Westview Dual Meet

Hello nighthawk families and fans,

Happy Friday! Yesterday we had our league dual meet against Westview High School. We had some great performances across the board, and the Varsity Girls were able to pull off a win 111-25 against Westview. Ultimately the Varsity boys came up short with the final score being 58 to 78. It was a hard-fought meet, and we are looking to bounce back at our next league meet against Mt Carmel on Wednesday. Find the full meet results here and keep reading for some highlights.

Parent Donations

As you can imagine, it takes a lot to put together a program of our size and we are asking for a $200 donation per family who is able to do so. This helps off set the cost of equiptment, travel, coaching stipends, meet entry fees, etc. Any donations are greatly appreciated, we also encourage you to find out about company matching programs that many businesses offer to further your impact. Find information to donate here. You can also write a check Payable to Del Norte High School. Write "Track" and your athletes name in the memo.

*Photos by Sarah Jerome

**Athletes of the Meet**
We want to take the time to highlight a couple of athletes who had spectacular performances at our last meet.

Throws -

Andrew Reid (11) put together a great meet in shot and discus. He set new personal records in both events.
Miller Utech (9) came into the day with a PR 21''6 in shot put and 58”0 in discus, she left with two GIANT PRs in both. 25”2 and 65”10 respectively. It was nuts.
Overall huge shout out to the girls throwers, tons of great performances across the board!

High Jump -

Melia Naigan (10) in her first ever high jump competition put together a few good jumps and came away with the win amongst the JV girls.

Sprints -

Tristan Teeter (10) PRd by 8 seconds in the 100m for a time of 11.48 which is the 4th fastest time on our team this year.
Ashlynn Blackburn(9) won the JV girls 200 with a time of 29.06 as well as finishing 3rd in the JV 100 with a time just shy of sub 13.

Jumps -

Cooper Lappin (11) just after finishing his 400 he came back and did what he needed to do in long jump to secure a 2nd place finish.
Charlie Bowers (10) hit the varsity letter requirement mark in his first long jump competition ever.
Elana Basto (12) had her best long jump of the season by over a foot to win the event.

Hurdles -

Yvonne Ho (9) PRd by over a second in both 100 and 300 hurdles.
Dean Phillips (11) finally put together his step in the 110 hurdles and had a huge breakthrough in the race. PR by over a second and came back to set another big PR in the 300 hurdles.
Shout out to Ella Echsner who ran the first ever mile and 300 hurdle double in Del Norte History!

Distance -

Peter Akinpelu (11) went out hard in his mile and set a PR by over 26 seconds for the win. Then came back in the 800 to set another PR by over 3 seconds.

Congratulations to all of those athletes on a great meet. We would like to take the time to recognize those athletes whose performance landed them onto our top 10 all-time lists.

Danny Tragarz (12) - Boys 100: 2nd All-Time with a time of 11.22
Jake Warren (11) - Boys 100: 8th All-Time with a time of 11.41
Kaylee Rebugio (9) - Girls 100: 4th All-Time with a time of 12.91
Zoe Gross (9) - Girls 100: 7th All-Time with a 13.01
Kloe Taylor (12) - Girls 100 Hurdles: 7th All-Time with a time of 17.18

Each of these athletes have made a great impact on our program, making themselves known as some of the best in their event since our school opened in 2009. We look forward to witnessing their continued success as the season goes on.

**Our Next Meet**

Our next meet is The UC Classic tomorrow, Saturday April 1st with a 10:00am start time at University City High School.

House Keeping

Reminder that we practice from 4:10pm-6:10pm Monday-Friday and practice is mandatory. Failure to attended practice will result in athletes not competing in meets.

Thank you to the parents who already signed up to help out at the snack bar this season. Those of you who signed up to help at next weeks dual meet versus Westview should expect an email from us this week with details. We still need volunteers for our CIF Prelims snack bar, If you are available for that or any of our upcoming home meets please fill out this form to let us know your availability! We really appreciate your help.
Our 2023 Seniors Page is now live on the website, check it out here to get to know more about our wonderful senior class!
Seniors, if you have not already and would like to be included in our class of 2023 page on the website, please be sure to fill out the questionnaire so we can get your bio up.
REMINDER - athletes should not sign up for the SAT on May 9th as it is the same day as our League Finals Meet.

Donate your used spikes to a Nighthawk in need!

If your athlete has spikes from last season that aren’t super torn up, they can use them again. If they are getting new spikes and don’t need their old ones, feel free to bring them to practice and we can share them with another nighthawk in need! Once your athlete gets their spikes, have them show their coach before wearing them at practice. We can help navigate each athletes needs.

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