Track at MCAL's

 

The MCAL Track & Field Championships were last Thursday, May 14^th and Saturday, May 16^th and the Cats really showed up and represented!  MC is sending 16 athletes on to NCS this weekend up at Santa Rosa High School.  Those 16 athletes will be competing in a combined 33 events!  We also had four MCAL champions! The team is stronger than it has been in a long time and very exciting to watch!  Please come out and watch the team this week up at Santa Rosa High School at 9 am. 

 

On the girl’s side:  The group of Tiana Anderson, Danielle Fabiano, Jordan Allen and Sarah Ihnken got the day started with a 4^th place finish in the 4x100 relay advancing to NCS next weekend.  Janet Miramontes finished off her track career at MC with a 7^th place finish at MCALS in the 100 hurdles, just missing NCS by one place!  We will all miss you Janet!  Jordan Allen advanced to the finals in the 400 meters and then placed 5^th in the league moving her on to NCS next week!  She ran her fastest time of the year in 61.90!  Our girls Tiana Anderson and Sarah Ihnken placed 4^th and 5^th respectively in the 100 meters!  They are both advancing to NCS.  In the finals of the girls 200 meters, three of the final eight were from MC!  Jordan Allen placed 5^th and Sarah Ihnken came in right behind her in 6^th.  Both of these ladies are moving on to NCS this weekend!  Jordan Allen set the school record in this race running a 27.38!  Sophomore Julia Redman placed 7^th in the 200 meters which is an amazing feat in her first year of track!  Our last story on the track for the day was the 4x400 relay.  This team came out of nowhere to improve to 6^th in the league and dropped six seconds off of their time!  This team was comprised of Julia Redman, Shannon Farney, Veronica Boyce and Jordan Allen.  They are all moving on to NCS!  Bailey Ash moved on to NCS by vaulting a personal best of 9 feet in the pole vault!  Sarah Ihnken was the MCAL champion in the long jump!  Sarah also set the school record this season in the long jump with a jump of 17’1”! The girls scored 28 points at MCALS and placed 7^th out of 9 teams. 

 

On The boy’s side:  The boys ran another amazing race and continued their undefeated season in the 4x100 relay.  The team of Max Glasser, Zachary Margulis, Hunter Juarez and Darius-James Peterson became MCAL champions in a time of 43.63!  This time also ranks them 2^nd this week at NCS! In prelims on Thursday, they set the school record in a time of 43.45!  Freshman Ian Converse ran a personal best in the 1600 and broke five minutes for the first time running a 4:54!  Senior Will Thompson ran a 5:01 mile.  Freshman phenom Max Glasser placed 2^nd in the 400 meters and sophomore Hunter Juarez placed 4^th in the same race.  Both of them are moving on to NCS!  Darius-James Peterson came back from winning the 4x100 relay to win the 100 meters in a time of 11.43 seconds for his 2nd MCAL championship of the day! Darius also set the school record in the 100 meters this season at 11.16! Zachary Margulis placed 7^th and barely missed moving on.  Junior Peter Kent placed 9^th in the 800 meters dropping his personal best to 2:08.20 this season!  Darius came back once again to win yet another MCAL title in the 200 meters!  His third on the day!  He ran a blazing time of 22.54 winning by over ½ of a second.  Freshman Max Glasser placed 3^rd.  Both are advancing to NCS.  In the boys 3200 meters, Senior Will Thompson ran a personal best of 10:58 to break 11 minutes for the first time in his last race for the Cats!  He is another senior that will be sorely missed next year.  In one of the best stories of the season, the boys 4x400 relay ran the races of their lives.  Earlier in the year they were ranked 10^th in the league with a time of 3:53.  After a time trial we found our relay runners and they improved to 3:40.  In the final at MCAL these kids dropped another six seconds off of their time and almost won the race!  They lost by only .28 seconds in one of the closest races I have ever seen.  They went from being ranked last to getting 2^nd at MCALs and being in the fast heat at NCS this week.  Just an awesome story!  In the boy’s long jump, Darius placed 4^th and Zachary placed 6^th advancing them to NCS.  Darius also set the school record this season in the long jump with a jump of 20’7 ½”!  In the boy’s pole vault, three of the six NCS qualifiers were from Marin Catholic!  Luca Sullivan placed 3^rd, followed by Jack Rodriques in 5^th and Marcus Narodny in 6^th with a big personal best of 12 feet! Lastly, the boy’s team placed 3^rd in MCALS scoring 69.5 points!  This is a big improvement off of the last few seasons, as MC has placed 10^th each year.  We want to keep growing each and every year and an MCAL championship could be in the cards for this young squad!   

 

Coach’s recap:  Needless to say, I’m so proud of the entire track team and how everything culminated at MCALS.  All their hard work paid off and they just did tremendously.  I am very excited for NCS this weekend and have a great feeling that we will be sending several people to the Meet of Champions in Berkeley next weekend.