Orange County Girls’ Track Championships : Fager’s Jump Gets It Started for Mission Viejo

Lisa Fager set the tone for Mission Viejo High School with one of the state’s best girls’ triple jumps of the year, 39-11 1/2, at the Orange County Girls’ Track and Field Championships at Rancho Santiago College Saturday.

The jump passed the meet record set in 1986 of 38-3 1/2 by Debbie Orr of Ocean View.

“I didn’t think I was going to jump that far,” said Fager, a junior who was named field athlete of the meet. “I was just hoping to break the meet record. I’m not trying to be first in the state, I’m just trying to improve myself.”

Mission Viejo won the championship with 84 points, 36 from the jumps. Edison finished second with 48, and Woodbridge was third with 38.

“I’m excited by (Fager’s) mark, but not surprised,” said John Hattrup, Mission Viejo’s jump coach. “She’s got the potential to go farther.”

Canyon’s Allison Franke, the field athlete of the meet the past two years, finished second in the triple jump (38-1 1/4), broke her meet record in the discus with a throw of 155-5 and won the 100-meter hurdles in 14.91.

Woodbridge’s Kaci Keffer was named sprinter of the meet after victories in the 400 meters (59.96) and 300 hurdles (45.39). Distance runner of the meet was Edison freshman Shelley Taylor, who won the 1,500 in 4:43.93 and placed second in the 800 in 2:19.44, behind Capistrano Valley’s Laurinda Malhaupt (2:16.38).