Viking freshman Kyra Fisk's mile pace through two races,
in a chart on the prep cross country/track website
xcstats.com.
By Ed Piper
Back in the spring of 2019, before COVID ravaged the landscape, Denie Roberson was discussing the huge impact of female runners at La Jolla High.
"There has been a history of good girl runners at the school," observed the assistant track coach, specializing in the running events, back in April or so of that year during a track meet.
Roberson, at the time, was watching her "little" sister, Sierra Roberson, cop her respective event in the long tradition of the Roberson siblings at Edwards Stadium. Sierra, outgoing and talkative, is quite the opposite of her just-older sister Sakura Roberson, who now runs for San Diego State.
Sakura's a poetry writer, much more introspective than her loquacious sibling Sierra.
Which is all to say that eyes are beginning to open at the finishes of ninth-grader Kyra Fisk, another promising runner, in the first two cross country meets of the 2021 season.
Twice so far in the young season Fisk has led the field, first at Serra High two weeks ago versus a weaker San Diego High team, then again against Serra's team Thurs., Feb. 24, on the Morley Field course.
Fisk, who has never attended classes in person at her new high school due to COVID restrictions, dominated the field against San Diego High, beating her nearest Caver rival by over a minute. In that meet, starting and ending in Serra High's football stadium, Kyra clocked a time of 19:40.66. Way behind her in second place, Nina Graner of San Diego High ran 20:42.56.
After a week's layoff, the Viking girls moved to the more familiar setting of Morley Field (though not to Kyra). There, Fisk trounced fellow freshman Sofia Abraham of Serra in a time of 21:19.89. Abraham placed second in the field with 21:49.71.
In the same vein, Daphne Mayer, another freshman at LJHS who has never stepped on the school campus for one of her classes (again, because of the coronavirus), is making some noise behind the intrepid Fisk.
Mayer finished third in the San Diego High meet in week one (21:20.19) in her first high school meet ever on a course she had never run on (Serra's). Then, with restrictions on running in the park lifted with numbers and conditions under COVID less severe, Daphne burned a time of 22:48.93 for fourth place versus Serra at Morley Field.
Again, before the ninth-grader has ever set foot on the LJHS campus to attend a weekday class. Isn't that something?
The Serra High course measures 2.9 miles, so times were a little shorter. Morley Field stretches 3.11 miles.
On the prep track/cross country website xcstats.com, there is a chart of Fisk's first two races in high school showing a fairly steady mile pace arcking from a little more than 6.75 minutes per mile on the left to closer to 6.8 on the right.
The table below the chart lists her 6:47 pace for the 2.9 distance at Serra two weeks ago, and 6:52 for Thursday's race. Maybe she had a little less adrenaline after her initial high school competition; maybe the Morley course has more hills and is more demanding.
Kyra's average pace for her two career races is 6:49, according to the table on xcstats.com.
On the same website, Mayer's pace averaged over the first two races of 2021 comes to 7:21 per mile. The plotted line on the chart under Daphne's name is fairly flat, from what appears to be a little over 7.4 minutes per mile straight across to closer to 7.35 or so on the right side.
Daphne Mayer's mile pace, charted on the website
xcstats.com. Mayer has finished a respectable
third and fourth in the Vikings' initial
cross country meets this month.
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