Mt Carmel 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 94-38 against Mt Carmel. Ultimately the Varsity boys came up short with the final score being 84 to 52. It was a hard-fought meet and we are hopeful the boys will make a comeback at our next league meet. 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.
Photo by Lulu Yasin
Athletes of the Meet
We want to take the time to highlight a couple of athletes who had spectacular performances at our last meet.
High Jump -
Kloe Taylor (12) improved jump after jump all the way to a new PR to win the meet. Kloe has a ton of raw talent in this event with so much potential. Her jump of 5"‘0 is tied for 3rd all time in Del Norte History
Sprints -
Oliver Heintz (11) put together a great race in the 100 and 200, setting new PRs in both and stepping up to help the team in the 4x400.
Jumps -
Alex Kumar (11) jumped a 40'3" in his second triple jump competition of the season, one of the best marks in Del Norte history.
Chloe Kang (9) just after finishing his 400 he came back and did what he needed to do in long jump to secure a 2nd place finish.
Chris Guzman (10) tried a new technique with his long jump mechanics rather than doing the same old thing. These are the types of developments we want to be seeing at this point in the season to drive big improvements.
Hurdles -
Sophie larose (10) PRd by over a second in the 100 hurdles to get 2nd over all, excited to see her continue to succeed!
Dean Phillips (11) set two big PRs in both hurdles, from 18.76 to 17.84 in the 110 hurdles and 45.81 to 44.14. I know he has more in him to push these times even further.
Distance -
Tristan Harpester (11) ran fearlessly against MC where he set the tone early, which ultimately led to a 6 second lifetime best of 2:02 in the 800. He also came back in the 3200 and 4x400 to help the team when we needed him.
Lilah Enyedi (9) continued to showcase her talent with another big lifetime best of 11:17 in the 3200, moving up to 3rd all time in Del Norte History in only her 3rd performance ever.
Throws
Shay Lacny (10) Shay has had a really good string of meets recently and continued that with a PR of 22’ 3” in shot to take 2nd place.
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. Because they did not have a wind-gauge at this meet, our sprinters and jumpers performances cannot be counted towards school records and all-time performances. We know they have it in them and will be able to even surpass these marks in future competitions!
Paige Echsner (10) - Girls 800: 2nd All-Time with a time of 2:17.37
Kloe Taylor (12) - Girls High Jump: (tied) 3rd All-Time with a jump of 5’
Lilah Enyedi (9) - Girls 3200: 3rd All-Time with a time of 11:17.53
Kaylee Tan (12), Savannah Jones (12), Kaylee Rebugio (9), Zoe Gross (9) - Girls 4x100: 5th All-Time with a time of 50.13
Addison Shannon (9) - Girls 1600: 6th All-Time with a time of 5:16.05
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
A few of our athletes will be heading up north this weekend for the Arcadia Invitational “Home of National Records” tomorrow, Friday April 1st through Saturday April 2nd at Arcadia High School.
You can buy spectator tickets here or watch the free live stream from home.
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.