Kiana Hope

Jordan Mendoza

Hugo Valdovinos and Jose Almaguer

Anthony Rivas

Alexander Frias

This past weekend athletes from the Fillmore Track and Field team participated at the Ventura County Championships at Moorpark High School. The number of athletes that made the qualifying marks and qualified this year tripled from 2011. Starting the meet in the 4 x 800 meter relay was sophomore Frank Chavez, junior Alexander Frias, junior Anthony Rivas and senior Jordan Mendoza. They took 5th place winning each a medal and were acknowledged on the awards podium. The next event for our flashes was the 1600 meters. Sophomore Kiana Hope was the only individual runner to participate in the invitational race. She ran her personal best with a time of 5:21. Juniors Hugo Valdovinos and Jose Almaguer ran an impressive race. Hugo ran a 4:34.7, a personal record and took 3rd place in the race. Senior Juan Mariscal competed in the 400 meters with an impressive showing along with senior Daniel Cruz in the 100 meters. Fillmore had 5 athletes complete in the 3200 meter race. In the rated division freshman Alexis Tafoya ran an impressive time of 12:20 earning a personal record. Sophomore Kiana Hope also ran a personal best in the seeded division with a time of 11:39 earning a 2nd place medal. For the boys 3200 meter, junior Adrian Mejia had a goal to break ten minutes. He ran an impressive 9:56 crushing his personal record by 16 seconds. Teammates Jose Almaguer also ran a personal best of 10:01 and senior Alexander Gonazalez 10:07. The final race was the 4 x400 meters, in the relay were Senior Nathan Garnica, Senior Juan Mariscal, Sophomore Frank Chavez and Junior Hugo Valdovinos. In the field events, senior Ashley Coert competed in the High Jump where she cleared 4 feet 8 inches and earned a 3rd place medal. Senior Alberto Fernandez competed in the Long Jump where he jumped a best mark of the day with 19 feet 5 inches, earning a 4th place medal for the day. The county meet was a huge success with many personal records earned throughout the day. Way to go Flashes!

Our next track meet will be in Fillmore this Thursday where the Fillmore Flashes will compete in the Frontier League Championships. The races and field events will begin at 2:30 pm. Hope to see you there.