Track & Field

General Rules

• Student-athletes should always drink water during the day and bring water to practice and track meets. They should drink 1/3 their body weight number, in ounces each day (E.g.; a 100 pound student-athlete should drink 33.3 ounces (about 1 liter) of water per day.
• Students should always eat something for breakfast, and eat real food, not junk food, for lunch.
• The student-athletes should always let the coaches know if they are hurting or injured.

RULES of PARTICIPATION

• Less than 90% workout-attendance will be cause for removal from the team. The student must be at 90% or above to compete in meets
  • The student-athlete must maintain this percentage AND compete in at least 3 meets in order to get credit for the sport
• Student-athletes and their parents are expected to show mutual respect and trust for coaches, school administration, teachers, meet officials, parent-supporters and teammates. Infractions will be reviewed by coaches and school administrations after T&F Captains input. The final decisions will that of the T&F coaching staff.
• Always practice good sportsmanship and mutual respect towards competitors
• Failure to meet school or home academic standards will result in suspension from the team.
• Competitions: IF THE STUDENT-ATHLETE IS NOT WEARING FREMONT T&F ISSUED WARM-UPS WHEN THEY SHOW-UP FOR THESE MEETS, THEY WILL BE SENT HOME, WITH NO CREDIT FOR THE COMPETITION
• 400 Meter Rule: With the exception of “Throws-only” athletes, every athlete will compete/run 400 meters at least three times during the track season. The 400 meter sprint distance is very developmental for all jumping and running events. Walking or jogging the distance will not count, the coaches will be the judge of effort during the given 400 m run. “Throws-only” athletes will be subject to a 300m or 200m under the same rules.
• Club-Sports: Student-athletes will not be given attendance credit for club sports. It is suggested the student-athlete not compete in other club-sports during the T&F season. Track & Field training is very demanding, AND counts on key “unload periods” to peak the athlete. These unload periods should not be thought of as opportunities for extra workouts or to go to other sport tournaments.
  • If the club sport is already paid for and underway, please try to work with us to mesh the schedules and training.  The student will still be responsible for the 90% attendance
• Miscellaneous: Donating Blood: If possible, in non-emergency situations, it is suggested to not give blood during the season. In giving blood, you are giving away benefits of workouts with each pint. The body has to work hard to replenish lost blood, which effects workout and meet recovery. Plus, you have just given away a strategic amount of a key component to the cardio-vascular system, which we’ve been working so hard to strengthen. Please try to plan any charity blood donations for after the season.

Attendance & Physicals

Physicals

In order to practice or compete, our student athletes must have physicals and have filled out Student Information sheets. There were pre-season meetings, and fliers, stating these items need to be handed-in on, or before, the first day of practice (Feb 3). At the very latest, the items must be completed by the Monday after the Winter Break (February 24).

Attendance (is based on workouts completed)

We do not cut student-athletes from the team based on performance. However, we will cut them for disrespecting teammates, staff, officials or for low attendance. Less than 90% workout-attendance will be cause removal from the team. There are plenty of extra point opportunities.

• Certain hard workouts, Friday practices and Saturday meets count as 2-for-1 attendance days.
• Scheduled workouts during school breaks and holidays count as an extra attendance
• If there is not a Saturday competition, Saturday practices are extra credit, since they are optional
• Weekday dual meets count as 2-for-2 days. Meaning, if you miss the meet, it’s the same as missing two days
• There are no excused absences: if the student-athlete is sick or on a family trip, they are not training. There are plenty obvious opportunities for extra training % points: the student-athlete has multiple opportunities to be above expected percentage points.
• Winter Conditioning counts as extra credit at the start of the regular T&F season  

Sport Costs and Donations

Each family is responsible for the student-athletes footwear and practice apparel. Good footwear will limit foot/ankle injury and shin-splints.

The Track team pays for each student-athletes’ entry into the Saturday Relay and Invitational track meets. Please inform us 2-week ahead of time if the student will miss these meets for family planned activities. 

The school also supplies the competition uniform, but these uniforms are to be returned at the end of the season or families will be billed for the uniform item. New rules enforcing collection include; transcript holds, and inability to purchase tickets for social events like prom. The season t-shirts will be withheld also.

If the student-athlete cannot make one or more of the listed track meets, please bring a list of the meets that will be missed, to practice, two weeks ahead of those meets. If the student-athlete does not do so, they will receive negative attendance points for missing these meets..

WHO IS COACHING MY KID?

(FYI: USATF = “USA Track & Field”, the governing body for T&F in the United States, including the Olympic teams; NHSF = National High School Federation; TACUSA = The Athletic Congress of the United States of America)

HEAD COACH/PROGRAM COORDINATOR: MARK SHIELDS

• Certifications: USATF level 1 coach, TACUSA level 1 coach, NHSF certified interscholastic coach.
• Coaching experience. High school: FHS Track & Field coach; 2005 until present. Head coach from 2006 until present. XC coordinator 2008-thru-2015, Head XC coach 2008, 2013, 2014, 2015.   
  • 2-times Fremont Coach of the Year: 2008 and 2017.
  • 2019 California PTA Service Award honoree ior 15 school-yrs. of volunteer support for Summer Conditioning and Winter Conditioning programs 
  • 2022 Honor T&F Honor Coach of the Year for California Central Coast Section (voted on by league reps for 160 high schools)
  • 2023 Girls T&F Coach of the Year for California Central Coast Section (voted on by league reps for 160 high schools)
    • The following coaching staff are equal member-recipients of the above awards.
  • Other: 4-yr. NCAA-D1 assistant at Oklahoma State University, '88-to-'92; Sprint/Hurdles, MD assistant., Cross Country assistant and lead-coach for T&F/XC Strength & Conditioning. Member of OSU Track and Cross Country staff, under Dick Weis. Four years on OSU T&F as a 400 meter intermediate hurdler.
• Full-time job: Engineering Projects Portfolio Manager in Semiconductor Capital Equipment. Link to LinkedIn profile

HEAD COACH, THROWS, GIRLS & BOYS, ROBERT GUZMAN

• Certifications: USA Wrestling Silver certification Coach. Multiple “Throwslabs” training in Shot, Disc, and Hammer.
•  Coaching Experience: Coach Guzman is in his 2nd year as head Throws coach. He has also coached, basketball, soccer, wrestling and T&F throws across multiple levels of athletes, from YMCA age group, through high school
  •  Coach Guzman is also a retired US Army Master Seargent with several Special Operations and Medic certifications.
• Full time job: Director, Plans and Training, 63d Readiness Division (United States Army Reserve Command)

SPRINTS/RELAYS/MIDDLE DISTANCE COACH, GIRLS/BOYS, ADAM MIRANDA: 

USATF LEVEL 1 COACH, NHSF CERTIFIED INTERSCHOLASTIC COACH

• Coaching Experience: this will be Coach Miranda’s 10^th season supporting the Track & Field program, Adam was a two-year Track captain during his time at Fremont. Adam is Fremont class of 2013 graduate. Coach Miranda is also assistant coach for Cross Country, with Coach Flores.
• Full time job: Coach Miranda has an Engineering degree from San Jose State University, and is currently an Engineering Project Manager for a Silicon Valley company.

JUMPS Head coach, hurdles asst. COACH, GIRLS & BOYS: LEWIS LOUIE: 

USATF LEVEL 1 COACH, NHSF CERTIFIED INTERSCHOLASTIC COACH.

• Coaching Experience: this is Coach Louie’s 6th year as a staff FHS coach. He has supported the program since 2015 when his daughter Samantha was a freshman (Samantha went to state in the TJ in 2018, competed for UC Davis, recently graduated and currently coaches at Monta Vista HS (MV needed coaching help, so FRE alum obliged)). Coach Louie is a 1978 graduate of FHS and is still on FHS Track & Field records in the Long Jump and the Triple Jump, also still in the record books for Fremont Basketball. 
• Full time job: Lewis has recently retired from a Service Management position at Helwig Mechanical

DISTANCE & HURDLES ASST. COACH, GIRLS & BOYS, meet announcer: ALEJANDRA FLORES: USATF LEVEL 1 COACH, NHSF CERTIFIED INTERSCHOLASTIC COACH.

• Coaching Experience: this is Coach Flores' 7th year as a staff FHS coach (she is also head Cross Country coach for the 4th school year). Alejandra was a two-year Track & XC captain during her time at Fremont. Coach Flores is a Fremont class of 2014 graduate. She went on to compete at De Anza in T&F/XC, then in XC at NCAA-DIII Aurora University, in Chicago, Illinois. Coach Flores is a member of the Girls Cross Country school record for Crystal Springs.
• Announcing experience: Coach Flores has announced the Firebird Relays and Fremont dual meets for years. However, last year (2023), she also announced Top-8, The Quicksilver, BVAL divisional championships, El Camino Division Championships, Sunnyvale Middle School duals, SCVAL Championships and CCS Finals
• Full time job: Coach Flores works as an English Language Support Teacher, and translator, in the Fremont Unified School District. Specifically at Sunnyvale Middle School

HURDLES & Sprints ASST. COACH, GIRLS & BOYS: Idreece Barnes:

NHSF CERTIFIED INTERSCHOLASTIC COACH.

• Coaching Experience: this is Coach Barnes' 3rd year as a staff FHS coach. He was a two-year Track captain during his time in high school at Fremont. Coach Barnes is a Fremont class of 2019 graduate. He is listed on Fremont T&F records list in both the 300m hurdles and 110m high hurdles. Coach Barnes went on to walk-on and make the San Jose State University Track team as a hurdler. However, when the SJSU training times did not work with his Engineering class schedules, he chose to focus on his Engineering degree and help coach at his alma mater. SJSU's loss is Fremont's gain. 
• Full time job: Coach Barnes has utilized his engineering degree from San Jose State University to land a high-tech job, which he currently works in Silicon Valley

VOLUNTEER COACHES

VOLUNTEER COACHING ASSISTANT, Distance, JEFF ROHRER:

CERTIFICATIONS: USATF LEVEL 1 COACH, NHSF CERTIFIED INTERSCHOLASTIC COACH

• This is Coach Rohrer’s 10th year of direct support in coaching Fremont Cross Country/T&F. Jeff and his wife Rachel (3-yr team Mom simultaneously for XC/Water Polo, then T&F/Swimming) put three daughters through Fremont, and into 4-year universities. Their daughter Heather (2013) ran Cross Country at the University of Hawaii. Jeff is an accomplished masters distance runner,
• Full time job: Coach Rohrer is a full time Engineering Manager at Thermo-Fischer Scientific.

VOLUNTEER JUMPS COACH, HIGH JUMP SPECIALIST; GIRLS/BOYS: RAND CRIPPEN

NHSF CERTIFIED INTERSCHOLASTIC COACH.

• Coaching Experience; Coach Crippen is a well-known jumps-coaching resource around the South Bay Area and the Peninsula. In his 27-years of regional coaching, he has coached at multiple junior colleges and high schools in the Bay Area. In addition, he has been a captain on several of our SCVAL Corporate-coaches teams (8 corporate national championships since 2000). He is an accomplished Masters Track & Field Jumper/sprinter,
• Full time job: Coach Crippen is long retired from his tech career, but in his early tech career, he was an Apple programmer, having also worked for Intel.

VOLUNTEER THROWS COACH, Throws guru; GIRLS/BOYS: ANTHONY RIVERA - NHSF CERTIFIED INTERSCHOLASTIC COACH.

• Coaching Experience: This is Coach Rivera 2nd year coaching at Fremont. He has multiple Throws Certifications over his 15+ years of coaching. Coach Rivera is one of the driving forces of the well-known (in-sport), skills phenomenon known as "Throws Lab". Although Coach Rivera's base is Fremont, thrower-families travel northern California to train with him. Last season, Coach Rivera had 5 student-athletes at the CA state meet, and one athlete in the US Trials for the US World Championships team.

VOLUNTEER THROWS COACH, GIRLS/BOYS: Jeff Lehto - NHSF CERTIFIED INTERSCHOLASTIC COACH.

• Coaching Experience: This is Coach Lehto's 2nd year coaching at Fremont. Drawn into coaching by the Throws ability of his talented sons, Jack & Ryan, Coach Lehto has translated his high-tech management/director skills into coaching and mentoring Fremont student-athletes in Throws, and in their general approaches to Track & Field..
• Full time job: Coach Lehto is a Design Director at Analog Devices.

• Contact Coach Mark Shields at Markstrackcoach@gmail.com & Sylvmarks@yahoo.com, simultaneously
• Team Parents Email: Laura Tiscareno <letisca@gmail.com>, Matthew Tiscareno <matthewtiscareno@gmail.com>
  • The Tiscareno's, our Team Parents. will coordinate the Carpooling for the weekday-away meets and our Saturday meets. They will also coordinate our home meet parent support

We have a solid staff, we go through slight role updates each year, based on our full-time jobs.

USA Track & Field is the governing body of the sport in the United States of America. Six of our coaches are USA T&F level-1 certified coaches, which means we/they have the technical knowledge and the pedagogy training to coach all events. In addition, we have coaches who are additionally/or very experienced at certain events.

Review the "Fremont T&F Coaching Staff" tab to get the current view of this seasons' coaching staff.

The scholarship will be given only in years when the Firebird Relays fundraiser, and additional fundraisers, makes profits. All scholarships qualifiers will divide 100% of the total of Gate, T-shirt/sticker sales and contributions to the Firebird Relays (after all season pay-outs). If no qualifiers, the money will roll over to the next year

For 2020 and this season, the award amounts were generated by donation

The following qualifications must be met to earn the scholarship:

1. Must have 4-seasons of FHS Track & Field, with 90% workout attendance, each year
2. Individual league championship once at any level or league runner up once, at any level. Includes being a member of a relay; OR have 4-year Winter Conditioning, T&F, Summer Conditioning combined workout percentage of 100% or break into the FHS Top-15 all-time in an individual event
3. Must have been a team captain or co-captain in one of their years on the team;
4. Must be accepted to a 4-year college/university, but not on an athletic scholarship - OR have plans to attend a community college, followed by continued education at a university
5. Must have a minimum 2.50 weighted GPA
6. Must have taken the SAT or the ACT.

We (Coach Shields & AD Puccinelli) began this scholarship in 2015.

Past Scholarship Winners

• 2015: $1000.00 total, Luis Cordero (Rochester Institute of Technology)
• 2016: $2,200.00 total, Annah Jones (UC Merced)
• 2017: $2000.00 total, Kate Everhardt (UC Davis), Calvin Luong (Santa Clara University), Lauren Meier (UC Berkeley)
• 2018: $5,625.00 total, winners; Samantha Louie: UC Davis, Brenda Blanco: accepted to CSU at Humboldt, chose to attend De Anza CC, Suzi Otala: UC Santa Cruz, Tommy Kaufman-Gomez: Columbia University, NYC, NY, Shou Shimaya: UC Irvine)
• 2019 $3000 total; Zara Dayal, $1500 UC Irvine, Amanda Liu, $1500, UC Davis
• 2020 SCHOLARSHIP WINNERS: Samantha Wu, $500:;UCLA. Zach Oren, $500, UC Davis
• 2021 Scholarship winner; Briana Fedkiw: $1250, UC Davis 
• 2022 Scholarship winners ($2000 total): Rakhi Chadalavada (UC Berkeley) & Luis Figueroa (Electrician Trade school and De Anza CC)
• 2023 Scholarship winners ($3000 total); Kathir Balakrishnan (University of North Carolina) Isaac Tiscareno (CSU, East Bay), Jonathan Mases (UC Davis) and Leland Nguyen (UC Santa Cruz)

Recent Track & Field scheduling, meet results and team/league/regional activities are linked to the Athletics.net website. The site is great for current information. 

Meet Results

• Results will be listed here, per meet. Link to 2022 season results

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• School records on Athletics.Net are not accurate because they are not complete
  • Athletic.net refuses to recognize marks from meet results that cannot be uploaded electronically. This includes ignoring the high school marks of Fremont graduates:
    • Who made US Olympic teams;
    • Who qualified for US Olympic trials;
    • Who were NCAA All-Americans, NCAA league or conference champions; and/or
    • Who were California State champions, CCS champions, SCVAL champions or division/league champions.
• Please go to the "School Records" page to see our real school records which have been carefully recorded, researched and handed down by quality Fremont coaches since the 1950's, through the inconceivable barriers of pencils, pens and paper.

Carpooling

Sunnyvale does not have a school bus system and renting from private school bus contractors is very expensive. Consequently, we are forced to carpool to our track meets.

The meet schedule is listed below, it will be very helpful if you can coordinate at least one carpool date with one of our Team Mom or Team Parents. Our current Team Mom is Anna Oren. We are also looking for additional team Mom’s and/or Team Dads, as our team will probably be over 100 students again this year, and Anna will need help with the Carpooling coordination duties

MEET SUPPORT

Our main fundraiser is our Firebird Relays Track Meet on Saturday, March 25. We will need parent volunteers to help at both gates, to help sell T-shirts and or to help pass out awards. We would like to have two shifts, so we will need about 12 people, total, to man the shifts.

Please try to let us know at least two weeks ahead of time, if you can support us, so we can plan the support.

Fremont HS T&F School Records

Fremont Track & Field Records Boys 2023

Fremont Track & Field Records Girls 2023