Column: It’ll be ‘Fast Times at Arcadia High’ on Saturday

Monitor and discipline fanatics are at all times excited to attend the Arcadia Invitational as a result of it brings collectively California’s greatest highschool athletes competing in the game.

It’s additionally a beautiful occasion for school soccer followers as a number of extremely recruited athletes get to point out off their pace in a preview of what they could do on Saturday afternoons whereas sprinting for touchdowns.

UCLA-bound receiver Jadyn Marshall from Stockton St. Mary’s has the quickest 110 hurdles time within the nation and is the defending Arcadia Invitational champion. He’ll be coming to city for Saturday’s competitors that begins at 5:15 p.m. at Arcadia Excessive. For those who thought UCLA quarterback Dorian Thompson-Robinson is sweet at hurdling defenders, wait till you see Marshall gliding over hurdles.

“I like the competitors,” he stated. “I hope all of the folks from in every single place come and run.”

Athletes from 622 faculties throughout 27 states registered for the 54th Arcadia Invitational.

The 100 meters is so good that it may have its personal pay-per-view present.

Let’s evaluate the primary contenders:

• Simi Valley junior operating again Jaelon Barbarin has a wind-aided 10.37 time within the 100 meters and owns a victory over USC-bound Max Thomas.

• Gardena Serra junior cornerback Rodrick Nice shall be targeted on racing Barbarin as a substitute of attempting to sort out him. He has run 100 meters simply as soon as this season and that was a scintillating 10.39-second debut on the Texas Relays.

• Thomas, a senior at Anaheim Servite, is a former soccer standout. He was purported to give attention to the 400 this spring, however has been operating the 100 and 200 so quick that he’s sticking with the sprints and has been probably the most constant for the final month.

• Oregon-bound Patrick Ize-Iyamu of West Hills Chaminade is the defending champion within the 100 and is simply beginning to decide up pace as he makes a comeback from harm final season.

• USC-bound Austin Overn of Santa Ana Foothill is a football-baseball standout operating monitor for the primary time and has already clocked a ten.49.

• Arizona-bound Rayshon Luke of Bellflower St. John Bosco is a operating again who set a freshman state report, didn’t run monitor through the COVID-19 seasons and has returned for his senior season to see how briskly he can run.

• Jordan Washington of Lengthy Seaside Jordan is a promising sophomore operating again testing himself in opposition to veterans.

• Micah Bell, a junior from Houston Kincaid, has run 10.45 seconds and is one other excellent cornerback with blazing pace.

As if that isn’t sufficient for soccer illustration, junior operating again Dijon Stanley of Granada Hills has run 47.56 within the 400, fourth-best in California.

The extent of high athletes at this 12 months’s occasion is harking back to the times when Michael Norman of Vista Murrieta was entertaining followers along with his pace within the 200 and 400.

Camryn Bynum of St. John Bosco is No. 1 within the lengthy bounce at 24 ft, 4 inches, and No. 3 within the triple bounce at 46-9.

Then there’s the good distance runners from Newbury Park — the brother duos of Colin and Aaron Sahlman and Leo and Lex Younger. They set data in cross-country and are gearing as much as set extra distance data this spring. There are such a lot of high runners for the boys’ 3,200 meters that they are going to stage a number of heats.

Within the women’ ranks, Duke-bound Dalia Frias of Manhattan Seaside Mira Costa broke a state mile report final week that had stood since 1982. She’ll duel once more with Ventura freshman Sadie Engelhardt.

Alabama-bound Samantha McDonnell of Newbury Park is beginning to get into form after being sidelined by harm. Kylee Davis of Santa Clarita Golden Valley has the state’s No. 1 lengthy bounce at 20-0.5.

Marshall, the sprinter from Stockton, stated he plans to remain this week in Los Angeles, practice and attend some UCLA spring soccer practices in preparation for competing subsequent weekend on the Mt. San Antonio School Invitational.

Requested if he had spoken with Thompson-Robinson hurdling tacklers, Marshall stated, “I haven’t had that dialog with him.”

Simply look ahead to the autumn when the Bruins have two gamers hurdling over defenders.