ELK GROVE, Calif. – Senior Grace Dunham posted the fifth-best 3,200-meter time in school history to claim that championship, then led off the first-place 4x800 relay squad to highlight St. Francis on the first day of the Delta League Track & Field Championships, held at Elk Grove High.

The Troubadours sit third in the varsity team scoring with 34 points, trailing Davis (71.5) and Pleasant Grove (52.5). The majority of Saturday's events were preliminary heats that feed into Tuesday's finals, but the 3,200, 4x800 and several field events contested as scoring finals.

Dunham crossed the finish line in 10 minutes, 42.63 seconds, surpassing the 11:05.38 she previously set at the Stanford Invitational earlier this season. The UC Davis commit becomes just the seventh runner in school history to surpass the 11-minute mark in the event, moving from eighth to fifth in the school record. Dunham now sits between eventual Cal runner Sydney Vandegrift (10:32.12) and eventual Northern Arizona athlete Miranda Myers (10:58.15) in SF annals.

Dunham's win in the 3,200 earned her 10 points toward the team score plus the first All-Delta League patch of the track & field season. The Troubies scored 13 in the distance race, with Ryann Strawn's 11:19.19 and Sunny Schranz' 11:37.00 good for seventh and eighth places, respectively.

Then in the final varsity event on the track, Dunham joined Ryann Strawn, Kelsey Sutch and Kayla Towne for a dominating win in the 4x800, thanks to a 9:45.06. That crew is a week removed from the 9:29.95 at the Sacramento Meet of Champions. Other varsity points came from freshman Jasleen Gandhoke, who finished second in the high jump with her 4-foot-10 clearance; and senior Elise Blomquist, who posted a 97-7 throw in the discus.

Mere minutes removed from the varsity high jump, Gandhoke reported to the 100 hurdles and became just the ninth Troubie in history to break the 16-second mark in that event. She led the trials with a 15.97 despite a 1.3 meters per second headwind. Gandhoke already ranked No. 2 among all-time St. Francis ninth graders for that race, behind only Reyna Johnson's 14.92 from the 2018 Sac-Joaquin Section Masters final.

St. Francis advanced multiple entrants in the varsity 800- and 100-meter races. Towne won the second prelim heat and finished second overall at 2:20.05, with Sutch and Pamela Vargas each posting personal records to place seventh (2:23.04) and ninth (2:24.96), respectively. Meanwhile, the Troubies will have two runners in Tuesday's 100 final, with Kyah Pickett and Caitlin Hafenstein each running 12.91. Pickett's time actually broke down to 12.901 for seventh place, with Hafenstein's 12.905 taking eighth.

Saturday's meet mostly consisted of varsity events in the morning, and frosh-soph events in the afternoon, with the exception of the 3,200s. Sophomore Antonija Jezildzic was St. Francis' top frosh-soph performer, winning the discus throw at 95-2. Fellow 10th grader Chloe Harrison placed second in the 3,200 at 12:22.80, cutting more than four full seconds off her previous PR.

The Delta League championships resume on Tuesday. The field events (pole vault, shot put, long jump) begin at noon, while the girls' frosh-soph 4x100 relay kicks off running events at 1 p.m. Among the key events for St. Francis include the 1,600 in which defending-champion Dunham and Towne enter as the No. 1 and 3 seeds. The varsity 100 and 800 finals take place at 3:25 and 3:45, respectively.

2024 DELTA LEAGUE TRACK & FIELD CHAMPIONSHIPS, DAY 1
Elk Grove High School (Elk Grove, Calif.)
Events with SF entrants only • Winners plus SF finishers listed • All events are prelims except where noted

GIRLS' TEAM SCORES VARSITY - 1. Davis, 71.5; 2. Pleasant Grove, 52.5; 3. St. Francis, 34; 4. Franklin, 17; 5. Cosumnes Oaks, 7; 6(tie). Sheldon, Elk Grove, 5.

GIRLS' 3,200 METERS FROSH/SOPH FINALS - 1. Natalia Yeager, Davis, 12:17.88.... 2. Chloe Harrison, 12:22.80; 5. Jordan Brace, 12:59.27; 16. MacKenzie Olmstead, 15:03.03.

GIRLS' 3,200 METERS VARSITY FINALS - 1. Grace Dunham, St. Francis, 10:42.63... 6. Ryann Strawn, 11:19.19; 7. Sunny Schranz, 11:37.00; 12 Emma Dobson, 11:58.41; 15. Amelia Bell, 12:16.82; 18. Kyra Lueras, 12:34.34; 19. Lucie Pickering Pick, 12:45.19; 20. Zoe Smith, 13:57.63.

GIRLS' 100 HURDLES VARSITY - 1. Jasleen Gandhoke, St. Francis, 15.97 (w: -1.3)... 14. Nassali Serwanga, 19.21 (w: -1.3).

GIRLS' 100 HURDLES FROSH/SOPH - 1. Luna Halaby, Sheldon 18.45 (w: +0.8)... 7. Annie Swanson, 21.15 (w: +0.8).

GIRLS' 400 METERS VARSITY - 1. Camille Bursey, Sheldon, 57.63... 5. Alexa Randall, 59.89; 10. Kennedy Bishop, 1:02.97; 11. Colleen Medina, 1:03.13; 12. Alina Gutierrez, 1:03.89; 23. Rylee Coauette, 1:08.99.

GIRLS' 100 METERS VARSITY - 1. Londynn Miller, Cosumnes Oaks, 12.63 (w: +1.8)... 7. Kyah Pickett, 12.901 (w: -0.1); 8. Caitlin Hafenstein, 12.905 (w: +0.2); 11. Tacori Abril, 13.21 (w: +0.2); 19. Lucia Vicio, 13.65 (w: +0.2), 24. Alesandra Stahl, 14.10 (w: +1.1); 32. Sam Martinez, 14.80 (w: -0.1); 44. Lucee Manzano, 15.57 (w: -0.9); 47. Emily Rodriguez, 15.93 (w: -0.1); Anastacia Maruccia, DQ.

GIRLS' 100 METERS FROSH/SOPH - 1. Jada Ilaide, Sheldon, 13.38 (w: +1.5)... 29. Kathryn McWilliams, 15.24 (w: -0.1); 36. Eva Jackson, 15.71 (w: +0.1); 38. Gaia Price, 15.86 (w: +0.1); 41. Brittney Rios, 19.93 (w: +1.3).

GIRLS' 800 METERS VARSITY - 1. Norah Feldt, Davis, 2:18.62... 2. Kayla Towne, 2:20.05; 7. Kelsey Sutch, 2:23.04; 9. Pamela Vargas, 2:24.96; 19. Sunny Schranz, 2:36.99; 21. Emma Dobson, 2:37.11; 25. Amelia Bell, 2:38.89; 28. Elizabeth Gibbons, 2:40.31; 32. Kyra Lueras, 2:43.13; 33. Mykaela Le, 2:44.45; 36. Lucie Pickering Pick, 2:49.80; 39. Ashley Sexauer, 2:55.45; 40. Zoe Smith, 2:56.75.

GIRLS' 800 METERS FROSH/SOPH - 1. Natalia Yeager, Davis, 2:33.13... 5. Chloe Harrison, 2:34.22; 14. Morgane Bertran, 2:46.89; 20. Kalaya Moore, 2:51.16; 23. Jordan Brace, 2:54.82; 32. MacKenzie Olmstead, 3:03.95.

GIRLS' 300 HURDLES VARSITY - 1. Senai Rogers, Franklin, 47.46... 10. Nassali Serwanga, 52.73.

GIRLS' 300 HURDLES FROSH/SOPH - 1. Luna Halaby, Sheldon, 51.30... 7. Annie Swanson, 56.70.

GIRLS' 200 METERS VARSITY - 1. Ihe Okoh, Franklin, 25.62 (w: -0.4)... 8. Caitlin Hafenstein, 26.66 (w: +0.8); 9. Kyah Pickett, 26.74 (w: +0.0); 11. Alexa Randall, 26.86 (w: -0.4) 14. Tacori Abril, 27.16 (w: +1.5); 15. Yasmin Azar, 27.33 (w: +0.0); 19. Lucia Vicio, 27.88 (w: +0.3); 21. Colleen Medina, 28.10 (w: -0.4); 22. Mia Barsotti, 28.12 (w: +0.8); 27. Kennedy Bishop, 28.51 (w: +0.3); 29. Alina Gutierrez, 28.69 (w: +0.5); 31. Anastacia Maruccia, 28.98 (w: +0.6); 37. Rylee Coauette, 30.10 (w: +0.8); 42. Alesandra Stahl, 30.62 (w: +0.0); 45. Sam Martinez, 31.22 (w: +1.5); 49. Lucee Manzano, 32.20 (w: +0.0); 52. Emily Rodriguez, 32.53 (w: +0.8)

GIRLS' 200 METERS FROSH/SOPH - 1. Morgan Glimstad, Pleasant Grove, 28.27 (w: -0.2)... 30. Kathryn McWilliams, 32.86 (w: -0.7); 33. Gaia Price, 33.43 (w: -0.7); 38. Eva Jackson, 37.51 (w: -0.2); 41. Brittney Rios, 42.84 (w: +0.5)

GIRLS' 4x800 RELAY VARSITY FINALS - 1. St. Francis (Dunham, Strawn, Sutch, Towne), 9:45.06.

GIRLS' HIGH JUMP VARSITY FINALS - 1. Alyssa Porter, Pleasant Grove, 5-0... 2. Jasleen Gandhoke, 4-10.

GIRLS' HIGH JUMP FROSH/SOPH FINALS - 1. Natalie Overton, Pleasant Grove, 4-6... 4. Savannah Fleck, 4-2; Anastacia Uniza, no height.

GIRLS' DISCUS THROW VARSITY FINALS - 1. Sol Bitners, Davis, 142-8... 8. Elise Blomquist, 97-7; 17. Emika Garcia, 65-3.5; 18. Mackenzie Santos, 64-5; 24. Samantha Rickards, 51-9; 25. Jacqueline Ingenito, 45-4.5.

GIRLS' DISCUS THROW FROSH/SOPH FINALS - 1. Antonija Jezildzic, St. Francis, 95-2... 4. Christine So, 74-2.5; 16. Avelin Pragasam, 43-0.