Mt. SAC's Colbert Jr., Cerritos' Monson Stand Out At SCC Women's Track and Field Finals
Complete SCC Track and Field Championship Results
Mt. San Antonio College's Jody Colbert Jr. dominated the sprints and Cerritos phenom Mackenzie Monson put on a throwing clinic to highlight the South Coast Conference Women's Track and Field Prelims/Championships held at El Camino College April 21 and 25.
Colbert won the 100 and 200-meter dashes, the 100 hurdles and was on the winning 4x100 relay as Mt. SAC won the SCC team title for the fourth time in five years and 19th in conference history. The Mounties scored 326.5 points to easily outdistance Cerritos at 208. Long Beach placed third with 115. Pasadena City's fourth place of 69.5 points was its best total in 13 years.
Monson shattered her own SCC meet record set last year of 172 feet, 2 inches with a new mark of 184-5 to win the hammer toss. She added event wins in both the shot put (42-11.75) and discus (151-1) to match Colbert's three total individual titles. In the discus, the Falcons finished 1-2-3.
Monson in action (photo courtesy of Cerritos Athletics)
Mt. SAC won 11 out of the 21 events overall including two by Casey McConn, who took first in the 800 (2:15.38, top three finishers all Mounties) and the 5,000 (18:31.69). Other Mt. San Antonio champs were Jocelyn Izarraraz-Rodriguez in the 1,500 (4:57.56), Nyrah Wyatt in the 400 hurdles (1:04.84), Miku Yanugawa in the pole vault (12-5.5), Olivia Powers in the javelin (133-7), and Illicia Ross in the high jump (5-5).
Pasadena collected two wins with Kezia Gavlak scoring first in the triple jump (37-9.25) and Destiny Rayburn just edging Ross to win the long jump, 18-1.25 to 18-1.
Cerritos picked up event triumphs in the 400 by Angel Corral (57.06, three Falcons were 1-2-3), the 4x400 relay, and the hepathlon title by Taylor Kline with 3,779 points.
El Camino's Jadeyn Skefich grabbed first in the 10,000 at 38:58.48 and Long Beach's Itzel Aguilar took first in the 3,000 steeplechase in 11:53.27.
East Los Angeles' top finish was turned in by Jasmine Hernandez, who placed second in the 1,500 and LA Harbor's Angelique Morales scored fourth in the 1,500.
Release by Robert Lewis, SCC SID