Sprinter Felix Will Run in Carson Track Meet

Allyson Felix of North Hills L.A. Baptist, who set a world junior (age 19 and under) record of 22.11 seconds in the women’s 200 meters in the Banamex Grand Prix track and field meet at Mexico City on Saturday, will run in the 100 in the Home Depot Invitational at the Home Depot Training Center at Carson on June 1.

Felix, the two-time defending state champion in the 100, has a career best of 11.40 in the event and ran a wind-aided 11.24 in winning the high school division of the Mt. San Antonio College Relays at Walnut on April 18.

The Home Depot Invitational, which will inaugurate the $150-million Home Depot Training Center, will be held two days after the Southern Section Masters Meet at Cerritos College in Norwalk.

The Masters Meet is the Southern Section qualifying meet for the state championships at Cerritos College on June 6-7.

Kira Costa of Fresno San Joaquin Memorial, who set a national indoor record of 13 feet 4 1/2 inches in the girls’ pole vault in the L.A. Invitational track and field meet at the Sports Arena in February, will compete against an elite women’s field in the Home Depot Invitational.

Costa, who will graduate from San Joaquin Memorial two days before the meet, will be part of a six-woman field that will include defending Olympic and two-time defending World champion Stacy Dragila of the United States.

Dragila set the world outdoor record of 15-9 1/4 in 2001 and cleared a world indoor record of 15-8 1/4 earlier this year before Svetlana Feofanova of Russia surpassed it with a 15-9 clearance in the World Indoor Championships at Birmingham, England, in March.

-- John Ortega

Bryan Hill, a former Wilmington Banning and Pepperdine basketball standout, has been hired as boys’ basketball coach at Banning, taking over for Noel Phillips.

Fountain Valley lost both its varsity basketball coaches when Carol Stausburg retired after 26 seasons as girls’ coach and Chris Madigan left after three seasons as a walk-on boys’ coach.

Stausburg will remain at the school as a physical education teacher.