Lupita Perez takes second place in both the 1500m and 3000m at the Santa Barbara Easter Relays.

4x100m relay: Pictured (l-r): Junior Aaron Cornejo, Senior Michael Luna, Senior Hayden Wright and Senior Demitriouz Lozano.

This past Saturday, the Fillmore Flashes Track and Field Team attended the Santa Barbara Easter Relays. This year the team took 23 athletes to participate. At the conclusion of the meet Fillmore High School brought home sixteen medals with nine athletes earning personal records. Senior Justin Coert, a second year track and field participant broke a twenty eight year old school record held by Robert Zermeno from 1987. The old record stood at 147 feet 9 inches, Justin clips that mark with a throw of 149 feet 9 inches. In addition he set a personal record in the shot put throwing 48 feet 7.5 inches. He has qualified for the Arcadia Invitational which is a prestigious invitational that many strive to qualify for and participate in. Currently he ranked number one in CIF Southern Section Division 4 for in the Discus and 2nd in the shot put.

Our Varsity Girl runner of the day was Lupita Perez. Lupita is a junior and third year track and field runner for the lady flashes. She was the only lady flash that qualified to run in both the individual 1500 meters and 3000 meters. She earned second place in both races where she ran a 4:58.28 in the 1500m and 10:36.38 in the 3000 meter. Lupita set a personal record that day in the 3000 meter. We are very excited and pleased by her performance and look forward see what she can accomplish this season.

In the frosh-soph girls division, our distance quartet earned medals in both the 4 x 800 meter relay placing 5th as well as in the Distance Medley Relay where they earned 4th place. The lady flashes that participated in these relays were sophomores Alyssa Ramirez and Lauren Magdaleno with freshmen teammates Janaey Cadena and Jackie Chavez. Bringing home hardware in the throws competition were both Mariah Gonzalez and Karissa Ibarra. Mariah placed first place in discus and second place in the shot put, while teammate Karissa Ibarra placed fourth in both the discus and shot put.

The Fillmore Track and Field Team hosted the first Tri Valley League meet against Nordhoff this past Thursday. The meet was a huge success clinching all four divisions including Girls JV, Boys Frosh Soph, Girls Varsity and Boys Varsity. The closest score was in the Boys Varsity division with only a five point gap. The entire meet came down to the team effort put forth by all runners, jumpers and throwers that day. Way to go Flashes!

We would like to invite the Fillmore community to our next home meet on Thursday April 16th.This will be our third Tri-Valley League meet where we will compete against Saint Bonaventure and La Reina. Hope to see you there!