How Hot is Really Hot???? Fire’s Youth Boys 4x400m Relay
For many youth track fans LA Jets is a must do on the Youth Track schedule for the Western United States. The very first USATF meet Lauren ever ran in was the LA Jets meet (purely by accident) and year after year it has become a special meet for our family as well as hundreds of others that travel great distances north south east and west to have an opportunity to compete with some of the best youth athletes of Region 15 and the country as a preview to the USATF Junior Olympics and AAU Junior Olympic Games.
LA Jets is the ending, just as the Phoenix Invitational begins in early April . Many athletes and coaches “see” where they are at. The LA Jets meet helps continue the vision and hopes of many, as some of the best convene one last seasonal meet to see how things are going, to “see” where they are weeks before the big meets of Youth Nationals and Junior Olympics .
There were many highlight performances the meet offered with a great back drop of weather and a well run meet.This year they took a big step and added a day of competition too. I think this helped off set the very long day of 400m on Saturday.
I believe it paid off with the entire meet ending before sun down.Last year I was still at the track at 9:45pm watching the Bantam girls 100m Final. Many that have been attending the meet miss the venue they used for years, but as everything else in life,things change, so do venues and now we find this great meet at Narbonne High School. All and all not a bad venue,not perfect but for sure pretty user friendly over all.
I really didn’t get to move around all that much because our Team had a “Family Pot Luck” that kept me and many Quiet Fire Mom’s very busy most of the day.The food was great and we feed the entire team as much as they wanted until they just stop coming. It was great for our team to have food ready and not have to worry about our kids eating and hydrating through out the day. So that’s the back drop but the MAIN EVENT was the amazing performances of Saturday and Sunday.
This is what happened….. The 100m semi’s earlier in the day showed some great performances and times but with the sun setting and the wind gusting up a lot, just finishing was all these athletes could hope for.The times were just okay in most cases because of the strong head wind.A win is a win any way you want to slice it.
The subbies started it off with 3 great performances in the 100m finals
1 McKinley, Taya LA Jets 15.63 15.82 NWI 9
1 Billew, Zyaire Bay Cities U 15.54 15.82 NWI 9
3 Sharp, Drew Bay Cities U 16.21 16.04 NWI 6
In the Long jump Umoja wins just by a bit over Socal Running Cougars, you may remember last year Umoja had a good jumper win this meet as well in the Bantam Division and she went on to take a Silver at the JO’s
1 McDowell, Janyia Umoja TC 2.83m 3.32m NWI 10-10.75 10
2 Nickerson, Kai SoCalRunnCougars 3.68m 3.20m NWI 10-06.00 8
Bantam girls 100m and 200m was won by Hicks, Jada of CalRisingStars in 14.34 and 28.50 respectively.
The Quiet Fire Midgets Girls added much excitement to the meet as We placed 1st Lauren Williams,2nd Jeanette Paul and 8th Kyla Richardson.This race was so close when I asked Lauren who won she said I don’t know?
Earlier that day the QF team ran to a season, best nation best in the 4×100 with a time of 50.32 and of Course the main hight of the meet Sunday afternoon (for me anyway )the new National Record in the 4×400 3.56.63 (click link to see it.)
Jowhari Hill of 3M Track Club wins the 200m with room to spare. the 800m saw 3 previous Junior Olympians compete for the top spot with Laura Panteau crossing first with a time of 2:23.10, Kaelin Roberts 2:24.77 and Sydni Tullai rounding out the top 3 at 2:25.29 and a fast win at 4:49.81 was the top time for Sydney Tullai in the 1500m this time is also top inthe nation as of today.
Ky Westbrooke lead the youth girls in the Shot Put, 100m 12.36 and the 200m 25.03,Rising Stars Jaela Williams and Taisyn Crutchfield rounded out the top 3 spots in the 100m and inthe 200m it was KY,Taisyn and then Sierra Peterson of Quiet Fire
The Boys Highlights
Bantam Boy Re-Al Mitchell of the West Coast Gazelle Track Club ran a blazing time of 26.20 in the 200m placing him 2nd in the nation. In the youth boys divison Jalen Washington of the Hub City Rockets ran to three gold medals in the 100m 11.72 and 200m 23.92 400m 51.10
Quite Fire’s Youth boys ran the fastest time in the nation on Sunday afternoon in the 4x400m
3.38.36 Go Fire!!
Hope To See You Next Year!
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