In this weekly tidbit column, “Blast from the Past”, I’m going to take a look at some special performances that happened during the week we are on.
In this case we are looking at performances before the March 1st date.
February 19th 1978 produced and amazing indoor triple jump by Piner’s Marvin Colter at 47-6½ at the Examiner Games in the San Francisco Cow Palace.
February 11th 1995 saw three amazing indoor marks by local preps at the Sunkist Invitational.
Petaluma’s Rene Loraine won the high school division of the pole vault at 15-6, while Piner’s Pat Leonard would win the high jump at 6-8. On the track Sophomore sensation Julia Stamps of Santa Rosa High ran in the women’s open mile race. Her 4:46.73 9th place finish was a new NATIONAL HS Sophomore record.
February 25th 2012
Piner’s Luis Luna ran a 9:07.83 2 mile indoor race in Seattle, still our indoor record.
February 17th 2018 Montgomery’s Jaymes Tischbern establish himself as someone to watch that year as he blazed a double of 49.00 (400) and 21.94 -1.0 (200) at a Berkeley All-Comers meet.
Other pole vaulters who exploded early were Mike Tillinghast of Montgomery clearing 15-2 indoors at the Reno Pole Vault Summit on 1/10/2004 and Ursuline’s Michelle Stone who cleared 12-0 on 1/23/2010 at a Los Gatos meet breaking the Empire record.
February 12th 2011 saw Courtney Tuck of Petaluma go 5-6 in the high jump.
On the 23rd of February 2019, Middletown’s Bryson Trask unleashed a huge discus throw at the Honker Mini Invitational sailing it out to 176-3. Trask would go on to throw 181-10 at State to erase the Empire record.
February 13th 2021 Maria Carrillo’s Lily Mulligan tied the Empire Record in the pole vault at 12-3.
February 3rd 2024 Montgomery’s Hanne Thomsen broke a number of Redwood Empire records recently at the New Balance Indoor Grand Prix meet.
Her Mile time and enroute 1600 & 1500 times broke the Empire’s Junior Class record and the Indoor records for both the Mile and 1500, all three previously held by Santa’s Rosa’s Julia Stamps.
February 2nd 2025 Montgomery’s Hanne Thomsen does the same as last year at the same meet running 4:44.54.
February 1st 2025 Technology sophomore Josie Hill performed the greatest Redwood Empire 800 2:11.57/400 57.52 of all time, both indoor Empire records.