It’s been a hectic week but this post is needed! What a great meet.
El Camino League finals were this week! Both our junior varsity girls and our frosh-soph boys won championships, finishing off unblemished seasons! Our varsity teams finished with respectable fifth place finishes. The Monta Vista teams had wonderful seasons, as well as preparing for a lot of future success. The team demonstrated hard work and intensity and was supported by the leadership and example set by the upperclassmen.
Meet results are up on the Lynbrook CCS site. And we have photos posted.
It’s hard to pick out highlights out of many strong performances. One highlight was watching Andy Ma win the varsity boys’ 800 meter race, prevailing in a strong battle by less than half a second. Andy’s 800 time was an amazing 10 second improvement over the prior year! I often see Andy stay after practice by himself to do extra core work, something that is tedious and not too fun and yet critical for long term improvement in distance running. Andy’s work definitely paid off.
Sarah Feng, one of only two freshmen that were bumped up to varsity for this meet, executed her race plan perfectly to win the varsity girls’ 3200m race. Sarah was right in the range of our plan on almost every lap. Sarah, Namrata and Paru all medaled in the 3200m and qualified for the SCVAL championship meet.
Several other athletes had standout meets. Freshman Evelyn How was part of four event wins in the junior varsity division, as she was part of winning 4×100 and 4×400 relay teams and taking individual championships in both the 100m and 200m races. Freshman Derek Zheng matched her 40 point total with frosh-soph division individual wins in the long jump and triple jump and the 65m hurdles and well as running a very strong opening leg of the record-setting 4x400m relay team. Claire Chang was right with them, winning the JV girls 3200m and 1600m and coming back to run a leg in the winning 4×400 team, and Alisha Gao who ran 4×100 and 4×400 legs, won the 400m and took second with Evelyn in the 200m also.
The complete list of Monta Vista league championship wins are:
Jeffrey Xu
FSB 3200
Derek Zheng
FSB Long ,Triple Jump, 65h
Claire Chang
JVG 3200, JVG 1600
Reema Apte
JVG Long Jump
Cynthia Gong
JVG Triple Jump
JVG 4×100 Relay (Risha, Alisha, Lauren, Evelyn)
FSB 4×100 Relay (Justin, Andrew, Jonathan, Harsh)
Alisha Gao
JVG 400
Eliot Lubomirsky
FSB 400, 200
Evelyn How
JVG 100, 200
Morris Chiang
FSB 100
Andy Ma
VB 800
Anjali Thontakudi
JVG 800
Justin Lin
FSB 800
Richard Dowd
FSB 300h
Sarah Feng
VG 3200
JVG 4×400 Relay (Reema, Evelyn, Claire, Alisha)
FSB 4×400 Relay (Derek, Justin, Andy, Eliot)
James Migdal
VB High Jump
FSB 3200
Derek Zheng
FSB Long ,Triple Jump, 65h
Claire Chang
JVG 3200, JVG 1600
Reema Apte
JVG Long Jump
Cynthia Gong
JVG Triple Jump
JVG 4×100 Relay (Risha, Alisha, Lauren, Evelyn)
FSB 4×100 Relay (Justin, Andrew, Jonathan, Harsh)
Alisha Gao
JVG 400
Eliot Lubomirsky
FSB 400, 200
Evelyn How
JVG 100, 200
Morris Chiang
FSB 100
Andy Ma
VB 800
Anjali Thontakudi
JVG 800
Justin Lin
FSB 800
Richard Dowd
FSB 300h
Sarah Feng
VG 3200
JVG 4×400 Relay (Reema, Evelyn, Claire, Alisha)
FSB 4×400 Relay (Derek, Justin, Andy, Eliot)
James Migdal
VB High Jump
Qualifiers for the SCVAL Championship meet are:
Kelly Bishop 800, 1600
Sarah Feng 3200
Matthew Ho 300h
Jessica Ji Triple Jump, 100h (alt)
Giselle Kaneda 100h, Triple Jump
Andy Ma 800
Paru Meyyappan 3200
James Migdal High Jump
Brent Mogensen 1600, 3200
Natalie Ohran High Jump
Aarohi Palkar Shot Put
Mahima Shanware High Jump
Namrata Subramanian, 3200
Vamsee Vemulapalli 800
Bennett Zhang 3200
Scott Gregory 1600 (alt)
Boys 4×100 Relay
Girls 4×100 Relay
Boys 4×400 Relay
Girls 4×400 Relay
There were several league championship meet records set by Monta Vista athletes:
JV Girls El Camino Meet Records
100m Evelyn How 12.63 (old record 12.25 in 2012)
200m Evelyn How 26.52 (old record 26.52 1997)
3200m Claire Chang 11:55.14 (old record 12:23.47 2012)
Triple Jump Cynthia Gong 31’11.25″ (old record 31’10.5″ 1995, 2007)
FS Boys El Camino Meet Records
400m Eliot Lubomirsky 52.67 (old record 53.10 2015)
4x400m Relay Monta Vista 3:38.64 (old record 3:40.78 set by MV last year!)
Don’t forget that the Monta Vista team banquet is next Tuesday at 6pm at the MV student union. Don’t miss the fun!