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Track and field: Harvard-Westlake’s Amy Weissenbach sets national record in girls’ 800

Los Angeles Times staff writer Ben Bolch
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Shrugging off soggy conditions that produced slower-than-expected times for several top competitors, Harvard-Westlake’s Amy Weissenbach broke a national federation record in the girls’ 800-meter run Saturday at the CIF state track meet.

The junior won in 2 minutes 2.04 seconds at Clovis Buchanan High, defending her state title and breaking the record of 2:02.90 set by Chanelle Price of Easton Area, Pa., in May 2008.

It was a faster time than any college female has run this year and ranked as the 13th fastest time by any woman in the United States this year.

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Weissenbach’s coaches declined to make her immediately available for interviews, saying she needed to prepare for the girls’ 4x400 relay later in the evening.

--Ben Bolch in Clovis

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Ben Bolch

Ben Bolch has been a Los Angeles Times staff writer since 1999. He is serving his second stint as the UCLA beat writer, which seems fitting since he has covered almost every sports beat except hockey and horse racing. Bolch is also the author of the recently released book “100 Things UCLA Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die.” He previously covered UCLA basketball from 2010-11 before going on to cover the NBA and the Clippers for five years. He happily traded in gobs of hotel points and airline miles to return to cover UCLA basketball and football in the summer of 2016. Bolch was once selected by NBA TV’s “The Starters” as the “Worst of the Week” after questioning their celebrity journalism-style questions at an NBA All-Star game and considers it one of his finer moments.

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