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Steffen & Lane win at State Indoor Meet

Saturday, at 10:57 by

California High School Indoor Invitational Unofficial State Indoor Championships 1/21/2012 Run For the Dream, Save Mart Center, Fresno, CA   Petaluma’s Danielle Steffen and Maria Carrillo’s Siobhan Anderson took first and second in the pole vault. Steffen tied the Redwood Empire indoor held by Ursuline’s Michelle Stone at 11 feet 6 inches. Anderson’s vault of 11 feet moves her to third All-Time behind those two.   El Molino’s Nicole Lane also won a Championship in the 2 mile run in… Read More »

Danielle Steffen favored to win State Indoor

Thursday, at 12:54 by

Petaluma’s Danielle Steffen is the top ranked pole vaulter for Saturday’s High School State Indoor Championships in Fresno. Steffen, Nicole Lane and Courtney Tuck all placed 3rd in last years Indoor State Meet. Seven Redwood Empire athletes are scheduled to compete.   First number is seed for 2012 meet Girls   Pole Vault 1 Danielle Steffen                 SR Petaluma          11-0 2 Siobhan Anderson SR     Santa Rosa           10-0   2 Mile Run 2 Nicole Lane        SR El Molino        … Read More »

Berkeley Track Results 1/14

Sunday, at 12:51 by

Jan, 14 Berkeley Track results, not sure why it says 2/5/12 This was also a qualifing meet for the HS State Indoor meet   Heat 2 60mHH 4th Adam Lundquist 8.49 Wind: -0.3   Section 1 300 Meter Hurdles 3rd Adam Lundquist 41.50   Section 7 800m 1st Sadia Ibrahim  2:25.18   Courtney Tuck 4-11, 3rd HS girl HJ   Complete Results    

Julia “Stamps” Mallon PR’s in US Marathon trials

Saturday, at 10:39 by

Former Santa Rosa high running star Julia “Stamps” Mallon ran her fastest marathon time ever at the USA Olympic trials marathon race Saturday in Houston. Julia finished in 2:44:07 for a 68th place finish. Sara “Bei” Hall’s husbands Ryan Hall qualified for the Olympic team placing second in 2:09:30. Womens Results here Mens Results here   Pre-race story about her journey so far Story about race   NBC coverage today at 3pm?  

Indoor State Meet Qualifier

Monday, at 9:40 by

One of the Indoor State Meet qualifiers was held Jan. 7th at UC Davis, Here are the local runners I noticed in results. Let me know who I missed. jimcrowhurst@comcast.net UC Davis All-Comers Girls   3200m Nicole Lane, El Molino 1st 11:35.68 Chloe Hall, Casa Grande 4th 12:34.23   Pole Vault Danielle Steffen, Petaluma 11′ place unclear   High Jump Courtney Tuck, Petaluma 5′ 1″ place unclear   1600m Chloe Hall 2nd 5:39.07   Boys   55mH (Heat 1) Adam… Read More »

All NorCal Cross Country Teams

Saturday, at 10:59 by

The 2011 All NorCal High School XC Teams have been selected and the Redwood Empire had some high placers. Piner’s Luis Luna made first team All NorCal. Luna was the highest placing NorCal runner at the Foot Locker Nationals. Sonoma’s Alex Conner was picked second team and Ukiah’s Paul Holden was picked as one of the ten undergraduates to make the top three teams. Piner’s Jaime Silva made honorable mention. On the girls side El Molino’s Nicole Lane was picked… Read More »

Luis Luna 30th in Nation

Saturday, at 12:28 by

Piner’s Luis Luna concluded his high school cross country career with a 30th place finish at the 2011 Foot Locker Nationals at Morley Field in San Diego. Luna finished as the second California boy and was fifth for the West team. He is the second boy from the Redwood Empire to compete in this meet, the other being Elsie Allen’s Celedonio Rodriguez who placed 18th in 1998. Some 8,000 plus of us watched the meet live on a web cast.… Read More »

Live webcast of Luna at Nationals

Thursday, at 12:21 by

Saturday morning starting at 8am a live broadcast of the Footlocker National Cross Country meet can be found at link below. Girls race scheduled to start at 9:15 and boys race with Piner’s Luis Luna at 10.   Click here for live webcast  

Luis Luna qualifies for National Championships

Saturday, at 1:26 by

Piner’s Luis Luna ran possible his best race of the year to qualify for the Foot Locker National Championships in Balboa Park, San Diego on Dec. 10th.   Competing in the West Regionals, Luna placed 7th in the seeded race at Mt. Sac on Dec 3rd to become one of the Western regions 10 qualifiers for the National meet.   Check running blog later in the week for a link to watch the National Championships on a live webcast. Photos… Read More »