This past Saturday, the Fillmore Flashes Track and Field Team attended the 93rd Annual Russell Cup Track and Field Invitational. This year the team took 38 athletes to participate in the invitational. On this day Fillmore high school brought home eight medals and eighteen athletes earning personal records.

In the frosh-soph girls division, sophomore Kiana Hope, came home with three medals in the distance events placing 4th in the 800 meters with a time of 2:31.07, 4th in the 1600 meters with at time of 5:39.62 and 3rd in the 3200 meter with a time of 12:04.73. Sophomore Jessica Mayhew a first time track and field participate this year brought home a medal as well as a personal record throwing the discus 83 feet 4 inches. Sophomore Jordyn Vassaur ran her personal best in the 800 meters with a time of 2:42.01, and freshman Alexis Tafoya brought down her time in the 3200 meters running 12:35.10.

In the frosh-soph boys division freshman, Daniel Flores jumped his way around the track where he earned two second place medals in the 110 meter hurdles with a time of 18.64 seconds and 300 meter hurdles om 46.34 seconds setting two personal records. In the jumps, sophomore Joseph Orozco brought home a first place finish in the triple jump with an outstanding mark of 38 feet 9 ¼ inches, shattering his personal record by over a foot. Teammate and freshman Demetriouz Lozano set a personal record as well in the triple jump with a mark of 35 feet. Our sprinters and mid-distance runners for the day were sophomore Frank Chavez who ran the 400 meters in 55.28 seconds, bringing home a 2nd place finish in the event and teammate Damien Gonzalez with a personal record in the 800 meters with a time of 2:17.60. The distance runners sophomore Nico Frias and freshman Francisco Erazo competed in both the 1600 meters and the 3200 meters. Both athletes set personal records in the 3200 meters, Nico with at time of 10:45.60 and Francisco 11:17.57.

Our Varsity also had some impressive personal records for the day. Girls Varsity athlete, junior Maria Villalobos set two personal records in the 800 meters running 2:36.83 and in the 1600 meters running 5:55.02. For the boys in the throws, a new athlete as a senior, Tony Sanchez set a personal mark in the shot put throwing 37 feet, 3 ¾ inches. In the hurdles, junior Tyler Hackwork ran an impressive 18.16 seconds in the 110 m high hurdles. In the distance group, juniors Hugo Valdovinos ran the 800 meters setting a personal record of 2:07.57, junior Adrian Mejia ran the 3200 meters in a time of 10:12.41 followed by teammate junior Jose Almaguer in the 3200 meters with a time of 10:14.62.

The participation of Fillmore athletes more than doubled at the Russell Cup Invitational this year. We are very proud of all the athletes that competed. This season has been filled with many personal records being broken over and over. We credit these accomplishments to our athletes and would like to acknowledge their continuous efforts.

We would like to invite the Fillmore community to our next home meet on Thursday April 19th.This will be our second Frontier League meet where we will compete against Malibu, Santa Paula, Santa Clara, Villanova, and Grace Bretheren. Hope to see you there!