MVTF Burnin’ Up the Track
On Wednesday of this week, Monta Vista Track & Field faced Saratoga High School in our third dual meet of the season. It was a scorcher with temps exceeding 85 degrees, but the Matadors did not let that stop them from winning 3 of the 4 divisions! Varsity boys and both JV teams were victorious with the Varsity ladies taking a narrow loss. Final scores were:
- VB MVHS – SHS: 78 – 48
- VG MVHS – SHS: 59 – 66
- JVB MVHS – SHS: 65 – 26
- JVG MVHS – SHS: 68 – 49
Track meets are so fun! Your coaches really hope that you all are enjoying this season, because it’s going by fast and you only get four of these, maximum. One way that you can deepen your experience at meets is to get involved with your friends’ and teammates’ performances. Ask them how their races, jumps, and throws went. Tell them about your races, jumps, and throws. Go watch an event that you haven’t and scream and cheer loud for others to show them you support them. When we step out of our “norm” and do something kind and intentional for other people, it gives us a sense of the real community that is around us. Not only that, but it perpetuates a culture of support and kindness – people will remember when you’ve gone out of your way to be kind to them and oftentimes they will pay that same thing forward. So let’s be kind to one another and turn this into a true team!
Lady Points Scorers
The JV girls swept the 1600m with Taylor Orr taking first, Sophia Li in second, and Alex Perrault snagging third place! Following that performance, Evie Hufnagel won the 100m hurdles and the 300m hurdles, with Ellie Kong taking third in the 100m hurdles. Li came back in the 800m to take the top spot, with Zeynep Dogan in third. Mya Vu earned 2nd place in the 100m in PR fashion right after Sarah Kumar made her return to running special with a PR and a third place finish in the 400m. Hufnagel, Orr, and Li teamed up with Medha Rustagi to win the 4x400m relay! In the field for JV, Ritika Sane and Nishi Doshi went 1-2 in the shot put with Sane also winning the discus throw followed by Ashley Ten in second and Lora Lee in third. Hufnagel and Vu stepped on the apron to take second and third, respectively, in the high jump. Mia DeRoche earned a second place in the long jump with Lee taking third. The girls did well in the triple jump with DeRoche winning in PR fashion, and Kong taking second.
On the Varsity side, Naomi Hsu got things started with a win in the 1600m, dipping below 6 minutes for the first time with a 5:57.20!! After that, Vishakha Shastri won the 400m, after making the switch from the distance crew over to sprints. Mel Zhao earned a third place finish in the 800m, followed by Shastri jumping into the 300m hurdles for the first time to earn a point in third place as well. Suhani Pahuja and Miranda Hsu scored the final points on the track for MV with a 1-2 finish in the 3200m, respectively. In the field, Gillie Ross and Allie Rummelhoff took care of business, per usual. Ross won both the shot put and discus throw while Rummelhoff took second place in each event plus a win in the long jump. Lelani Laruelle earned third in the shot put and discus throw. Jasmine Zhao got second in the high jump. Rounding out the horizontal jumps was Zoe Laruelle winning the triple jump and earning second in the long jump and Lauren Moore landing in second for triple and third for long jump. Great job, ladies!
Gentlemen Earning Points
The JV boys got things rolling with a win in the 4x100m relay. In fact, the team of Evan Chen, Aaryan Samanta, Yibo Wang, and Carter Miller put down the fastest time of the day, including varsity! Following that up was a 1-3 finish in the 1600m by Ritik Shenoy and Aiden White, respectively. They came back to go 1-2 in the 800m (Shenoy taking top honors again) and added Darin Young to the crew with a third place finish. Arjun Rayankula earned second place in the 400m. Samanta won the 100m with Chen taking third place. Chen came back in the 200m to take another third place. To complete the relay double for the day, the team of Shenoy, Samanta, Young, and White won the 4x400m relay! In the field, Booker Volrath won both the shot put and discus throw. Duncan Ross came up second in the discus throw. Leo Jayasena won the high jump, while Han Chau took top honors in both of the horizontal jumps. Michael Zhilinsky earned a second place in long jump with Adam Yang in third. Zhilinsky also took second in the triple jump with Jayasena in third.
For the Varsity boys, Ethan Yang scored our first points with a win in the 1600m. That was followed by a second and third place from Constantine Chua and Alex Frefel, respectively, in the 110m hurdles. Jeffrey Choy got a second place finish in the 400m with a new PR and Ivan Shliakhov snagged second. In the 100m, Jayden Tang put up his best time of the year to win the event, with Max Shaykin close behind in second. Riu Yamada took the top spot in the 800m with Yang in second place. Chua ran a smooth second place in the 300m hurdles followed by a photo-finish first and second place from Tang and Shaykin in the 200m. In the 3200m, Tarun Gandhi crossed the line first to earn the varsity boys’ final points on the track. In the field, Kingston Jourdan and Eddie Fan went 1-2 in the shot put with Fan also winning the discus throw. Ryan “Mr. Bounce” Shen won all 3 jumps to earn 15 points for the team! Dayo Davies snagged third place in the long jump and Agasthya Kothuri and Ethan Yang completed the triple jump sweep with second and third places, respectively.
50 PRs Total!
This was our biggest meet so far in terms of PRs set. Nice job, team!!
26 Girls PRs!
- Mya Vu – 100m
- Vishakha Shastri – 400m
- Sarah Kumar – 400m
- Melinda Zhao – 800m
- Naomi Hsu – 800m
- Zeynep Dogan – 800m
- Medha Rustagi – 800m
- Luna Lee – 800m
- Naomi Hsu – 1600m
- Taylor Orr – 1600m
- Suhani Pahuja – 3200m
- Gillie Ross – Shot Put
- Ritika Sane – Shot Put
- Gillie Ross – Discus Throw
- Alex Sharma – Discus Throw
- Ritika Sane – Discus Throw
- Lora Lee – Discus Throw
- Allie Rummelhoff – Long Jump
- Zoe Laurelle – Long Jump
- Lauren Moore – Long Jump
- Mia DeRoche – Long Jump
- Lora Lee – Long Jump
- Caroline Labudde – Long Jump
- Ashley Ten – Long Jump
- Mia DeRoche – Triple Jump
- Mya Vu – High Jump
24 Boys PRs!
- Max Shaykin – 100m
- Richie Yu – 100m
- Kingston Jourdan – 100m
- Edison Chang – 100m
- Kevin Ko – 100m
- Aditya Krishna – 100m
- Yibo Wang – 100m
- Leo Jayasena – 100m
- Max Shaykin – 200m
- Jonah Chang – 200m
- Kento Murase – 200m
- Jeffrey Choy – 400m
- Arjun Rayankula – 400m
- Aiden White – 800m
- Aric Obaidur – 800m
- Sihoon Lee – 800m
- Ritik Shenoy – 1600m
- Eddie Fan – Shot Put
- Booker Volrath – Shot Put
- Eddie Fan – Discus Throw
- Booker Volrath – Discus Throw
- Jake Tong – Long Jump
- Leo Jayasena – Long Jump
- Leo Jayasena – Triple Jump