Junior Sarah Baxter of Simi Valley set a course record on Saturday at Mt. San Antonio College, winning the girls' team sweepstakes race of the Mt. SAC Invitational in 16:00, a performance some long-time observers are calling is one of the best ever by a high school athlete.
Baxter has won the last two state championships and hasn't lost a high school race.
The old record was 16:16 set in 2001.
-- Eric Sondheimer
The second annual 5K run/walk in honor of former Sherman Oaks Notre Dame cross country runner Conor Lynch will take place Sunday in Sherman Oaks.
Lynch was killed on Oct. 19, 2010, while crossing Woodman Avenue with his high school cross country teammates.
The event kicks off National Teen Driver Safety Week.
Last year, there were more than 1,500 participants.
-- Eric Sondheimer
With lots of football players providing vocal fan support, Sherman Oaks Notre Dame opened Mission League play in girls' volleyball with a surprising sweep of preseason favorite Studio City Harvard-Westlake, 28-26, 25-22, 25-23.
Any team with sophomore Zana Muno on it has a good chance to win. Muno, who won three major beach volleyball tournaments over the summer, uses her all-around skills to help Notre Dame. She had 25 kills Thursday.
Muno's presence also helps attract a crowd, because her brother JJ, is a standout linebacker on the football team.
-- Eric Sondheimer
Sun Valley Village Christian won the Monte Vista tournament in San Diego, going 6-0. Outside hitter Aubrey Pyburn had 40 kills and nine aces on the day. Joyce Cha, the libero, contributed 25 digs.
-- Erici Sondheimer
On Vin Scully bobblehead night at Dodger Stadium earlier this week, Mackenzie Luderer, the daughter of Crespi High Athletic Director Matt Luderer and the granddaughter of Scully, sang the national anthem and "God Bless America."
She's a sophomore volleyball player at Woodland Hills Louisville.
"I was a nervous wreck," the father said.
Father, mother, grandfather and grandmother were proud.
-- Eric Sondheimer
Photo: Mackenzie Luderer sings the national anthem before the Dodgers game on Thursday night. Credit: Ken Fancher
It's stunning in its size. That's all I have to say about the new $5 million, 50-meter pool at Studio City Harvard-Westlake. The dedication ceremony was scheduled for Monday afternoon. Water polo players started using it last week and were offering rave reviews.
"It's so new you feel you're going 10 times faster," senior Andrew Miller said.
Coach Brian Flacks said, "This has to be one of the three nicest pools in the country."
It's a Myrtha stainless steel pool, and the frame was shipped from Italy. The aquatics programs will surely benefit.
Flacks, 24, a former UCLA water polo player, has some of the best young players in Southern California, including 6-foot-4, 200-pound incoming freshman Ben Hallock, who might be the best 14-year-old in the nation. Three freshmen and three sophomores play for USA development teams.
The team had been driving to San Fernando for more than a year to practice. It was clearly worth the wait.
-- Eric Sondheimer
Susannah Muno of Sherman Oaks Notre Dame, a sophomore, accomplished something this summer that no other athlete has pulled off in the 19-year history of AAU beach volleyball.
She's the first to win the AAU "Triple Crown" of Junior Beach Volleyball.
No athlete had won the three major events on the AAU national tour in the same season. She won with three different partners.
Her latest victory in Santa Monica will be broadcast on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. on Time Warner Cable's Channel 101.
-- Eric Sondheimer
What a summer it has been for Susannah Muno, a sophomore at Sherman Oaks Notre Dame. She won her eighth beach volleyball championship on Sunday, teaming with Gianna Guinasso of Huntington Beach to win the 16-and-under championship at the AAU Best of the Beach finals in Santa Monica.
She has won championships with seven different partners.
-- Eric Sondheimer
While the Olympic Games are going on, West Hills Chaminade's Eagle Eye has received the business version of a gold medal by being named the winner of the 2012 Junior Achievement Company of the Year.
Five student representatives along with Chaminade business teacher Aron Gideon, a former UCLA football player, traveled to Washington D.C. to compete against 15 student-run companies.
Eagle Eye focuses on producing videos for its athletic program.
-- Eric Sondheimer
JJ Muno has been a standout football-baseball player at Sherman Oaks Notre Dame, but his sister, Susannah, a sophomore volleyball-soccer standout, can more than hold her own.
She teamed with Sydney Bast of Glendora St. Lucy's to win AAU Beach Volleyball National Championship in the 16U division on Sunday at Hermosa Beach.
Also winning a national championship in 16U boys was the team of Tanner Smith from Redondo and Sam Caldwell, who lives in Torrance.
Here's the link for complete results.
Both matches will be shown on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. on Time Warner Cable's Channel 101.
-- Eric Sondheimer
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