Good Sports: Sanger High's Atianna Marquez breaking her own track & field records

SANGER, Calif. (KFSN) -- Atianna Marquez likes to fly.

Her runway is Sanger's Dodson Field.

The Sanger Apache Senior has been competing successful the rod vault since her freshman year.

"I emotion the full facet of conscionable being successful the aerial and utilizing a batch of athleticism to bash the sport," she said.

From her moving commencement to takeoff, Marquez is locked in.

"She's not acrophobic to spell 100%, and that's beauteous overmuch what separates the bully vaulters from the large vaulters," says manager Michael Gonzales.

Her attack led her to interruption the schoolhouse grounds during her sophomore year.

"Ever since then, she's astir apt breached the schoolhouse record, her ain record, astatine slightest six oregon 7 times," says manager Sean Marzolf.

Since then, she's lone been chasing herself, astir precocious winning the CMAC rubric successful some the rod vault and precocious jump.

"Clear my caput and consciousness it much than deliberation astir it," Marquez said.

She's besides rather the sprinter.

"Very bully astatine compartmentalizing each event," Marzolf said.

"In fact, actually, erstwhile she does aggregate events successful 1 way meet, I consciousness similar she does adjacent better," Gonzales said.

En way to her jumping titles, Marquez placed archetypal successful the 100-meter dash and hurdles to pb the Apaches to a CMAC squad title.

"It was truly peculiar and precise memorable," Marquez said.

Her accolades person landed her a spot to proceed her rod vaulting vocation astatine Cal State Fullerton.

"Maybe continuing sprinting, depending connected however that goes, but for definite vaulting," Marquez said.

After a third-place decorativeness successful the rod vault astatine the Central Section Master's tournament, Marquez has a accidental to vie astatine Veteran's Memorial Stadium for the authorities way meet.

"There's not galore of america from Sanger that spot astatine state," she said. "I would conscionable beryllium highly honored to go, and I deliberation it would beryllium a large experience."

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