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Liveblog: 2012 CIF States Track and Field

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Nikolai Solgaard (’12) attempts to pass a contender in the 800 meter race. Solgaard came in third place this race.

Note: The most updated information will be listed at the top of the page. You can also see the unabridged results at the RecordTiming results page.

Finals

9:01 p.m.: Sarah Baxter (’13) of Simi Valley wins the girls’ 3200-meter run with a time of 10:12.00.

8:56 p.m.: Noel Frazier (’12) of California wins the boys’ high jump with a height of 2.09 meters.

8:50 p.m.: E.J. Floreal (’13) takes third in the boys’ 200-meter dash with a time of 21.38 seconds. Khalfani Muhammad (’13) of Notre Dame took first with a time of 21.15 seconds.

8:44 p.m.: Adoree Jackson (’13) of Serra wins the boys’ long jump with a distance of 7.63 meters.

8:33 p.m.: Ariana Washington (’13) of Poly wins the girls’ 200-meter dash with a time of 23.41 seconds.

8:19 p.m.: E.J. Floreal (’12) took fourth in the 100-meter dash with a time of 10.70 seconds. Khalfani Muhammad (’13) of Notre Dame won the race with a time of 10.52 seconds.

8:18 p.m.: E.J. Floreal (’12), Morris and Jayshawn Gates-Mouton (’12, ’13) and Tremaine Kirkman (’12) took seventh in the 4×100 relay with a time of 41.72 seconds. Notre Dame won the race with a time of 41.13 seconds.

Assorted results in no particular order:

Serra wins the girls’ 4×400 relay with a time of 45.92 seconds.

Nikki Hiltz (’13) of Aptos wins the girls’ 1600-meter run with a time of 4:42.45; Darren Fahy (’12) of La Costa wins the boys’ 1600-meter run with a time of 4:08.78.

Sasha Wallace (’12) of Hly Nms wins the girls’ 100-meter hurdles with a time of 13.33 seconds; Lloyd Sicard (’13) of Serra wins the boys’ 100-meter hurdles with a time of 14.09 seconds.

Renetia James (’12) of Serra wins the girls’ 400-meter dash with a time of 53.98 seconds; Alex Rohani (’13) of Beverly Hills wins the boys’ 400-meter dash with a time of 47.34 seconds.

Amy Weissenbach (’12) of Harv-Wst wins the girls’ 800-meter run with a time of 2:05.70; Alexander Monsivaiz (’13) of the Army and Navy Academy wins the boys’ 800-meter run with a tine of 1:51.34.

Daje Pugh (’12) of Fairfield wins the girls’ 300-meter hurdles with a time of 40.37 seconds; Jarrett Gonzales (’12) of Damien wins the boys’ 300-meter hurdles with a time of 37.30 seconds.

Lissette Mendivil (’12) of Redwood wins the girls’ discus throw with a distance of 47.49 meters. Ethan Cochran (’12) of Newport wins the boys’ discus throw with a distance of 59.84 meters.

Claire Kieffer-Wright (’13) of South Pasadena wins the girls’ high jump with a height of 1.78 meters.

Alexis Faulknor (’12) of Serra wins the girls’ long jump with a distance of 6.17 meters.

Taylor Jaques (’13) of Presentation wins the girls’ pole vault with a height of 4.07 meters.

Stamatia Scarvelis (’13) of Dos Pueblos wins the girls’ shot put with a distance of 14.40 meters.

Sasha Wallace (’13) of Hly Nms wins the girls’ triple jump with a distance of 12.64 meters. Klyvens Delunay (’12) of Claremont wins the boys’ triple jump with a distance of 15.72 meters.

Preliminaries

(last updated: Sat., 10:32 a.m.: The Viking incorrectly cited Paly to be sending five athletes to the finals. Paly will send four). 

10:00 p.m.: Serra wins the girls’ 4×400 relay with a time of 3:46.43 minutes, over two seconds faster than the second place runners from St. Mary’s Academy. Palo Alto’s Nikolai Solgaard (’12), Jonathan Alee (’13), Nick Sullivan (’14) and Morris Gates-Mouton (’12) took 17th in the 4×400 with a time of 3:20.69. Serra also won the boys’ relay with a time of 3:14.60 minutes.

9:11 p.m.: Kaitlyn Merritt (’15) of S. Margrita, Taylor Jaques (’14) of Presentation and McKenzie Johnson (’12) of Clairmont) tie the girls’ pole vault with 3.73 meters.

9:07 p.m.: Peter Chapman (’12) of Murrieta wins the boys’ pole vault with 4.72 meters.

9:03 p.m.: EJ Floreal places second in the 200-meter dash with a time of 21.24 seconds, qualifying him for tomorrow’s finals. He finished 0.08 seconds behind Khalfani Muhammad (’13) of Notre Dame.

8:59 p.m.: Sasha Wallace (’13) of Hly Nms wins the girls’ triple jump with 12.68 meters.

8:58 p.m.: Adoree Jackson (’14) of Serra wins the boys’ long jump with 7.36 meters.

8:55 p.m.: Alexis Faulknor (’12) of Serra wins the girls’ 200-meter dash with 23.57 seconds.

8:33 p.m.: Jarrett Gonzales (’12) of Damien wins the boys’ 300-meter hurdles with 37.44 seconds.

8:17 p.m.: Daje Pugh (’12) of Fairfield wins the girls’ 300-meter hurdles with 41.73 seconds.

7:58 p.m.: Paly’s Nikolai Solgaard (’12) takes 17th with a time of 1:54.36 minutes in the 800-meter run and did not qualify for the finals. Kevin Gonzalez (’12) of Vis. Murrieta won the race with 1:51.90 minutes.

7:54 p.m.: Stamatia Scarvelis (’14) of Dos Pueblos wins the girls’ shot put with 13.5 meters.

7:44 p.m.: Kody Atkins (’12) of Chico wins the girls’ 800-meter run with 2:08.54 minutes, over half a second ahead of the next finisher.

7:43 p.m.: Tim White (’12) of Hart wins the boys’ triple jump with 15.3 meters.

7:40 p.m.: Alexis Faulknor (’12) of Serra wins the girls’ long jump with 5.91 meters.

7:29 p.m.: EJ Floreal (’13) qualifies for the CIF 100-meter dash finals with a seventh place finish of 10.64 seconds in the preliminaries. Khalfani Muhammad (’13) of Notre Dame took first with a time of 10.44 seconds.

7:18 p.m.: Jasmine Gibbs (’12) of El Camino wins the girls’ 100-meter dash with a time of 11.43 seconds.

7:04 p.m.: Alex Rohani (’13) of Beverly Hills takes first in the boys’ 400-meter dash with a time of 47.53 seconds.

7:00 p.m.: Danielle Bryan (’12) of El Camino wins the girls’ high jump with 1.70 meters.

6:47 p.m.: Renetia James (’12) of Serra wins the girls’ 400-meter dash with a time of54.26 seconds.

6:36 p.m.: Kenneth Walker (’12) of Richmond wins the boys’ 110-meter hurdles with a time of 13.81 seconds.

6:18 p.m.: Sasha Wallace (’13) of Hly Nms wins the girls’ 100-meter hurdles with 12.40.

6:10 p.m.: Alexa Faulknor (’12) of Serra High School wins the girls’ long jump with 5.91m.

6:00 p.m.: Luis Gutierrez (’12) of Rnch Cucm wins the boys’ 1600-meter run with a time of 4:10.57 minutes.

5:48 p.m.: Nikki Hiltz (’13) of Aptos wins the girls’ 1600-meter run with a time of 4:55.09 minutes.

5:32 p.m.: Palo Alto High School’s boys’ 4×100-meter relay team takes eighth with 41.70 seconds. The team of EJ Floreal (’13), Morris and Jayshawn Gates-Mouton (’12, ’13) and Tremaine Kirkman (’12) will continue to the finals tomorrow. The team from Rio Mesa took first with at time of 41.14 seconds.

5:15 p.m.: Serra High School takes first in the girls’ 4×100-meter relay with a time of 41.06 seconds, over half a second ahead of the next finishers.

This year’s California Interscholastic Federation Track and Field State Championships will take place on Friday, June 1 and Saturday, June 2 at the Veterans Memorial Stadium in Clovis, Calif. Paly has qualified seven male athletes to the running events, and they will compete in the preliminaries today at 5:00 p.m.

E.J. Floreal (’13), who currently holds Paly’s records for both the 100 and 200-meter dashes will run in the third heat of today’s 100-meter dash race with a seed time of 10.81 seconds and the fourth heat of the 200-meter dash with a seed time of 21.84 seconds. Floreal will join Tremaine Kirkman (’12) and Morris and Jayshawn Gates-Mouton (’12, 13) in the fourth heat of the 4×100-meter relay with a seed time of 41.56 seconds.

In the 800 meter run, Nikolai Solgaard (’12) will run in the second heat with a seed time of 1:54.51 minutes. Solgaard will join M. Gates-Mouton, Jonathan Alee (’13) and Nick Sullivan (’14) in the 4×400-meter relay with a seed time of 3:21.16.

The Viking will also present a liveblog of tomorrow’s final results.


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Hilda Huang, Business Manager
Hilda Huang is a senior and joined The Viking in her junior year because of her love for athletics. After serving as a copy editor her junior year, she is now a Business Manager along with fellow Viking Michael Strong. Huang dove varsity for the Swimming and Diving team and was a part of the gymnastics team her sophomore year, but was unable to compete due to injury. Awarded 1st place in the 2012 Art Rosenbaum Scholarship Award for her story "Running After Dark," she is also an avid musician and a huge USA Gymnastics (go Fierce Five!) fan. Follow @hildaphu on twitter, or find more stuff about her at http://curiosity.discovery.com/user/hilda-huang/bio and http://bigthink.com/hildahuang.

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