6 School Records!

Written By Ruby Mandell

Hello nighthawk families and fans,

Playing a bit of catch up as it has been a busy few weeks. The Thursday before spring break we had another home dual meet San Marcos High School. The varsity girls team was able to take an easy win, the varsity boys fought hard down to the last events unfortunately missing the win by just a few points. Scores are as follows: Boys Varsity, 66 - 70 Girls Varsity, 92 - 42, Boys JV, 45 - 90 Girls JV, 59 - 59. We would again, like to send a huge thank you to all of the parents who came to help out at our last dual meet, this allows us to coach your kids and helps the meet run so much smoother. Find meet results for DNHS vs San Marcos here. Then the following Friday and Saturday we headed north for the Arcadia Invitational with a limited team! Find the full meet results for Arcadia Invite here and photo album from Jimmu Su. This past weekend we had a double header with some of the team heading to Valley Center for Jaguar invite (results here) and a few others headed up to Mt San Antonio College for Mt SAC Relays (results here). This Wednesday we celebrated Senior Night with our final home meet of the season at home against Poway. A huge thank you to Lindsay Enyedi and Megan Shannon for their work organizing senior gifts and Cameron Yarbrough for MCing the Senior’s procession. We were able to pull off a full program sweep, team scores as follows: Boys Varsity, 79.5 - 56.5 Girls Varsity, 105 - 31 , Boys JV, 89 - 47 Girls JV, 66 - 64 find the full meet results here. Keep reading for more highlights.

Pictured, Del Norte Track & Field Class of 2025 photos by Heidi Phuong

Athletes of the Meet - San Marcos Dual Meet

We want to take the time to highlight a couple of athletes who had spectacular performances at our last meet.

Hurdles -

  • Alex Rubio (10) set a new PR of almost 2 seconds in the 300 hurdles. Fighting all the way to the line in an effort to score points for the team. Very proud of this effort!

  • Alex Guerra (12) double PR day with over half a second shaved off in the 110 hurdles (15.30) good for 2nd All-Time at DN and almost a full second improvement in the 300 hurdles with a time of 40.24 for 8th All-Time!

  • Paige Echsner (12) adding hurdler to her storied resume to shatter the previous school record (held by Coach Ruby since 2013) with a time of 43.43. Good for 15th in the state of California in only her 4th hurdle race ever!

Sprints -

  • Averie Gross (9) finished 1st overall in the JV Girls 100m with a PR of 13.38, and finished 3rd overall in the JV girls 200m in her first ever time running the event! A great start for the young freshman’s track career.

    Grant Goldmann (11) after exploding onto the scene by filling in for the varsity relays last week, Grant doubles down and ran leadoff leg for the Varsity Boy’s 4x1 helping them to 1st place, finished with a blazing time in the 100m, clocking in at 11.37 for a PR and 3rd place finish, ran a monster PR in the 200m of 22.65 with a 2nd overall finish, and runs a very impressive 51.5 split in his first 4x4 relay ever, cementing a 1st place finish for the team.

  • Davian Olarte (10) had a massive PR in the 100m to finish 2nd overall in JV with a time of 11.81, and winning the JV 200m.

  • Kaden Barnett (12) Finished 2nd overall in the 100m with a PR of 11.22, while also finishing with a win in triple jump!

  • Madelyn Do (9) PR in the 100m to run 12.92, and running a PR in the 200m with a time of 26.64

Jumps -

  • Tristan Kyle (12) with a triple crown, finishing first in long jump, triple jump and high jump scoring 15 points towards the overall team score.

Throws -

  • Charlie Bowers (12) multiple PRs in the

  • Miller Utech (11) broke the 100 foot barrier in discus.

Pole Vault -

  • Paige Echsner (12) won the invitational flight amongst some great competition at Arcadia and doubled back for the win at Mt Sac Relays with a new PR of 13’ 9”

Distance -

  • Nick Echsner (10) ran a very smart race this last meet where he was able to break the 10 minute barrier with a time of 9:54. Coming off an impressive freshman year Nick continues to showcase his talents and is set for another breakout race.

  • Lily Engel (11) had a great outing against Westview where she was able to PR in both her 800 and 3200. She was able to knock off over 40 seconds in her 3200. Her hard work in the winter is showing and despite some illness and injury shes continued to thrive.

Congratulations to all of those athletes on a great meet. We would like to take the time to recognize those athletes whose performance landed them onto our top 10 all-time lists. Because they did not have a wind-gauge at this meet, our sprinters and jumpers performances cannot be counted towards school records and all-time performances. We know they have it in them and will be able to even surpass these marks in future competitions!

  • Paige Echsner (12) - Girls 300 Hurdles: First All-Time with a time of 43.43

  • Cameron Yarbrough (11) - Boys 800: First All-Time with a time of 1:53.94

  • Ryan Remigio (12), Chase Jurgens (11), Grant Goldmann (11), and Aden Kaimer (12) - Boys 4x200: 1:28.74

  • Finn Butler (11), Tristan Harpster (12), Luke Jin (12), and Cameron Yarbrough (11) - Boys 4x800: First All-Time with a time of 7:54.71

  • Bella Czyszcon (10), Kaylee Rebugio (12), Ella Joo (11) and Zoe Gross (11) - Girls 4x100: First All-Time with a time of 48.60

  • Addison Shannon (11), Lilah Enyedi (11), Eliza Hong (10), and Emily Russo (12) - Girls 4x1600: First All-Time with a time of 20:36.84

  • Alex Guerra (12) - Boys 300 Hurdles: 2nd All-Time with a time of 15.30

  • Chase Jurgens (11) - Boys 200: 3rd All-Time with a time of 22.34

  • Ella Joo (11) - Girls 200: 3rd All-Time with a time of 25.52

  • Peyton Leigh (12) - Boys Pole Vault: 3rd All-Time with a vault of 14’ 6”

  • Grant Goldmann (11) - Boys 200: 4th All-Time with a time of 22.41

  • Chase Jurgens (11) - Boys 400: 5th All-Time with a time of 50.28

  • Alex Guerra (12) - Boys 300 Hurdles: 8th All-Time with a time of 40.24

  • Grant Goldmann (11) - Boys 400: 8th All-Time with a time of 50.51

  • Kaden Barnett (12) - Boys 100: 8th All-Time with a time of 11.24

  • Finley Butler (11) - Boys 800: 8th All-Time with a time of 1:57.63

  • Miller Tech (11) - Girls Discus: 8th All-Time with a throw of 114’ 1”

  • Lilah Enyedi (11) - Girls 800: 8th All-Time with a time of 2:20.54

  • Samhita Lagisetti (11) - Girls 1600: 8th All-Time with a time of 5:10.03

  • Charlie Bowers (12) - Boys Shot Put - 9th All-Time with a throw of 43’ 2”

  • Ryan Remigio (12) - Boys 200: 10th All-Time with a time of 22.77

  • Kaden Barnett (12) - Boys Triple Jump: 10th All-Time with a jump of 40’ 9.5”

  • Madelyn Do (10) - Girls Long Jump: 10th All-Time with a jump of 16’ 3”

  • Lauren Holmes (10) - Girls 200: 10th All-Time with a time of 26.60

Each of these athletes have made a significant impact on our program, making themselves known as some of the best in their event since our school opened in 2009. We look forward to witnessing their continued success as the season goes on.

Our Next Meet

On Saturday we are home again for the Dick Wilkins Frosh Soph Invitational. Athletes will be notified if they are competing this week and shifts for everyone else are posted here. Reminder parents, we need your help! We still have 11 slots that need to be filled by an adult. Volunteer shifts are available for sign-up here.

We will be hosting 75+ schools from San Diego, with over 1300 athletes that will be competing in the 2nd largest track meet in San Diego. The Frosh-Soph meet is our main fundraising event. This meet helps fund all of the replacement uniforms, equipment, and other items that we need to be a successful program. We hope to be very successful this year WITH YOUR HELP!

Pictured: Senior, Sam Siapno photo by Arturo Vargas

House Keeping

I am asking for a $250 parent donation to help offset our team costs.  As always Athlete's are not required to "pay to play", however, this $250 donation would help cover essential program costs.  If you are able to donate you can do so in a variety of ways.

  • Via Venmo using @DNHSATHLETICFOUNDATION - Please put "Track & Field" and your athletes name in the comments

  • Via Sports Engine HERE

  • Via Check - Please make the check payable to the Del Norte Athletic Foundation and put track and field and your athletes name in the memo.  Checks must be given to my parent liaison Jim Echsner.

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  • If your athlete has spikes from last season that aren’t super torn up, they can use them again. If they are getting new spikes and don’t need their old ones, feel free to bring them to practice and we can share them with another nighthawk in need! Once your athlete gets their spikes, have them show their coach before wearing them at practice. We can help navigate each athletes needs.

Ruby Mandell
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