The Ten by Sound Running - March 16, 2024
The 10,000 meter Olympic qualifying train was running at JSerra Catholic High School in San Juan Capistrano, Ca on Saturday night. The qualifying standard for the summer's games in Paris for women is 30:40. With pace lights set for 29:37 and 30:40, athletes ran to make those times. Alicia Monson and Tsigie Gebreselama attempted in the early stages of the race to run the 29:37 time. Eventually Monson dropped out of the race and Gebreselama finished in a time of 29:48.34. Weini Kelati, Lauren Ryan and Megan Keith all made the Olympic standard of 30:40.
The goal for the men was to get under 27:00 minutes for the Olympic standard. For much of the race, a line of runners hung in there to get the standard. Grant Fisher used his kick to win the event in a time of 26:52.04 with Nico Young of NAU breaking the NCAA 10,000 meter record with his second place time 26:52.72. Andreas Almgren, Mohammed Ahmed, Habtom Samuel of New Mexico (second all-time in NCAA history), Adriaan Wildschutt, Woody Kincaid and Edwin Kurgat all broke 27 minutes and earned the Olympic standard.
In the women's 1500, high school athlete Sadie Englehardt of Ventura had an opportunity to race with the pros on Saturday night. She led the race from the gun and when challenged in the last lap by Lauren Gregory, Engelhardt held off Gregory for the win at 4:09. 70 which is the fifth fastest high school girl's 1500-meter time in history. The Bowerman Track Club came down from Eugene and took the first two places in the men's 1500 with Kieran Tuntivate and Thomas Ratcliffe running 3:37.58 and 3:37.87.
Professional race photo gallery is HERE
High school athletes got an opportunity to race at The Ten too. Six boys finished within a second of each other in the 800 and Juan Juarez of Liberty won in 1:53.97. Georgia Jeanneret of JSerra raced on her home track for the 800-meter victory in 2:09.18. Arielle McKenzie of Calabasas was close with a 2:10.68 time. Liam Miller of South Torrance ran away from Arnav Shetty of Newbury Park to win the boys 3200 in 9:12.24. Ibzan Felix of Beckman has started a strong track season and it keeps getting better with his 4:08.12 win in the boy's 1600. Connor Bennett of Loyola (4:09.24) and Alden Morales of JSerra (4:10.25) ran significant times for the early season. Summer Wilson of JSerra used a strong last lap to take the win in the girl's 1600 with a time of 4:49.78 over teammate Anne Elise Packard in 4:51.98.
High school race photo gallery is HERE
Triton Invitational - March 16, 2024
We had a chance to head over to San Clemente High School Saturday morning of The Ten to take pictures of the 3200 meter races at the Triton Invitational. Sharice Laygo of Northwood took the win in the girl's varsity race with a time of 11:41.34. Brett Ephraim of San Clemente won his home invitational 3200 with a time of 9:24.56.
Triton Invitational 3200-meter photo gallery is HERE
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