WEEK 1--Runner of the Week

Week 1 of track saw just a handful of athletes competing. The distance runners competed at the Pitman Distance Wars and the 4x100 team competed at the Sacramento Classic.

ROCIO RAMIREZ CASTRO--finished 9th in the 1600m at the Pitman Distance Wars with a time of 6:06.51 (which bettered her fastest time from last year). She later PRed while running the 400m leg on the DM Relay team. Her time of 70 seconds was the fastest 400m time by a Downey runner in at least 3 years.

BLAKE LOPES--ran the 400m leg on the DM Relay team at the Pitman Distance Wars in a time of 53.9 which helped the team finish in a respectable 6th place.