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13-04-2025
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Servite boys 4x100 relay team leads pack breaking records at Arcadia Invitational
It did not take long for the first record to fall Saturday evening at the 57th annual Arcadia Invitational track and field meet at Arcadia High. In the very first event, Servite's boys 4x100 relay team burned up the track in 40 seconds flat, a new state and meet record and the fastest prep time this season. Advertisement Getting the Friars' foursome off to a fast start was Jorden Wells, who passed the baton to Benjamin Harris around the first turn and watched as the Long Beach Poly transfer took the lead on the backstretch and handed off to Jaelen Hunter, who maintained his team's margin before passing to Robert Gardner, who widened the margin on the anchor leg. All four of them are underclassmen and they beat runner-up Long Beach Poly by 32 hundredths of a second. 'We came in hot, having practiced real good and it paid off,' Gardner said. 'Once I get the baton I have to do my part.' Harris believes the best is yet to come. Advertisement 'We can line up with any team out there,' he said. 'We can go lower next week [at the Mt. SAC Relays] and beyond.' Having won the 4x200 on Friday, Servite tried for the 'trifecta' in the final race of the night Saturday and completed the sweep of the relays as Jorden Wells sprinted a 47.10 anchor leg to lead the all-freshman squad to first in the 4x400 in 3:12.33, the sixth-fastest time in the U.S. this season and the eighth-best all-time at Arcadia. Hunter, the top ninth-grader in the country in the 400 meters, showed why by winning the seeded race in 47.91. Jack Stadlman of Temecula Valley won the Invitational 400 in 45.92, staying No. 3 in the nation at that distance. Despite his success, Stadlman said he prefers the 200. Advertisement 'I'm not a fan of the 400, but I knew I had the fastest seed, I trusted in myself and finished the race," said Stadlman, who trailed early before taking control to comfortably beat runner-up Noah Smith (46.56). 'I wanted the meet record, but I told my coach I'd be satisfied with 45.' Vista Murrieta's Michael Norman set the meet record of 45.51 in 2016. Stadlman, a former junior varsity basketball player, ran the fourth-fastest time in the United States (45.69) on March 1 in only his second 400 ever and Smith, a junior, ran the eighth-fastest national time this year (46.55) at the Chandler Rotary Invitational in Arizona. Wells clocked 10.47 to take second in the seeded 100-meter dash and Harris went head-to-head with Mt. Miguel junior Brandon Arrington (last year's state 100 and 200 champion) in the Invitational heat. Arrington won by one hundredth of a second in 10.32—the third-fastest ever at Arcadia. Harris' 10.33 was good enough for fourth all-time at Arcadia and one hundredth of a second off the state record for a sophomore). Advertisement Arrington doubled back to win the 200 in 20.35, breaking Noah Lyles' meet record of 20.48, set in 2016. Lyles, of T.C. Williams, Alexandria, Virginia, still holds the Arcadia 100 meter record of 10.17. After finishing second in the mile the previous two years to Ventura's Sadie Engelhardt, who opted to forego her last high school season to compete in Open and pro races, senior Jane Hedengren of Timpview, Utah, made history of her own by establishing a new national two-mile record of 9:34.12. Interviewed one minute after, she took her stunning achievement in stride. 'I felt alright, but I wanted to go faster,' said Hedengren, whose effort also broke the national 3000 and 3200 records. 'Thank you, Arcadia, for cheering me on.' Maliyah Collins' blazing anchor leg helped Rosary win the Invitational girls 4x100 in 45.47, the sixth fastest time in the nation this year and fourth fastest ever at Arcadia. Christina Gray anchored reigning City Section champion Carson's 46.58 first-place effort in the preceding seeded race. Advertisement The Invitational boys 3200 field included five sub-four minute milers. Owen Powell of Mercer Island, Washington won the eight-lapper in 8:39.86. Fifteen-year-old New Zealander Sam Ruthe, who ran a 3:58 mile last month, was third in 8:40.95 A highly-anticipated showdown took place in the Invitational girls shot put, where Aliso Niguel junior Jaslene Massey, who won the Orange County Championships in March with a throw of 50 feet, seven inches (No. 3 in the nation this year) prevailed with a 48-09.50 effort. Senior Aja Johnson of Sherman Oaks Notre Dame, who won the 2023 state crown and was the runner-up last spring, finished second 48-01.00. The roles were reversed in the discus, where Johnson (the 2024 state champion) took first place with a throw of 159-01 while Massey was second (157-03). Long Beach Wilson's Loren Webster won the Invitational girls long jump with a leap of 19 feet, 10 inches and Camren Smith of Quartz Hill won the Invitational boys triple jump at 49-06.00. Advertisement Sign up for the L.A. Times SoCal high school sports newsletter to get scores, stories and a behind-the-scenes look at what makes prep sports so popular. This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times.
Los Angeles Times
13-04-2025
- Sport
- Los Angeles Times
Servite boys 4x100 relay team leads pack breaking records at Arcadia Invitational
It did not take long for the first record to fall Saturday evening at the 57th annual Arcadia Invitational track and field meet at Arcadia High. In the very first event, Servite's boys 4x100 relay team burned up the track in 40 seconds flat, a new state and meet record and the fastest prep time this season. Getting the Friars' foursome off to a fast start was Jorden Wells, who passed the baton to Benjamin Harris around the first turn and watched as the Long Beach Poly transfer took the lead on the backstretch and handed off to Jaelen Hunter, who maintained his team's margin before passing to Robert Gardner, who widened the margin on the anchor leg. All four of them are underclassmen and they beat runner-up Long Beach Poly by 32 hundredths of a second. 'We came in hot, having practiced real good and it paid off,' Gardner said. 'Once I get the baton I have to do my part.' Harris believes the best is yet to come. 'We can line up with any team out there,' he said. 'We can go lower next week [at the Mt. SAC Relays] and beyond.' Having won the 4x200 on Friday, Servite tried for the 'trifecta' in the final race of the night Saturday and completed the sweep of the relays as Jorden Wells sprinted a 47.10 anchor leg to lead the all-freshman squad to first in the 4x400 in 3:12.33, the sixth-fastest time in the U.S. this season and the eighth-best all-time at Arcadia. Hunter, the top ninth-grader in the country in the 400 meters, showed why by winning the seeded race in 47.91. Jack Stadlman of Temecula Valley won the Invitational 400 in 45.92, staying No. 3 in the nation at that distance. Despite his success, Stadlman said he prefers the 200. 'I'm not a fan of the 400, but I knew I had the fastest seed, I trusted in myself and finished the race,' said Stadlman, who trailed early before taking control to comfortably beat runner-up Noah Smith (46.56). 'I wanted the meet record, but I told my coach I'd be satisfied with 45.' Vista Murrieta's Michael Norman set the meet record of 45.51 in 2016. Stadlman, a former junior varsity basketball player, ran the fourth-fastest time in the United States (45.69) on March 1 in only his second 400 ever and Smith, a junior, ran the eighth-fastest national time this year (46.55) at the Chandler Rotary Invitational in Arizona. Wells clocked 10.47 to take second in the seeded 100-meter dash and Harris went head-to-head with Mt. Miguel junior Brandon Arrington (last year's state 100 and 200 champion) in the Invitational heat. Arrington won by one hundredth of a second in 10.32—the third-fastest ever at Arcadia. Harris' 10.33 was good enough for fourth all-time at Arcadia and one hundredth of a second off the state record for a sophomore). Arrington doubled back to win the 200 in 20.35, breaking Noah Lyles' meet record of 20.48, set in 2016. Lyles, of T.C. Williams, Alexandria, Virginia, still holds the Arcadia 100 meter record of 10.17. After finishing second in the mile the previous two years to Ventura's Sadie Engelhardt, who opted to forego her last high school season to compete in Open and pro races, senior Jane Hedengren of Timpview, Utah, made history of her own by establishing a new national two-mile record of 9:34.12. Interviewed one minute after, she took her stunning achievement in stride. 'I felt alright, but I wanted to go faster,' said Hedengren, whose effort also broke the national 3000 and 3200 records. 'Thank you, Arcadia, for cheering me on.' Maliyah Collins' blazing anchor leg helped Rosary win the Invitational girls 4x100 in 45.47, the sixth fastest time in the nation this year and fourth fastest ever at Arcadia. Christina Gray anchored reigning City Section champion Carson's 46.58 first-place effort in the preceding seeded race. The Invitational boys 3200 field included five sub-four minute milers. Owen Powell of Mercer Island, Washington won the eight-lapper in 8:39.86. Fifteen-year-old New Zealander Sam Ruthe, who ran a 3:58 mile last month, was third in 8:40.95 A highly-anticipated showdown took place in the Invitational girls shot put, where Aliso Niguel junior Jaslene Massey, who won the Orange County Championships in March with a throw of 50 feet, seven inches (No. 3 in the nation this year) prevailed with a 48-09.50 effort. Senior Aja Johnson of Sherman Oaks Notre Dame, who won the 2023 state crown and was the runner-up last spring, finished second 48-01.00. The roles were reversed in the discus, where Johnson (the 2024 state champion) took first place with a throw of 159-01 while Massey was second (157-03). Long Beach Wilson's Loren Webster won the Invitational girls long jump with a leap of 19 feet, 10 inches and Camren Smith of Quartz Hill won the Invitational boys triple jump at 49-06.00.
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05-03-2025
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Former basketball player Jack Stadlman bursts onto the track scene
"The Jack Stadlman Story" could be coming to a theater near you. The screenplay is being written each time he breaks out of the blocks in the 400 meters. To see the time he's running with so little experience or knowledge of what he's doing is simply stunning. 'I believe what we're doing will conclude with him being on the top of the podium at the state meet,' says his coach, Desmond Lee. It's a story about a teenage athlete who discovered his freakish talent almost by accident. Stadlman was a junior varsity basketball player at Temecula Valley High who used to beat everyone in line drills and suicides, indicating speed and endurance. 'I would always be the quickest,' he said. 'Basketball wasn't going as I wanted. I wanted to try something else because I was so fast.' In October 2023, he quit basketball and joined the track team in his junior season. He ran the 100 and 200 last spring. His best 100 time was 10.73 seconds and his 200 time was 21.61. He ran one 400 race, finishing in 49.06. Coming Wednesday. A profile of Jack Stadlman of Temecula Valley who ran an astounding 45.69 400 meters in only his second 400 ever. — eric sondheimer (@latsondheimer) March 5, 2025 'I didn't want to do the 400,' he told himself. 'This race is too tiring and too much.' Said Lee: ' I didn't get to do much work with him but saw he had this unbelievable engine.' Lee ran a 4x400 relay leg and recorded a split in 48.2. It was a hint what he might become. 'It was noticeable I was really good,' he said. Vista Murrieta coach Coley Candaele said he saw Stadlman run that 400 last season. He was the high school coach for Olympian Michael Norman and was convinced something was there. 'I knew he was the real deal,' Candaele said. Lee still had to convince Stadlman the 400 would be his race this season. 'When we started fall training, he wants to run 100 so bad,' Lee said. 'No, no no.' Lee knew that the defending state champion in the 100, Brandon Arrington from Mount Miguel, ran 10.33 seconds. 'I'm telling him, 'Would you rather win and be on the podium at state or be eliminated? I'm not trying to burst your bubble, but you're not going to beat him.'' Stadlman listened and went to work. He trained relentlessly all fall in the weight room and running hills. He won the winter championship for 300 meters. He started to embrace the 400. "The 400 is more like a sprint for me. I started liking it,' he said. Then came last Saturday, when he ran in only his second 400 ever in a meet at Vista Murrieta. The expectation was to run a time in the 47s. Instead, Stadlman made eyes go wide in surprise when he finished in 45.69 seconds, the second-best performance by an Inland Empire high school athlete all-time next to Norman's 45.19. 'I was super excited,' Stadlman said. It raises questions. Was it a fluke? Did Stadlman peak in his first race of the year? And how fast can he run this season? The answers are no, no and no one knows. 'I can't tell you how fast he's going to run,' Lee said. 'It's not his peak. There's more in the system.' Stadlman is a 6-foot, 160-pound 18-year-old who loses weight so easily that he tries to eat as much as he can. He can do windmill dunks. His mother is a native of Cambodia and is a first-grade teacher. His father is a truck driver. His mother urged him to try track. He's an A student who played trumpet in the middle school band. Expect college recruiters to be inundating him with offers this spring. 'Everybody has been telling me to do track,' he said. 'I always thought it would be long-distance training.' Now that he has discovered his talent for running, he's all in. It's his future and the fact that the Olympic Games are coming to Los Angeles in 2028 makes his discovery perfect timing. The reaction to his sudden success was swift. 'I was getting a lot of congratulations,' he said. 'My friends were really proud seeing my progress from nothing to something. My parents were hyped. They were screaming.' Stadlman might need to hire an agent. His story is headed to big-time status. Sign up for the L.A. Times SoCal high school sports newsletter to get scores, stories and a behind-the-scenes look at what makes prep sports so popular. This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times.
Los Angeles Times
05-03-2025
- Sport
- Los Angeles Times
Former basketball player Jack Stadlman bursts onto the track scene
'The Jack Stadlman Story' could be coming to a theater near you. The screenplay is being written each time he breaks out of the blocks in the 400 meters. To see the time he's running with so little experience or knowledge of what he's doing is simply stunning. 'I believe what we're doing will conclude with him being on the top of the podium at the state meet,' says his coach, Desmond Lee. It's a story about a teenage athlete who discovered his freakish talent almost by accident. Stadlman was a junior varsity basketball player at Temecula Valley High who used to beat everyone in line drills and suicides, indicating speed and endurance. 'I would always be the quickest,' he said. 'Basketball wasn't going as I wanted. I wanted to try something else because I was so fast.' In October 2023, he quit basketball and joined the track team in his junior season. He ran the 100 and 200 last spring. His best 100 time was 10.73 seconds and his 200 time was 21.61. He ran one 400 race, finishing in 49.06. 'I didn't want to do the 400,' he told himself. 'This race is too tiring and too much.' Said Lee: ' I didn't get to do much work with him but saw he had this unbelievable engine.' Lee ran a 4x400 relay leg and recorded a split in 48.2. It was a hint what he might become. 'It was noticeable I was really good,' he said. Vista Murrieta coach Coley Candaele said he saw Stadlman run that 400 last season. He was the high school coach for Olympian Michael Norman and was convinced something was there. 'I knew he was the real deal,' Candaele said. Lee still had to convince Stadlman the 400 would be his race this season. 'When we started fall training, he wants to run 100 so bad,' Lee said. 'No, no no.' Lee knew that the defending state champion in the 100, Brandon Arrington from Mount Miguel, ran 10.33 seconds. 'I'm telling him, 'Would you rather win and be on the podium at state or be eliminated? I'm not trying to burst your bubble, but you're not going to beat him.'' Stadlman listened and went to work. He trained relentlessly all fall in the weight room and running hills. He won the winter championship for 300 meters. He started to embrace the 400. 'The 400 is more like a sprint for me. I started liking it,' he said. Then came last Saturday, when he ran in only his second 400 ever in a meet at Vista Murrieta. The expectation was to run a time in the 47s. Instead, Stadlman made eyes go wide in surprise when he finished in 45.69 seconds, the second-best performance by an Inland Empire high school athlete all-time next to Norman's 45.19. 'I was super excited,' Stadlman said. It raises questions. Was it a fluke? Did Stadlman peak in his first race of the year? And how fast can he run this season? The answers are no, no and no one knows. 'I can't tell you how fast he's going to run,' Lee said. 'It's not his peak. There's more in the system.' Stadlman is a 6-foot, 160-pound 18-year-old who loses weight so easily that he tries to eat as much as he can. He can do windmill dunks. His mother is a native of Cambodia and is a first-grade teacher. His father is a truck driver. His mother urged him to try track. He's an A student who played trumpet in the middle school band. Expect college recruiters to be inundating him with offers this spring. 'Everybody has been telling me to do track,' he said. 'I always thought it would be long-distance training.' Now that he has discovered his talent for running, he's all in. It's his future and the fact that the Olympic Games are coming to Los Angeles in 2028 makes his discovery perfect timing. The reaction to his sudden success was swift. 'I was getting a lot of congratulations,' he said. 'My friends were really proud seeing my progress from nothing to something. My parents were hyped. They were screaming.' Stadlman might need to hire an agent. His story is headed to big-time status.
