100 meter dash11/23/2023 ![]() To be able to come home and do what they did these last two days was just great. The student-athletes have been through a lot of road trips. We've been travel warriors this whole season since January. "It's nice to be at home, and it feels good to sleep in your own bed. I feel like we have good momentum going into the end of the season, which is exactly what we want at this time of the year. "It's hard to pinpoint just one because it was just a great team weekend. "There were just so many performances that were great this weekend for everybody," director of track & field and cross country Matt Bingle said. Val Larson (career-best 53.66 seconds) and Abigail Schaaffe (career-best 54.65 seconds) both clocked personal bests in the women's 400 meters as well each improved her mark on Minnesota's all-time list as Larson moved into fifth in program history and Schaaffe improved her time at 10th among all-time Gophers. On the women's side, Lexi Romero led the Gophers in the 100 meters with a career-best time of 11.75 seconds to rank 10th on Minnesota's all-time list and place third at the meet.īen Psicihulis added another title with an all-time top-10 mark for the Gopher men as he won the 400 meters in a career-best 46.38 seconds to rank eighth in program history. ![]() These wouldn’t include anything from the 2022 CIF state championships.ġ0.4 – Vernon Blenkiron, Compton, 1921 (110 yards)ġ0.4 – Eddie Morris, Huntington Beach, 1940ġ0.4 – Preston Griffin, Compton Centennial, 1959ġ0.4 – Hubie Watson, Los Angeles Jordan, 1960ġ0.27 – Henry Thomas, Hawthorne, 1984 (Jr.)ġ0.25 – Domani Jackson, Santa Ana Mater Dei, 2021 (Jr.)ġ0.14 – Rodrick Pleasant, Gardena Serra, 2022 (Jr.)ġ0.17 – Quincy Watts, Woodland Hills Taft, 1987 (Jr.)ġ0.16 – Rodrick Pleasant, Gardena Serra, 2022 (Jr.MINNEAPOLIS - Kion Benjamin set a new Minnesota program record in the men's 100 meters and the Maroon & Gold added nine more event titles on day two to cap off the M City Classic with three new school records and 18 event titles at the University of Minnesota Track & Field Stadium on Saturday.īenjamin clocked a wind-legal career-best time of 10.25 seconds to win the 100 meters and improve on the previous Minnesota program record of 10.29 seconds set by his coach Ibrahim Kabia in 2008. There also was a wind-aided hand-time of 9.2 in 1963 by John House of Pasadena Muir.įinally, here is a list of progressive records in the 100-meter dash with the current record set last week by Gardena Serra’s Rodrick Pleasant now included. Among those who tied it at 9.4 were future world record holder and gold medalist Jim Hines of Oakland McClymonds (1964) and NFL receiving star Mel Gray from Santa Rosa Montgomery 1967.įor automatic timing, there was a 9.44 clocking in 1979 by Michael Sanford of Pasadena with state records also recognized at 9.61 by David Russell of San Diego Patrick Henry (1977) and Ron Brown of Baldwin Park (1979). It stayed there until 1978 when Tony Pitts of Santa Ana Valley ran a 9.3 time. The state record was lowered to 9.4 in the 100-yard dash in 1954 by James Jackson of Alameda. Wycoff was a sensation at the 19 CIF state meets as he took four individual titles (100-220-LJ). The record was lowered to 9.5 in 1928 by Frank Wycoff of Glendale, who also ran a 9.8 in 1927 as a junior. That record was tied later that season by Dick Wehner of Brawley. The first one reported with a 9.9-second timing in the 100-yard dash is Cliff Gantt of Los Angeles Poly from 1926. Here’s some history on both the 100-yard dash (which in the early years was the more popular distance for high school track sprinting) and 100-meter dash. We did progressive records in our record books for boys and girls track under the direction of the late Nelson Tennis, founder of Cal-Hi Sports. He did play in the CIF D1-A state final vs Liberty of Bakersfield but was limited by injury again and had one kick return for 16 yards. ![]() We didn’t see Rodrick play football for Serra because he was hurt early in the 2021 season. ![]()
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