SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Junior Alexa Randall won individual championships in both the 200- and 400-meter dashes, freshman Alyssa Gutierrez captured her second distance title of the week, and freshman Abby Carrothers bested the field in the shot put, helping St. Francis amass a second-place team total of 98 points on Day 2 at the Sierra Foothill League track & field championships, held at Jesuit Saturday.

This year's SFL meet featured an unusual format in which junior varsity championships took place at Davis on Wednesday, with the exception of the 4x800 relay and 3,200. Then Saturday's session featured only varsity finals, with no prelims or JV events. The top 10 SFL finishers, plus any athletes who hit the Sac-Joaquin Section at-large standard, move on to the CIF-SJS Division I championships at Folsom on May 9. Additionally, all individual champions earn first-team All-SFL status while runners-up pick up second-team honors.

Whitney defending its overall girls' team banner with 122 points, with the Troubadours trailing by 24 tallies but also standing 25 ahead of third-place Davis (73). Oak Ridge (70), Folsom (58), Del Oro (45), Granite Bay (34) and Rocklin (24) compose the remainder of the SFL field. Team scoring was based on a 10-8-6-4-2-1 system.

Randall earned a key double for 20 total points, not counting her contribution to St. Francis' second-place 4x100 relay. She crossed the 400 finish line in 55.23 seconds, well in front of second-place Kaylee Smith of Whitney (57.55), and a mere two hundredths shy of the 55.21 she ran at the first SFL center meet this season. Randall entered the meet ranked second in the SJS and 16th in the state for that distance.

Then in the penultimate event on the track, Randall posted a 24.57 into a slight headwind of 0.7 meters per second, more than a second in front of Folsom freshman Jazelle Reed-Johnson. She already ranks third in the section and 22nd in the state, thanks to the school-record 24.31 at the Sacramento Meet of Champions one week ago.

Carrothers led SF in its highest-scoring event, thanks to the 32 feet, 10 inches she pushed in the third round. Senior teammate Antonija Jezildzic followed in second place with her 31-2 in the fifth round, while sophomore Carley Glenn fired a 27-7 to pick up the sixth-place point. In all, the Troubies picked up 19 points in the shot.

Gutierrez, who won the 3,200 earlier in the week, set a personal best of four minutes, 53.30 seconds to claim the 1,600. She slashed roughly a quarter second from her previous best of 4:53.56 from the third SFL center meet, already ranked third in school history. Meanwhile, sophomore Halle Welch enjoyed a strong finish to place second at 4:59.26, making her just the eighth Troubadour to cover the four laps in less than five minutes. Her previous PR was the 5:01.44 she ran at the Dublin Distance Fiesta in late March. Welch jumps ahead of former Cal runner Sydney Vandegrift (4:59.50) into seventh place in the school record book, less than a second behind Grace Dunham (4:58.32), now a second-year at UC Davis.

The Troubie exacta atop the 1,600 meters leaderboard picked up another 18 points in the team scoring, but more importantly led three other St. Francis qualifiers to the section divisional: sophomore Sophia Kadel, freshman Holly Thorall and senior Chloe Harrison respectively placed 13th (5:11.30), 14th (5:11.66) and 16th (5:13.26) but hit the at-large qualifying standard of 5:13.35. Thorall's time marked a more than five-second improvement from her previous best of 5:16.66, while Harrison lopped almost exactly two seconds off her old PR of 5:15.28.

St. Francis also picked up another five points in the 800, with Bagatelos placing fourth and sophomore Miya Menza in sixth. However, the contributions to the scoring total belies the quality of their races: Bagatelos jumped from ninth to sixth in the SF record book by improving her personal best to 2:16.34, while Menza hit a PB of her own at 2:18.46. Bagatelos previously ran a 2:17.67, the second-best by a Troubie freshie since Ingrid Kantola's 2:15.93 at the 2001 section Masters. Menza's time is the fastest by a St. Francis 10th-grader since current UC Davis Aggie Kayla Towne hit 2:16.98 in the 2022 SJS D-I finals.

Junior Mia Hollar also hit the section 800 qualifying standard of 2:21.07 with a PR of 2:20.33, although she punched her ticket to the next meet thanks to her 10th-place showing.

St. Francis opened the day by finishing second in the 4x100 relay, with Lucia Vicio, Randall, Emma Bugarin and Grace Gustorf compiling a 49.80, good for eight points. Jezildzic led the Troubies in the discus, breaking the century mark for the third straight meet with a 101-4, and placing second only behind Oak Ridge's Amalea Roppo (104-9). SF then finished its meet by placing fourth with its first 4x400 relay of the year. The crew of Colleen Medina, Bagatelos, Gutierrez and Grace Gustorf compiled a time of 4:12.57.

Besides the scoring finishers and the at-large qualifiers, St. Francis earned D-I section meet berths for Gustorf in the 400 (10th), Medina in the 300 hurdles (8th), Olivia Santos in the shot put (26-6), Christie So in the shot (10th), Glenn in the discus (8th), Emmy Cheatham in the discus (9th), Anastacia Uniza in the high jump (9th), Gianna Seghesio in both the high jump (10th) and pole vault (T8th).

2026 SIERRA FOOTHILL LEAGUE TRACK & FIELD CHAMPIONSHIPS, DAY 2
Jesuit High School (Sacramento/Carmichael, Calif.)
Events with SF entrants only • Winners plus SF finishers listed • All events are varsity finals

GIRLS' TEAM SCORES - 1. Whitney, 122; 2. St. Francis, 98; 3. Davis, 73; 4. Oak Ridge, 70; 5. Folsom, 58; 6. Del Oro, 45; 7. Granite Bay, 34; 8. Rocklin, 24.

GIRLS' 4x100 RELAY - 1. Folsom (Abello, Hodson, Fling, Reed-Johnson), 49.17... 2. St. Francis (Vicio, Randall, Bugarin, Gustorf), 49.80.

GIRLS' 1,600 METERS - 1. Alyssa Gutierrez, St. Francis, 4:53.30... 2. Halle Welch, 4:59.26; 13. Sophia Kadel, 5:11.30; 14. Holly Thorall, 5:11.66; 16. Chloe Harrison, 5:13.26; 17. Miya Menza, 5:13.47; 19. Mia Hollar, 5:19.09; 21. Rebecca Dickson, 5:24.27; 30. Jordan Brace, 5:44.29.

GIRLS' 400 METERS - 1. Alexa Randall, St. Francis, 55.23... 10. Grace Gustorf, 1:04.95.

GIRLS' 100 METERS - 1. Jazelle Reed-Johnson, Folsom, 12.37 (w: -0.2)... 13. Lucia Vicio, 13.48 (w: -0.2); 26. Annie Swanson, 14.21 (w: +0.2); 27. Sienna Dukes, 14.25 (w: +0.2).

GIRLS' 800 METERS - 1. Kaylee Smith, Whitney, 2:14.09... 4. Bianka Bagatelos, 2:16.34; 6. Miya Menza, 2:18.46; 10. Mia Hollar, 2:20.33; 12. Sophia Kadel, 2:23.34; 16. Chloe Harrison, 2:25.30; 24. Holly Thorall, 2:32.27; 25. Rebecca Dickson, 2:32.38; 34 Jordan Brace, 2:40.89; 41. Kalaya Moore, 2:47.45.

GIRLS' 300 HURDLES - 1. Brynlee Hodson, Folsom, 44.45... 8. Colleen Medina, 49.29.

GIRLS' 200 METERS - 1. Alexa Randall, St. Francis, 24.57 (w: -0.7)... 19. Grace Gustorf, 28.81 (w: -1.9); 25. Annie Swanson, 29.64 (w: +0.2); 30. Sienna Dukes, 30.86 (w: +0.2).

GIRLS' 4x400 RELAY - 1. Whitney, 4:01.86... 4. St. Francis (Medina, Bagatelos, Gutierrez, Gustorf), 4:12.57.

GIRLS' LONG JUMP - 1. Allison Anastacio, Oak Ridge, 16-7.75... 21. Anastacia Uniza, 13-4.25; 26. Bella Hernandez Zafra, 9-3.5. Note: all attempts had NWI.

GIRLS' TRIPLE JUMP - 1. Allison Anastacio, Oak Ridge, 35-10.25... 18. Anastacia Uniza, 27-0.50. Note: all attempts had NWI.

GIRLS' SHOT PUT - 1. Abby Carrothers, St. Francis, 32-10... 2. Antonija Jezildzic, 31-2; 6. Carley Glenn, 27-7; 9. Olivia Santos, 26-6; 10. Christie So, 25-8; 14. Emmy Cheatham, 24-1; 18. Makayla Miller, 21-11; 22. Cassidy Butler, 19-11; 26. Elisa Gabrielli, 18-11.

GIRLS' DISCUS THROW - 1. Amalea Roppo, Oak Ridge, 104-9... 2. Antonija Jezildzic, 101-4; 8. Carley Glenn, 92-2; 9. Emmy Cheatham 90-8; 12. Abby Carrothers, 75-4; 17. Cassidy Butler, 64-0; 19. Olivia Santos, 58-7; 20. Elisa Gabrielli, 56-11; 25. Makayla Miller, 46-9.

GIRLS' HIGH JUMP - 1. Layla French, Del Oro, 5-0... 9. Anastacia Uniza, 4-2; 10. Gianna Seghesio, 4-2.

GIRLS' POLE VAULT - 1. Molly Peterson, Granite Bay, 10-8... 8 (tie). Gianna Seghesio, 6-2; Olivia Santos, no height; Cassidy Butler, no height.