Gilroy Meet

Whew, that meet is over and we are now off and running into our season. We had 21 total PRs which brings our season total up to 24. The full list is posted on the homepage as well as full results of the meet, or you can go here

I didn't get to see ANY field events but some of the things I noticed from the Track and read about/heard about from the field.

*Girls 4 by 100 team (Catherine-Pauline-Erika-Lauren) ran a 51.80 (the school record team from last year didn't run this fast until April 23rd)

*Lucas Cook had a great finish in the Mile and Gabe Domiguez came soooo close to breaking 6 minutes, (6:01, which was a 14 second PR!)

*Adam Groen is getting better (especially in the 2 mile) at running his own race. He came close to 2 of his PRs (mile/2 mile) and got a PR in the 800. Great early season start for him.

*Chelsie Faulk PR'd in the 800 (she could care less but I enjoyed it, haha) IN the mile she went out a little too fast, but that is alot better than going out WAY too fast and ran a season opening 6:08. (Im very excited for her)

*TJ Ornduff learned how tough it is to run a 400, but considering its his first ever he ran great. HE also had a PR in the triple jump.

*Erika Rodriguez, who has been working out since november for her senior year, came out well. Ran a PR in the 200 (26.18) and great 400 relay split (60.7, also a PR).

*Viz and Catherine started out the year with PRs in the 200.

*Pauline Olsen started the year right at 60 in the 400 in the open and relay and also ran a very fast 27.07 200.

*Alex Ukanwa took 10 seconds off his 800 meter PR and ran the first 2 400s of his track career.

*The meet ended beautifully all three 4 by 400 teams winning their races (more importantly running very well at this point in the season.) Such a great ending to the meet.

* Alex Hafenbecker just broke a minute in the 4 by 4 with a split of 59.97. His frosh-soph teammates of Uriel Flores, ALex Ukanwa and Lucas Cook also ran well to give them a time of 4:07 (they will be under 4 minutes in no time)

* The Varsity guys team (Who went to CCS last year) came out sharp, winning their heat and being less than 2 seconds off their best from last season. Eric Tolson had a PR of 54.0. Jacob Montoya held off a great runner from gilroy and one of the best in the CCS from sobrato by running a 52, just a week into the season. Viz had the new experience of getting the baton in first place and trying to run without someone to catch and Jacob Daw ran a strong leadoff leg, fresh off jumping 5'8 in the HJ.

*The Varstiy Girls 4 by 4 of Lauren Drewniany, Tula Urban, Erika Rodriguez and Pauline Olsen also had a solid performance. I was really happy with Lauren, who volenteered to run it because we needed someone. Its a tough race to run especially if you don't do 400 training, very selfless. Tula learned a little about race distribution. Erika ran her fastest lap ever with a 60.7 and Pauline followed that up with a 60.1.

*Taylor Duarte showed some speed in the 100 and from what I hear jumped well in the LJ. Coach Cunanan made sure to point out to me he was impressed.

*Annalise Disalvo ran a great 2nd leg in the 4 by 1, and got her first ever long jumps in.

*Artie Valencia ran a 2:16, with a 1:08 and a 1:08 perfect splits.

*Taylor Alonzo PRed in the LJ, once he gets rid of his nagging quad injury his new PR won't last long.

*Alberto Suarez had a 10 foot PR in the Discus, let me say that again a 10 FOOT PR.

*Diego Rodriguez matched Erika's 2 PRs with 2 of his own (SP and DT)

*Fa Saulala got 2 PRs with a small improvement on her great shot put from last week and for good measure also PRd in the DT

*Ramon Lucatero missed a 100 time because no one in his race knew 2 gun shots meant false start but he ran well, but he did make sure to hit a PR in the discus to the day was worth it.

*In the LJ, Devon Jones, Patrick Archer and Artie Valencia all found a little more distance than their first attempts at the event last week. Keep it up guys.

* I know coach Cunanan was impressed with Mark Butterworth and Daniel Silva in the Triple Jump.

* Aly Marusarz got her first hurdle race under her belt, I'm not going to lie, I was a little nervous, she has been injured so I didn't know what to expect. Not only did she run it but she ran it well.

I just wanted everyone to get a time and a mark I was really impressed you all had a lot of great early season performances. Great job, have a good weekend see you Monday. -Coach Mike