Sunrise Athletics Track and Running Club’s Rylie Cabalse, Steven Chung, Taarini Godbole, Kapan Kanae-Kane, Louie Ondo, and Saya Yabe each won gold medals at the state Junior Olympic championships earlier this month in Honolulu. ADVERTISING Sunrise Athletics Track and Running
Sunrise Athletics Track and Running Club’s Rylie Cabalse, Steven Chung, Taarini Godbole, Kapan Kanae-Kane, Louie Ondo, and Saya Yabe each won gold medals at the state Junior Olympic championships earlier this month in Honolulu.
Notable performances included:
• Among the youngest middle distance runners, Godbole (7-8) took double gold while Jayden Gebin earned silver in quick-paced 1,500-meter and 800 events.
• In the 13-14 age group, Chung and Adrian Larkspur continued to dominate the distance races as they did during their Parks and Recreation season. Chung and Larkspur claimed gold and silver, respectively, in the 3,000, setting times that would place them on a competitive high school roster.
Chung also won the 3,000, setting a personal-record.
• In the sprint and jump events, Kanae-Kane proved capable again in the 11-12 division. Kanae-Kane set a personal-record, soaring 14 feet, 6.25 inches to claim gold in the long jump. Kanae-Kane won silver in the 100.
• Despite their extended season, the high school students stood out as well.
Ondo, a BIIF and state champion, easily won all three distance races by wide margins; Cabalse took home the most medals with three bronze and one gold for his races and jumping events; Yabe took gold in the 800; Jodi Go pocketed a silver and bronze in the longer distance races, and Slater Inouye earned a bronze medal in the 3,000;
• The youngest club competitor to make the finals was 6-year-old Shane Tominaga, who placed eighth overall in the 400.
• The 11-12 age group featured a solid group of young middle distance runners who shattered their personal-bests times.
In the girls 1,500, Kacie Tagawa made up ground for bronze, and teammate Teryn Tominaga finished sixth.
Kederang Ueda won silver in the boys 1,500 – teammate Glen Gebin claimed bronze – before taking another silver in the 800.
• In the 11-12 girls 400 relay, Anela Hopkins, Cassidy Denault, Akemi Tominaga, and Devin Buttz sprinted to silver.
Results
• Devin Buttz (11-12), long Jump, 10-0.50, seventh
• Jory Cabalse (13-14), 400, 1:10.69, sixth; 200, 30.94, sixth; triple jump, 28-6, fourth
• Rylie Cabalse (15-16), 800, bronze; 3000, 10:50.50, bronze; long jump, 17-7.25, bronze; triple jump, 36-7.25, gold
• Steven Chung (13-14), 1,500, 4:52.16, gold; 3000, 10:34.15, gold
• Cassidy Denault (11-12), long jump, 10-3.25, sixth
• Makena Denault (9-10), long jump, 6-6, seventh
• Glen Gebin (11-12), 1500, 6:07.07, bronze; long jump, 11-11.75, bronze
• Jayden Gebin (9-10), 1,500, 6:00.34, silver; 800, 2:59.40, silver; long jump, seventh
• Jodi Go (15-16), 1,500, 5:46.92, bronze, 3,000, 12:49.35, silver
• Taarini Godbole (9-10), 1,500, 6:05.93, gold; 800,3:03.84, gold; long jump, 7-11.25, fifth
• Slater Inouye (17-18), 3,000, 10:18.08, bronze; 1,500, 4:47.28, fifth
• Kapana Kanae-Kane, (11-12), long jump, 14-6.25, gold; 100, 13.90, silver
• Adrian Larkspur (13-14), 3,000, 10:35.31, silver
• Josh Quero-Ondo (17-18), 1,500m, 5:01.74, sixth; 3,000, 10:50.56, sixth
• Louie Ondo (17-18), 3,000, 9:45.49, gold; 1,500, 4:21.65, gold; 800, 2:07.98, gold
• Kacie Tagawa (11-12), 1,500, 6:25.26, bronze; 800, 3:15.14, sixth
• Akemi Tominaga (11-12), 800, 3:11.58, fifth; long jump, 9-2.25, eighth
• Shane Tominaga (7-8), 400, 1:30.87, eighth
• Teryn Tominaga (11-12), 1,500m, 6:59.90, sixth; 800, 3:33.36, eighth
• Kederang Ueda (11-12), 1,500, 5:40.92, silver; 800, 2:58.76, silver
• Olivia Wills (13-14), 100, ninth at trials
• Saya Yabe (15-16), 800, 2:34.85, gold
• 400 relay (boys 11-12), fourth
• 400 relays (girls 11-12), Akemi Tominaga, Cassidy Denault, Devin Buttz, Anela Hopkins, 1:07.64, silver
