2018: Hickey Ends Gold Medal Drought and Will Return
Some of the best performances by San Diego Section athletes at the 100th state track championships last week at Clovis Buchanan were provided by those who should be back for another shot in 2019. Alysha Hickey, second in the high jump at 5 feet, 8 inches, and the first area champion since 2015 with a […]
Read More2018: Jackson Seeks Double at State Meet
The San Diego Section has not had an individual champion in the state meet since 2015 or a double winner since 2012. Eastlake’s Jalyn Jackson has a chance to reverse the trend this week in the 100th championships at Clovis Buchanan High. Jackson, fourth in the long jump and second in the triple jump in […]
Read More1939-40: Outdoor Inconvenience Becomes Indoor Comfort
There would be raised eyebrows and at least one exclamation of “Really?” and another of “No Way!” should a copy of Charles Byrne’s Jan. 4, 1940, article in The San Diego Union have been placed in a time capsule and opened 20 years later. Basketball was evolving and moving indoors, although the game still was […]
Read More1963-64: La Jolla Gets All the Way to the Final Game
La Jolla, winner of 30 in a row, including 28 consecutive this season, was on the cusp of getting to a place no other team had gone. A 29-0 season was unprecedented. The only San Diego County team to come that close was the 1959-60 Hoover squad that won its first 26 (most reports say […]
Read More2018: Brown Now Tied for Third on 1600-Meter List
There still are a couple weeks before league trials for most San Diego Section athletes, but distance runners are setting themselves up for the big meets in May. McKenna Brown of La Costa Canyon was beaten by Mariah Castillo of Saugus in a hot 1600-meter race in the Mt. San Antonio meet at El Camino […]
Read More2018 Best Marks Here And in California
San Diego Section boys’ 2018 best track and field performances through last week’s Mt. San Antonio meet, which was not held on the once-bucolic junior college campus in Walnut, instead moving about 40 miles West to El Camino College in Torrance. San Diego marks and their rankings in parenthesis are compared below to the best […]
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