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The 2025 track and field season will conclude tonight at the CIF State Finals, with 19 Long Beach entries set to compete. The meet begins with field events at 4:30 p.m. at Veterans Memorial Stadium on the campus of Buchanan High School in Clovis.
With seven of the 11 total Wilson entries and a handful of high qualifiers, the Wilson girls are in good position to go for a three-peat. According to Rich Gonzalez from PrepCalTrack, Wilson is projected to score 46 points and win the girls’ title. Long Beach Poly is projected to land right behind them with 41 points.
Wilson’s Kaylin Edwards is the top qualifier in the girls’ 300m hurdles, one of three Long Beach runners in the event. It will be a competitive event with runners like Carlsbad’s Morgan Herbst, who set a state record last week at 39.95, breaking the 2001 mark set by Wilson alum Lashinda Demus. Edwards edged Herbst by one-hundredth of a second at the Mt. SAC Relays a month ago.
Edwards will also have stiff competition from San Diego’s Anisa Bowen-Fontenot in both the 110m hurdles and 300m hurdles. Bowen-Fontenot is the defending champion in the 100m hurdles and was the top qualifier on Friday, just one spot ahead of Edwards.
Wilson’s Wyland Obando was the top qualifier in the boys’ 800m and has won five of his eight 800m races this year. He’s only come in second to a California runner once—Poly Riverside’s Beckett Sullivan, who was the ninth-place qualifier from Friday.
It’ll be a unique meet without Long Beach runners in any of the sprinting events, and just one runner in the 400m—Wilson’s Kaedyn Burroughs in the boys’ race.
The defending state champion Long Beach Poly boys have slimmed down their entries since the CIF-SS meet, but they’ll look to pick up key points in the 4×100 where they were the top qualifier on Friday. Lynnox Newman will be the Jackrabbits’ only individual boys’ competitor, running in the 110m hurdles.
The Jackrabbits will have a pair of athletes in the girls’ field events where Jillene Wetteland and Joy Anderson both qualified in the high jump. Anderson has also come along as a talented hurdler and qualified for the 300m hurdles.
As usual, the Poly girls will be in both the 4x100m and 4x400m relays. The Jackrabbits won their heat in the girls’ 4x100m on Friday while Wilson was the top qualifier in the girls’ 4x400m.
Wilson (11 entries)
Girls’ 800: Shirayah Lewis-Williams
Girls’ 100 Hurdles: Kaylin Edwards
Girls’ 300 Hurdles: Saniah Varnado
Girls’ 300 Hurdles: Kaylin Edwards
Girls’ 4×400
Girls’ 4×800
Girls’ Long Jump: Loren Webster
Boys’ 400: Kaedyn Burroughs
Boys’ 800: Wyland Obando
Boys’ 4×400
Boys’ 4×800
Long Beach Poly (8 entries)
Girls’ 4×100
Girls’ 100 Hurdles: Kadence Bain
Girls’ 300 Hurdles: Joy Anderson
Girls’ 4×400
Girls’ High Jump: Jillene Wetteland
Girls’ High Jump: Joy Anderson
Boys’ 110 Hurdles: Lynnox Newton
Boys’ 4×400
