The Vikings Track & Field team hosted the LBCC Viking Invitational at Veterans Memorial Stadium, on March 11.
The women’s team put up a lot of high placements in this meet, with five of the female Vikings placing first in their events.
Both the women’s relay teams placed first with the 4×100 team having a time of 51.00 seconds flat, and the 4×400 team having a time of 4:22.91.
Freshman heptathlete, Natalie Mejia, competed in three events this meet, placing first with her team in the 4×400, fourth in the long jump, and tenth in the 200.
“I feel like my first two jumps were my best jumps but I scratched both of them so I just have to keep adjusting,” Mejia said. “As I progress, my speed gets faster so I have to keep adjusting where I start from.”
The men’s team also put up high placements with four of them placing in first for their events.
Just like the women,the men’s 4×100 relay team also placed in first with a time of 42.17 seconds.
Freshman jumper, Arrean Reese, competed in two events for this meet, placing first with his team for the 4×100 relay and placing eighth in the long jump.
“Today was my first time jumping all season, so I thought I did pretty good for my first jump of the season,” said Reese.
Freshman jumper, Wesley Easter, also had a fantastic meet, competing in the 100 meters, the 4×100 relay, the high jump, and the long jump.
Easter placed first with his team in the 4×100, he jumped 5’10.75” in the high jump and placed second, he jumped 21’0.75” in the long jump and placed third, and he ran 11.69 seconds in the 100m placing eleventh.
Overall the Vikings competed strongly in the Invitational with several first place wins from both the men and women and many second and third place finishers as well.
The next meet for the Vikings is at Pasadena City College for the PCC Relays on March 25th.