League Season Begins!
Hello Bronco families and fans,
This past Thursday, we headed out of town to Otay Ranch for our final preseason dual meet. While this meet does not count towards our league season score, we were able to sweep the meet with a win for the girls and boy on Varsity and JV! (Girls Varsity 87.5 to 48.4, Boys Varsity 81 to 55, Girls JV 78-54 and Boys JV 96.6 to 39.4) Find the full meet results for Rancho Bernardo vs Otay Ranch here. On Saturday we headed back to Torrey Pines for Falcon Relays Invitational! Find meet results here and meet day photos by DC Lenswork here.
Each week a new Bronco Breakdown will be posted here on our team website recapping the last weeks’ meets and upcoming information! Stay tuned and be sure to follow our team instagram @BroncosTF for more realtime updates!
UNIFORMS! - there have been significant delays with our jersey order. We do have some back-stock of past jerseys available and we have uniform shorts available for purchase. Shorts are $37, sold at cost with our team discount. Payment is accepted by cash or check (checks made out to Rancho Bernardo High School Foundation with TRACK in the Memo!!!). If this is a financial burden for your family please reach out to Coach Mandell and the program will cover the cost. We will be distributing shorts at practice tomorrow (Wednesday 2/25). If your athlete has already recieved shorts, please send them with $37 to practice tomorrow/ASAP.
Keep reading for more highlights!
Photo by DC Lenswork
Athletes of the Meet
Each week, we will highlight Athletes of the Meet for the prior weeks meet(s). These athletes are selected by their respective event coaches for their performance at the meet. Athletes who had break out performances, big PRs, pulled off something big for the team score, great sportsmanship, etc. We want to take the time to highlight a couple of athletes who had spectacular performances at our dual meet against Otay Ranch and The Falcon Relays Invitational.
Otay Ranch Dual Meet
Hurdles -
Anastasia “Annie” Revak (11) after hitting a hurdle at practice Wednesday resulting in a pretty serious cut and trip to urgent care, she came back the next day to PR in the 100 hurdles, then doubled back in the 300 hurdles. She stormed out of the blocks but took an unfortunate tumble near the end of the race. She got back up and still managed to put together a strong finish. Very proud of her attitude and tenacity!
Long/Triple Jump -
Michael Yang (10) after a mistake in recording his jump (A new PR of 17’2) as a scratch, his response was “It’s ok coach, I’ll have many more chances to get a better mark than that”. A gracious way to handle an unfortunate situation!
Sprints -
Brice Abawi (12) opening up his season with a 22.38 in the 200.
Boys and Girls 4×4 teams with a great effort.
High Jump -
Breas O'Conner (10) started off his career as a high jumper with a strong personal best of 4’10!
Throws -
Kieran Simpson (9) HUGE pr in discus of 70’ 8” (up 17 feet from his previous best) and set a new PR in shot put!
Distance -
Diego Reyes (9) on his first double ever and doubled up on PRs! With a 12 second PR in the 800 meter!
Amelia Krolikowski (9) was a double winner in the 1600 and 3200. This was her very first 3200 meter race!
Falcon Relays
Pole Vault -
Sonia Humer (10) after finding out the day of the meet he would not be allowed jump due to an injury, he went on to rake the pit and help out the ENTIRETY of the meet. Finding a way to still make an impact and being. a team player!
Damian Havrilak (11) chipped his tooth vaulting on Thursday at Otay after getting hit by the crossbar, spent Friday getting a root canal and then came back on Saturday to jump and new PR!
Sprints -
Girl 4×200 Relays for putting together a race we don’t often run and rolling with the unknown of a unique event!
High Jump -
Peyton Dalrymple (9) put together a great high jump competition the led to a tie for 2nd after a jump off!
Distance -
Boys 4×1600 Relay Teams - started the meet off strong with 6 of the 8 legs starting our day off strong running PRs!
Riley Biddle (11) ran a great lead off leg in the DMR to set up her team for success!
Our Next Meet
This week we have a home dual meet against San Marcos. This will be our first official League meet. In order to earn the team title of Palomar League Champions, we must win overall by points at each league meet or have the best score of all of the teams. The top 3 athletes in each event score points (1st - 5 points, 2nd-3 points, 3rd-1 point). It is crucial that athletes are giving their best effort in all events they are competing in and communicating with their coach if anything comes up. More info on this week’s dual meet here.
With this week being finals week, athletes with 4th period classes and finals will be released from class at 3:15pm. If they do not have a 4th period they are expected at the track at 2pm to help with meet day set up and ample time to warm up for the meet as normal. Athletes with 4th period classes that do not have finals, we ask that they communicate with their 4th period teacher if it is acceptable for them to leave at 2pm. School comes first as always!
On Saturday a limited team will compete at Mt Carmel’s Sundevil Invitational, more info here. Weekend invitationals are more competitive/higher level meets for our Varsity level athletes. We enter athletes and they must qualify/be accepted into the meet by the meet director. For this reason we bring a much more limited number of athletes to these meets.
Pictured, Mitchel Brown, Photo by DC Lenswork
House Keeping
We are asking for a $300 parent donation to help offset our team costs. As always Athlete's are not required to "pay to play", however, this $300 donation would help cover essential program costs. If you are able to donate you can do so in a variety of ways. See more info on our Donation Page
Seeking Parent Volunteers to run Senior Night (Wednesday, April 15, 2026)
Reach out to Coach Mandell if interested in coordinating and executing this years senior night festivities!
Our team photo for yearbook is scheduled for FRIDAY 3/27 during practice
Because of the minimum day (school is out at 1:15pm) we will be getting the school picture first, and then practicing from there.
Be sure you are following us on Instagram! We share meet photos, meet recap reels, live updates and more there. @BroncosTF
SENIORS! Time to fill out your senior bios to be featured on our website. Follow this link
Calling all RBHS T+F Alumni, fill out this form to be included on our alumni page!
Donate your used spikes to a Bronco in need!
If your athlete has spikes (competition shoes) from last season that aren’t super torn up, they can use them again. If they are getting new spikes and don’t need their old ones, feel free to bring them to practice and we can share them with another Bronco in need! Once your athlete gets their spikes, have them show their coach before wearing them at practice. We can help navigate each athletes needs.