STANFORD, Calif. – Freshman Alyssa Gutierrez hit her second personal record in as many days, running 1,600 meters in four minutes, 55.18 seconds, while the 4x100 relay of Lucia Vicio, Emma Bugarin, Gaby Gonzalez and Alexa Randall posted a season best of 48.74 in their preliminary heat, as St. Francis wrapped up the second and final day of the Stanford Invitational track & field meet at Cobb Track & Angell Field Saturday.

Additionally, junior Jasleen Gandhoke represented the Troubadours as the program's lone field athlete, tying for fifth place in the high jump with a leap of 1.58 meters, or 5 feet, 2.25 inches. She also ran a 15.18 in the 100 hurdles, just a 20th of a second shy of her season best from the Capital Invite two weeks prior.

Gutierrez led for much of her race, thanks to a 70.73-second first lap that had her almost two seconds ahead of Mountain View's Cassidy Misuraca. She continued to lead at the midpoint, and managed to stay three quarters of a second ahead of Castilleja's Brooke Oliveira at the 1,200 mark. However, eventual winner Amaya Bharadwaj of Palo Alto ran a 1:05.70 final split to lead a group of five to overtake the SF freshman.

Gutierrez surpasses her previous PR of 4:57..34, set at the Dublin Distance Fiesta. She also moves into third in school history, jumping ahead of Peyton Bilo (4:57.02). Gutierrez now sits between two runners who went on to careers at Cal Poly: No. 2 Tatiana Cornejo, who went 4:51.61 at the 2022 Sac-Joaquin Section meet; and Bilo, who ran her PB at the 2015 Sacramento Meet of Champions.

Prior to the 1,600, the Troubies' 4x100 relay finished fifth in the third heat and 15th overall with a 48.74, good for a 0.56-second improvement over the 49.30 at the LeFebvre Relays and now fourth in the section rankings. Christian Brothers won the event with a blistering 46.22, tops in the SJS.

St. Francis, which reached the midpoint of its two-week spring break, returns to action for another highly select meet: the 58th Arcadia Invitational on April 10 and 11. The Troubadours have six individual entries and four relays accepted in the meet known as the "Home of National Records" due to the 36 such benchmarks set during its storied history.

2026 STANFORD INVITATIONAL
Cobb Track & Angell Field (Stanford, Calif.)
Events with SF entrants only • Winner plus SF finishers listed

GIRLS' HIGH JUMP - 1. Riley McMullen, San Ramon Valley, 1.71m (5-7.25)… 5(tie). Jasleen Gandhoke, 1.58m (5-2.25).

GIRLS' 100 HURDLES - 1. Daniela Hughes, Los Altos, 14.13... 11. Jasleen Gandhoke, 15.18.

GIRLS' 4x100 RELAY - 1. Christian Brothers, 46.22… 15. St. Francis (Vicio, Bugarin, Gonzalez, Randall), 48.74

GIRLS' 1600 METERS - 1. Amaya Bharadwaj, Palo Alto, 4:49.28… 6. Alyssa Gutierrez, 4:55.18.