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We have lots of news to get caught up on! Azusa Distance Meet of Champions On Saturday May 28, 18 Monta Vista distance runners lit up an already hot track, recording 14 PRs in a single day!  Highlights included seeing…

The St. Francis Invitational is a highlight of every track season–from the unique track with the huge oak tree inside the oval to the great competition on the track itself. And Monta Vista came with some very scintillating performances, lead…

Yesterday’s meet at Santa Clara was kind of a test of how much you like track & field.  The meet was well run (Coach Julie L’Heureux runs a great meet and we were done at 6pm, under three hours from…

It was cold at the end, but the boys saved some of their best for last. The three-way meet between Monta Vista on March 10, Homestead and Fremont that opened El Camino League competition lasted into the night.  At the…

There is nothing quite like the sound of a starters’ pistol to signal the coming of Spring!–at least in the mind of a track and field athlete.  At 9am on Saturday, March 7, the gun sounded to start a 3200m…

On Tuesday, March 3, Monta Vista had the great honor of hosting Stephanie Brown Trafton–a USA champion in the discus, former USA record holder, a three-time Olympian, and the 2008 Olympic gold medal winner! Steph is a wonderful person, in…

Holy smokes, what a week! Workouts Continue We continued to work ourselves into shape with another solid week of training.  The sprinters and jumpers were ambushed a bit on Thursday as jump coach David Pride and sprint coach Leah Tapscott…

Monta Vista track and field 2015 got rolling on Monday, February 2!  As usual, the first week grinds off the starting line as we crunch through paperwork, get re-acclimated to the routine and effort of workouts, and get to know…

Who knows who you might be racing against? Last Sunday Diego Estrada, a former student-athlete at Alisal High School in Salinas, won the USA Half Marathon Championship in his first attempt at that distance, winning the race in a fabulous…

At our pre-season track meeting on Friday, Aarohi Palkar commented that track and field can be a training ground for athletes in other sports.  Watching the football playoffs this weekend, I realized that I saw an example of multi-sport athletics–Richard…

It was great having three seniors and two alumni join Coach for a muddy run in Quicksilver; we slipped and slid for a solid nine miles of really beautiful running! This is what off-season running is all about–going out and…

  Congratulations to Rohan Choudhury and Jenny Xu who were selected for the Mercury-News cross country honor teams…these are runners selected from all high school runners in Santa Clara and San Mateo Counties, plus schools in San Francisco that compete…