Some days on the track are good, some are great. With a sunny seventy degree day at the San Valley Ramon Valley track serving as the backdrop, the team’s performed well and the Dons posted many, many incredible performances, perhaps the best individual performance by an Acalanes track athlete in recent, if not school history (see Trevor Rogers below).
While there were too many great results to list individually, some of the top performances, with NCS and State rankings noted, included:
Women-
Nevis Murphy (1st), Olivia Williams (2nd), Megan Yee (3rd), sweeping the 800m (NCS #1, #3 & #4 respectively)
Natalie Lyons 1st place Long Jump (NCS #2), 2nd Place 100m
Haley Chelemedos 2nd place 200m (NCS #9)
Haley Chelemedos, Nevis Murphy, Anju Sekhon, Cameron Powell 2nd place 4x400m (NCS #7)
Geneva Tarsa, Samanatha Murdin, Elodie Jensen, Addison Bernstein 2nd place 4x100m (NCS #10)
Chloe Boyle 3rd place shotput
Men–
Paul Kuhner 1st place 100m (NCS & State #1), faster than anyone in ACA history not named Paul Kuhner
River Lockwood, Chris Copeland, Logan Farzan, Paul Kuhner 1st place 4x400m (NCS #5)
River Lockwood 1st place 110m hurdles (NCS #7), 3rd place long jump
Colin Glick 2nd place 200m (NCS #3)
Logan Farzan 2nd place 400m (NCS #4)
Illias Kaplanes-Jones 2nd place long jump (NCS #4)
Liam Gallacher 2nd place high jump (NCS #5 tie)
Grant Ricker 2nd place triple jump (NCS #8)
Deonte Littlejohn 3rd place 100m
Carson Wellington 2nd place 110m hurdles
Alexander Vasicek 3rd place shotput
Chase Caicedo 3rd place discus
Harry Zimmerman 3rd place 800m
Trevor Rogers–Trevor gets his own category this week with one of most dominant individual days you will see on a track. Trevor finished first in the high jump, long jump and 200 meters. Trevor’s long jump, 23’0″, was the tie-second best in ACA history only behind his own record and is 2nd in the state this year. Trevor’s high jump, 6’4″, was a personal best and tied 7th in ACA history. That history, with one exception, goes back to 1982 and prior, and he is 2″ inches away from Uncle Pete Rogers 1982 mark. Finally, Trevor’s first in the 200m at 22.44 was a personal best and also tied 7th in ACA history and 10th best in the state this year. Epic day.