Stockdale's Chesley 3rd in high jump; Collatz withdraws from discus at state meet
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Asia Chesley of Stockdale High School attempts the 5'6" mark in the Girls High Jump at the CIF State Track & Field Championship on Saturday, June 4 at Buchanan High School in Fresno, Ca.
Alex Collatz of Stockdale High School competes in the Discus Throw at the CIF State Track & Field Championship on Saturday, June 4 at Buchanan High School in Fresno, Ca.
Alex Collatz of Stockdale High School speaks with coach Dave Lonsinger, left, after falling during competition and passing on her final throws in the discus at the CIF State Track and Field Championships. Collatz suffered a torn ACL during volleyball season and didn't want to risk further injury in a wet ring to defend her state title.
CLOVIS -- So this is where the fairy tale met its harsh end, with Alex Collatz in tears Saturday alongside the fence outside Buchanan High School's baseball field during the CIF State Track and Field Championships.
Rainy conditions, a slick discus ring and Collatz's wounded knee combined to force the defending state champion to forgo her final two throws and end her career in seventh place.
"It's hard," she said. "It would have meant everything. That's what I worked so hard for. That's what I thought about when I was one-legged on the couch, my knee swollen like a pumpkin. That's what I wanted, was to come back and win state."
But, inside Veterans Memorial Stadium, another fairy tale was only beginning. Asia Chesley, one of Collatz's Stockdale teammates but just a precocious freshman, came from anonymity to win the bronze medal, tying with two others, in the girls high jump.
"The contrast just blows me away," Stockdale coach Dave Lonsinger said. "To go from feeling so bad for Alex to come in to see this -- and within 30 minutes. It's incredible."
The irony goes deeper: Collatz is just nine months removed from a devastating right knee injury that she worked six hours a day to overcome; Chesley hyper-extended her right knee early in the season and didn't think she'd be here.
"I was doubting all track meets," Chesley said. "I was ready to give up. I'm glad I got to pull through and make it."
Chesley matched her personal record by clearing 5-4 on the first try, then failed in three attempts to clear 5-6. But only two jumpers made it to 5-8, so Chesley went into a tiebreaker with four others. Because she had made her first attempt at both 5-2 and 5-4, Chesley had staked her claim to third.
"We talk about that from the first practice, her and my assistant, Dion Guiliano," Lonsinger said. "Make the first jumps. You don't know how many meets that can win you, because that's the tiebreaker. And it manifested itself in what nobody thought would happen."
The future, naturally, appears bright.
"Next year, hopefully I'll come back and get first," Chesley said.
But while that chapter has just started, Collatz saw her high school career come to a most painful end. She slipped and fell hard to the pavement on her fourth throw, and her father and coach, Alan Collatz, stepped in and told her no more.
"At that point, the coaching is out the window; you just have to show her you have compassion," he said. "But it was a hard fall, and we just couldn't risk her hurting that knee or something else."
Collatz tried three pairs of shoes but still slipped on all four throws.
"I couldn't even get my footing," said Collatz, who relies on quick steps rather than brute strength for her distance. "I kept backing off and (the throws) would go straight up in the air."
Her best mark was a pedestrian 134-0 -- more than 30 feet shorter than her qualifying mark yesterday and nearly 50 behind her pre-injury PR of 180-9, which led the nation last year.
"She's been through a lot this year, and she's been so successful in the past," Alan Collatz said. "But there will be another day. She'll learn from this. I know it's painful now, but she has a long career in front of her."
Collatz still needs another surgery to clean up scar tissue in the knee, in which she tore her anterior crucial ligament and cartilage during a September volleyball match. She'll head off to USC next year, but that chapter seemed far off to her Saturday.
"I've been so tunnel vision just thinking about this," Collatz said. "I have no idea what I'm going to do."
But as Lonsinger reminded, for every end there is another beginning.
"We're blessed to have a kid (Collatz) with that kind of character, that kind of strength," he said. "And I think she showed a lot of our kids, including Asia, how to fight back when it isn't easy.
"So you see the contrast. Sometimes things happen and there's nothing you can do about it. And then you have another athlete, where you think, 'No way in the world,' and here she is."
Boys results
Team scores
1. Long Beach-Poly 35; 2. L.A.-Loyola 32; t3. Lake Forest-El Toro and Gardena-Serra 22; t5. Agoura and Covina 20; t7. Davis and L.A.-Dorsey 19; 9. San Diego-Scripps Ranch 17; 10. Sherman Oaks-Notre Dame 16. No locals.
400 relay: 1. Westlake Village-Oaks Christian, 41-19; 2. Corona-Roosevelt, 41-29; 3. Clovis-Buchanan, 41.64; 4. L.A.-Dorsey, 41.77; 5. Ontario-Colony, 42.05; 6. Canyon Country-Canyon, 42.18.
1,600: 1. Oshier, Mission Viejo-Trabuco Hills, 4:00.83; 2. Gedyon, L.A.-Loyola, 4:04.04; 3. Gutierez, Rancho Cucamonga, 4:06.51; 4. Carpowich, San Diego-Torrey Pines, 4:07.21; 5. Waschura, Woodside, 4:08.29; 6. Kaddatz, Dana Point-Dana Hills, 4:09.58;
110H: 1. Cabral, Agoura, 13.79; 2. Moten, Indio, 14.46; 3. Hare, San Diego-Scripps Ranch, 14.47; 4. Hickey, Vista, 14.55; 5. Todd-Borden, Carlsbad-La Costa Canyon, 14.56; 6. Walker, Richmond, 14.57.
400: 1. Howard, LB-Poly, 47.49; 2. Clark, Dorsey, 47.66; 3. Lauderdale, Gardena-Serra, 47.66; 4. Rodriguez, Spring Valley-Mt. Miguel, 47.89; 5. Quinn, Vista Murrieta, 48.18; 6. Crayton-Cragen, Fresno-Bullard, 48.20.
100: 1. McClain, Covina, 10.39; 2. Muhammad, Sherman Oaks-Notre Dame, 10.67; 3. Stewart, Fontana-Miller, 10.71; 4. Pickering, San Diego-Rancho Bernardo, 10.72; 5. Saucer, Oaks Christian, 10.79; 6. Snelling, Sacramento-Kennedy, 10.81.
800: 1. Hutchinson, San Jacinto, 1:49.63; 2. Vaziri, Scripps Ranch, 1:50.21; 3. Andrews, LB-Poly, 1:50.63; 4. Hall, LB-Poly, 1:50.68; 5. Williams, San Francisco-Urban, 1:50.95; 6. Bojorquez, San Diego-Kearny, 1:52.64.
300H: 1. Cabral, Agoura, 36.20; 2. Grimble, Walnut Creek-Las Lomas, 37.78; 3. Martinez, Elk Grove, 38.00; 4. Lewis, Ramona, 38.10; 5. McFadden, Pasadena-Muir, 38.50; 6. Jackson, Oceanside-El Camino, 39.72.
200: 1. McClain, Covina, 20.95; 2. Muhammad, SO-Notre Dame, 21.46; 3. Lee, West Covina, 21.49; 4. Pickering, Rancho Bernardo, 21.61; 5. Kelley, Fresno-Central, 21.85; 6. White, LB-Poly, 21.90.
3,200: 1. Gedyon, Loyola, 8:50.03; 2. Pons, South Pasadena, 8:50.67; 3. Halsted, Davis, 8:51.96; 4. Werley, Riverside-King, 8:53.21; 5. Wooff, Camarillo, 8:55.13; 6. Luna, Santa Rosa-Piner, 8:55.43. 21. Miller, Stock, 9:10.20
1,600 relay: 1. LB-Poly, 3:12.44; 2. Gardena-Serra, 3:13.53; 3. Dorsey, 3:16.47; 4. Mt. Miguel, 3:16.60; 5. Temecula-Great Oak, 3:17.03; 6. Scripps Ranch, 3:17.35.
High jump: 1. Cody, Anaheim-Canyon, 6-11; 2. Frazier, San Ramon-California, 6-9; t3. Kemper, San Diego-Serra, and Ford, San Diego-Mt. Carmel, 6-7; t5. four at 6-5.
Pole vault: 1. Rock, Davis, 16-2; 2. Stark, Oak Park, 15-10; t3. Bragg, Lake Forest-El Toro, and Greenman, Clovis, 15-6; 5. Chapman, Murrieta, 15-0; t6. Beekman, Clovis East, and Huff, San Diego Christian, 14-6.
Long jump: 1. Slater, Vista Murrieta, 24-10.5; 2. Lee, Gardena-Serra, 23-11; 3. Hightower, Loyola, 23-3.75; 4. Root, Visalia-Redwood, 23-3; 5. Snow, El Camino, 22-10.75; 6. Rock, Davis, 22-1.75.
Shot put: 1. Scarvelis, Goleta-Dos Pueblos, 64-0; 2. Fraser, El Toro, 61-3.5; 3. Weinreich, Arroyo Grande, 59-5.5; 4. Andrews, Newport Beach-Newport Harbor, 58-5.5; 5. Boals, Carmichael-Jesuit, 57-10; 6. Parker, El Toro, 57-9.25.
Discus: 1. Cochran, Newport Beach-Newport Harbor, 185-9; 2. Budincich, L.A.-Loyola, 178-5; 3. Hunter-Simms, San Bernardino-San Gorgonio, 176-6; 4. Fraser, Lake Forest-El Toro, 172-0; 5. Scarvelis, Goleta-Dos Pueblos, 171-7; 6. Boals, Carmichael-Jesuit, 169-7. 9. Kovar, Burroughs, 129-8.
Girls results
Team scores
1. Long Beach-Poly 72; 2. Clovis 30; t3. North Hollywood-Harvard-Westlake, San Jose-Mt. Pleasant and Clovis West 20; 6. Moreno Valley-Rancho Verde 19; 7. Ventura 15; t8. San Luis Obispo and San Diego-Torrey Pines 13; 10. Rancho Cucamonga 12. 33. Stockdale 7.
400 relay: 1. Long Beach-Poly, 45.70; 2. Moreno Valley-Rancho Verde, 46-25; 3. Corona-Roosevelt, 46-81; 4. Inglewood-St. Mary's Academy, 46-81; 5. Rancho Cucamonga-Los Osos, 46-98; 6. Antioch-Deer Valley, 48.02.
1,600: 1. Chapus, North Hollywood-Harvard-Westlake, 4:40.88; 2. Billmeyer, Torrey Pines, 4:41.71; 3. Hiltz, Aptos, 4:43.43; 4. Delaney, Gardena-Serra, 4:47.20; 5. Sturges, El Monte-Mountain View, 4:47.65; 6. Bulder, Saugus, 4:47.81.
100H: 1. Wilson, Berkeley-St. Mary's, 13.41; 2. Cox, LB-Poly, 13.57; 3. Walker, San Jose-Mt. Pleasant, 14.17; 4. Davis, Hercules, 14.20; 5. Munford, Rancho Cucamonga, 14.21; 6. Wallace, Oakland-Holy Names, 14.25.
400: 1. Ndipagbor, LB-Poly, 53.38; 2. Jones, Etiwanda, 54.49; 3. Scott, Irvine-Woodbridge, 54.73; 4. Thompson, Newbury Park, 55.31; 5. Dorner, Sacramento-Rosemont, 55.54; 6. Walker, LB-Poly, 55.73.
100: 1. Prandini, Clovis, 11.69; 2. Price, La Puente-Bishop Amat, 11.72; 3. Marshall, Rancho Verde, 11.91; 4. Campbell, Pinole-Pinole Valley, 11.93; 5. Gibbs, El Camino, 12.08; 6. Buchanan, Chino Hills-Ayala, 12.11.
800: 1. Weissenbach, Harvard-Westlake, 2:02.04. 2. Camacho, Templeton, 2:07.84; 3. Kuzminsky, San Diego-Canyon Crest Academy, 2:09.11; 4. Gray, Beverly Hills, 2:09.15; 5. Edwards, El Toro, 2;09.55; 6. Gammage, LB-Poly, 2:09.70.
300H: 1. Cox, LB-Poly, 41.80; 2. Munford, Rancho Cucamonga, 41.90; 3. Al. Monteverde, Clovis West, 42.49; 4. Woodruff, St. Mary's Academy, 43.04; 5. Browne, San Marino, 43.08; 6. Pugh, Fairfield, 43.16.
200: 1. Prandini, Clovis, 23.81; 2. Ndipagbor, LB-Poly, 24.05; 3. Rhines, Los Osos, 24.31; 4. Estell, Rancho Verde, 24.43; 5. Courtnall, Oaks Christian, 24.48; 6. Williams, Woodland Hills-Louisville, 24.49.
3,200: 1. Baxter, Simi Valley, 10:13.00; 2. Grabill, Rancho Bernardo, 10:19.17; 3. Verdon, Moraga-Campolindo, 10:22.50; 4. Billmeyer, Torrey Pines, 10:22.56; 5. Bricks, Clovis-Buchanan, 10:22.67; 6. Foland, Manhattan Beach-Mira Costa, 10:23.33.
1,600 relay: 1. Gardena-Serra, 3:43.21; 2. LB-Poly, 3:44.00; 3. San Marcos, 3:46.89; 4. Oaks Christian 3:48.41; 5. Temecula-Great Oak 3:49.04; 6. Carson 3:50.10.
Discus: 1. Morgan, Ventura, 153-8; 2. Evans, Santee-West Hills, 149-3; 3. Mendivil, Redwood, 147-10; 4. Hammar, Atwater-Buhach Colony, 143-7; 5. French, Vacaville, 137-4; 6. Chukwunonso, Clovis West, 137-0; 7. Collatz, Stock, 134-0.
Shot put: 1. Jemison, Carlsbad, 43-1.25; 2. Anyanwu, San Diego-Westview, 42-0.75; 3. Sapa, Riverside-La Sierra, 41-6.75; 4. Morgan, Ventura, 41-4.25; 5. Sinclair, Mountain View, 41-1.5; 6. Daniels, El Camino, 40-8.5.
Pole vault: 1. An. Monteverde, Clovis West, 13-6; t2. Johnson, Claremont, Zingheim, Granite Bay, and Rische, Santa Ana-Foothill, 12-4; t5. Virdi, Las Lomas, and Clarke, San Luis Obispo, 12-0.
High jump: 1. McCoy, Miller, 5-8; 2. Rountree, Paso Robles, 5-6; t3. Chesley, Stock, McDaniel, San Marcos, and Barnes, North Torrance, 5-4; t6. Gielbelhaus, Orange-Lutheran, and Myashita, Aptos, 5-4J;
Long jump: 1. Prandini, Clovis, 19-11.75; 2. Torres, San Luis Obispo, 19-4.75; 3. Curenton, Victorville-Silverado, 18-7.5; 4. Stewart, Rialto-Carter, 18-2.25; 5. Gibbs, El Camino, 18-2.25J; 6. Sears, Fresno-Edison, 18-1.
Triple jump: 1. Brewer, Union City-James Logan, 41-11; 2. Leath, Mt. Pleasant, 39-11.75; 3. Cox, LB-Poly, 39-10.25; 4. Wallace, Holy Names, 39-9.5; 5. Walker, Mt. Pleasant, 39-2.25; 6. May, LB-Poly, 38-10.
