Serving as the starter for the first time at a track meet at her alma mater, La Jolla High, for the Viking-Canyon Hills meet April 24 was Annie King, who graduated in the LJHS Class of 1981. King was the CIF champion in the 100-meter hurdles.
"I ran hurdles. I was a surfer in those days. I came to campus to run," said King as she arrived early at the meet, checking the discus area that it was shipshape. (I told her I had never seen another starter ever check at a meet that the throws area(s) was set up and in compliance. I am probably wrong, but I never witnessed such an official come by to check on an event on the perimeter.)
It was King's first time serving as the starter at her alma mater, she said. She, not immodestly, responded to this reporter's question, "What did you run?", that she was the CIF champ in the 100-meter hurdles--"the first year," she said, "they had high hurdles".
Annie went on to run at Mesa and UC Irvine. "I met Edwin Moses (legendary Olympic hurdler) in college," she told someone of a similar generation who recognized the name.
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