Tori Anthony’s goal for the season is to keep raising the bar in the girls’ pole vault. The Woodside resident did that again Saturday at the annual Mt. SAC Relays in Walnut.
The Castilleja senior, who earlier this season set the all-time (indoors or out) national prep record of 14-2 1/2 while vaulting indoors, raised the state outdoor record to 13-10 to win the high school girls’ invitational portion of the nationally acclaimed track and field meet.
Anthony’s clearance is the best outdoor mark in the nation this season. She also had the previous best U.S.-leading vault of 13-7, accomplished a week earlier at the Arcadia Invitational.
Anthony took three vaults at what would have been a national outdoor record of 14-1, coming close on one attempt.
Stanford-bound Natasha Barthel of St. Francis cleared 12-7 1/2, her season best while teammate Casey Roche, also headed for Stanford in the fall, won the boys’ invitational pole vault at 16-8, just off his state-leading season-best of 17-0.
In other track news:
Menlo Park’s Grace Upshaw jumped 21-11 to win the women’s long jump at a meet in El Paso, Texas, on Saturday. It’s the longest jump outdoors in the world this year.
Upshaw’s niece, Sunny Margerum, won the girls’ long jump at the annual Hampton-Phillips Invitational on Saturday at San Jose City College. The winning mark of 17-0 was Margerum’s personal best.
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