{"id":330637,"date":"2026-05-24T16:14:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T16:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/330637\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T16:14:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T16:14:13","slug":"prep-talk-state-championships-in-track-volleyball-set-for-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/330637\/","title":{"rendered":"Prep talk: State championships in track, volleyball set for this weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Pack up the car and get ready for temperatures in the upper 80s this coming weekend in Clovis and Fresno, where CIF state championships will be held in track and field and <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cifstate.org\/sports\/boys_volleyball\/bvb_champs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">boys\u2019 volleyball.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Buchanan High School is the site Friday and Saturday for the <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cifstate.org\/sports\/track_and_field\/tf_champs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">track championships,<\/a> where City Section record-holder Lawrence Kensinger will try to win a state title in the shotput after his <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/highschool\/story\/2026-05-21\/lawrence-kensinger-shotput-record-city-championships\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">astonishing mark of 65-11<\/a> at the City finals broke a record established in 1973. Running events begin at 5 p.m. Friday to qualify for Saturday\u2019s finals.<\/p>\n<p>Servite sprinters will try to put on a show in the 4&#215;100 relay, the 100, 200 and 400 races. Sherman Oaks Notre Dame high jumper JJ Harel will try to defend his state title. At the Southern Section finals, he cleared a career-best 7-1.<\/p>\n<p>Fresno City College is the site for the volleyball championships on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets are available only through gofan.co.<\/p>\n<p>This is a daily look at the positive happenings in high school sports. To submit any news, please email eric.sondheimer@latimes.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pack up the car and get ready for temperatures in the upper 80s this coming weekend in Clovis&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330638,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[8825,60754,137188,10009,6308,48,52,51,47,50,49,6310,595,137186,36418,100164,2829,123467,2468,137187,2695],"class_list":["post-330637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-boy","tag-buchanan-high-school","tag-city-final","tag-clovis","tag-field","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-prep-talk","tag-saturday","tag-site-friday","tag-state-championship","tag-state-title","tag-track","tag-upper-80","tag-volleyball","tag-volleyball-set","tag-weekend"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}