A Nighthawk Sweep Poway Dual Meet
Hello nighthawk families and fans,
Yesterday we had our league dual meet against Poway High School. We had some great performances across the board with a full program sweep (both JV and Varsity for boys and girls teams). Our boys and girls varsity teams took home the win with final scores of 85-51 and 82-53 respectively. Find the full meet results here, 4x4 splits here an album of photos from the day by Nick Echsner here and keep reading for some highlights.
Frosh Soph Invitational - This Saturday 4/22
We host the Frosh Soph Invitational each year which is a huge fundraiser for our program. Every Del Norte Track Athlete is required to help out during the meet per our team rules agreement. Athletes can find their shift assignments here upperclassmen were given priority for morning shifts. We also need the help and support of our parents to run things like the snack bar, gate check in, etc. Parents can sign up here for volunteer spots. If you have adult children, adult family members like aunts and uncles or friends who would like to come help we appreciate all of the help we can get. There are various assignments and time slots to fill, grab what works best with your schedule before spots fill up. We so appreciate your support!
Pictured, Sophomore Ryan Remigio, Photo by Nick Echsner
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 -
Thomas Park (10) set a new PR in high jump and finished first in the JV boys flight.
Sprints -
Ashlyn Blackburn (9) won the JV high jump, 400 and 200 throwing down massive PRs in her sprint races.
Aden Kaimer (10) has PRd consistently throughout his races. He was able to PR again with a 53.79 and ran an electric 4x4 leg for a 52.5 split.
Hurdles -
Alex Guerra (10) fresh off a PR in the 110 Hurdles from last week, he bettered his time by almost a whole second, breaking 20 and winning the race. He then came back and set a new PR in the 300 hurdles shaving a second off his previous best. Incredibly proud of this hurdler, he has shaved 7 and a half seconds off of his PR from last year.
Ava Llamas (12) Put together an amazing race, broke 50 and set a new PR in the 300 hurdles. This time places her 2nd in Palomar League. Also made a stellar debut in her first ever 100 running the 5th fastest time on the team this year! Excite to see this newfound speed and can’t wait to watch you continue to improve!
Distance -
Brianna Busse (11) has her break out race this week with a new lifetime best of 5:19 in the 1600. She then doubled back and helped score valuable points in the 800.
Quinn Davis (10) continued to impress yesterday with another strong outing. He was able to come away with a double PR in the 800 and 3200.
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!
Jake Warren (11) - Boys 100: 3rd All-Time with a time of 11.25
Ella Echsner (11) - Girls 300 Hurdles: 4th All-Time with a time of 46.82
Danny Tragarz (12) - Boys 400: 5th All-Time with a time of 50.50
Danny Tragarz (12) - Boys Long Jump: (tied) 5th All-Time with a jump of 20’10”
Ty Olsen (10) - Boys 100: 8th All-Time with a time of 11.39
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
As you should all know by now we are hosting the Dick Wilkins Frosh Soph Invite this Saturday at our Del Norte Stadium. You can find all the information about that meet here. Come watch the future champions of San Diego Track & Field compete!
Next Thursday we have our last League Dual meet against San Marcos which will also serve as our senior night. Please come out and cheer on our seniors in their last home dual meet of the season.
- Photo by Lulu Yasin
House Keeping
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.
Next Friday April 28th is our Uniform return day for all athletes not competing in League Finals. This includes all JV Athletes. Please bring your washed uniform top and warm up sweats set to practice. Athletes who fail to return their gear will have their names sent to the front office and be charged a fine.
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.