Sunday, June 01, 2025

CLOVIS TRACK MEET RESULTS

By Bob Walsh

 

 AB Hernandez, center, flashes a sign as she shares the first-place spot on the podium with Jillene Wetteland, left, and Lelani Laruelle during a medal ceremony for the high jump at the California high school track-and-field championships in Clovis, Calif., Saturday, May 31, 2025. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

 

The now infamous Clovis Track Meet is over.  It was stopped briefly a couple of times due to "heckling" from the stands.  Some spectators were shouting slogans about girls sports being reserved for actual girls.  Pretty damn cheeky of them.

In any event pretend girl AB Hernandez did pretty well as expected.  He cleared the high jump at 1.7 meters (5 ft 7 in) on his first attempt.  His "co-winners" were real girls, Jillene Wetteland and Lelani Laruelle also cleared that distance with one failed attempt each.

Hernandez also won the triple-jump beating out real girl Kira Hatcher by over 1/2 meter.  The new arrangement results in both competitors sharing the first spot.

Hernandez placed second in the long jump to real girl Brooke White.  Ms. White describes herself as part of the queer community and expressed no issues with competing against Hernandez.

The same news article this info came from (KCRA TV NEWS) also says that Loren Webster won the long jump by a few inches over Hernandez.  I am guessing it means that one of these was the initial qualifier on Friday and one was the final on Saturday but it wasn't real clear from the article.

The California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) that sanctions these matches denies that the changes in the rules were them knuckling under to the evil orange man and asserts that they came to the new rules independently before the Trump administration starting yelling about a Title IX lawsuit.

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