MC Field + Distance Carnival
Hello nighthawk families and fans,
On Saturday we headed down the road to Mt Carmel for the Field + Distance Carnival. As the name suggests, this meet is only for Field Events and Distance Runners. Find the full meet results here on athletic.net, find photos by Nick Echsner here and keep reading for more highlights. If you are new to athletic.net and confused on how it works, scroll down on this past newsletter where we give a bit of a walkthrough of the site.
Pictured, Samhita Lagisetti (sophomore) photo by Nick Echsner
Athletes of the Meet
After each meet, we want to take the time to highlight a couple of athletes who had spectacular performances.
Long Jump -
Abbi Lorett (12) set a new PR with a jump of 15’4”
Distance -
Marcelino Lapastora (9) in his 1600 debut broke the 5:00 barrier with a time of 4:56.23. He has a very tactical approach to his running style which will only benefit him even more as we get more races under his belt.
Samhita Lagisetti (10) really showed off how winter season preparation can payoff. She had a great double in the 4x800 and 3200 on Saturday. Earning herself a 1:30 PR in the 3200 and moving her to 15th all time in Del Norte history.
Throws -
Miller Utech (11) finished first in her flight with a huge 80’2” throw. 10 inches further than her previous best.
Congratulations to all of those athletes on a great meet.
This Week
Our next meet is the Mira Mesa Dual meet taking place at Del Norte, more info here. Athletes will find out what events they are competing in on practice at Wednesday. Following that, this Saturday we have the Don Jones Bronco Invite at Rancho Bernardo High School. We should have final entries/heat sheets on Wednesday for that meet as well.
We need parent volunteers at all of our home meets starting this Thursday. Please sign up for a volunteer time slot HERE
Athletes are required to stay for the entirety of our dual meets, home and away. It is important they are there to support their teammates and help clean up for home meets.
Pictured: The boys DMR team, Peter Akinpelu (12), Luke Jin (11), Aden Kaimer (11) and Cameron Yarbrough (10) first place finishers.
House Keeping
Want to learn more about our coaching staff? Check out our Meet the Coaches page!
Calling all SENIORS! submit your senior bio to be put up on our website. Fill out this form ASAP and check out last year’s senior bios to get an idea of what this will look like!
Parents: if you have not created an account on Sports Engine please do so as soon as possible by clicking HERE.
We are currently at 19% participation for the voluntary parent donation (35 out of 182 families), if you have not donated, you can do so in one of the following ways:
Through Sports Engine when you sign up above
Directly through the DNHS Athletic Foundation HERE!
Via Venmo using @dnhsathleticfoundation, please put your athletes name and “Track and Field” in the memo
By check, payable to Del Norte High School. Please put your athletes name and “Track and Field” in the memo.
We need parent volunteers at all of our home meets starting this Thursday. Please sign up for a volunteer time slot HERE
We will be starting our Snap Raise fundraiser next week, please help your athlete collect 20 emails and create (or log into) an account here using the join code 966180689:
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.