Monta Vista's Bobby Kritzer, the Santa Clara Valley Athletic League El Camino Division champion in all three jump events and a top-five placer in both the long jump and triple jump at the Central Coast Section meet, is headed for Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo to continue his efforts in the long jump and triple jump.

Members of Lynbrook's school-record setting relay teams are also moving on. Taimur Khan intends to attend medical school in Karachi, Pakistan, but has a backup plan of attending UCLA. Chris Deal, a jumper and part of the 1,600 relay unit, has accepted a soccer scholarship to Southwest Missouri State. Sprinter Garrick Wong will go to UC-Davis and sprinter Durrell Roberts will run at West Valley College.

While some talented seniors are moving on to college, many more talented athletes will return.

Paul Armstrong, who only had five seniors this season during his first year as Cupertino's head coach, is looking ahead to 2005.

Stacie Boyle will return for her senior year. Boyle, who placed fifth in the 300 hurdles at the CCS meet after taking second in the El Camino meet, was league champion in in the 400 and long jump.

"She may be the best athlete at Cupertino," Armstrong praises. "She has played club soccer and field hockey. Last fall she ran cross country."

Armstrong is excited about the prospects of the girls 1,600 relay team, which set a school record (4:08.08) while placing 11th in the CCS trials. Boyle's relay teammates, Kim Chew, Page Dickson and sister Melanie Boyle, will be juniors.

El Camino champions Erica Buchinski (100 hurdles) and Julianne Hansen (3,200) also will return for Armstrong's Pioneers. Buchinski, a junior-to-be, placed ninth in the CCS trials, just .01 out of the finals. Hansen, just a freshman, led for one lap in the CCS finals before finishing fifth in 11:05.52.

"Erica ran a great race with another personal record," Armstrong said about Buchinski, who finished the season by improving her time in each of her last four races. "She improved a lot this year and I expect her to be in the final next year."

Hansen's time at CCS was "a big personal record," Armstrong said, "but a coach is never satisfied. She was ready to go sub 11:00."

Lynbrook's MayC Huang and Monta Vista's Lisa Worsham, also freshmen this season, placed eighth and ninth, respectively, in the 3,200.

Hansen says she looks forward to three years of future competition with Huang, Worsham and Homestead's Jill Paneski, who missed this season due to injury.

Travis Scibetta, who finished second to Kritzer at the El Camino meet in the long jump and triple jump, will be a junior for the Cupertino boys team next season.

As a sophomore he improved his long jump by more than two feet and his triple jump by 4.5 feet, according to Armstrong. His long jump placed 12th at the CCS trials.