Records Fall at 2026 All-City Middle School Track Meet

The numbers don’t lie. An 80-year-old meet doesn’t give up records easily, and yet the 2026 All-City Middle School track and field meet at Memorial Field delivered a handful of them. Muir, Luther Burbank, and Dolores Huerta middle schools brought their best, and a few kids left that oval having done something no one at this meet had ever done before.

Zoe Tran did it twice.

The Muir eighth grader went 16 feet in the long jump to set a meet record, then turned around and won the 400 meters in 1:01.34, another record. She also took the 200 in 28.34 and ran a leg on Muir’s winning 4x400 relay squad, which crossed in 4:43.05. Four events. Two records. One very good afternoon.

Tran told reporters she got her start in sixth grade. “I was first introduced to track in sixth grade,” she said. “This year as I transition into high school, I started Burbank Vikings.” She plans to run track and play volleyball at Burbank High. Given what she showed at Memorial Field, the Bulldogs’ coaches aren’t going to need much convincing.

Then there’s Chris Hernandez.

The Luther Burbank eighth grader pulled off something that’s genuinely rare at any level: he anchored two record-setting relay teams and still had enough left to win individual events. His 4x100 squad ran 48.87 and his 4x400 team went 4:08.09, both new meet marks. On top of that, he won the long jump at 18 feet, 1.5 inches and took the 100 in 12.32. He plans to play soccer and run track at Burroughs, which means Burbank High fans are going to see a lot of him on the other side of one of the city’s sharpest rivalries.

Not every story from Saturday belongs to an eighth grader, though.

Luther sixth grader Nathan Hernandez ran on the record-setting 4x100 (55.58) and 4x400 (4:46.83) relay teams. He also won the 100 outright in 13.32 and took the 70-meter hurdles in 11.88. That’s a kid three years from high school already breaking records in open sprints and technical events. Worth keeping an eye on.

Ryker Bogh of Muir earned seventh grade boys athlete of the meet. Clean and simple. He won the 100 in 12.97, the 200 in 27.75, and ran on the winning 4x100 relay that finished in 53.44. Bogh didn’t need a signature moment. He just kept winning.

On the girls’ side, Danielle Ferguson of Luther took seventh grade girls athlete of the meet honors. She won the 100 in 13.86, placed second in the long jump at 12 feet, 8 inches, and ran on both the winning 4x100 (57.20) and the 4x400 relay teams (5:01.33). Two relay wins, an individual title, and a runner-up finish. That’s a complete performance.

Leah Aghyarian of Muir grabbed sixth grade girls athlete of the meet. She won the 400 in 70.71, placed second in the 100 at 14.54, and ran on the winning 4x100 (1:00.57) and 4x400 (5:18.42) squads. As a sixth grader, she’s got two more years at the middle school level. Those relay times are already going to be tough to beat.

What makes the All-City meet worth your Saturday is exactly this. You’re not watching polished varsity athletes with four years of coaching behind them. You’re watching kids figure out who they are on a track, some of them still growing into their own bodies, running times that land in the record book anyway. Track and field at the youth level builds the foundation that feeds the prep scene, and prep sports in Burbank have always punched above their weight.

According to MyBurbank, the meet carries 80 years of history behind it, which is why cracking those records means something real. These aren’t soft marks set in a two-team scrimmage. They’ve survived decades of good athletes coming through this city’s schools.

The kids who broke them Saturday earned it. Now the clock starts on whether the next group can do the same.