Friday, March 2, 2012
Sierra Invitational March 3rd
Athletes need to be at Sierra High by 8:00am. Remember to pack warm clothes, water and snacks, as this is an all day event!
Thursday, February 23, 2012
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Thursday, February 9, 2012
Sierra Invitational Saturday March 3rd
Saturday March 3rd is our first official track meet. Check in begins at 8am, field events start at 8:30, and track events begin at 9am. Remember to dress in your uniform and wear your warm ups. This is an all day event so bring some healthy snacks and water.
Run for Lupus All Comers Meet (Everyone Welcome)
There will be an All Comers meet in Stockton on February 25th. This meet is not an official Manteca High Meet so you will need to run un-attached. Anyone interested in testing their fitness level with an official time can attend. Please see Coach Lyons or Coach Cueves for information on how to register.
Sunday, June 5, 2011
Lyons is state’s 8th best 110 hurdler
POSTED June 5, 2011 1:15 a.m |
CLOVIS — Manteca High’s Paul Lyons outlasted all the other athletes in the area to finish eighth in the 110 hurdles of the California Interscholastic Federation State Track and Field Championships on Saturday in Clovis.
Lyons’ time of 14.66 was just two-tenths of a second off runner-up Kiethyon Moten at 14.46.
No. 1 seed Jonathon Cabral earned the state championship with a time of 13.79 to secure the state title for the second consecutive season in the 110-hurdles.
“That was a pretty close race,” Manteca head coach Sean Hogan said. “The problem was the hurdles were exploding all over the place on everybody. That’s why the rest of the field was so much slower than the No. 1.
“But, No. 8 in the state of California is pretty respectable.”
Lyons showed state meet potential throughout the entire season, posting blistering times in the 110 and 300-hurdles throughout the Buffaloes’ Valley Oak League season. Lyons’ trip south, which included a berth into the 300-hurdles as well, made the Buffalo the first area athlete to qualify for two events in the state meet since the 2008 season.
“You don’t get to tell a kid everyday that they’re in the finals of the state meet in the State of California,” Hogan said. “I don’t think there’s a bigger track meet for high school kids (tied to a) state competition anywhere in the United States except maybe Texas or Florida.
“I think he understood how special of an athlete he was for us.”
Saturday, July 3, 2010
Track newcomer exceeded even his own expectations
Vincent Herrera didn’t know what he was getting into when he began training with Manteca High’s track and field team on March 3.
His parents urged him to pick up another sport after dropping baseball, and track was it.
“I was like, ‘All right, I’ll just do it to mess around,’” Herrera said. “I wasn’t sure how long I was going to last. I thought I’d maybe make it out of (the Valley Oak) league (meet) and that was it.
“It ended up working out.”
Herrera was the biggest surprise of the 2010 track and field season. He even surprised himself.
Despite his inexperience, the late jump to the season and nagging ailments, Herrera was the only athlete from the area to qualify for the California Interscholastic Federation State Track and Field Championships in Clovis this year.
For his accomplishments, the senior was named the Bulletin’s All-Area Male Track Athlete of the Year. He was even crowned Manteca High’s Best All-Around Senior Athlete after being selected to the all-Valley Oak League first team in soccer last fall and helping the school’s boys basketball team clinch its second consecutive conference championship over the winter season.
“I wouldn’t have gotten that (award) without track,” he said.
Things didn’t start out so smoothly. In his first live meet, he ran a 4-minute, 55.74-second mile for 10th place in the 12th Annual Tom Moore Relays at Sierra High.
Slow start, fast finish.
His in-race strategy to slowly build up speed before a big finish was a microcosm to the drastic improvement he made in his first year as a distance runner.
After the Tom Moore Relays, Herrera went on to beat some of the VOL’s more grizzled distance runners, namely cross country stars Alejandro Garcia of Ceres and Sierra’s John Bowers multiple times.
In the VOL Championships, he won the 1,600-meter race in 4 minutes, 24.81 seconds as well as the 800 in 2:02.53.
He continued to surge the following week, winning the 1,600 title in the Sac-Joaquin Section Division III Meet at Modesto Junior College while hampered by a sore ankle stemming from a previous bout with shin splints. Herrera became the first-ever Manteca High track athlete to win the mile in a section meet.
Herrera’s Cinderella act reached its peak at the SJS Masters Meet. He checked in with the 15th fastest seeded time in the 24-man field, but he placed third with a personal-best time of 4:21.41, using a wild 100-meter dash to the finish to punch his ticket to state. Only the top three finishers, including those who meet the at-large marks in their event, advance.
Herrera’s season ended on somewhat of a downer at Buchanan High, the site of the state meet. He finished 23rd in 4:35.55.
Herrera was disappointed, but he knows the state meet was a stepping stone for a promising track career at the collegiate level.
“I was running with people who have much more experience and have scholarships to schools like Stanford and UCLA,” Herrera said. “It just showed me that I still have to work hard to get up there, I can’t get lazy.”
Herrera said he may run cross country for Hawaii-BYU or both cross country and track for Queens University of Charlotte under regarded distance coach Scott Simmons.
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