Friday’s super-select Top 8 meet hosted by Los Gatos will
feature some of the section’s best in each event.
Friday’s super-select Top 8 meet hosted by Los Gatos will feature some of the section’s best in each event.
The Gilroy High track and field team will be well represented.
Of the 14 athletes slated to participate, seven hold marks or times ranked in the Top 10 in the Central Coast Section – not counting the boys’ 4X100 relay, which holds the fastest time (42.76) and the 4X400 relay’s 3:28.23, which is good for the third fastest.
Teammates Sarina Sandoval (36 feet-09.75 inches) and Angeline Kimbo (36-03) hold the fourth- and- eighth-best distances, respectively, in the shot put while on the boys’ side, Cordero Gonzales has the seventh top throw at 47-9.5. Chima Ikeme in the discus is ranked No. 5 with his throw of148-08.
David Guenther holds two top-10 marks – fifth in the triple jump (44-01) and ninth in the long jump 21-06 – and will also run the 400-meter dash and the relay events. Jourdan Soares, who will also run on the relay squads, has the fifth-fasted time in the 100 (11.03), which he recorded at last weekend’s Bill Kearney, and currently holds the eighth-best in the 200 at 22.90. Julius Travis – eighth in the 100 (11.16) and Romeo Travis round out the relay runners.
The Top 8 meet is slated to begin at 3:30 p.m. at Los Gatos High School.
