Frosh Soph 2023
Hello nighthawk families and fans,
Saturday we hosted the 35th Annual Dick Wilkins Frosh Soph Invitational. We saw thousands of young athletes compete and our own Nighthawks pulled of countless incredible performances! We finished with night with tons of medals, personal records, new school records and a new meet record! We would like to thank all of our parent volunteers who stepped up and made this meet possible. As well as our fantastic athletic trainer Savanah Lentz. We could not pull this off with out your help! Find the full meet results here, an album of photos from the meet by Nick Echsner here. Dennis McClanahan has an album here as well. Keep reading for a full recap.
Pictured, Sophomore Emily Russo, Photo by Nick Echsner
Meet Recap
A great group of our freshmen and sophomores competed on Saturday and we want to give a recap of highlights from each events group.
Jumps/Hurdles
Ashlyn Blackburn (9) set a new personal record in high jump with a mark of 4’6”. Charlie Bowers (10) represented the long jumpers at Frosh Soph with a jump just under his own personal record. Yvonne Ho (9) competed in both the 100 and 300 hurdles setting a new personal best in both.
Sprints
In only her 4th 100 ever, Kaylee Rebuggio (10) broke the school record with a time of 12.56. This places her in the top 20 San Diego athletes for this event. Fresh off a PR on Thursday Aden Kaimer (10) bettered his own 400 time to 52.92, almost a full second faster than his previous best. Our sophomore boys 4x4 team (Alex Walicki, Braxton Jones, Luke Jin, Aden Kaimer) put together a great race with many of them achieving their fastest splits ever. We had both a freshman and sophomore girls 4x4 team representing on Saturday night. The girls freshmen team (Hannah I’m, Ashlyn Blackburn, Sevanna Collins, Julianna Sutherland) ran a fantastic relay, finishing 5th place overall. Finally, our Sophomore girls team (Kaylee Rebugio, Paige Echsner, Heidi Phuong and Emily Russo)
Vault
Mekai Segovia (9) triple PRd finishing the day with a mark of 10’9”. Caitlin Khieu (9) set a new PR of 10’8” to finish first overall. Kiera Recaido (10) finished 5th in her flight and Paige Echsner (10) finished 1st in the Sophomore girls flight.
Distance
We had a great group of distance runners representing our team and had a great deal of PRs.
Girls 800: Addison Spurgiesz (9) 5 second PR in 800. New lifetime best of 2:25, Maddie Badillo (10) new season best of 2:35, Samhita Lagisetti (9) new PR of 2:35 and Paige Echsner (10) won girls soph invite 800 in 2:16. Boys 800: Ben Owsley (9) 3 second PR. New lifetime best of 2:06. Girls 1600: Emily Russo (10) won the soph invite with 5:04 in a great solo effort and Lilah Enyedi (9) with a new PR of 5:24. Boys 1600: Cameron Yarbrough (9) set a new meet/school record and new PR of 4:16 in freshman invite mile, Isaac Bradshaw (9) new PR of 4:58, his first time breaking 5:00 mile barrier, Sean Chang (10) 2nd place in open 1600. New PR of 4:39 which is a 6 second PR, Luke Jin (10) got 3rd in soph invite 1600 and new PR of 4:32. Boys 3200: Ben Owsley (9) 13 second PR with a 10:40 Daniel Fitzwilliam (9) set a 5 second PR with a 11:05 and Quinn Davis (10) with a 17 second PR for 10:09.
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.
Kaylee Rebugio (10) - Girls 100: 1st All-Time with a time of 12.56
We also had a new Meet Record set on Saturday
Cam Yarbrough (9) - Boys Frosh 1600: in a time of 4:16.28
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.
We would also like to recognize a few of our athletes who went above and beyond in their volunteering positions at Frosh Soph. Abbi Lorett, Peter Akinpelu, Bluerain Conrad, Alex Walicki, and Savanna Jones. We appreciate these individuals for setting an incredible example for our program and being such crucial support at our biggest team fundraiser of the year.
Our Next Meet
Our next meet is our final League Dual meet against San Marcos which will also serve as our senior night for the class of 2023. We encourage all friends and families of our seniors to attend and support our seniors in their final home dual. We will have a small ceremony to honor our senior athletes at the end of the meet.
First events start at 4pm
- Photo by Nick Echsner
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 San Marcos 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.
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.