This past Saturday, February 22nd, we hosted a scrimmage against College Park and Concord High Schools, and wow, what a start to our season! Incredible performances in nearly every event from underclassmen, upperclassmen, returning veterans, and complete track newbies! As a coaching staff, we are all incredibly proud of how our freshman and sophomores stepped up and competed fearlessly against juniors and seniors from other schools and can’t wait to see how they finish the season!

Relays

• Despite an injury that sidelined our Varsity Boys 4×100, our Frosh-Soph Boys stepped up and won the event outright, defeating College Park and Concord’s varsity relay teams by over a second!
• Both of our Frosh-Soph and Varsity Girls 4×100 teams notched commanding wins as well
• Freshmen Tyler Hunt and Bennett Dodge feed off a great performance from senior Rayce Walton and notch their first varsity relay win!

Distance

• Newcomers including Tyler Hunt, Dominic Sarica, Sam Swan, Tom Bequette, Peter Buchel, and Sam Pecci  post strong performances in the 1600m, 800m, and 3200m.
• Sophomore Lauren Yee returns from the soccer field and sets a new PR of 5:28.55 in the 1600m.
• With an aggressive effort in the 800m, sophomore Nathan Krishnan sets a new PR of  2:31.05.

Sprints

• We’ll let this video of senior Kevin Mlynek’s virtuoso 400m performance speak for itself – Wow! – #10 all time in Acalanes history
• A strong headwind on the home stretch made good marks hard to come by in the short sprints, but that didn’t stop junior Dane Jennssen and freshman Eli Brent from breaking 12 in the 100m! Both win their respective divisions
• Senior Charlie Keohane breaks 14 and finishes 3rd in the 100
• Isabella Starbuck and Bennett Dodge win their divisions of the Frosh Soph 400m
• Sophomore Evan Malmquist posts a dominant victory in his first 110 meter hurdle appearance
• Sophomores Benji Yadegar and Seth Kline both manage to overcome the wind and PR as well

Jumps

• After a long, long time away from track, senior Owen McNamara returns and breaks in our new pole vault pad with a dominant victory!
• Junior Maddie Rogers and freshman Isabella Starbuck finish 1st and 2nd in the Long Jump!
• Sophomore Marshall Lockwood completes the triple crown and wins the long jump, high jump, and triple jump – on varsity – his high jump PR is a whopping 6 inch improvement!
• Freshman Portia Seymour wins the girls high jump with a PR of 4’8” – her mark is the highest overall of the day!
• Sophomores Natalie Stadt, Devin Miniello, and Josh Gohres also post long jump PR’s

Throws

• In keeping with the theme of this meet, strong efforts from underclassmen rule the day across all throws
• Sophomore Anthony Ortale wins the varsity discus by throwing a commanding 18 feet farther than anyone else
• Sophomore Kyle Otsuka also hits a discus PR 
• Senior Michael Roux and junior Josh Ramlan PR in both throws as well.

Next weekend, select athletes will attend the Super Seven Invitational at DVC. Entries will go out Monday night.The next full team meet will be Wednesday, March 4th, we begin league competition when we will host Clayton Valley Charter. Until then, go Dons!