St. Monicas, 3 relay Teams (2 4th grade 1 3rd grade) Pictured from left to right BACK ROW Annie Midthun, Emily Huston, Cassidy Haskel, Jessica Thomas, Eva Isola, Mia Schaffel, Olivia Morris FRONT ROW Francis Parsons, Caroline Coates, Jenna Miles, Ariel Allen

Teams from St. Perpetua and St. Monica ran on Friday and Saturday, May 7 and 8, at the annual CYO Track & Field Oakland Diocese Finals. Fifty parishes from Alameda and Contra Costa Counties, representing more than 4,000 athletes, came together at Granada High School in Livermore for two action-packed days of running, jumping, and throwing.

The 2010 Season was the most successful in years for the two local teams, as 15 St. Monica and 20 St. Perpetua athletes qualified for the Diocesan Championship Meet.

Highlights for St. Monica included gold medal performances in six events:

Jenna Miles - fourth grade girls' 800m

Cassidy Haskell- third grade girls' 800m

Annie Midthun -fourth grade girls' 400m

Zoe Crouch - third grade girls' softball throw

Rose Tuttle - tetherball

Third grade girls' sprint medley relay team Allen, Coates, Haskell, Huston.



St. Monica won silver medals 10 separate running

and field events including:

Rose Tuttle - fifth grade girls' shot put

Matthew Ruiter -- third grade boys' softball throw

Arielle Allen - third grade girls' softball throw

Annie Midthun - fourth grade girls' long jump

Kate Miles- fourth grade girls' softball

Caroline Coates -third grade girls' 800m

Jenna Miles - fourth grade girls' 400m

Emily Huston -third grade girls' 400m

Fourth grade girls' 4x100m relay team of Parsons, Thomas, Morris, Isola

Fourth grade girls' sprint medley team one of Parsons,

Morris, Isola, Jenna Miles



St. Monica earned bronze medals in two more events:

Third grade girls' 4x100m relay -

Allen, Coates, Haskell, Huston

Fourth grade girls' sprint medley team two -- Kate Miles, Schaffel, Thomas, Midthun.



Highlights for St. Perpetua included gold medal performances in nine events:

Sutter Lindberg -- sixth grade boys' high jump

Kierra Krawec -- fourth grade girls' 200m

Kierra Krawec -- fourth grade girls' long jump

Molly Mudgett -- fourth grade girls' tetherball toss

Chris Rogers -- third grade boys' 400m

Chris Rogers -- third grade boys' softball

Third grade girls' 4x100m relay team of Singh, Gold, Sadoff, Neukirchen

Third grade boys' sprint medley team of Matthew Sexton, Larson, Winther, Rogers

Fourth grade girls' sprint medley team of Cardiff, Mudgett, Alessandria, Krawec



Silver Medals were earned in four events:

Sutter Lindberg -- sixth grade boys' long jump

Jared Uang -- sixth grade boys' 200m

Chris Rogers -- third grade boys' 800m

Sixth grade boys sprint medley team of - Henderson, Tehrani, Lindberg, Uang



Bronze Medals were won in six separate events including:

Kierra Krawecin -- fourth grade girls' 100m

Travis Armistead -- fourth grade boys' long jump

Sasha Sadoff -- third grade girls' 100m

Sasha Sadoff -- third grade girls' tetherball toss

Fourth grade boys' 4x100m relay team of- Martinsen, Barr, Plotkin, Armistead

Third grade girls' sprint medley team of - Jamie Sexton, Gold, Sadoff, Neukirchen