Photos by Ed Piper
Payton Smith (left, La Jolla)
#1 in San Diego Section
#1 in California
Won her 400-meter heat in 54.22
Chris Adamson, sophomore
Shot put (went 14'7.25")
Para athlete (blind)
Also runs 100m, 200m
Chris with his guide,
David Cervantes (L),
a full-time Instructional Aide
at Mission Bay HS.
David is a former distance
runner.
"Unified" relay racers from
Montgomery HS. Competitors
must have an IEP in school
(Special Ed).
Avery Redfern
LJHS
17'5" in long jump (5th place)
Amirah Shaheed of Madison (L)
One of the top sprinters in Calif.
A close friend of LJ's Payton Smith
LJ's boys 4x100 relay team
Seniors Evan Martin's (2nd from L)
and Eli Vaz's (2nd from R)
final race as prep athletes
Vaz takes the baton from Martin
to run the third leg
43.59, a PR for the team
Chiara Dailey of La Jolla (R) runs second
in the 1600 to Jaelyn Williams of Eastlake.
Dailey's time was 4:42.26, a PR
for the sophomore.
Chiara continues to contest Jaelyn
on the third of four laps in the 1600.
The two go into a tougher pool
at the state meet in a week.
Coaches install an elaborate wheelchair shotput
set-up (orange seat in center) for Audrey
Aguilar of Imperial (not pictured) and another
para athlete. Tethers (orange ropes) steady
the front and back of the chair. It took
several minutes to pound metal stakes
in the dirt, then tie the ropes down.
Here's another view of the shotput set-up.
The man at right is pounding a second metal
stake into the ground, for Audrey
to slide into the orange seat (at left) from
her wheelchair and throw the shot.
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