53' 11.25" |
16th |
| Kevin Durham |
3200 Meters |
9:14.43 |
23rd |
** School Record
CIF Masters Meet May 27th @ Cerritos College
7 for 7, the “Magnificant 7.” El Toro was entered in seven events at the Masters Meet and each and every athlete qualified for the State Meet to be held on June 3-4th at Buchanan High School in Fresno. This is a huge accomplishment and our athletes are to be highly commended for their efforts. Hanna Edwards broke her previous school record in the 800 meters by 1.29 seconds. The following athletes and their performances are listed below:
| ATHLETE |
EVENT |
MARK |
PLACE |
OVERAL PLACE AMONG ALL DIVISIONS |
| Hanna Edwards |
800 meters |
2:10.14** |
5th |
Qualifies for State |
| Kevin Durham |
3200 meters |
9:06.82* |
9th |
Qualifies for State |
| Jake Fraser |
Discus |
185' 9"* |
3rd |
Qualifies for State |
| Adam Bragg |
Pole Vault |
16' 2" |
1st |
Qualifies for State |
| Jake Fraser |
Shot Put |
61' 4.50" |
2nd |
Qualifies for State |
| Sullivan Parker |
Shot Put |
58' 6" |
5th |
Qualifies for State |
| Brad Bolton |
Shot Put |
55' 8" |
8th |
Qualifies for State |
* Personal Record
** School Record
CIF Division I Finals May 21st @ Cerritos College
El Toro had an outstanding day in the most competitive meet of the season with our boys
team finishing a strong 3rd place overall in team scoring:
1. Vista Murrieta 65
2. Long Beach Poly 61
3. El Toro 58
4. Roosevelt 29
Summit 29
6. Great Oak 26
7. Dana Hills 23 ½
AB Miller 23 ½
9. Silverado 23
10. San Clemente 19
Alhambra 19
Millikan 19
Los Osos 19
El Toro produced 3 CIF Champions: Adam Bragg, 16’3” (School Record in the Pole Vault), Jake Fraser, 60’ 7.50” (Shot Put), and 183’ 2” (Discus). El Toro athletes qualified in seven events for the Masters Meet, which is a State qualifying meet. Below is the results of our athlete’s performances:
| ATHLETE |
EVENT |
MARK |
PLACE |
OVERAL PLACE AMONG ALL DIVISIONS |
| Justin Schneider |
Long Jump |
21' 10" |
6th |
14th |
| Adam Bragg |
Pole Vault |
16' 3" |
1st |
Tie 1st - Qualified for Masters |
| Mikaela Morris |
Pole Vault |
10' 3" |
8th |
Tie 25th |
| Jake Fraser |
Discuss |
183' 2" |
1st |
2nd - Qualified for Masters |
| Sullivan Parker |
Discuss |
168' 0" |
4th |
13th - 1st Alternate for Masters |
| Jake Fraser |
Shot Put |
60' 7.50" |
1st |
2nd - Qualified for Masters |
| Sullivan Parker |
Shot Put |
57' 4.75" |
2nd |
5th - Qualified for Masters |
| Brad Bolton |
Shot Put |
56' 11.50" |
3rd |
6th - Qualified for Masters |
| Hanna Edwards |
800 Meters |
2:11.87 |
3rd |
5th - Qualified for Masters |
| Kevin Durham |
3200 Meters |
9:15.01 |
3rd |
9th - Qualified for Masters |
CIF Division 1 Prelims May 14th @ Trabuco Hills
| ATHLETE |
EVENT |
MARK |
PLACE |
OVERAL PLACE AMONG ALL DIVISIONS |
| Kelly Peterson |
100 meters |
12.43 |
19th Place |
|
| Kelly Peterson |
200 meters |
25.46 |
18th Place |
|
| |
4 x 100 relay |
48.31* |
10th Place |
1st Alternate |
| Taylor Hypolite |
Long Jump |
16' 4.75 |
16th Place |
|
| Mikaela Morris |
Pole Vault |
10' 3" |
9th Place |
Qualified |
| Hanna Edwards |
800 Meters |
2:11.43* |
3rd Place |
Qualified |
| Justin Schneider |
Long Jump |
21' 11.75" |
5th Place |
Qualified |
| Adam Bragg |
Pole Vault |
14' 3" |
Tie 1st |
Qualified |
| Marco Mendoza |
Pole Vault |
13' 9" |
10th Place |
1st Alternate |
| Jake Fraser |
Discuss |
181' 11" |
1st Place |
Qualified |
| Jake Fraser |
Shot Put |
59' 1" |
1st Place |
Qualified |
| Sullivan Parker |
Discuss |
173' 4" |
2nd Place |
Qualified |
| Sullivan Parker |
Shot Put |
58' 8" |
2nd Place |
Qualified |
| Brad Bolton |
Discuss |
scratch |
|
|
| Brad Bolton |
Shot Put |
55' 5" |
6th Place |
Qualified |
| Andy Bardine |
110 H Hurdles |
15.95 |
35th Place |
|
| Geoff Kruki |
300 I Hurdles |
40.70 |
23rd Place |
|
| Ryan Germann |
800 meters |
1:56.12 |
13th Place |
|
| Spencer Allen |
800 meters |
1:55.77 |
11th Place |
|
| Kevin Durham |
3200 Meters |
9:16.63 |
4th Place |
Qualified |
Congratulations to the following athletes that broke school records in the CIF Prelims:
Whitney Williams 4 x 100 Relay 48.31 (old record 48.55 in 2011 by the
Melissa Mewes same quartet)
Taylor Hypolite
Kelly Peterson
Hanna Edwards 800 meters 2:11.43 (old record 2:12.47 in 2010 by
Hanna Edwards)
South Coast League Finals May 6th @ Trabuco Hills
The South Coast League is undoubtably the toughest league in Orange County, and perhaps the toughest in the Southern Section and the State of California. The results of the team competition is as follows:
Girls Frosh Soph Girls Varsity
1. Dana Hills 151 1. Dana Hills 99
2. Trabuco Hills 59 2. Mission Viejo 89
3. Mission Viejo 54 3. Trabco Hills 68
4. El Toro 46 4. El Toro 55
5. Aliso Viejo 24 5. Aliso Niguel 23
Boys Frosh Soph Boys Varsity
1. Mission Viejo 87 1. Dana Hills 99
2. Trabuco Hills 83 2. Trabuco Hills 90
3. Dana Hills 81 3. El Toro 86
4. El Toro 47 4. Mission Viejo 59
5. Aliso Niguel 36 5. Aliso Niguel 0
El Toro produced nine league champions at the South Coast League Finals. Congratulations to the following athletes that won individual league titles:
Michelle Zoldano Girls Frosh Soph Long Jump
Sarah Horwitz Girls Frosh Soph Discus
Taylor Hypolite Girls Varsity Long Jump
Mikaela Morris Girls Varsity Pole Vault
Hanna Edwards Girls Varsity 800 meters
Whitney Williams Girls Varsity 4 x 100 relay
Melissa Mewes Girls Varsity 4 x 100 relay
Taylor Hypolite Girls Varsity 4 x 100 relay
Kelly Peterson Girls Varsity 4 x 100 relay
Will Sargenti Boys Frosh Soph Triple Jump
Adam Bragg Boys Varsity Pole Vault
Jake Fraser Boys Varsity Discus and Shot Put
The following school records were set in League Finals:
Kelly Peterson Girls Varsity 100 meters 12.32
Whitney Williams Girls Varsity 4 x 100 relay 48.55
Melissa Mewes Girls Varsity 4 x 100 relay 48.55
Taylor Hypolite Girls Varsity 4 x 100 relay 48.55
Kelly Peterson Girls Varsity 4 x 100 relay 48.55
Congratulations to the following athletes that qualified for the Division I CIF Prelims:
Kelly Peterson 100 meters, 200 meters, 4 x 100 relay
Taylor Hypolite Long Jump, 4 x 100 relay
Whitney Williams 4 x 100 relay
Melissa Mewes 4 x 100 relay
Mikaela Morris Pole Vault
Hanna Edwards 800 meters
Justin Schneider Long Jump
Adam Bragg Pole Vault
Marco Mendoza Pole Vault
Jake Fraser Discus and Shot Put
Sullivan Parker Discus and Shot Put
Brad Bolton Discus and Shot Put
Andy Bardine 110 High Hurdles
Geoff Kruki 300 Intermediate Hurdles
Ryan Germann 800 meters
Spencer Allen 800 meters
Kevin Durham 3200 meters
Dana Hills Dual Meet April 27th @ El Toro
Our boys and girls both lost narrowly to Dana Hills in the final dual meet of the season.
Our boys swept the shot put and discus led by Jake Fraser who ended up winning every dual meet in both the shot and discus. Our boys also swept every league shot put and discus competition. Adam Bragg won two events: 110 high hurdles (15.6) and pole vault (15’7”).
Orange County Championships April 16th @ Mission Viejo
Four El Toro athletes claimed County titles: Hanna Edwards, 800 meters (2:14.22), Kelly Peterson, frosh-soph 200 meters (25.09), Adam Bragg, pole vault (15’ 9”), and Jake Fraser, discus (182’ 9”). Kelly Peterson’s 200 meter time was a meet and school record. Other strong efforts included: Claire Currie, frosh-soph 300 hurdles (2nd), Taylor Hypolite, 200 meters (4th), Juan Gonzalez, frosh-soph 1600 meters (4th), Jacob Furnari, frosh-soph long jump (3rd), Matt Stockton, frosh-soph 300 hurdles (5th), Justin Schneider, long jump (4th),
Jake Fraser, shot put (2nd) and Brad Bolton, shot put (3rd).
Aliso Niguel Dual Meet April 14th @ Aliso Niguel HS
El Toro’s boys and girls varsity both claimed victories in the showdown. Jake Fraser (shot and discus), and Michael Masci (1600 and 3200m) each earned two victories for the boys as the boys won 13 of 16 events.
Arcadia Invitational April 8-9th @ Arcadia HS
El Toro athletes turned in outstanding performances in this prestigious meet. Two school records were set: Adam Bragg in the pole vault where he cleared 16’ 1” to finish third and breaking his former record of 15’ 9”, and our boys distance medley relay as they recorded a 10:15.63 to finish fourth overall and breaking the former school record of 10:17.73 (2002).
The team consisted of: Spencer Allen (3:09.3-1200m), Nick Resendes (52.1-400m), Ryan Germann (1:54.2-800m), and Juan Gonzalez (4:19.5-1600m). Other highlights included Sullivan Parker 4th in the shot put (57’ 4.50”), Jake Fraser 4th in the discus (182’ 2”) and Justin Schneider 4th in the long jump (22’ 2”).
Trabuco Hills Dual Meet April 6th @ Trabuco Hills HS
The annual ET/TH dual night meet produced many strong performances with ET’s varsity boys and girls both losing by close scores. Highlights included 1-2-3 sweeps of the shot put, discus, pole vault and 110 high hurdles. Spencer Allen ran a lifetime best 1:54.73 in the 800 meters.
Trabuco Hills Invitational April 2-3rd @ Trabuco Hills
El Toro athletes performed very well in this mega affair. Our Girls set three school record and two meet records in the process in which Kelly Peterson took down school records in the Frosh-Soph 100 and 200 meters where she ran 12.45 and 25.46 respectively. Her 200 meter time was also a meet record. The Frosh-Soph 4 x 400 relay team of Claire Currie, Alexa Kitchen, Breanna Johnson and Kelly Peterson broke the school record by five seconds when they ran 4:06.87. The time was also a meet record until the next heat broke their record by one second. On the boys side, strong performances were turned in by: Jake Fraser’s county leading 60’2.25” in the shot put (1st), Brad Bolton’s 59’8.75” (shot put, 2nd) and Sullivan Parker’s 56’54.5” (shot put, 5th). Sullivan also led the trio in the discus with a throw of 170’8” (3rd), Fraser’s 168’2” (5th) and Bolton’s 162’10” (8th). Justin Schneider won the long jump with a season best of 22’5.50”. Adam Bragg finished second in the pole vault clearing 14’9”.
Mission Viejo Dual Meet March 31st @ Mission Viejo
Our varsity girls won and our varsity boys tied strong MV teams at Mission Viejo. Our girls were led by another school record 4 x 100 relay (48.0 hand time), a sweep in the 1600m, 100 hurdles and 800 meters. Kelly Peterson had a big day winning both the 100 and 200 as well as on the record setting 4 x 100 team. Hanna Edwards led a sweep in the 1600 and 3200 meters. On the boys side, El Toro swept the 1600, 800, 3200 meters, the shot put and discus amassing 45 points in five events. The Chargers could only manage to score 23 points in the remaining eleven events to forge the tie. A fine effort was turned in by the 4 x 400 relay recording a yearly best of 3:27.8 being narrowly edged by Mission Viejo’s 3:27.4.
Azusa Pacific Meet of Champions March 26th @ Azusa Pacific University
Our boys and girls distance runners attended this annual distance runners classic. As usual, there were a full day of races geared to athletes competing against their own ability. Two school records resulted as senior Hanna Edwards ran a strong race in the Dream Mile to
finish fourth overall in a time of 4:58.62 (4:56.89 converted for 1600 meters). Both marks will stand as school records. Hanna improved on her previous best time of 5:13 by over sixteen seconds making her the seventh fastest in the state at 1600 meters. Sophomore Juan Gonzalez also broke the school record in the frosh soph 1600 meters recording a 4:22.98 time to break the record by nearly a half second by Ryan Germann’s 4:23.44 set in 2009. All in all, nineteen boys broke 5:00 for 1600 meters with sixteen athletes recording personal records. Nine girls broke 6:00 with fifteen recording personal records. Four boys ran the 3200 meters and all four recorded personal best times, with Kevin Durham placing fourth in the invitational 3200 meters running 9:15.94 and recording the seventh best time in the state.
Triton Invitational March 19th @ San Clemente
El Toro sent a limited crew to the Invitational and had many strong performances. Once again, our lady Chargers lowered their 4x100 relay record for the third time in the last two weeks, this time breaking 49 seconds for the first time, clocking 48.97 to finish a close to second to rival Mission Viejo’s 48.75. Kelly Peterson ran a personal best of 12.46 (100 meters) just off of the school record of 12.33. On the boys side, Geoff Kruki ran a personal best of 16.23 in the 110 high hurdles, Justin Schneider jumped 22’ 1.75” in the long jump to place second, and Adam Bragg cleared 15’0” (pole vault) to place second.
San Clemente Dual Meet March 16th @ San Clemente
Another non scoring meet with the Tritons on their track produced some fine results for the Chargers. Our girls lowered there one week old 4 x100 relay school record with the same quartet clocking 49.07. Other fine performances were: Kelly Peterson, 12.46 (100 meters), Hanna Edwards, 2:14.0 (800 meters), and Channing Jones with 5’1” (high jump) and 35’11” (triple Jump). The boys had strong performances from: Justin Schneider, 22’1” (long jump) and 22.90 (200 meters), Ryan Germann, 1:59.9 (800 meters), Spencer Allen, 4:26.1 (1600 meters), Michael Masci, 4:28.1 (1600 meters), Juan Gonzalez, 4:28.5 (1600 meters) and 10:04.1 (3200 meters), Adam Bragg, 14’6” (pole vault), Jake Fraser, 57’5” (shot put), and 177’8.5” (discus), Sullivan Parker, 52’6.5” (shot put) and 169’11” (discus), and Brad Bolton, 54’4” (shot put), and 154’ 5.5” (discus).
