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With three meets completed in the season, the Greenwave track and field team is already seeing improvements in times and marks with one of its biggest events on the horizon.
Fallon opened the season in Fernley on March 1 when the boys finished second and the girls were third. Fernley won both divisions.
In the first of four six-team 3A Western League meets on March 4 at Wooster, Fallon finished fourth in the boys and fifth in the girls as Truckee won both divisions. The Greenwave finished 13th out of 18 teams in the boys division and 14th out of 17 in the girls in last Saturday’s Dave Butler Memorial Las Vegas Open at Desert Oasis High School. Fallon and Reed were the only teams from Northern Nevada.
The Greenwave resumed its league schedule with the second meet Tuesday in Reno. The team travels to the Mason Valley on Friday for the Yerington Lions Invitational. The 50th annual Elks Invitational returns to Fallon on March 22.
The following are the team’s top times so far this season.
SPRINTS
Boys
Junior Bransyn Wright is the only one on the team with a sub-12-second time in the 100-meter dash, but a string of sophomores is not far behind. Wright posted a 11.80 in the opening Fernley meet, while sophomores Adam Roman Montes (12.32), Arad Duenas (12.41), Rylan Clark (12.46), Evan Garcia-Jurado (12.55) and Jaeshon Pearson (12.64) follow.
In the 200, junior Wyatt Dixon has the best time of 25.02, a personal-best he recorded last week in Las Vegas. Montes (25.24), junior Justin McArthur (26.53), senior Brody Hughes (26.82) and junior Ashton McCourtney (28.12) round out the top-five.
In the 400, Garcia-Jurado leads the team with a 56.77, a personal best achieved last week, followed by Montes (56.97), McArthur (59.15), Dixon (59.29) and Duenas (59.43).
Girls
Sophomores Lillian Souza and Karmen Alcantar lead the girls in the 100 at 14.33 and 14.55 with senior McKenzee Peterson in third at 14.71. Freshmen Rebekah Knight (15.31) and Arabella Berry (15.69) round out the top five. Sophomore Taylor Perry leads in the 200 at 31.02 followed by sophomore Tommie Fitzer (31.18), Knight (32.71) and Berry (33.07). In the 400, Peterson has the best mark at 1:12.61 followed by Perry (1:13.77), Berry (1:14.75) and freshman Isabella Sorensen (1:16.82).
DISTANCE
Boys
In the 800, sophomore William James Lofthouse posted a personal-best 2:18.12 to lead the team. Garcia-Jurado (2:22.16), sophomore Leo Arcoraci (2:24.55), sophomore Jarret Ugalde Torres (2:26.02) and freshman Lars Rasmussen (2:27:09) round out the top five. Romero-Montes leads five runners with sub-5:30 times in the 1600 as he posted a 5:20.93 last week in Las Vegas. Arcoraci (5:21.53), Rasmussen (5:24.63), Garcia-Jurado (5:26:09 and Torres (5:26.18) are in the top five. Torres is the only one with a 3200 time less than 12 minutes as he leads the team with a 11:58.81, which came last week. Senior Manuel DeSantiago (12:18.97), Arcoraci (12:36.56), sophomore Zander Lewis (13:05.55) and sophomore Benny Enriquez Galeno (13:21.53) rank in the team’s top five.
Girls
Freshman Kylee Moore posted the team’s best time in the season opener, running a 3:16:12 in the 800 followed by freshmen Zoe Rasmussen (3:32.65) and Melody Garcia-Bishop (3:34.70). Rasmussen ran a 7:38.04 in the 1600 last week in Las Vegas while Garcia-Bishop posted a 7:57.96 in Fernley three weeks ago.
HURDLES
Boys
Clark and sophomore Vernon Harper are the team’s only hurdlers so far with Clark clocking in at 20.84 in the 110 high hurdles in the 3A Western League’s first meet earlier this month. Harper was only 0.01 behind.
Girls
Alcantar leads the team in the 100 hurdles with a time of 19.40 followed by Fitzer at 20.39 as both girls posted season bests last week. Moore is third at 22.94 followed by freshman McKayla Taylor at 23.63. Fitzer has the team’s only recorded time in the 300 when she ran last week’s Las Vegas race in 58.10.
RELAYS
Boys
Fallon has run three different teams in the 4x100 race with the quartet of sophomore Nathaniel Bianchi, Wright, Dixon and Clark posting the best time (46.75) in the season opener in Fernley. The 4x200 team of Clark, Dixon, Garcia-Jurado and Lofthouse ran just once, posting a 1:41.44 in Fernley. Like the 4x100, the 4x800 race has featured multiple teams with Garcia-Jurado, Arcoraci, Lofthouse and sophomore Leojro Chavez posting the best time (9:16.75), which came last week.
Girls
The Wave ran two combinations in the 4x100 race with the team of Alcantar, Moore, Peterson and sophomore Analiese Sorensen running it in 1:00.56 in Fernley. The 4x200 team of Peterson, Alcantar, Moore and Fitzer finished last week’s race in 2:06.59. The 4x800 team of Fitzer, Rasmussen, Knight and sophomore Hannah Hanks ran it in 13:09.66 earlier this month in Reno.
THROWS
Boys
Junior Joseph Romero leads the team in the shot put with a throw of 38 feet, 6.5 inches, followed by McCourtney (37-5.5), sophomore Jason Lewis (33-2), and juniors Carter McBee (30-0) and Carlos Valenzuela (29-5). Romero also leads in the discus at 108-4 followed by McBee (91-7), Lewis (91-2), McCourtney (87-8) and sophomore Alex Sorensen (85-5).
Girls
Junior Katelyn Glinka leads the team in the shot put (28-3.5) and discus (89-0) followed by Hanks in both at 22-3.5 and 61 feet. Barber is third on the team in the shot put at 18-3 followed by Rasmussen (17-11.5) and sophomore Kandice Mineard-Bobb (16-9.5). Isabella Sorensen is third in the discus at 59-2 followed by Barber (52-2) and Mineard-Bobb (45-4).
JUMPS
Boys
Wright leads the team in the high jump with a leap of 6-2, which came last week, and Bianchi came in at 5-4 in Fernley. Harper cleared 5 feet. Bianchi leads in both the long and triple jumps with marks of 18-9 and 40-3. Clark (17-7), sophomore Dion Gocong (17-0.5), Pearson (16-0) and sophomore Kenyon Wilson (14-11) are in the top five for long jump. The triple jump top five includes Wilson (34-1), and sophomores Tejae Edie (31-3), Charles Pettek (31-1) and Alex Bacallo (25-4).
Girls
Peterson leads the team in the high and long jumps at 4-8 and 13-6, which she recorded personal bests in Fernley. Taylor is second in the high jump at 4-0.
POLE VAULT
Boys
Lofthouse leads the team with a personal-best 9 feet in the pole vault followed by Edie and Bianchi, both at 8-3, and Rasmussen at 7-6.
Girls
Peterson leads the pole vault with a leap of 7-6 followed by Sorensen at 5-3.