The CIF Southern Section Track and Field Championships are only a month away, and that should add to the intensity and intrigue at the Orange County Championships on Saturday at Mission Viejo High.
The meet starts at 8:30 a.m. with the freshman girls 1,600 meters. The final event is the boys varsity 4×400 relay at 5:30 p.m.
Here is a look at some of the events and athletes to watch Saturday, based on the subject-to-change heat sheets released this week:
Sophomore Devin Bragg, Los Alamitos: He won the CIF-SS Division 1 championship in the 100 meters last year with a time of 10.35 seconds. Bragg ran a 10.56 at the Trabuco Hills Invitational two weeks ago.
Senior Roman Mendoza, Santa Margarita: He won the Invitational Division 400 at last week’s Arcadia Invitational with a state-leading time of 37.39.
Senior Brendon See, JSerra: See is the county leader in the shot put (65 feet, 11.75 inches) and discus (192-5) and is entered in both events Saturday.
Senior Jada Gatlin, Mission Viejo: Gatlin is entered in the long jump and the triple jump and might run a leg for one of the Diablos’ relay teams, too. She is No. 3 in the state in the triple jump with her mark of 39-4 set at Arcadia last week.
Sophomore Holly Barker, Laguna Hills: Barker is entered in the 1,600. This could be the race of the day with its deep field that includes Dana Hills senior Allura Markow, who is the O.C. leader in the event (4:42.79), Dana Hills sophomore Annie Ivarsson, Newport Harbor’s rapidly rising sophomore Keaton Robar, Huntington Beach junior Makenzie McRae and JSerra’s junior Georgia Jeanneret and freshman Kaylah Tasser.
Sophomore Jackson Kollack, Laguna Beach: He is not competing in a varsity event, but is entered in the frosh-soph 100 and the frosh-soph shot put. He might be the meet’s athlete with the most interesting future. Kollock (6-5, 215) is a great quarterback and has received football scholarship offers. He has been invited to football camps this summer at Notre…
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