The Coronado High School boys’ track and field team is the 2025 Central League champion after finishing the season undefeated, with a perfect 4-0 record.
At the April 24 league meet against Crawford High School, Kearny High School and Madison High School, junior sprinter Davin Collins led the boys’ team with victories in both the 100- and 200-meter dashes. He is the Central League winner in both events.
Collins also ran legs on the victorious 4×100 and 4×400 relay teams. For the former, he was joined by senior David Castillo, junior William Heyen, and junior Mason Gibbs, as they recorded a time of 45.60 seconds. For the latter, he was joined by sophomore Emiliano Marquez, junior Nathan Ayan, and freshman Niko Andretic. This quartet recorded a time of 3:35.87.
Other individual event winners on the boys’ side included Marquez, who won the 300-meter hurdles; Ayan, who won the 400-meter dash; junior Vincent Russo, who won the 800-meter; and senior Reif Souder, who won the 110-meter hurdles. Ayan is also the Central League leader for both the 400- and 800-meter runs.
The Islander girls were led by junior sprinter Micaela Gistaro, who notched double victories in the 200-meter dash and 400-meter dash events. Gistaro’s 400-meter time is the leading time in the Central league this year.
She was joined by senior Lauren Gilhooly, sophomore Maya Wilson and junior Summer Little to claim victory in the 4×100-meter relay, with a time of 48.52 seconds. This relay quartet is the leading girls sprint relay team in the Central League and the third fastest in the entire San Diego CIF section.
Other Islander girls’ winners included sophomore Nadia Roos in the 800-meter run, and freshman Claudia Wagner, who claimed double victories in the long jump and triple jump events with leaps of 14’10” and 31’5”, respectively. Wagner is the Central League leader in both events.
Previous meets
On April 17, during the league meet against Crawford High School, Madison High School and Morse High School, both the Islanders’ boys and girls teams defeated Crawford. While the boys’ team beat Morse 81-28, the girls fell to the team by a slim margin.
The distance crew led Coronado High on April 17, with Russo finishing first in the 800-meter run and Ayan winning the 1600-meter dash. On the girls’ side, senior Olivia Monette won the 1600-meter with a personal record time of 7:10.47.
Two days later, the Islanders took part in the 65th annual Mt. SAC relays held at Mt. San Antonio College in Walnut, California.
The Islander girl’s 4×100-meter relay team — with Gistaro, Little, Wilson and Gilhooly — qualified for the competition. In addition to the 4×100, Gilhooly also competed in two individual sprint events, the 100- and 200-meter dashes, and continues to lead the San Diego CIF section in both races.
