Rio Mesa’s Carroll Establishes Three Records at Meet

Win the 100 meters. Win the 200 meters. Win the long jump.

For the fourth time this season, sophomore Porchea Carroll of Rio Mesa High accomplished that feat and set meet records in all three events Saturday in the Channel Coast Invitational at Camarillo High.

Carroll, defending Southern Section Division II champion in the girls’ 100 and 200, won the 100 in a wind-aided 11.6, the 200 in 24.6 and the long jump at 18-4 1/2.

She ran the first leg on a Spartan team that finished second in the 400 relay in 51.6.

“I wanted to get the meet record,” Carroll said of the 200 after bettering the mark of 24.7 set by Sharika Higgins of Channel Islands in 1996. “[Sharika] had the previous record and I wanted to beat that because we’ve got this [friendly] rivalry going.”

Carroll cut three-tenths of a second off the meet record in the 100, besting the mark that Higgins--now at Washington State--set in 1996 and Carroll tied last year.

In the long jump, Carroll added 2 1/2 inches to the mark she set last year.

Junior Oliver Jackson of Royal, sophomore Emily Forsythe of Crescenta Valley and the Newbury Park boys’ 1,600 relay team also set meet records.

Jackson spanned 23-9 to top the meet record of 22-0. He also won the 400 in 50.8 and the 300 intermediate hurdles in 39.9, and finished second in the 110 high hurdles in 15.4.

Dolan anchored Newbury Park to a meet-record time of 3:28.8 in the 1,600 relay.

Forsythe set a career best of 5-6 to win the girls’ high jump and defeat defending section Division I champion Lisa Wygant of Camarillo.