#high-school-track-and-field

#high-school-track-and-field

“I never even knew what a track felt like,” he said. “Everything was new to me.” For three years, he attended Alliance Leichtman-Levine, a small Los Angeles charter school near his home in South Los Angeles. He ran cross country on his own with little coaching. “They would hire a random coach off the street and we'd play flag football,” he said. His training was jogging on a treadmill for two miles and maybe getting eight to 10 miles a week.

Servite, with its outstanding sprinters, and Sherman Oaks Notre Dame, with sprinters, hurdlers and shotputters, will be trying to qualify their best athletes in preparation to battle it out at the Southern Section championships on May 16 at Moorpark High.