PAST RECORDS

USA MARATHON CHAMPIONSHIPS – Twin Cities Marathon; Minnesota 10-1-06:

MARY AKOR (ECC 1997-98) placed 2nd in a big personal best of 2:33:50 (5:52 per mile!).  Marla Runyon won with former Orange Coast College runner, Zoila Gomez, 3rd in 2:35:51 – a big day for the California JC system alums!  With her time, Mary qualified for the 2008 US Olympic Marathon Trials.

STANFORD INVITATIONAL 10-1-06:

Women’s 6,000 meter Championship Team Race:

            3rd        Laura Mickelson           20:19 (5:27/mile)           (LMU/Mira Costa)         #1 for LMU who placed 7th

            5th        Sara Mickelson             20:34 (5:31/mile)           (UCI/Mira Costa)          #1 for UCI who placed 2nd

            62nd      Melani Hom                  22:56 (6:09/mile)           (LMU/Mira Costa)         #5 for LMU

            100th     Dinora Moran                23:57 (6:26/mile)           (Chico/ECC/Serra)        #8 for Chico who placed 7th (tie)

Women’s 4,000 meter Team Race:

            58th      Heather Rosas              17:00 (6:51/mile)           (LMU/ECC/San Pedro)  #4 for LMU who placed 6th

Men’s 8,000 meter Championship Race:

            88th      Tetlo Emman                25:39 (5:10/mile)           (UCSB/West Torrance) 12th for UCSB who placed 2nd

            100th     Trevor Wiseman           25:49 (5:12/mile)           (LMU/West Torrance)   #3 for LMU who placed 11th

            132nd    David Soto                    26:23 (5:19/mile)           (CSU Fullerton/San Pedro) #4 for CSUF who placed 8th

            171st     Avo Nazarian                27:21 (5:31/mile)           (CSUF/West Torrance) #6 man

Men’s 4,000 meter Team Race:

            14th      Cameron Paggett          13:12 (5:19/mile)           (LMU/Mira Costa)         #1 for LMU who placed 2nd

UC RIVERSIDE INVITATIONAL 10-1-06:

Women’s 5,000m Invitational:

            3rd        Kim Ramirez                 17:41    (See Jane Run/UC Irvine/Torrance)       #1 for See Jane Run Club who placed 7th

            23rd      Cambria D’Amico          18:39    (SJR/CSU Dominguez/ECC/North)        #2 for SJR

            68th      Evelyn Lopez                19:41    (Cal Poly Pomona/ECC/Hawthorne)       #5 for CPP who placed 4th

            123rd    Valarie Tucker              20:31    (CSU Dominguez/ECC/Downey)            #1 foe CSUDH who placed 19th

Men’s 8,000m Invitational:

            28th      Kendall Lopez               25:43    (Cal Poly Pomona/ECC/Bell)                 #5 for CPP who placed 3rd

            57th      Sal Bautista                  26:36    (Run with Us/ECC/Gardena)                  #4 for RWU who placed 9th

U of OREGON Bill Dellinger Invitational 9-29-06:

Women’s 6,000m Invitational Race:

            47th      Olga Aulet-Leon            22:01    (UCLA/PV Peninsula)                            #3 for 8th place UCLA

KEVIN ELLIOTT, former Mira Costa/El Camino/ and USC 800m runner, has relocated to Eugene, Oregon to represent NIKE and train under former Georgetown coach Frank Gagliano.  This summer, Kevin placed 5th in the USA Track and Field Championships 800m final in a new personal best 1:46.42 (placing him #26 in the 2006 world rankings).

The Women’s Team placed 2nd out of 7 represented programs.  

Although a smaller meet in terms of teams and individuals, it was a very competitive “tri-meet” between winner LA Trade Tech (38pts) – last year’s 7th place team in Southern California; ourselves 2nd with 58; and Oxnard (61pts) – last year’s 13th place team in Southern California.  Long Beach was 4th (81) and Santa Monica 5th (87) with LA Valley and Santa Ana no score.

Frosh Gabriela Rubi led El Camino with her 3rd place finish @ 20:58 with former high school LA City Section rivals Devorah Hernandez (LATT/LA H.S.) winning in 20:10 and Carolina Garcia (LATT/Garfield H.S.) 2nd in 20:44.  Gaby was backed by her former high school teammates Kirsten Adams (6th in 21:04) and Megan Adams (12th in 21:49).  Soph Yuriko Miyata followed Megan in 13th at 21:55 and frosh Flower Munguia our 5th today.

The Men’s Team placed 3rd out of 6 teams. 

Like the women’s field, although smaller, it was a VERY competitive three-way race between ourselves (4th in the State last year), LA Trade Tech - the 2005 State Champions and Oxnard- 9th in the State last year! Today, LATT took the win with 32; Oxnard 2nd @ 41, ECC 3rd @ 50; LA Valley 4th @ 142; Long Beach 5th @ 144; and Santa Monica 6th @ 146. 

With two very competitive meets in the approaching two weeks, our goal was to attempt to run as a tight, 10-man pack through the first 2-miles then begin to “open up” the 2nd half of the race. Right on command, at 2-miles soph Daniel Belay took off and started going after the leaders eventually placing 2nd in 22:08.  Tightly-bunched behind him were 9th place soph Bryan Swartz (23:00); 10th place soph Dan Villanueva (23:02); and 11th place soph Francisco Delgado (23:05).  Frosh Paul Brazeal (18th @ 23:42) held off a fast-closing soph Javier Figueroa (19th @ 23:43) for the 5th man spot.  Others close were 22nd place frosh Louis Castro (24:02); soph John Guzman (24:04); frosh Bryan Camarillo @ 24:39; and frosh Kevin Moreno @ 24:49.