Last week, Monta Vista Track & Field participated in its fourth dual meet of the season at Santa Clara High School. It was a very nice evening of competition with some great marks that our kids should be proud of! The team scores played out as follows:
- VG: MV 55 – SC 71
- VB: MV 81 – SC 45
- JVG: MV 64 – SC 59
- JVB: MV 56 – SC 58
We also sent 8 athletes to the De Anza/Wilcox Invitational, which I will cover near the bottom of this article. The highlight of the day was a double 1-2 punch from Gillie Ross and Allie Rummelhoff in both Varsity Girls’ throwing events!
Girls’ Dual Meet Performance
For JV girls, Sophia Li and Eva Huang got things started with a 1-2 finish in the 1600m. After that, Evie Hufnagel, Ellie Kong, and Navya Kari took 1st, 2nd, and 3rd, respectively, in the 100m hurdles. In the 800m, Taylor Orr came across the line 1st, followed by Li and Alex Perrault in 2nd and 3rd. Hufnagel returned in the 300m hurdles as the sole JV girl in the mixed heat with Varsity, so she took 1st but also managed to beat out all of Santa Clara’s Varsity girls! Kaitlyn Lum won the 3200m with Medha Rustagi right behind in 2nd place. Our JVG 4x400m relay ran uncontested to take the auto-win with a team of Perrault, Orr, Li, and Hufnagel! In the field, Ritika Sane earned a 3rd place in the discus throw, Audre Chang picked up another 3rd in the long jump, and our girls swept the high jump. Mya Vu leaped the highest, with Hufnagel in 2nd, and Mia DeRoche in 3rd. Chang and Kong took 2nd and 3rd in the triple jump to round things out!
On the Varsity side, the 4x100m relay got its first win of the season with a team of Rummelhoff, Zoe Laruelle, Sofia Grigolia, and Lelani Laruelle! After that, Miranda Hsu and Myra Mishra went 2-3 in the 1600m. Vishakha Shastri took 3rd in the 400m followed by another 2-3 finish from Hsu and Mishra in the 800m. L. Laruelle and Rummelhoff took 1st and 2nd in the 300m hurdles, both trying the event for the first time (with Hufnagel included on JV, we took the top 3 times of the day!). Naomi Hsu scored the final points on the track with a win in the 3200m. In the field, Ross, Rummelhoff, and L. Laruelle went 1-2-3 in the shot put and discus throw to score 18 of the 55 total points that MV’s Varsity girls scored. Z. Laruelle won the long jump and Lauren Moore won the triple jump.
Boys’ Dual Meet Performance
Let’s look at JV boys first! The 4x100m relay team of Evan Chen, Sudhanshu Bhagwat, Yibo Wang, and Carter Miller got things started with a win. Miller came back in the 100m for a win and that was followed up by a 2-3 finish in the 800m from Oliver Perrault and Soma Pujara. The last points scored on the track were from the trio that swept the 3200m – Ritik Shenoy, Aiden White, and Darin Young! For the field, Booker Volrath won the shot put and discus throw. Aaryan Samanta won the high jump. In the horizontal jumps, MV saw two sweeps! For the long jump, Michael Zhilinsky, Misha Bakhtin, and Adam Yang went 1-2-3, respectively. In the triple jump, our 1-2-3 finishers were Zhilinsky, Leo Jayasena, and Yang.
For Varsity, Riu Yamada got us started with a win in the 1600m with Tarun Gandhi very close behind in 2nd place. Constantine Chua and Alex Frefel laughed their way to a 1-2 finish the 110m hurdles which was followed up by a 2-3 finish out of Ivan Shliakhov and Jonah Chang in the 400m, respectively. Jeffrey Choy and Ryan Shen shared a 3rd place finish in the 100m for running the exact same time out of separate heats. Yamada returned in the 800m to win, which was followed up by another event win from Chua in the 300m hurdles. Choy and Jayden Tang went 2-3 in the 200m and Sam Heinonen won the 3200m. Final points on the track were scored by our VB 4x400m relay team of Shliakhov, Chua, Yamada, and Choy. In the field, Kingston Jourdan won the shot put with Eddie Fan finishing 2nd. Fan came back in the discus throw to win by a 31 foot margin, though. Shen won all of the jumps and had his buddy, Adarsh Inampudi, in 2nd place for the high and triple jumps. Han Chau, a freshman, earned 3rd place in both the long and triple jump events.
De Anza / Wilcox Invitational Recap
Kingston Jourdan and Eddie Fan both threw shot put at the De Anza Invite, earning 2nd and 8th place finishes, respectively. Fan also threw the discus to earn a 5th place finish. Dayo Davies and Adarsh Inampudi each sailed to a 12th and 19th place in the long jump. Inampudi earned a 5th place finish in the triple jump. For the boys, the day was highlighted by a 6’4″ high jump win from Ryan Shen coupled with his 3rd place finish in the triple jump.
For the ladies, the story was already spoiled in my intro paragraph, but Gillie Ross and Allie Rummelhoff crushed the competition with 1-2 finishes in both throws. Ross threw for 35’1.5″ in the shot to take the win with Rummelhoff in 2nd with 34’11.5″. Alex Sharma earned a 23rd place finish in the shot. Ross threw the discus 114’5″ to take the win with Rummelhoff in 2nd at 105’10” (a PR) and Alex Sharma in 13th with 73’7″ (a PR).
51 Total PRs!
16 Girls’ PRs!
- Sofia Grigolia – 100m
- Vishakha Shastri – 400m
- Myra Mishra – 800m
- Sophia Li – 800m
- Naomi Hsu – 3200m
- Kaitlyn Lum – 3200m
- Zeynep Dogan – 3200m
- Meyra Olcay – Shot Put
- Ritika Sane – Shot Put
- Lelani Laruelle – Discus Throw
- Nishi Doshi – Discus Throw
- Audre Chang – Triple Jump
- Alex Sharma – Discus Throw (Santa Clara)
- Alex Sharma – Discus Throw (De Anza)
- Allie Rummelhoff – Discus Throw (Santa Clara)
- Allie Rummelhoff – Discus Throw (De Anza)
35 Boys’ PRs!
- Ryan Shen – 100m
- Jake Tong – 100m
- Richie Yu – 100m
- Edison Chang – 100m
- Dayo Davies – 100m
- Carter Miller – 100m
- Leo Jayasena – 100m
- Sudhanshu Bhagwat – 100m
- Jake Tong – 200m
- Kento Murase – 200m
- Yibo Wang – 200m
- Arjun Rayankula – 200m
- Tarun Gandhi – 800m
- Oliver Perrault – 800m
- Soma Pujara – 800m
- Aric Obaidur – 800m
- Leon Zhu – 800m
- Bryson Hadfield – 800m
- Akshat Ambekar – 1600m
- Soma Pujara – 1600m
- Sihoon Lee – 1600m
- Sam Heinonen – 3200m
- Ritik Shenoy – 3200m
- Darin Young – 3200m
- Eddie Fan – Shot Put
- Eddie Fan – Discus Throw
- Booker Volrath – Discus Throw
- Han Chau – Long Jump
- Michael Zhilinsky – Long Jump
- Duncan Ross – Long Jump
- Adarsh Inampudi – Long Jump (Santa Clara)
- Adarsh Inampudi – Triple Jump (Santa Clara)
- Adarsh Inampudi – Long Jump (De Anza)
- Adarsh Inampudi – Triple Jump (De Anza)