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Pole Vault and the DMR have been
added for 2012
Competing Teams:
Iolani of Hawaii, Trabuco Hills, Orange Luthern, Dana Hills, Harvard-Westlake, CDM, La Sierra, MLK, Servite, Godinez, Oxford, Calvary Chapel, Santa Margarita, Laguna Beach, Costa Mesa, La Quinta, Santa Ana Valley, Santa Ana High, Estancia, St. Margaret’s. Sage Hill, J Serra, Edison, El Dorado, Crean Luthern, Valencia
Meet History
Back in the mid 1930’s Orange County consisted of only twelve high schools with the two largest, Santa Ana and Fullerton participating in leagues with the larger out-of-county Southern California high schools while the remaining 10 were lumped into the Orange League regardless of school size. Red Guyer recognized this inequity and the lack of any high school competition for the county’s smaller rural schools. Laguna hosted the first “minor” division track meet in 1937 and thus began the annual Trophy meet held almost every year until 1983. Until the latter years, school size was limited to traditional CIF size small- schools with the enrollment ceiling growing to 750 students and finally 1,000. It all changed in the 70’s as from 1973 through 1976, Laguna’s State Champion, Eric Hulst attracted elite runners for special 1, 2 and 3-mile races featuring So Cal’s top long-distance high school runners. Girls events were added in 1974 and by the late 70’s the 2-day meet annually attracted athletes from over 60 schools. In 2010 the Trophy Invite was resurrected and now includes schools of any size.
