Monta Vista headed back to Cupertino High School for the El Camino League Championships on April 29, 2022.
Three freshman girls claimed championships for MVTF! In the varsity division, freshman Clara Fan cleared 5’4″ to win the varsity high jump; this was a new PR for Clara and she is now only 2″ from the all-time Monta Vista high jump record. Clara has added 10″ to her middle school personal best in her first season with MVTF. Clara added a second place finish in the long jump with another PR of 16’8 1/4″. In the junior varsity division, freshman Anika Bhandarkar had an incredible meet! After winning the 3200m race by 18 seconds on Wednesday, Anika needed to win her Friday races with kicks in the last 200m as she earned personal bests of 5:43.59 in the 1600m and 2:39.40 in the 800m. Anika came back to run a leg in the 4x400m relay team that won yet another championship for the MVTF JV girls! Katie Lee almost matched Anika’s championship haul, as Katie won the 200m with a 28.01 personal record, ran legs in the relay teams that won both the 4×100 (including Jasmine Varma, Justine Garcia, and Katherine Shen) and 4×400 (with Anika, Justine and Katherine) relay, and took second in the 100m with a 13.28 PR.
The girls were not the only headliners on the track this Friday. In the varsity boys’ 110m hurdles, Sotirios Kougiouris and Ethan Lu took second and third with 15.90 and 16.18 marks; later, Soti added a second place in the 300m hurdles while Ethan’s 43.63 PR earned a 5th place finish. Yvonne Chen also had a personal records both hurdle races as she placed 5th in the varsity 100m hurdles and 4th in the 300m. Hayden Selvakumar ran a PR 54.32 in the 400m to take 4th place for the varsity boys.
Alice Ross continued her season long string of strong performances as she placed second in discus and third in shot for the varsity girls; fellow varsity thrower Lavinia Lei added two fifth place finishes. Nikhita Saldi followed a 4th place in the 1600m with a PR 2:29.81 PR in the 800m–her first time sub-2:30 and good for a fifth place finish!
Some other notable performances include Lourdes Diaz and Nishika Gorla recording long jump PRs as they placed 3rd and 5th, Jacob Kunnankunni’s first discus toss over 100′, Reese Myer’s clearing 5′ for the first time to get a 4″ PR as he placed fourth in the frosh-soph boys’ high jump, and Megan Nieh’s dramatic sprint for fifth place in the 1600m.
PRs on the day were earned by: Katie Lee, Justine Garcia, Katherine Shen, and Ryan Samin in the 100m; Katie in the 200m; Hayden Selvakumar in the 400m; Nikhita Saldi and Anika Bhandarkar in the 800m; Anika again in the 1600m; Megan Nieh, Manasi Prasad and Alex Nguyen in the 3200m; Yvonne Chen and Raje Kenyan in both the 100m and 300m hurdles, along with Varsha Iyengar, Parv Jain and Ethan Lu in the 3o0m hurdles. In the field events, Rahul Shankar had a PR in the shot; Michelle Zheng and Jacob Kunnankunni in the discus; Clara Fan and Reese Myers in the high jump; Clara, Lourdes Diaz, Nishika Gorla and Varun Datta in the long jump; and Varun, Vincent Zhao and Darren Lin in the triple jump.
Complete results are posted. There are also photos from Mr. Ma and Agnes.
Next up is the SCVAL championships and Central Coast Section Qualifier Meet on Friday, May 6. The qualifiers for that meet have been posted, too.
