Carlmont’s relay team of Alexandra Farrell, Daniela Cuadros, Kiana Chen and Isabella Schuett with their fifth-place medals from the girls’ 4,000-meter distance medley relay Saturday at the Arcadia Invitational.
After a two-week sojourn into the novelty 4,000-meter distance medley relay, it’s back to work for the Carlmont girls’ track team.
The Lady Scots ran to fifth-place podium finish Saturday night at the Arcadia Invitational in their final DMR of the season, as freshman Isabella Schuett, senior Kiana Chen, sophomore Alexandra Farrell and senior Daniela Cuadros finished in 12 minutes, 1.72 seconds in the top-billed girls’ invitational race, just off the pace of Highland-Palmdale’s fourth-place time of 12:01.67.
Utilizing a different lineup in the event than the previous week at Cobb Track the Scots were a tick off their second-place time at the Stanford Invitational of 12:01.55.
“It was ... slower than Stanford last week, but we kind of placed where we wanted,” Carlmont head coach Josh Schaefer said. “Having two subs in there, it was pretty good. I can’t complain.”
The Arcadia Invite is one of the biggest dates on the regular-season track calendar, with each event divided into different levels of competition.
There were higher San Mateo County placers in lower rated races. Menlo-Atherton junior Evan Chopra too first place in the third-tier boys’ 800 in 1:52.23; Menlo sophomore Lawrence Onyejekwe took first place in the boys’ 300 hurdles open race; and Burlingame took third place in the second-tier girls’ 4x800 relay rated race, with Elaina Newman, Stella Newman, Amikaline Haggarty and Elizabeth Carroll finishing in 9:28.02.
Racing in the elite invitational field, though, the Carlmont girls’ DMR relay time was the county’s second-best placer at the two-day meet that serves as the best glimpse into the CIF State Track & Field Championships. Sacred Heart Prep senior Maxime Morelle proved the county’s most promising medal contender for the May 29 state meet in Bakersfield, taking third place in the boys’ shot put invitational field with a throw of 61 feet, 2 inches.
The Carlmont girls’ relay team now sets its sights on the 4x800 relay heading into the postseason.
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Since the 4x800 relay was implemented by the Central Coast Section three years ago, the Scots have been on the rise. In 2023, the Carlmont boys settled for ninth in the 4x800. In each of the past two years, the each the Carlmont boys and girls have earned back-to-back podium finishes, with the boys taking fourth in 2024 and ’25, while the girls took fifth both seasons.
Carlmont ran the DMR — a discipline that is contested by neither the CCS not CIF — without regular relay runners Katelyn Elliott and Vivian Ivanov. Elliott had already competed in two events, including the opening leg of Carlmont’s disappointing 11th place finish Friday in the girls’ 4x800 in 9:22.51. Ivanov did not attend due to spring break vacation, affecting both the 4x800 and DMR lineups.
While the Valley Christian-San Jose boys are making waves in the 4x100 relay world, with Isaiah Muse, Savi Carr, Shant Babayan and Riley McElvane becoming the first relay team in CCS history to run sub-41 seconds in the 4x100 with a CCS record of 40.97 seconds. In the girls’ 4x800, though, Carlmont owns the No. 2 time in CCS this season at 9:15.43. St. Francis-Mountain View is tops this season at 9:08.04.
“There’s going to be quite a battle for that [4x800] at CCS, both boys and girls,” Schaefer said.
The Carlmont girls also own the No. 4 time in the 4x400 relay in CCS this season.
“We’re almost at 4 (minutes) flat,” Schaefer said. “So, it’s been kind of nice. We haven’t had all four of [our regulars] together for one race.”
The Carlmont girls’ 1,600 sprint medley relay team also medaled, taking third place in the second-tier seeded race, with Chen, Elliott, Farrell and Emerson Elyse Barajas running it in 4:15.05. Carlmont junior Caleb Nakagawa took third place in the second-tier rising stars boys’ pole vaunt with a personal record 14 feet, 4 inches.
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