By Ed Piper
La Jolla's Payton Smith, running at the prestigious Mt. SAC Relays Sat., April 15, placed third in the Invitational 400 Meters with a time of 55.45 seconds. Though it wasn't a new personal record (PR), the performance shows the continuing maturing and development of the Viking trackster as she receives invitations and deals with the accompanying pressure.
Her times this spring, as a junior in high school, better some of her best recorded clockings from a year ago during her sophomore year by two seconds.
Smith's time in the Invitational 200 Meters, 24.26, put her seventh in the elite field at the 63rd edition of the important meet, held in Walnut, in greater Los Angeles.
Payton had never run at Mt. SAC before--a step above the Arcadia Invitational the week before, which she also competed in last year as a 10th-grader in the 100 and 400.
We could say that the Arcadia Invitational, in turn, is a cut above the local Mt. Carmel/Asics Track and Field Invitational held annually at nearby Mt. Carmel High School, off Interstate 15.
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