Lots of Fun Leads to 3 Team Wins!
If you missed what I said at the team dinner following the meet, it went something like this: “I feel like this was the most fun meet we’ve had so far this season and it’s because we really operated as a team! I don’t even know what the scores are but I’m proud of the way you all carried yourselves today and had fun. I don’t care if we win – well, I do care, but if we have and don’t have any fun doing it, I don’t want that.” I stand by those words! Of course, the thrower + distance runner 4x100m relay to end the meet was a blast, so thank you to all that participated.
The vibes were vibing, people were jumping into events to score open points, and there were many many smiles on faces. Let’s make every meet like that, win or lose, PR or worst time ever, rain or shine!
Girls Performance
I don’t think I’ve ever seen as dominating of a win in a dual meet as the varsity girls had against Wilcox – 115 to 7!! I don’t think winning is everything, but I think that’s just…insane. Of course, the Wilcox girls didn’t have athletes in a number of events (6), but we still showed up when they had competitors. Our varsity girls only allowed one 2nd place finish and 5 3rd place finishes and we won every single event! The team was led by Lelani Laruelle who won all 3 jumps, Katie Lee who won the 100-200 double and was on both winning relays, and Raji Kenyan who won the hurdle double and was also on both winning relays! That’s not to say there weren’t amazing performances otherwise – because there definitely were. See all the PRs at the bottom of the post. Our varsity girls are 3-0 in league competition.
The JV girls were led by Lauren Moore, who won the long and triple jump events. I also want to mention that Moore noticed there was only 1 Wilcox girl in the 300m H and jumped in just to score the automatic 3 points. She ended being quite competitive with that hurdler trailing by only a small margin. Other standouts were Even Greene and Fiona Rusak blowing away the discus throw field by 3 feet. Elaine Chen jumped into an empty 100m H race to take the guaranteed win and 5 points, posting a decent time for her first ever hurdle race (I’m so happy to see another Chen hurdling on the Monta Vista track again!!). All around, it was a strong win from the JV girls who are now 2-1 in league competition!
Boys Performance
As the results stand right now, the varsity boys lost by 11 points to Wilcox which is a tough way to lose. Just a could events had to go a different way and we would’ve come out on top. I do think that our boys did a better job filling empty role this week, so thank you for listening to your coaches and taking care of that! Winners for the night were Ryan Shen in the high jump, Agasthya Kothuri in the triple jump, Ethan Zhu in the 110m H, Denny Dong in the 400m, and Tanay Parikh in the 800m.
The JV boys came out with their 2nd win in league competition with a deciding victory over Wilcox. Leading the team were Ethan Yang who won the long jump, triple jump, 1600m, and was part of the winning 4x400m relay, and Alex Frefel who won both the 65m and 300m H and was on the winning 4x400m relay. We had great showings from Eddie Fan and Adam Abdelrahman who went 1-2 in each throwing event. Fan took the discus throw and Abdelrahman had the edge in the shot put. And as is always nice, we ended things with an easy win in the 4x400m relay made up of Yang, Jake Tong, Ivan Shilakhov, and Frefel. The JV boys are 2-1 in league competition.
93 PRs as a Team against Wilcox!
Girls PRs (27)
- Zoe Laruelle – 100m
- Felicity Ho – 100m
- Lillaka Ruffin – 100m
- Kavya Kotecha – 100m
- Avery Whiting – 100m
- Katie Lee – 200m
- Anika Bhandarkar – 400m
- Felicity Ho – 400m
- Anika Bhandarkar – 800m
- Margaux Francoeur – 800m
- Mira Ram – 800m
- Miranda Hsu – 1600m
- Annelise Gorts – 1600m
- Miranda Hsu – 3200m
- Hemani Kamarshi – 3200m
- Raji Kenyan – 100m H
- Zoe Laruelle – 100m H
- Raji Kenyan – 300m H
- 4x400m Relay Season Best for VG – Katie Lee, Raji Kenyan, Anika Bhandarkar, Valerie Ayzenberg
- Maya Pullara – Shot Put
- Kathryn Foo – Shot Put
- Evan Greene – Discus Throw
- Kathryn Foo – Discus Throw
- Dylan Hwang – High Jump
- Jasmine Zhao – Long Jump
- Rafaela Maglaque – Long Jump
- Dylan Hwang – Triple Jump
Boys PRs (66)
- Jeffrey Song – 100m
- Jayden Tang – 100m
- Ben Chen – 100m
- Graham Ischo – 100m
- Hyonjin Kim – 100m
- Aneesh Boddu – 100m
- Jake Tong – 100m
- Anshul Sinha – 100m
- Kevin Liu – 100m
- Eric Fernandes – 100m
- Cameron Miller – 100m
- Nicholas Chen – 100m
- Gaurav Purushothaman – 100m
- Vishal Iyer – 100m
- Aaron Tang – 100m
- Denny Dong – 200m
- Agasthya Kothuri – 200m
- Ben Chen – 200m
- Andrew Cheng – 200m
- Anshul Sinha – 200m
- Eric Fernandes – 200m
- Nicholas Chen – 200m
- Kevin Liu – 200m
- Gaurav Purushothaman – 200m
- Nicholas Kwan – 400m
- Jayden Pang – 400m
- Tanay Parikh – 800m
- Ryan Liu – 800m
- Aiden Cushman-Kihnley – 800m
- Qi Huang – 800m
- Isaac Yan – 800m
- Andrew Liu – 800m
- Justin Yaung – 800m
- Ryan Liu – 1600m
- Ethan Yang – 1600m
- Bradley Dulay – 1600m
- Alexander Chu – 1600m
- Qi Huang – 1600m
- Isaac Yan – 1600m
- Brandon Xu – 1600m
- Bradley Dulay – 3200m
- Cameron Polidoro – 3200m
- Stanley Wang – 3200m
- Ethan Zhu – 110m H
- Andrew Cheng – 110m H
- Vishal Iyer – 110m H
- Ethan Zhu – 300m H
- Vishal Iyer – 300m H
- Jake Tong – 300m H
- 4x100m Relay Team Season Best for VB – Jeffrey Song, Rishi Bhagatwala, Manas Kottakota, Jayden Tang
- Adam Abdelrahman – Shot Put
- Eddie Fan – Shot Put
- Krish Kotecha – Shot Put
- Graham Ischo – Shot Put
- Nate Diaz – Shot Put
- Billy Levison – Shot Put
- Devansh Gulati – Shot Put
- Eddie Fan – Discus Throw
- Adam Abdelrahman – Discus Throw
- Nate Diaz – Discus Throw
- Krish Kotecha – Discus Throw
- Andrew Nguyen – Discus Throw
- Agasthya Kothuri – Long Jump
- Jeffrey Song – Long Jump
- Cameron Miller – Long Jump
- Ethan Yang – Triple Jump
We’re in action next at Fremont High School taking a squad of athletes to the Firebird Invitational! Competition begins at 8:30am on Saturday, March 23rd. See the timetable for our competing athletes here: Firebird Meet Sheet.