Nine members of Napa Track Club traveled to the Modesto USA Track & Field-sponsored meet last Saturday, and everyone medaled. Ten first-place finishes were garnered and 10 personal records were broken.

Mario Giovannoni (youth boys) won the high jump at 5-1, a personal record and a USATF National Championship Meet qualifying height. He also won the triple jump at 29-3. His brother, Dominic Giovannoni (intermediate boys) won the high jump at 5-9, also a personal record and a USATF National Championship qualifier.

Chris Bozzini (midget boys) won the high jump at 4-0 and placed second in the long jump at 12-8. Brendan Cardey (midget boys) nabbed a second in both the turbo javelin and high jump.

Lauren Cardey (youth girls) competed in four events, medaled in all, and won the high jump at 4-8. Her sister, Jennifer Cardey, was first in the triple jump at 30-2 and second in the long jump at 14-5.

Eric Zoller (youth boys) placed second in the 800 meters at 2:29.08. His brother, Anthony (intermediate boys) competed in three events, was third in the shot put at 30-5, and PR’d with a fourth-place finish in the high jump at 4-10.

Megan Zoller (intermediate girls) had an outstanding day, nabbing a first in the 100-meter hurdles at 20.31; a first in the high jump at 4-6, a PR; a second in the 200 meters at 27.86, a PR; and a second in the 400 meters at 1:04.81.

The Napa Track Club, a community-based team, provides training and competition on an age-group basis to boys and girls, ages 6-18, in harmony with all public and private schools.

A number of recent notable Napa Track Club athletes are Jake Maus, a Napa High School high jumper now at UC Santa Barbara on a track scholarship, and on his way to the NCAA Western Region competition with a 6-11 jump; Fletcher Carlyle III, Vintage High, 2005 CIF State Meet high jump champion, now working toward admission to a four-year college, and competing for the Athenian Track Club, and headed for upper-level competition this season having cleared more than seven feet; and Susan Jackson, a Napa High junior, who finished third in the State Championship meet as a freshman, lost her sophomore year of competition due to injury, but is re-emerging at the state level with a jump of 5-8 in a recent qualifying meet.

The Napa Track Club’s next meet is the Pacific Association area championships in Pinole on June 10-11./Register