This past Friday was our JV City Conference Championships held at Canyon Hills High school with a lot of good competition and a lot of victories on our end!
Our sophomore Maia Poch earned herself first place in the Girl’s 200m dash with a PR of 27.87 with freshman Sabine Bannon right behind her in 2nd place with a PR of 28.24!
Another huge congrats to Maia and Sabine along with Sage Feerrar and Sandra Fiorentini Costa with this 4x100 team earning second overall in the race taking home some well earned hardware with a team time of 54.08!The future of our girls 4x100 is looking very bright.
Also pictured on the cover of this week’s newsletter are our discus viqueens, sophomore Hannah MarieAmukele and freshmanAyla Lakisic. Hannah took home 1st place in girl’s discus with a new distance PR of 68’6.5”!
● Eastern League Finals - 5/8/2026
@Canyon Hills High School
5156 Santo Rd, San Diego, CA92124
Here is the link for the meet entries
1. Athletes, please bring any and all uniforms/spikes needed for relays and individual events
2. As this may be the last meet for a couple of our viking/viqueen athletes, please show up on time and give it your all 3. If it is certain that this is the athletes last meet, please have all of the uniforms that the athlete used throughout the season returned to Coach Ben or Coach Ciro. If the uniform is not returned to the coaches, there will be a hold on their school account and may affect their graduation/school event participation
● La Jolla High Track and Field Banquet - 5/14/26
- From 6-9pm, Will give location details soon - Make sure to keep your calendar open!
First, I want to give a huge congrats to all of our athletes that have finished their season and are now on some well earned rest.
We still have a couple of more weeks left in the championship season and some of our athletes may be feeling fatigued which is normal in this sport. It is constant training consisting of high intensity running intervals, full body weight lifting days, plyometrics, and always fine tuning the skills we learn throughout the season.
There are always injuries that typically happen to track athletes if they are not taking care of themselves. One that I have heard of throughout the season is the infamous achilles injury.
Below are some simple at-home calf/achilles movements:
Daily:
● Light calf stretching (straight leg + bent knee)
● Foam rolling calves
● Ankle mobility work
● Foot strength (toe raises, towel curls)
2–3x per week:
● Eccentric heel drops
● Single-leg calf raises
● Glute strengthening (helps reduce lower leg overload)
After hard sprint days:
● Ice the shins if irritated/full body ice “bath”
● Recovery walk or bike flush
● Good training shoes after spikes come off
track season ends to make sure the athletes absolute speed and strength/power in their bodies or more specifically their legs, some form of recovery after weeks of competing must be completed or else there is a risk of injury.
Attached are links to two different articles that are going to be referencing recovery
USATriathlon:The Many Forms of Recovery
UCLAHealth: How to recover after running a marathon
Many of our athletes have gotten massage treatment from Coach Krishna over the past couple of weeks and will continue to do so throughout the rest of the season for those competing and in need of some immediate/last minute help.
We are almost there!Thank you to all the families for your continued help and support.
-Coach Ciro H.
