Katella Relays Recap...

Walking out of Santa Ana College Saturday was a surreal experience for me.
This track and field job is not a recreational past-time for me. I take it seriously. Six seasons into this position has witnessed an ascencion of the program. Our first three seasons we did not dare dream of defeating Mission Viejo, heck, my first year I dropped every freshman and sophomore I had that could score points and barely beat Mission's frosh-soph team in a dual meet. The varsity lost 122-14. Two seasons ago we started inching towards them, last season at Katella we were close, and this year we hammered Mission Viejo, Varsity, 116-86, winning 12 of 14 events...Frosh-Soph, 130-88. Kudos to all of the girls who have worked hard, competed yesterday, and rose to the occasion.

We set seven meet records yesterday, and mind you the meet has taken place for thirty-six years: Varsity 4X100(Tia McFarlane, Percylla Nared, Brierra Winfrey, Michelle Wicker), Varsity 4X200( Tia McFarlane, Monica Todd, Brierra Winfrey, Percylla Nared), Varsity 4X1600(Cathryn Saylor, Makenna Smith, Hayley Niles, Ximena Cruz), who shattered the record by over twenty seconds, Varsity Long Jump(Monica Todd, Cassandra Smith, Brierra Winfrey)...Frosh-Soph 4X400(Alexa Brown, Jenny Konishi, Brooke Kather, Angelica Douglas), Frosh-Soph 4X1600(Dani Brabender, Brooke Kather, Riley Logsdon, Amy Tolentino), and Frosh-Soph Sprint Medley(Aubrey Baker, Alexa Brown, Jenny Konishi, Brooke Kather). If the baton work would have been a little cleaner(blame the coach); more could have happened, all in all, again, a great day.

Again, on to our first Sea View League meet on Thursday, March 26, home, 2:45pm, versus Huntington Beach. Next weekend will see the distance runners compete at the Azusa Pacific University Distance Carnival, while everyone else travels to the Edison High School Surf City Invitational at Estancia High School in Costa Mesa. Remember, all freshmen and newcomers, last names A-L, work the Trabuco Hills Track And Field Invitational...Saturday, April 4, 8:00am-8:00pm, and if that day does not work, the rest of the alpha works Saturday, May 16, 8:00am-8:00pm, the CIF Division 1 Track And Field Preliminaries at THHS. Never a dull moment...

Thank you parents for your support...