Another Great Week for Monta Vista

Last Wednesday, the Monta Vista Track & Field team welcomed the Santa Clara Bruins to our campus for some action-packed dual meet competition! Our Varsity teams both came out victorious along with JV boys, while the JV girls faced their first loss of the season. We also brought a big team to the Firebird Relay Invitational and Monta Vista finished 2nd out of 32 schools as a combined team! That meet has a relay aspect to it where in the field events, they combine the top 3 from each division/school and score that separately – super fun!

We’re right in the middle of our season and I know a lot of us are feeling a little beat up, nursing injuries, getting over sickness, etc. Luckily for those folks, this week and next week are free of dual meets! What I would encourage you all to do is to take care of yourselves – if you have something that’s been tight, make sure you are stretching and rolling that area and surrounding areas. If you think you are injured, please go see our athletic trainer! Aside from that, the absolute best way to recover is by getting good sleep, so let’s make that a priority for the next two weeks. We want you all to feel great as we reach the end of our season, peaking when it matters the most.

Girl’s Performances

Our Varsity girls finished the Santa Clara meet with a score of 68-59, the closest score this season. While we were missing a couple of our athletes, I think Santa Clara brought us some really great team competition that we have needed – it was a great test! Our JV girls lost 44-77 to a really good Santa Clara JV team. Let’s look at our event winners on the Varsity side. Allie Rummelhoff won the discus throw, Lelani Laruelle won the high jump, Dylan Hwang took the long jump, Gillie Ross put the shot the furthest, Clara Fan won the triple jump, Zoe Laruelle won the 100m hurdles over Fan by less than a hundredth of a second, Gabriella Slade won the 400m, and Raji Kenyan won the 300m hurdles. On the JV side, Meyra Olcay won both the discus throw and shot put, Naomi Hsu won both the 1600m and 800m, Elaine Chen took the 100m hurdles, and Melinda Zhao won the 3200m.

At Firebird, our girls had a great day! If you were to score the meet as a Varsity girls, then Monta Vista took the cake 135 – Los Gatos’ 98 – that’s pretty awesome. We scored a lot of points on the relay aspect of the meet. The F/S girls took 2nd place in their division! Standouts on Varsity from this meet included Fan winning the triple jump and long jump and placing 3rd in the high jump, Anika Bhandarkar winning the 3200m and taking 2nd in the 1600m, L. Laruelle winning the high jump and taking 2nd in long jump, Gillie Ross with a 2nd place in the discus throw and 5th place in the shot put, Zoe Laruelle at 2nd in the triple jump, Dylan Hwang placing 5th in both the triple and long jump, and our 4x400m team taking 3rd with a team of Katie Lee, Kenyan, Sophia Yamada, and Bhandarkar. Our special Varsity relays teams earning medals were triple jump, long jump, and high jump teams with 1st place finishes, the shot put team with a 3rd place, and the discus throw team with a 6th place! On the F/S side of things, Rummelhoff won the shot put, got 2nd in both the discus throw and triple jump, Hsu got 2nd in the 3200m, Viha Gopalan placed 3rd in the triple jump and 5th in the long jump, and Zhao placed 4th in the 3200m. The F/S teams of note were the triple jump team who won, and the long jump and discus throw teams which both placed 3rd!

Great work to all of our Varsity and JV ladies!

Boy’s Performances

The Varsity boys and JV boys both won against their Santa Clara opponents, 69-58 and 53-44, respectively. Event winners on the Varsity side included Ryan Shen in all of the jumps, long, high, and triple, Jayden Tang in the 100m and 200m, Ethan Zhu in the 110m hurdles, Andrew Cheng in the 300m hurdles, and both relay teams! On the JV side, Kento Murase won the 1600m and 800m, Constantine Chua won the 65m hurdles, Aaryan Samanta in the 100m, Jeffrey Choy won the 200m, Tarun Gandhi won the 3200m, and both of our relay teams took first (and even beat Santa Clara’s Varsity 4×400)!

At Firebird, the Varsity boys finished 3rd overall, and F/S boys finished 8th. Standout performances on the Varsity side were Tanay Parikh winning the 800m and 1600m, Shen with a win in the long jump, 2nd in triple jump, and 3rd in the high jump, Tang with a 6th place in the 100m, and Agasthya Kothuri with a 6th in both the triple jump and long jump. The triple jump and long jump0 teams took top honors, the discus throw team snagged 5th place, and the shot put team finished 6th! On the F/S side, Chua placed 4th in the 65m hurdles, Samanta placed 4th in the 400m, Murase placed 4th in the 800m, and all of the relay races performed well! The F/S boys DMR and 4x800m relays beat everyone…including the Varsity teams! Our 4x100m and 4x400m teams placed 4th!

This week, we have the Lynbrook Invitation at Lynbrook High School! I look forward to seeing how our season progresses from here.

53 PRs Total!

23 Girls PRs!

Sofia Grigolia – 100m
Gauri Dabade – 100m
Lelani Laruelle – 200m
Bria Slade – 200m
Bria Slade – 400m
Sophia Yamada – 400m
Gauri Dabade – 400m
Naomi Hsu – 800m
Siran Gao – 800m
Naomi Hsu – 1600m
Zoe Laruelle – 100m H
Raji Kenyan – 100m H
Gillie Ross – shot put
Aeshna Chatterji – shot put
Ananya Chaudhary – shot put
Anisha Pant – shot put
Nichole Go – shot put
Allie Rummelhoff – discus throw
Ananya Chaudhary – discus throw
Nichole Go – discus throw
Anisha Pant – discus throw
Bria Slade – long jump
Rafaela Maglaque – long jump

30 Boys PRs!