1940 Track: No State Meet For Contending Hilltoppers
San Diego High, which would have had four entries plus its relay team, opted not to participate in the 26th state meet at Visalia High, a 300-mile jaunt from the Border city. The Hilltoppers were nosed out of the Southern Section championship (below) but would have been one of the teams vying for the championship […]
Read More1971 Track: Clairemont’s Dale Fleet Sets State Record in Two-Mile Run
San Diego Section entries totaled only a combined 10 points in the state meet, but they set one individual state meet record and provided some excellence not seen on the scoreboard. Clairemont’s Dale Fleet set a state meet record of 8:53.8 in the two-mile run and broke Tim Danielson’s County record of 8:55.7. Helix’ Ed […]
Read More1939 Track: Hilltoppers’ Heredia Barely Missed State Championship
San Diego High’s defending state championship team had the splendid miler, Al Heredia, but it was a quiet season overall in the militarily vital Coastal zone. The young men of the area undoubtedly were aware of the war clouds in Europe that would lead to World War II. 3/16/39 Oceanside won the 880-yard relay in […]
Read More1970: Culp Cleared 7 feet Three Times, Won State Title
Jerry Culp starred on a vanishing stage. The Oceanside High senior became the eighth prep high jumper to clear seven feet, scaling the height three times and winning the state championship with a leap of 7 feet, ¼ inch. But since an Oregon State high jumper had perfected a new, drastically event-changing style and won […]
Read More2023 Track (5A): Girls Top Boys in Final State Top 25 Rankings
San Diego Section boys and girls accounted for 19 Top 5 performances in California, according to Athletic.net; 34 Top 10, and 87 top 25 in the season which ended last weekend at the 103rd State Championships before a two-day total of 14,134 persons at Clovis Buchanan High. The season belonged to the females. They were […]
Read More2023 (5): Results of the 103rd State Track and Field Championships
@CLOVIS BUCHANAN HIGH San Diego Section athletes scored two first places in the waning hours of the two-day, 103rd state track meet at Clovis Buchanan High over the weekend. The Section had no gold medals in 2022 and the meet was canceled in 2020 and ’21. The results, although not as impressive as the record […]
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