Courtesy of Brentwood Athletics
The sky is the limit for Brentwood School sophomore Amelia Sarkisian. The Eagles’ rising star tore up the course Nov. 30 in Fresno, clocking 17:31.8 to take first place in a field of 192 runners in the Division V girls race at the CIF State Cross Country Championships at Woodpark Park. Her 5:38.2-per-mile pace was good enopugh to beat runner-up Ella Mogannam from Lick-Wilmerding High in San Francisco by 15.6 seconds.
Sarkisian captured the Gold Coast League individual title Nov. 5, running the three-mile course on Brentwood’s campus in a personal-best 17:01.40, over two minutes faster than runner-up Zooey Jeong of Viewpoint. She also led the Eagles to second place in the team standings.
Sarkisian lives in the Alphabet Streets and grew up playing basketball at the Palisades Recreation Center. She won the league cross country crown as a ninth-grader as well and in the spring she swept the 800, 1600 and 3200-meter races at the God Coast League Track Finals. She ran 17:17.4 to win the White Varsity Girls A Division at the Woodbridge Classic on Sept. 21 in Irvine and won the Small Schools Division in 18:46.5 at the Bellarmine/Sacred Heart Invitational in Griffith Park one week later.
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