Xavier Track & Field Produces Eleven Personal Best Performances, Including One Xavier Top-Ten Mark

by Chris Pfaff, Xavier Sportswriter

Some of Xavier's Track & Field team spent Friday, April 10, during the Easter break, at the Tiger T&F Invitational in South Pasadena, California. This meet featured around 170 teams representing 17 different states and Canada.

Each event comprised of heats/flights of Rising Stars (9th & 10th grades) and heats/flights of Varsity (All grades). Most of the Xavier athletes competed at the Rising Stars level.

XAVIER ALL-TIME TOP-TEN PERFORMANCE  
JR Susannah Root
  • Pole Vault: from 10-3 to 10-4 (maintains #3 ranking in Pole Vault Top-Ten List)
  • End of 2025: had 9-6 PR
  • Chandler Rotary (three weeks ago): had  9-inch PR to 10-3



XAVIER PERSONAL BESTS
FROSH Avaani Lallian
800m: from 2:22.83 to 2:21.85

FROSH Jenevieve Jacques
800m: from 2:38.62 to 2:34.95
4-second PR
AND
1600m: from 5:38.17 to 5:30.17
8-second PR
Started 2026 season with 6:06.17

FROSH Ali Mitchell
100H: from 17.04 to 16.28
 AND
300H from 48.38 to 48.04
3rd PR in a row
1 second from 300H top-ten list

SO Claire Hertzberg
400m: breaks 60-second barrier from 61.06 to 59.42
Improves by 1.64 seconds
Less than 1 second (0.08) from 400m Top-Ten List

SO Nina Rao
800m: from 2:26.74 to 2:23.59
Broke PR for the 5th time this year

SO Lauren Wiscombe
300H from 50.93 to 49.45
Breaks 50-second barrier
Has broken PR in every 2026 meet

JR Scarlet Kinsman
1600m: from 5:35.26 to 5:29.21
6-second PR
Breaks 5:30 barrier

4x400m Relay gets Season Best
Claire Hertzberg 61.94
Avaani Lallian 62.76
LilyGrace Anderson 61.05
Nina Rao 61.50

Xavier Top 10 Performances
R/S = Rising Stars (9th & 10th graders)

2nd out of 25 - Ali Mitchell - R/S 300H
3rd out of 27 - Mitchell - R/S 100H

4th out of 36 - Claire Hertzberg - R/S 400m 
4th out of 58 - Avaani Lallian - R/S 800m

5th out of 27 - Lauren Wiscombe - R/S 100H
8th out of 25 - Wiscombe - R/S 300H

6th out of 18 - Catalina Parker - R/S Triple Jump
T-6th out of 20 - Susannah Root - VAR Pole Vault

6th out of 16 - Natalia Sumner - R/S Long Jump
8th out of 25 - Sumner - R/S Shot Put

8th out of 58 - Nina Rao - R/S 800m
10th out of 54 - Jenevieve Jacques - R/S 1600m

1st out of 12 - R/S 4x400 Relay
Hertzberg, Lallian, Anderson, Rao

4th out of 9 - R/S 4x100 Relay
Addie Sanz, Evelyn McGuire, Sumner, Kenadie Bohannon


LIVESTREAM YOUTUBE VIDEO: Tiger Invitational Running Events
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