Elk Grove’s Cy Lugo wins 200, shatters Sacramento-area sprint records at CIF State
Cy Lugo dedicated his sprint season to getting back to Veteran’s Stadium in Fresno County, to cap his senior season in a flash with a chance to stand atop the victory stand.
The Elk Grove High School burner delivered in cementing his status as the “greatest sprinter in Sacramento history,” as declared by longtime regional coaches, and the results that back it up, punctuated by his greatest night of his running career.
Dressed in all white with a bit of black mixed on the top with pink and black spikes and his trademark sunglasses, the 5-foot-11 Lugo dominated the 200-meter dash in the 106th CIF State Track and Field Championships at Buchanan High School in Clovis on Saturday night, blasting past a strong field in a wind-aided 20.31 seconds.
Lugo is just the second athlete from the greater Sacramento region and the 198-school CIF Sac-Joaquin Section to win the 200, a race traditionally dominated by the burners from Southern California. Kevin Willhite, the Parade Football Player of the Year as a running back for Cordova High, won the CIF 200 in 1981 in a then-state meet record 20.81.
Willhite’s effort stood as a section record until last spring when Lugo eclipsed it in a CIF postseason meet in 20.88. Lugo clocked a 20.67 in this season’s section finals to lower that record. Lugo kissed his medal on the victory stand an hour after he clutched it with the expression of gratitude in placing second in the 100.
After running the fastest qualifying time at 10.20 on Friday night, a section and Sacramento record under any conditions, Lugo shattered that mark in the final, at 10.17 seconds. But Benjamin Harris of Servite of Anaheim won in 10.14 after placing second in the race in last season’s state meet.
In another example of how fast and deep the Southern California runners have been, there have only been five Sacramento and section sprinters to win a CIF State 100, the last being Jim McGee of Sac High in 1996. The first was Roy Brown of Sac High in 1915.
Lugo earlier this spring produced the state’s fastest 300 hurdle time, which would have won Saturday’s final, but he dropped that event in earlier postseason rounds to focus on the 100 and 200 and the 4x100 relay that qualified for the state meet.
Pleasant Grove’s Forst takes first in pole vault
Sophia Forst of Pleasant Grove, also of the Elk Grove Unified School District, won the girls pole vault at 12 feet, 6 inches. She placed third in the event in 2025.
The senior is just the second Sacramento-area and section athlete to win this event since it was introduced to the state meet in 1995. Brysun Stately of Cordova won the event at 13 feet, 4 inches in 2005.
McClatchy’s Heyer guts out 800
Hugh Heyer of McClatchy charged the final 40 meters to grab second place in the grueling two-lap race that is the 800 meters. His time of 1 minute, 50.66 seconds broke his existing school record and gives him the fifth-fastest time in Sacramento and section history.
Alden Morales of Serra High of Gardena of Los Angeles County won in 1:50.57. Heyer also ran a leg on McClatchy’s 4x800 relay that placed eighth (and second for Northern California schools) in 7:50.60.
Two-time CIF Sac-Joaquin Section Masters champion and 2025 state runner-up Lucas Alberts of Jesuit was fourth in the 800 in 1:51.14. Alberts held off a fast-closing Heyer to win the Masters meet, in which Heyer came second.
Other Sacramento-area efforts
Sidney Johnson of Rio Americano placed second in the girls shot put at 44 feet, 5 inches, and the sophomore was third in the discus at 160 feet, 8 inches.
Naiaja Sizemore of Vanden was second in the 100 in 11.40 after winning the race in 2025. She was seventh in Saturday’s 200 in 23.93.
Alyssa Gutierrez, a St. Francis freshman, was fourth in the girls 3200 in a school-record 10:15.15 that she set in the section Masters finals.
Norah Feldt of Davis finished sixth in the girls 1600 in 4:48.56.
Drake Hoferer of Jesuit finished sixth in the boys 1600 in 4:08.60
Christian Brothers finished fifth in the girls 4x100 relay in 46.52 seconds.
Hudson Smith of Whitney finished seventh in the boys triple jump at 47-6 1/4.