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Wagner increases pole vault school record

Joe Naiman

Village News Reporter

Fallbrook High School’s track and field season began March 3 with a non-league dual meet at Rancho Buena Vista, and Fallbrook senior Rose Wagner broke her own girls pole vault school record with a distance of 13’0”.

“It was a really great feeling,” Wagner said. “It was amazing, and I was super happy about it.”

Wagner, who did not participate in track and field as a freshman in 2019, began her high school career by clearing 11’8” in her first meet of 2020 to break the 2003 school record of 11’7” held by Becky Gausepohl. Wagner extended her school record to 12’2” during the 2021 season and bettered that by ten inches March 3.

“I’m very pleased,” said Jim Curran, who is Fallbrook’s assistant coach for pole vaults.

“She’s a good student of the event,” Curran said. “Every step we examined was on.”

Curran doesn’t believe that Wagner’s school record will remain at 13’0”. “I believe she can go 14,” Curran said.

Fallbrook swept the girls pole vault scoring positions March 3. Maya Khoury cleared 9’0” and Sahara Khoury had a distance of 8’6”.

“Our pole vaulting girls are still doing phenomenal,” said Fallbrook head coach Marco Arias.

The Fallbrook girls also swept the 3,200-meter scoring positions. The first high school race for freshman Lucia Mochel was a victory which took her 12:28.01, Cassandra Rivero had the second-place time of 13:30.65, and Avery Lynas was third at 13:34.03.

Abby Petersen won the other two girls distance races. She posted times of 2:39.80 in the 800-meter event and 5:49.50 in the 1,600-meter run.

Wagner added a win in the 4x100 relay which also included Anay Garcia, Brittany Fabry, and Kelsey Rossi. Their time was 53.64 seconds.

The Warriors took first and second in the girls 400-meter event. Hailey Reed won in 1:07.18 and Lacy Fabry posted a time of 1:07.31.

Fallbrook’s Rayana Hilborn and Rancho Buena Vista’s Joceleen Oxley shared first place in the girls long jump with distances of 13 feet 6 1/2 inches.

Although only the top three finishers are scored a school is allowed to enter up to four athletes in each individual event. The Fallbrook boys had the top four 3,200-meter times with Fisher Phillips finishing in 11:20.87, Lucas Chase completing the race in 11:56.34, Abraham Hughes crossing the finish line 12:01.61 after the race began, and Ivan Ixta posting a time of 12:37.96.

An athlete is limited to four events in a meet, and Fallbrook sophomore Marquise Washington won all four of his events March 3. The Washington brothers took first and second in the 200-meter dash with Marquise Washington finishing in 23.85 seconds and Marcus Washington posting a time of 25.20 seconds. “They’ve really helped out our sprints team,” Arias said.

Marquise Washington won the 100-meter dash with a time of 11.74 seconds, and he won the long jump with a distance of 18 feet 1 inch. Sammy Carmona, Trent Pack, Marcus Washington, and Marquise Washington had a winning time of 46.84 seconds in the 4x100 relay.

Drew Tegt only competed in three events March 3, but the junior was victorious in all three. Fallbrok’s 4x400 relay quartet of Alex Brunson, Jaden Massey, Dawson Fluck, and Tegt won their race in 3:46.99. Tegt won the 400-meter race in 56.76 seconds Brunson was second at 59.13 seconds. Tegt had the winning 300-meter hurdles time of 45.78 seconds.

Max Meisterlin cleared 5’10” to win the boys high jump.

“We won where we should have won,” Arias said.

“It was a good meet,” Arias said. “We’re really young, and we learned a lot from that meet.”

The Warriors have a total of 70 track and field athletes with slightly more girls than boys. “Where we’re short is the field events,” Arias said.

 

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