San Joaquin Delta School is a breeding floor for getting athletes to the following stage of their careers. The Stockton-based junior faculty has had a great deal of athletes switch to NCAA and NAIA packages — this 12 months is not any totally different.
One sport on the rise relating to four-year athletic program recruitment is observe and subject.
“We don’t actually do the work, the athletes do the work to get themselves in that sort of place,” mentioned Les Anthony II, Delta School observe and subject head coach. “They do the homework, go to class day by day and put in work to get to that stage. We as coaches simply transfer their our bodies within the place to make it simpler for them to get there.”
The Mustangs males’s and girls’s observe and subject program had 9 athletes signal to a four-year college to proceed their athletic careers. These athletes performed a key position in representing Delta School through the 2022 and 2023 California Group School Athletic Affiliation State Monitor & Discipline Championships.
In addition they are the primary of many commits this system could have this summer time.
(Athletes listed in alphabetical order)
Isabel Arrizano
College: Cal State Stanislaus
Abstract: After two seasons as a Mustang, Arrizano is taking her expertise to Cal State Stanislaus for each observe and subject and cross nation. In 2022, the runner was part of the runner-up workforce within the CCCAA Northern California Monitor and Discipline Championship. She’s going to be a part of the Warriors to compete towards different high NCAA DII packages.
Amani Britton
College: Cal State Northridge
Abstract: Britton had a stellar freshman and sophomore season making it to the state meet in each years. On the 2022 CCCAA Monitor and Discipline Championships Qualifier, Britton earned a silver medal in ladies’s shot put and adopted that up with a second-place end on the state meet. In her last season, she threw within the 2023 CCCAA Monitor and Discipline Championships and completed second out of all different throwers.
Ethan Dewit
College: Sacramento State
Abstract: Regardless of affected by a hamstring harm this previous season, DeWitt was the person for the Mustangs as a freshman incomes him a scholarship from Sacramento State. In final 12 months’s championship meet qualifiers, he was part of the 4×100 meter relay that positioned third. On the championship meet, Dewitt and the relay workforce earned a second-place trophy.
Aeden Fernandez
College: Cal State San Marcos
Abstract: Fernandez is taking his skills to NCAA DII Cal State San Marcos. His standout season got here in 2022 when he positioned fourth within the males’s 400-meter occasion on the championship qualifiers. The speedster continued his dominance on the large stage on the 2022 CCCAA Northern California Monitor and Discipline Championships the place he helped the Mustangs to a second-place end.
David Fernandez
College: Dominican College of California
Abstract: Fernandez is not heading too far as he dedicated to the Dominican College of California, an NCAA DII college. He’ll look to run in longer distance occasions for the Penguins such because the 800, 1,500, and 5,000-meter occasions. Fernandez was additionally part of Delta School’s second-place end on the 2022 CCCAA Northern California Monitor and Discipline Championships.
Gabe Martinez
College: Cal State Northridge
Abstract: Martinez is becoming a member of Britton as he additionally dedicated to Cal State Northridge, an NCAA DI program. In his two seasons as a Mustang, he performed an important position on the workforce’s 4×100 meter relay workforce. In 2022, Martinez and the relay workforce completed third total on the championship qualifiers meet. After profitable silver on the championship meet, Martinez certified for the 2023 CCCAA Northern California Monitor and Discipline Championships within the 400-meter occasion.
Malik Shakur
College: Sacramento State
Abstract: Shakur was one in every of Delta School’s high throwers competing within the males’s hammer throw occasion. In 2022, he earned the title of the Large 8 Convention Monitor and Discipline Males’s Hammer Throw champion. Shakur continued to shine in 2023 as he certified for the CCCAA State Monitor and Discipline Championships within the hammer thrower occasion. He’ll be a part of Dewit at NCAA DI Sacramento State.
Miekayla Surnip
College: Dominican College of California
Abstract: Dominican College can be including each a javelin thrower and a libero to its observe and subject and girls’s volleyball packages, respectively. Surnip was a two-sport athlete for 2 years at Delta School and shone in each areas. She certified for the state championship meet in each 2022 and 2023. In 2022 Surnip was additionally named the Large 8 Convention Girls’s Javelin Throw champion.
Abbigael Williams
College: Fresno Pacific College
Abstract: Nobody may run long-distance occasions like Williams may for the Mustangs. The long-distance runner was a 2021 CCCAA Cross Nation Championships ladies’s workforce qualifier and was named a 2021 Large 8 Convention ladies’s workforce champion. The next season Williams was a champion as soon as once more. She was named convention champion within the ladies’s 3,000-meter steeplechase and10,000-meter run.
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