Star of the 100-meter hurdles is pushed to stay on top
When Aaliyah McCormick runs the 100-meter hurdles, someone could pound on a drum — a big drum — and it wouldn’t faze her.
It was one of three meet records and a bundle of 2022 section season bests in the meet that featured more than 80 schools. The 13.86 shattered the 14.01 by Long Beach Wilson’s Ebony Collins in 2006.James, who had the section lead at the start of the week at 14.36, was also wishing the automatic timing was a flash quicker as she clocked a personal best of 14.00 seconds, just missing her first sub-14.
From another view, they are 1-2-3 in the state with Thousand Oak’s Lauren Thai becoming only the fourth runner to crack 15 seconds, finishing fourth in 14.95. And, San Diego High freshman Anisa Bowen-Fontenot is now right on the verge of a sub-15 time after placing fifth in 15.04. “I felt good and got the push I needed for a PR ,” said James. “It’s really good that the three of us can race against each other like this because we push each other.”
In the 300s she wasn’t really challenged in bettering her time of 43.24 from a year ago. The 42.88 is No. 12 all-time. Point Loma’s Manuel Co,rreia posted a tough 800-1600 double, clocking a 1:55.14 to win the 800 and 4:14.62 to finish first in the 1,600.