Beverly’s Girls Varsity Jumpers from left to right Asia Williams, Kemi Olonade and Dejah McCoy

            dominate and take first place in both the long jump and triple jump competition at Gahr Relays

BEVERLY SHINES IN RAIN AT GAHR RELAYS

Girls Varsity sets school record in 4X1600m relay

Girls Varsity jumpers dominate

March 6, 2010 @ Gahr HS (electronic times)

    On a rainy, windy, and cold day with a track as hard as pavement, the competition and performances at the Gahr Relays were less than ideal, but the Beverly team performed admirably in a competition with numerous high schools from the Southland---Upland, Cypress, South Hills, Loara, Marymount, Millikan, Lincoln, Artesia, Yorba Linda, Gahr, Venice, etc.  The team was led by the girl jumpers, girl distance squad, and boy hurdlers. 

Girls Distance:  The Girls Varsity team of Raquel Hefflin, Sydney Grey, Brianna Simmons and Gitla Shooster set a new school record for the 4X1600m Relay in a time of 22:52.20 in taking first place.  Then the Girls Varsity team of Raquel Hefflin, Sydney Grey, Brianna Simmons and Briana Prince took first in the Distance Medley in a time of 13:17.98 (third fastest all time at Beverly).  Hefflin’s split for the 1600m was 5:29.11.   Then our girls frosh soph team of Lilly Ting, Jessica Robert, Sydney Segal and Ashley Bootesaz took first in the 4X800m in a time of 11:01.17 (probably the fastest frosh soph time for the event at Beverly).  Then Lilly Ting, Jessica Robert, Sydney Segal and Marissa Rothman took second in the Distance Medley in a time of 14:34.20.

Girls Jumpers:   The school is fortunate that it has 3 girl jumpers on the Beverly all time list at the same time, Kemi Olonade, Asia Williams and Dejah McCoy.  As a team they won both the long jump (total 45-9) and triple jump (total 97-7 1/2) competition.  Olonade’s triple jump of 36 feet was the highlight. 

Boys Hurdlers:  The boys hurdlers have an outstanding team this year with Donovan Dickens, Marcus Silberger, Martin Cadres and Daniel Bradbury---as they easily won the Boys Varsity shuttle hurdles event in a time of 1:07.17, which time was not official due to the fact that not enough hurdles were set up for the race.  Otherwise their time would have made the all time list at Beverly.

Other performances:   The girls varsity 4X400m Relay took first place in a time of 4:17.70 (with Raquel Hefflin running the fastest leg in 61.94).  The mixed 4X200m Relay consisting of two boys Cameron Countryman and Joel Steinberg and two girls Kiarra Brown and Asia Williams took first place in a time of 1:43.90.  The frosh-soph girls won the 4X200m Relay in a time of 1:58.34.  The girls varsity 4X100m Relay took second  in a time of 53.39.  The mixed 4X800m team took second in a time of 10:05.01.  The girls varsity sprint medley took third place in a time of 5:19.48.  The boys frosh-soph 4X800m Relay took fifth in a time of 9:58.82. The boys frosh soph distance medley took seventh place in a time of 13:01.29.  In the girls frosh-soph 4X400m Beverly entered two teams which took second and third places.  The boys distance medley relay of Josh Galen, Mario Conti, Nick Harper and Ali Hatcher took sixth place in a time of 11:45.18, moving up to tenth on the Beverly all time list.  The disappointing result was the boys 4X400m Relay of Cameron Countryman, Mario Conti, Nick Harper and Joel Steinberg who were battling it out with Upland high school to a photo finish, well ahead of all other teams, and it appeared that Beverly won---but the officials disqualified both Beverly for running out of lane and Upland for elbowing the Beverly runner--so neither team medaled. 

(SEE PHOTOS ON PHOTOS LINK ON LEFT MARGIN RE GAHR RELAYS)

BEVERLY VARSITY LOSES TO REDONDO

March 4, 2010 @ BH     (Handheld times)

Redondo’s powerful distance runners showed why they are one of the best in CIF.  Chloe Curtis of Redondo #1 ranked girl’s 1600m runner in the State won both the 800m/1600m in 2:15.8 and 5:06.5.  The girls varsity lost 93-43, the boys varsity lost a close meet 67-63, the girls frosh soph lost 80-36, but our boys frosh soph team pulled out a victory 61-42.  Notwithstanding, Beverly still had strong performances.  

Girls Varsity:   Beverly’s state ranked Kemi Olonade won the triple jump in 36-8, the long jump in 16-11 and the 100m hurdles in 16.8 --a triple winner for the girls varsity.   State ranked Raquel Hefflin won the 400m in  60.3 and then took second in the 3200m in 12:08.  Asia Williams won the 100m in 13.0 and took second in the long jump in 16-6.  Kiarra Brown won the 200m in 27.0 and took third in the 100m in 13.4.   Other performances of note:  Sydney Grey ran the 1600m in 5:34.0 and 3200m in 12:40.60.  Gitla Shooster ran the 3200m in 12:45.50.  Brianna Simmons ran the 800m in 2:31.4.

Boys Varsity:  Camyar Meshkaty won the shot put in a great early season heave of 49-1 1/2 and took second in the discus in 107-0; while Julian Jackson won the discus in 109-3 1/2 and took second in the shot put in 43-1.  Julian Sarokin was the double sprint winner in the 100m 10.9 and 200m in 23.0 showing his speed.  Mario Conti took third in the 400m in 52.7.  The  boys hurdlers were outstanding led by Donovan Dickens 110m hurdle win in 15.8, followed by  Martin Cadres who ran 16.8 in second and Daniel Bradbury in third in 17.8.  Then in the 300m IH Cadres won in 42.5, followed by James Karlin in 43.2 and Dickens in 43.5.  Brandon Hale won the long jump with a leap of 17-11. 

Boys Frosh Soph: Willie Green won the 400m in 55.3 and the high jump in 5’10”, while Frank Brown won both the 110m hurdles in 18.5 and 300m hurdles in 48.2 for double wins.  The discus was swept 1-2-3 with Axel Pirotti 69-2, Alan Castro 66-0 and Josh Ghoulian 64-7. 

Girls Frosh Soph:  Faith France won the 100m hurdles in 18.4 and the 300m hurdles in 54.8.  Lilly Ting took third in the 1600m in 6:00.6.

2010 TRACK & FIELD SCHEDULE:

March 11      Mira Costa/N. Torrance      @ BHHS 2:45 p.m.

March 13      Irvine Invite                         @ Irvine HS 7:45 a.m.

March 18      Morningside                        @ BHHS 2:45 p.m.

March 20      Culver City Relays              @ Culver City HS 10:00 a.m.

March 25      SAMO                                 @ BHHS 2;45 p.m.

April 10         Arcadia Invite                      @ Arcadia HS  9:30 a.m.

April 15         Inglewood                           @ Inglewood HS 2:45 p.m.

April 17         MT SAC                              @ Mt Sac 7:00 a.m.

April 22         Culver City                          @ Culver City HS 2:45 p.m.

April 29         Hawthorne                          @ BHHS 2:45 p.m.

May 3           Ocean League Prelims        @ TBA 2:45 p.m.

May 6           Ocean League Finals          @ TBA 2:45 p.m.

May 15         CIF Prelims                          @ TBA

May 22         CIF Finals                             @ Cerritos College

May 28         CIF Masters                          @ Cerritos College 4:00 p.m.

June 4-5       CIF State Meet                     @ Buchanan HS       

All Time List Changes for Summer 2009 and 2010

400m:  GVar: R. Hefflin 60.44h (#18)

800m: GVar: R. Hefflin 2:14.33 (#4); B. Simmons 2:31.4 (#26); GFS B. SImmons 2:31.4 (#15)

3200m: GVar: R. Hefflin 12:08 (#9); G. Shooster 12:45.54 (#24)

110/100H: GVar: K. Olonade 16.64h (tie #15)

HJ: BFS: W. Green 5’10” (tie #13)

LJ: GVar: K. Olonade 17-3 (tie #5); D. McCoy 17-3 (tie #5); A. Williams 16-6 (tie #12)

TJ: GVar: K. Olonade 38-4 (#1) school record

SP: BVar: C. Meshkaty 49-1 1/2 (#26)

4X1600m R: GVar: R. Hefflin, S. Grey, B. Simmons & G. Shooster 22:52.02 (#1) school record

4X800m R: GFS: L. Ting, S. Segal, J. Robert & A. Bootesaz 11:01.17 (#5)

Distance Medley: BVar: J. Galen, M. Conti, N. Harper, & A. Hatcher 11:45.18 (#10)