Celis Places Second at Pepperdine

New Roadrunner Arianna Celis (see photo) took second at the Malibu Oceanside Open today at Pepperdine University. She along with her team mate Glassey (5th overall) transferred to CSUB this fall from Riverside CC and immediately made an impact for CSUB.

By coming in 2nd and 5th, they were able to break up the Pepperdine pack that would have gone first through fifth without them in the race. This duo recently came to town and ran the top two fastest times at the BTC Summer Series and look to be a big addition to the squad.

In 9th place was Judith Mata in a time 20:27 and former North High runner Cecilia Lopez (Fr) came in 15th in her first college race. Rounding out the scoring five was former East runner Lina Nunez (Sr) who ran 21:43 for 16th place.

Women's Results
Place Last First Class School Time

2 Celis Arianna Junior CSUB 19:31
5 Glassey Casey Junior CSUB 20:03
9 Mata Judith Sophomore CSUB 20:27
15 Lopez Cecilia Freshman CSUB 21:19
16 Nunez Lina Senior CSUB 21:43


I have run the Pepperdine course and it on the big lawn in front of the campus and it is hilly and mostly on grass the whole way so the times the ladies ran are very good for this early in the season.

Other Roadrunner finishers were:

17 King Connie Senior CSUB 22:17
18 Mijwel Sarah Junior CSUB 22:32
19 Tanguma Yesmin Freshman CSUB 23:00 - Former Ridgeview runner
20 Garcia Sanjuana Senior CSUB 23:02
22 Fitch Julia Freshman CSUB 24:06 - Former Liberty sprinter

Big props to Julia for running what I believe is her first 5k, I have watched her and her sister (Molly) running the sprints for Liberty but have never seen her run anything further than the 400. Good to see her make the traveling squad for cross country and i bet she gets better and better through the season. It will make her super tough in track too!

Coach Boyles was extremely happy with his squads performance on a tough course and thought the first time collegiate runners handled themselves well. he was also pleased that the squad was able to break up the Pepperdine runners in the standing too.

Their next meet is on Saturday, Sept, 12th at the Asics/UC Irvine Invite.

Complete Results HERE.

Photos by Coach Boyles HERE.

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