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May 29-30, 2026, Buchanan High School, Clovis, CA
Top 3 finishers

BOYS RESULTS
100—1, Benjamin Harris (Servite-SS), 10.14; 2, Cy Lugo (Elk Grove-SJS), 10.17; 3, Deshawn Seymour Jr. (Will C Wood-SJS), 10.29.

200—1, Cy Lugo (Elk Grove-SJS), 20.31; 2, Jace Wells (Servite-SS), 20.69; 3, Jorden Wells (Servite-SS), 20.79.

400—1, Ejam Yohannes (Loyola-SS), 45.73; 2, Jaelen Hunter (Servite-SS), 46.05; 3, Noah Smith (Poly-LB-SS), 47.00.

800—1, Alden Morales (J. Serra-SS), 1:50.57; 2, Hugh Heyer (McClatchy-SJS), 1:50.66; 3, Josiah Bowman (Sage Creek-SDS), 1:50.72.

1600—1, Maximo Zavaleta (King, ML-SS), 4:02.78; 2, Aidan Antonio (Woodbridge-SS), 4:03.28; 3, Stephen Sziebert (Bellarmine-CCS), 4:03.85.

3200—1, Maximo Zavaleta (King, ML-SS), 8:52.47; 2, Michael Scarince (South Pasadena-SS), 8:53.26; 3, Oliver Hunter (Dana Hills-SS), 8:53.64.

110 HURDLES—1, Jasir Fontenot (Mater Dei-SDS), 13.33; 2, Brady Tse (Harker-CCS), 13.46; 3, Chase Young (De La Salle-NCS), 13.51.

300 HURDLES—1, Brady Tse (Harker-CCS), 36.23; 2, Jayden Rendon (Carson-LAS), 36.46; 3, Kingston Penny (Palm Desert-SS), 36.93.

400 RELAY—1, Servite-SS, 39.73; 2, Cathedral-SS, 40.72; 3, Rancho Cucamonga-SS, 40.88.

1600 RELAY—1, Servite-SS, 3:07.62; 2, El Cerrito-NC, 3:11.75; 3, Central East-CES, 3:14.38.

3200 RELAY—1, J. Serra-SS, 7:36.64; 2, King, ML-SS, 7:41.71; 3, Mira Costa-SS, 7:43.27.

HIGH JUMP—1, Joshua Harel (Notre Dame-SO-SS), 7-2; 2, Jay Woodson (American Canyon-NCS), 6-10; 3 (tie), Zion Chambers (Los Alamitos-SS) and Joshua Haven (Bellarmine-CCS), 6-7.

POLE VAULT—1, Riley Gash (Arroyo Grande-CES), 17-1.5; 2, Dane von Guenthner (Otay Ranch-SDS), 16-4; 3, Tomek Gorzkowski (Mira Costa-SS), 16-4.

LONG JUMP—1, Julius Sanders (Clovis West-CES), 24-5.25; 2, Damari Dean (De La Salle-NCS), 24-1; 3, Kymani Joseph (Patrick Henry-SDS), 24-0.
TRIPLE JUMP—1, Dane Malloy (Aliso Niguel-SS), 49-11.25; 2, Arthur Stringer (Paloma Valley-SS), 49-9.75; 3, Justian Richardson (Rancho Buena Vista-SDS), 48-11.75.

SHOT PUT—1, Case Jacobson (St. Francis-CCS), 60-11.25; 2, Maxime Morelle (Sacred Heart Prep-CCS), 60-10; 3, Garrytt Lloyd (Arroyo Grande-CES), 59-7.5.

DISCUS—1, Karsyn Van Grouw (Buchanan-CES), 202-1; 2, Bo Ausmus (Redondo-SS), 200-1; 3, Joshua Komrosky (Ayala-SS), 190-9.

GIRLS RESULTS

100—1, Malia Rainey (Calabasas-SS), 11.38; 2, Naiaja Sizemore (Vanden-SJS), 11.40; 3, Amirat Temi Aganju (Pittsburg-NCS), 11.46.

200—1, Clara Adams (Wilson-LB-SS), 23.40; 2, Amirat Temi Aganju (Pittsburg-NCS), 23.52; 3, Olivia Kirk (Calabasas-SS), 23.64.

400—1, Clara Adams (Wilson-LB-SS), 52.28; 2, Saniah Varnado (Wilson-LB-SS), 52.98; 3, Ava Parker (Helix-SDS), 53.70.

800—1, Braelyn Combe (Santiago-Cor-SS), 2:05.13; 2, Ava Decleve (Scotts Valley-CCS), 2:07.37; 3, Josie Hill (Sonoma Academy-NCS), 2:07.68.

1600—1, Braelyn Combe (Santiago-Cor-SS), 4:35.59; 2, Chiara Dailey (La Jolla-SDS), 4:38.82; 3, Gretchen Yakaitis (Carondelet-NCS), 4:44.31.

3200—1, Chiara Dailey (La Jolla-SDS), 10:01.91; 2, Amaya Bharadwaj (Palo Alto-CCS), 10:02.60; 3, Elliana Patterson (Christian-SDS), 10:10.59.

100 HURDLES—1, Lorrin Hervey (St. Bernard-SS), 13.29; 2, Kaahliyah Lacy (San Jacinto Valley Acad.-SS), 13.32; 3, Gabrielle Thomas (Grossmont-SDS), 13.72.

300 HURDLES—1, Saniah Varnado (Wilson-LB-SS), 39.95; 2, Soleil Warner (St. Ignatius-CCS), 40.97; 3, Natalie McCarty (Newport Harbor-SS), 41.74.

400 RELAY—1, Rosary-SS, 44.87; 2, Canyon-CC-SS, 45.87; 3, Steele Canyon-SDS, 46.10.

1600 RELAY—1, Wilson-LB-SS, 3:36.17; 2, Rosary-SS, 3:43.89; 3, Canyon-CC-SS, 3:44.56.

3200 RELAY—1, Santiago-Cor-SS, 8:46.16; 2, Claremont-SS, 8:51.08; 3, Wilson-LB-SS, 8:53.37.

HIGH JUMP—1, Ab Hernandez (Jurupa Valley-SS), 5-10; 2, Lelani Laruelle (M***a Vista-CCS), 5-8; 3, Rachael Osicka (California-NCS), 5-7.

POLE VAULT—1, Sophia Forst (Pleasant Grove-SJS), 12-6; 2, Madelyn Porter (Liberty Bak-CES), 12-6; 3, Caitlin Khieu (Del Norte-SDS), 12-6. (Note: Places determined by attempts)

LONG JUMP—1, Ellie McCuskey-Hay (St. Ignatius-CCS), 20-3.5; 2, Gianna Gonzalez (Moorpark-SS), 20-3.5; 3, Ab Hernandez (Jurupa Valley-SS), 20-2.25. (Note: Tie broken by secondary jumps)

TRIPLE JUMP—1, Ab Hernandez (Jurupa Valley-SS), 42-8.75; 2, Daniela Hughes (Los Altos-CCS), 41-1; 3, Malia Strange (Shadow Hills-SS), 40-10.5.

SHOT PUT—1, Jaslene Massey (Aliso Niguel-SS), 52-9; 2, Sidney Johnson (Rio Americano-SJS), 44-5; 3, Courtnie Batchelor (St Mary's Academy-SS), 44-0.75.

DISCUS—1, Jaslene Massey (Aliso Niguel-SS), 196-4; 2, Corynn Smith (Desert Christian-LAN-SS), 163-5; 3, Sidney Johnson (Rio Americano-SJS), 160-8.

Sources: Ca.Milesplit.com and Gemini AI (styled agate)

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RBR Coaches Books Shelf: Quicksilver, The Story of the Mercurial Emily Zatopek, by Pat Butcher

This is how you begin your # RBRCoachesBookshelf!

is one of my favorite writers. His book, , and as a coach, you need to know about the most excellent Olympic male distance runner. In 1952, Emil won the 10,000m, 5,000 m, and marathon, a feat never repeated by a man. Zatopek was a complicated person, who was beloved by his country people, track fans and his competitors. Pat Butcher captures this iconic athlete. And the book is fantastic, we highy recommend !

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Modern Training Thoughts on Hill Training, by Larry Eder (revised with addendum from Nobby Hashizume).

Hill Training is my secret weapon for training in cross-country and track and field. In the classic Arthur Lydiard plan, the New Zealand coach who revolutionized distance training in the 1960s, considered hill training as its own specific phase of training, prior to track work.

In the complex training system of Coach Pat Clohessy, the coach of Rob De Castella, a four-time Olympian, winner of Boston, Rotterdam, and the Commonwealth Games, and the 1983 World Champion, hill training was conducted throughout the year. A typical day would involve running over a 5 km distance with 8-10 hill charges.

The great Lasse Viren, 1972 and 1976 Olympic 10,000m m and 5,000 m champion, used hill training to preparefor track racing. His classic waorkout consisted of a 500m- 800m hill workout, done once or twice a week, followed, on another day, by some short track intervals after a 50-50-50 pattern of jog, sprint, jog for 5,000 meters on a soccer pitch. On another day, Viren followed that up with 20 x 200m, then a 1-minute jog. Viren achieved this in 1972, as part of his 5,000m training. His 5,000 m jog-sprint-jog was completed in 13:52. He completed three workouts of 20 x 200m and was primed for the 1972 Munich Olympics In 1976, he completed the 5000m jog-sprint-jog in 13:32 and ran 20 x 200m, and was ready for Montreal (this was after months of 130 miles a week at altitude). (The hill workouts were described in Kenny Moore's story on Lasse Viren from Sports Illustrated article from 1976).

I embraced hill training in my last years of college. Building up to 20 x 800m hill a day, 2-3 days a week, 8-10 weeks. I beat myself up, then, dropped mileage, built into track work , and including 4 races in build up, ran 8 straight races, from 2 miles to 10,000m, scoring PBs,including four straight tough 10ks on the road. That season, I went from 34:25 for 10k to 33:08 10k. Using the same program, I scored 8 pbs the next year, including 32:08 10k.

Hill training is pan effective form of training, as it can get you into shape relatively quickly. My coach buddy, Joe Mangan, whith whom I worked for six years at Foothill College, was a hill evangelist. We did hills almost every day for 4- to weeks. We had young men and women who did not run over the summer.

We built them from grumpy out of shape runners to calloused cross country runners who could handle the 4.2 mile XC courses with slight hills. We gave them six mile hill runs that were challenging, as the were able to do it.

Hill work builds body strength, speed, confidence and safely helps you handle higher loads.Consider hill training all year long. Ron Warhurst, the long time developer of milers at Michigan, and coach at Very Nice Track Club, includes hill training all year long. One of his workouts was a series of hill repeats, then, some track work, and then, more hill repeats.

Lance Brauman, coach of great sprinters like Noah Lyles, has the team do 300m hill repeats, they hate it, but know it makes them really fit and confident during the season! Hills build confidence and speed!

I have added this addendum from Nobby Hashizume on Lydiard Hill training. Nobby is a life long student of the late Arthur Lydiard and supporter of the Lydiard Foundation:

"With Lydiard, first of all, hill training is a necessary exercise. Far too many people tend to just run up hard/fast and get highly anaerobic and, consequently, they start to struggle, causing the form to go out the window.

I also highly doubt Viren did 20X800m. That's total of 10-miles! If he jogged down the hill, that alone becomes a 20-mile run and I really don't see a good purpose in it.

With my research, Viren used a hill of 500m long (in fact, Coach Canova insisted that Viren used 60m long hill and that's where he got the idea of short-sharp hill sprints, of which I don't agree) and I recall he did no more than 10 repeats.

Also, the article is not clear but, instead, almost insinuating that Viren "combined" the incredible-sounding 20X800m hill repeats ALONG WITH sprint-flow (50/50) of 5000m. (Editor: Since corrected, Never suggested that the sprint flow for 5,000m was done on same day, sorry for the mistranslation).

Lydiard liked to do 4 X 800m hill exercise, with some wind-sprints that includes 50/50, using the bottom flat 800m stretch (in the case of 50/50 repeats, that would give you X8 sprints).Viren was an incredible athlete. But to make it sound like he did some mystical super-workout can be counter-productive. "

Hills can work for you!
Ask your coach their opinion!

photo: Kevin Morris

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This is his eighth World Championships!

Julius took fifth in . Julie Yego has thrown 92.72m, back in Beijing, China, in 2015!
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Jenny Barringer Simpson ran at as a steeplechaser, taking fifth in 9.12.50 AR. In , Jenny won the 1,500m. In and , Jenny took silver, and at , Jenny took the bronze!
Jenny Simpson was the first American woman to win a WC title at 1,500m since 1983, Mary Slaney. Jenny competed in seven World Champs (2007-2019) and two Olympics. During much of her professional career, Jenny was coached by Juli Benson. What a career!

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