The Los Alamos, New Mexico, boys stunned the field at the Desert Twilight Sweepstakes race on Friday evening. Photo by Margot Kelly.
A total of four US #1's came on Friday at the Stanford Invitational with Kori Carter as the leading performer with her 1:00.66 clocking in the 400 meter hurdles. The Claremont CA junior was almost three seconds faster than her closest competitor. Both 3K national leading times were also produced in the same meet with Lance Wolfsmith at 8:28.54 (converts to a 9:05 3200) for the boys and Jennifer Bergman at 10:13.63 (converts to a 10:58 3200) for the girls. It was a close win for Sobrato CA senior Wolfsmith with Eric Olson of Novato CA at 8:29.03 and Nathan Mathabane of Lincoln OR improving 20 seconds from last weekend in the event in third at 8:29.62. Although several have leaped over 24 this season across the country, Chase Wheeler has the furthest wind legal long jump of the outdoor season as of now at 23'8.25". Moreau Catholic's Alitta Boyd and Fremont's Malaina Payton had a great competition in the girls long jump with both leaping over 19 feet and into the US top 10 rankings. In the pole vault, Rob Simmons of Rocklin successfully cleared a US #3 height of 16'1". The state of California now has the top five fastest girls DMR times with Casa Grande moving to #2 in the nation with their 12:16.71 victory. Stanford Invitational - Day 1 Results