On another wet and windy, non-track and field like day that seems to have permeated much of this season, the Acalanes Boys team ran and jumped over the competition to win the DAL Championship! The Girls faired well, finishing 5th of 11 despite their small team and some scheduling challenges as the meet was delayed four hours due to the rough weather.
In the DAL Championship, the top 6 athletes in each event win team points and qualify for this week’s Tri-Valley Championships, a combined championship of the Diablo Athletic League, East Bay Athletic League and the Bay Valley Athletic League to be held at Pittsburg HS on Saturday May 11), 30 teams in all. The DAL is very competitive so it takes incredible performances to move on to the Tri-Valleys, of which we had many!
Top performers of the Championship moving on are:
Boys-
4 Event Qualifiers (impossible):
Paul Kuhner (1st in 100, 200, 4×100 leg 4, and 3rd in the long jump)
Trevor Rogers (1st in the long jump, triple jump, 4×100 leg 2, and 2nd in the 200)
3 Event Qualifiers (incredible):
River Lockwood (soph) (1st in 300 hurdles, 2nd in 110 hurdles–by .01 of a second–5th in 4 x 400 leg 1)
Other Qualifiers (wow):
Deonte Littlejohn (soph) (1st in discus, 1st in 4×100 leg 1)
Logan Farzan (6th in the 1600, 5th 4×400 leg 4)
Colin Glick (1st in the 4×100 leg 3, 5th in the 4×400 leg 3 and a near miss 7th in the 200)
Ace Reeder (4th triple jump, 6th in the long jump)
Illias Kaplanes-Jones (soph) (2nd in the long jump)
Niko White (5th in the 4×400 leg 2)
Miles Clark (6th in the discus)
Amin Noroozi (soph) (6th in the shotput)
Liam Gallacher (6th in the high jump)
Alex Fon (frosh) (6th in the 300 hurdles)
Girls-
Multiple Event Qualifiers (incredible):
Haley Chelemedos (4th in the high jump and 100, 2nd in the 4×100 leg 2, near miss 8th shotput)
Natalie Lyons (1st in the long jump, 2nd in the 4 x 100 leg 1)
Olivia Williams/aka “The Queen” (4th in the 1600, 3rd in the 3200)
Megan Yee (5th in the 800, 6th in the 1600)
Cameron Thornton (soph) (2nd in the 4×100 leg 3, 6th in the 200, near miss 9th in the 100)
Single Event qualifiers (nice!)
Dulci Vail (1st high jump)
Genevieve Tarsa (2nd 4×100 leg 4)
Lexi Le (soph) (6th in triple jump, near miss 7th long jump)
Frosh-Soph
The boys frosh soph team performed very well also, taking a solid third place in Championship and showing a consistent Acalanes theme of speed and ability, winning the 4×100 (Finley Rivera, Benjamin Mickelson, Luca Oatham, Trevor Krick), the 200 (Mickelson), discus (Stoneman) and had many other point scoring finishers across multiple events.
A number of other sophomores not mentioned also competed very strongly on the varsity teams, which bodes well for the future of ACA track including–Harry Zimmerman, Matthew Schwarz, Grant Ricker, Bryce Birdsong, and Neve Murphy to name a few. Well done!
Full results can be found at Athletic.net: https://www.athletic.net/TrackAndField/meet/526583/results
