Thank You Seniors!
Hello nighthawk families and fans,
Yesterday we had our final league dual meet against San Marcos High School. We celebrated our seniors for their last home dual meet, they will all be dearly missed next season! 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 74-44 and 85-46 respectively. Find the full meet results here, an album of photos from the meet by Nick Echsner here and keep reading for some highlights.
Pictured, Senior Bianca Calafato, 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.
Throws -
Tabitha Bergem (11) - ended the season big with PRs in both events, finally breaking through some barriers and throwing 66’ and 23’.
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.
Jumps
Ben Sheffres (11) constant improvements in long jump, adding a few more inches to his personal best!
Chloe Kang (9) also showing consistent improvements in jumps. Setting a huge PR in triple jump and just off her own record in long jump.
Hurdles -
Josh Spurgiesz (11) approaching hurdles with a brand new attitude and it is showing with hie performance. He set a new PR, shaving over 1.5 seconds off of his previous best. Josh sits 8th all time at Del Norte and 4th in Palomar League. Very excited to see what he has left in him as the end of the season comes near.
Ava Llamas (12) continues to make huge improvements in the 300 hurdles, setting a new PR and breaking 49. Ava sits 2nd in Palomar league and tied for 10th All-Time at Del Norte in the event.
Distance -
Sophia Tang (10) put together a great race in the mile setting a huge PR. She shaved 6 seconds off her previous best time.
Aiden Delgado (10) had an amazing race and PR’d by 4 seconds in the 800 a very impressive race!
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 Pole Vault: 2nd All-Time with a vault of 12’6”
Kaylee Tan (12) - Girls 100: 3rd All-Time with a time of 12.72
Kaylee Tan (12), Savanna Jones (12), Alyssa Sutherland (12) and Kaylee Rebuggio (10) - Girls 4x100: 3rd All-Time with a time of 49.75
Cameron Yarbrough (9) - Boys 3200: 4th All-Time with a time of 9:27.10
Ty Olsen (10)- Boys 200: 7th All-Time with a time of
Jake Warren (11) - Boys 200: 8th All-Time with a time of
Dean Phillips (11) - Boys 110 Hurdles: 8th All-Time with a time of 16.49
Ava Llamas (12) - Girls 300 Hurdles: (tied) 10th All-Time with a time of 48.78
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 regular season comes to a close, post season is upon us! Our next meet is League Finals taking place this Saturday May 6th at Mt Carmel High School.
House Keeping
Thank you to the parents who already signed up to help out at the snack bar this season. 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.
Friday April 28th was 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!
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.