The CIF Masters meet doubles as a "Southern Section Championship" along with a qualifying meet for the California State Championships to be held in Clovis, CA next weekend. With 580 schools represented in the CIF Southern Section, being among the 9 best athletes in your event is a distinction few can claim.

Two from King High Track and Field were able to do that very thing, and represented themselves and their school extremely well Friday night in Cerritos.

For Tayler Fleming, queen of the hurdle events, 2012 has been quite a season, as she's shown tremendous growth and improvement. A year ago she made it as the "alternate" for CIF Finals, essentially the 10th best 300 hurdler in Division One of the Southern Section. Here in 2012, thanks to an amazing performance Friday night in the Masters Meet, she's ready to move two rounds past CIF Finals with her first trip to the State Meet.

She ran a smooth, even race over the 300 meter layout, and even closed over the last 100 meters from 5th place to ultimately 3rd. Her time of 43.03 was 3-tenths faster than her previous best, and 2.5 seconds better than she was a year ago. She'll be heading to the State Championships next weekend.

Pole vaulter Megan Melton just missed the 5th-place qualifying mark for State, finishing 6th overall in a very talented group of 14. Like Tayler, Megan had a tremendous season of improvement, and to be counted the 6th-best vaulter in the Southern Section is no small thing!

As Tayler heads north next weekend, her participation in the State meet will mark the 4th time in the last 5 seasons that King has had an athlete in uniform on the State's biggest stage.

Sam Jeter-c/o 2007-Long Beach St.- Made the finals of the Big West 400 Meters

Carissa Bowman-c/o-2008-Biola- 4th in Golden State Athletic Conference(GSAC)-5000 meters and part of the first place 4 X 800 team.

Larissa Davis-c/o 2008-UNLV-11th in Mountain West Conference 3000 Steeplechase at 12:31.69 and 24th in the 5000. Larissa was Academic All-Conference in 2011

Tiffany West-c/o 2009-Cal State San Marcos-qualified for the NAIA Nationals in three events-the 400; the 4 X 100 and the 4 X 400. Both relays are school record holders.  Tiffany becomes the third King athlete (Morgan Sjorgren-05- and Monika Valenzuela-07- were the first two) to earn All-American Honors for Cal State San Marcos Track and Field. Tiffany ran a leg of the school record  4 X 400m relay (3:45.6) which finished sixth in the NAIA National meet this past weekend.

Trent Parrish-c/o of 2009-University of LaVerne-got a high mark of 13-5 in the pole vault before suffering a season ending knee injury 

Chantel Hicks-c/o of 2009-Cal State San Marcos-threw a season best 121-7 in the discus. 

Casey Candelaria-c/o 2009-Cal State Fullerton-11th in the Big West 800 at 2:14.5

Katrina Graham-c/o 2010-The Master's College-10th in the GSAC 10,00 meters at 39:46.Competed at the NAIA National Cross Country Championships last Fall.

Jessica Wiese-c/o 2011-Northern Arizona Univeristy-11th in the Big Sky Shot Put at 42-5

Amed Abul Rahman-c/o 2011-UC-Riverside-Walked on and threw a season best discus of 147-0. Missed the Big West Conference finals due to foot injury.

Jonny Barnes-c/o-2011-Riverside Community College-3rd in Orange Empire Championships with a 14-3 in pole vualt.

Rafael Perez-c/o-2011-Riverside Community Colelge-13th in 10,000 meters at OEC championships.

Brandon Alcanter-c/o 2011-Golden West Community College-6th in the discus at OEC championships at 144 feet.

Chris Miller-c/o 2011-Riverside Community College-9th in the OEC championships in the 800

Lane Werley - c/o 2011 - UCLA - Racing while red shirting -- notched PR's of 13:56 for 5K and 3:46 for 1500 meters.

Carrie Soholt - c/o 2011 - Biola University - Competed in the NAIA Cross Country National Championships for the top-ranked Eagles last Fall. Injury/Red Shirt track season

Hanna Peterson - c/o 2011 -  University of Arizona - Injury red-shirt for track season; competed for the Wildcats during cross country season last Fall

School Records Set in 2012

100 Meters - 12.04 - Cydnie Jones
200 Meters - 24.50 - Cydnie Jones
400 Meters - 57.45 - Noelle Abboud
800 Meters - 1:55.37- Nathan Torres
300 Hurdles - 38.48 - Josh Jeter 
300 Hurdles - 43.03- Tayler Fleming
Pole Vault - 11' 4" - Meghan Melton
4x100 Relay - 48.00 - Cydnie Jones, Jordan Loften, Noelle Abboud, Tayler Fleming
4x400 Relay - 3:56.43 - Cydnie Jones, Tayler Fleming, Hannah Blache, Noelle Abboud
4x400 Relay - 3:21.83 - Nathan Torres, Travis Thomas, Blake Bergstrom, Josh Jeter 

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Boys Distance Medley Relay - 10:26.95 Berz (3:11), Thomas (51.8), Elerts (2:02.8), Torres (4:20)
Boys 4x1600 - 18:04.68 - Nathan Torres (4:24), Brandon Berz (4:31), Perry Elerts (4:35) Joe Casco (4:32) 
Girls Long Jump Relay - 48' 1" - Asia Johnson 16-6, Lexi Opoku 16-2, McKenzie Phillips 15-5