Stephanie Starritt of Hollister High barely missed qualifying
for the CIF State Track and Field Meet finals in the pole vault
last weekend.
Stephanie Starritt of Hollister High barely missed qualifying for the CIF State Track and Field Meet finals in the pole vault last weekend. Starritt vaulted 11-4 on her second attempt on Friday to equal her PR, but couldn’t quite achieve 11-8, which would have qualified her for Saturday’s finals. Starritt, a senior, ended up in a three-way tie for tenth.
“She had a couple of good attempts at 11-8,” said Baler girls track coach Jennifer Logue. “She did really well.”
Hollister’s Naomi Ruiz tossed the discus 104-7 last Friday and did not qualify for Saturday’s finals.
“She had a great season,” said Logue of Ruiz, who was the Central Coast Section champ at 132-2. “I don’t think her injury bothered her. She just had an off day. It was her first time at state and it helps to have been there before.”
Ruiz, a senior, was injured in a school Powder Puff football game on May 30 after winning the CCS title.
