Lancers
Earn CIF Academic Banner for Tennis
The Boys Tennis team earned a CIF Academic Championship in their enrollment division (-1500 students) with an average GPA of 3.783 for the 2010-2011. Our team and School received recognition and a CIF banner to commemorate this at a pre-game ceremony on May 9 at Angel Stadium prior to the game between the Anaheim Angels and Chicago White Sox. You may recall, our Boys Tennis team achieved this same award for the 2007-2008 school year. Garrett Mak, Austin Fitzgerald and Jordan Adams were selected to the Pasadena Star-News AllArea Boys Tennis Team. La Salle finished second in the Del Rey League and drew top seed and eventual CIF-SS Division 5 champion Arlington in the first round. The playoffs were a short run for the team, but the Lancers had slightly better runs in the CIF-SS individual tournaments. Mak, a freshman, went into the sectional tournament at Corona del Mar High as the Del Rey League champion and reached the second round.
19th Annual
Lancer Golf Tournament & Banquet Friday, October 14, 2011
Industry Hills Golf Club, City of Industry The Eisenhower Course Four-Person Scramble • Calloway Scoring System 11:00am Shotgun Start Player Package Includes:
Green Fee and Cart, Hot Lunch On Course, Banquet Dinner, Lancer Golf Gift, Complimentary Beverages on Course (Beer, Soda, Water), Range Balls, Bag Tag, $25,000 Hole In One, Longest Drive, Straight Drive, Sports Competition Hole, Awards, Foursome Picture and Putting Contest Additional Activities:
$1,000,000 Shoot out, $5,000 Putt, Team Skins, Betting Holes, 7 Card Stud Split the Pot SILENT AUCTION and RAFFLE PRIZES! ALL LEVELS WELCOME Special Young Alumni (’97-’11) Discount Proceeds to benefit La Salle’s Academic, Arts, Athletic, Student Life and Financial Aid Programs For more information, please contact:
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Aikhionbare
to State Meet,
Itohan “Itos” Aikhionbare ’11
was the 2011 CIF Champion in the shot put with a throw of 41’1.5”. She also qualified for the Masters in the shot put and discus. Her 4th place finish in shot put in the Masters qualified her for the State Meet on June 3rd and 4th in Clovis, California. Itos has been the league champion in the discus for the last three years. She was the CIF division IV discus champion her junior year and qualified for the Masters meet in which she finished 12th in the Southern Section out of all divisions. She was named field event MVP in the San Gabriel Valley Championships in which she had the second farthest throw all time in that meets history and second to the farthest throw in SGV history held by La Salle’s own Shelby McCray. Itos won the CIF Division IV shot put with a toss of 41’1.5” (Second all-time in La Salle High school history). This throw ensured that Itos would have a spot at the Master’s meet. At the Masters meet Itos improved her all time best with another personal lifetime best throw of 41’4” giving her 4th place overall and a berth to the State Track and Field meet. Only the top 5 from the Southern Section (over 550 high schools) are guaranteed spots to the State meet. She is only the fifth individual athlete to qualify for the California State meet. She is the second individual female to qualify for the meet from La Salle High School. She is the third thrower from La Salle to make the state meet. Itos finished a disappointing 20th place throwing in the prelims late in the evening. By the end of the season Itos had 21 farthest throws in the state this year in discus with a best throw of 132’9” and the 17 farthest throw in shot put with a best throw of 41’4”. There are close to 1300 high schools in the State of California. Itos is also the 2010-2011 Hall of Fame inductee for Girls Basketball and she received the Brother Celestine All-Around Athlete Award at graduation. She will continue her throwing career at the University of Irvine where she plans to study science and medicine and eventually become a Doctor of Obstetrics.
Johnson
TO MIT
Michelle Johnson ’11 is attending MIT and will be competing
on their track team. MIT sent her a letter of interest regarding track at the beginning of this school year. Michelle was accepted to MIT last spring and she met with the track coaches and athletes during a welcome trip to the school in April when the scholarship was offered. Her personal bests for the year were 6-3.5’ in the long jump and 34-8.75’ in triple jump, both in the CIF SS top ten. Michelle was a member of Pi Alpha Chi, the Cultural Awareness club and is a California Scholarship Federation member. Michele received the John Stygles Scholar Athlete Award and the Woman’s Scholar Athlete Scholarship at graduation this year.