Sterlin Wins Heptathlon at Invitational

Heather Sterlin of Mission Viejo High won the heptathlon at the Golden West Invitational track and field meet Friday at Sacramento. She won three events and finished no worse than third in the four others, scoring a personal-best and national-leading 4,784 points.

Rose Marie Harris, the 1991 Junior Olympics champion from Connecticut, was second with 4,619 points and Adra Hysong, a four-event winner at the Arizona state meet, was third with 4,523 points.

During Thursday’s first day of competition, Sterlin won the high jump with a leap of 4 feet 11 3/4 inches and placed second in the 200 meters (25.3) and 100-meter low hurdles (14.8) and was third in the shotput (28-9).

Friday, she won the long jump (18-10 1/2) and the 800 meters (2:24.0) and was third in the javelin (96-0). She eclipsed her previous best of 4,556, set in a meet in early May at Cal State Long Beach.

Sterlin, who was second at the State meet in the long jump with a leap of 19 feet 8 1/2 inches, will compete in the open long jump today.

Fred Almond, Mission Viejo track coach, said Sterlin has been invited to compete in the Junior TAC championships in Columbus, Ohio this summer.