Browse past news stories for Shafter High School in Shafter, CA.

• Couple helping protect "fascinating" elephant seals (The Bakersfield Californian)
  posted on September 22, 2009 at 01:23:52 am
  By DIANNE HARDISTY Special to The Californian
• Police say officer shot in leg in good condition (The Bakersfield Californian)
  posted on September 22, 2009 at 01:08:29 am
  A Bakersfield police officer was shot in the leg late Sunday night, but he is expected to be fine, police said. Officer Isaac Aleman, 25, was shot in the thigh by an attempted robbery suspect at a southwest Bakersfield convenience store.
• Fowler loses... but still wins big (KOLD News 13 Tuscon)
  posted on September 10, 2009 at 12:47:11 pm
  After back to back National Softball Player of the Year awards, back to back state titles, what else could CDO prep superstar Kenzie Fowler have to win? How about Gatorade's National Female Athlete of the Year award.
• Track. Three With Ties to ASU Track & Field Claim 4 Medals at Junior Pan-Am (Arizona State Sun Devils)
  posted on August 3, 2009 at 10:31:16 pm
  Three student-athletes with ties to the Arizona State University track and field program recently represented their nations at the 2009 Pan-American Junior Championships in Athletics and walked away with four medals at the meet held July 31-August 2 at Hasely Crawford Stadium in Port of Spain, Trinidad.
• Jelmini set the bar for throwers at local -- and national -- level (The Bakersfield Californian)
  posted on June 27, 2009 at 06:14:38 am
  Now that Anna Jelmini's career at Shafter High School is said and done, it's easy to look back and say we saw it coming. Jelmini is talented, right? She's got good, experienced coaching, too? So why wouldn't she steadily improve her marks in the shot put and discus throughout the years, eventually launching throws at track and field meets farther than anyone her age ever has before?
• Gatorade Girls' T&F Athlete Of The Year: Anna Jelmini (Track & Field News)
  posted on June 19, 2009 at 10:14:29 am
  BAKERSFIELD, Calif., June 18 /PRNewswire/ -- In its third decade of honoring the nation's best high school athletes, The Gatorade Company, in partnership with ESPN RISE , today announced senior thrower Anna Jelmini of Shafter High School ( Shafter, Calif.) as its 2008-09 Gatorade National Girls Track & Field Athlete of the Year.
• State champ Jelmini honored by state assemblywoman Fuller (The Bakersfield Californian)
  posted on June 17, 2009 at 06:27:17 am
  Shafter High School graduate Anna Jelmini earned yet another honor Monday when state assemblywoman Jean Fuller honored her during a legislative session Monday. Earlier this month, Jelmini became the first girl to win back-to-back state championships in both the girls shot put and discus at the CIF State Track and Field Championships.
• Premiere track athletes headed to Clovis (The Reedley Exponent)
  posted on June 6, 2009 at 12:09:28 am
  Some of the nation's best prep track and field athletes will be in action this weekend as the CIF State Track and Field Championships takes place at Buchanan's Veterans Memorial Stadium.
• Shafter's Anna Jelmini is close to becoming national record holder in discus and shot put (The Bakersfield Californian)
  posted on June 5, 2009 at 06:26:00 am
  Not all of Rick Jelmini's acres are at his home in far west Bakersfield, but there are enough almond trees next to his house to give the land a true farming feel. The property has been in Jelmini's family for two generations, though he built a new house on it. Inside, there are photographs everywhere of the Jelmini family: Rick's wife, Michelle, and his three daughters Cecilia, Anna and Paige.
• Jelmini sets new marks in meet (Sierra Star)
  posted on May 22, 2009 at 01:38:37 am
  Badger Stadium has been the venue for many athletic accomplishments over the years but none could match the one woman show put on by Anna Jelmini, a senior at Shafter High School and soon-to-be Arizona State Sun Devil at the Sierra/Sequoia Division II tra
• Shafter Girl Awarded $1K Ronald McDonald Scholarship (KERO 23 Bakersfield)
  posted on May 20, 2009 at 01:00:07 am
  With the end of the school year right around the corner many students are getting the final word on their college and scholarship applications.
• Taft swimmers find success at SSL Championships (Taft Midway Driller)
  posted on May 6, 2009 at 03:09:04 pm
  Wildcat boys and girls finish second
• Sports Shorts (Tehachapi News)
  posted on April 6, 2009 at 11:03:34 pm
  The varsity boys swim teal took another win in swimming duals, taking a big win over Taft (105-81) to remain undefeated in league, while the varsity girls narrowly lost to Taft (90-89) in a closely contested meet. Winning for Tehachapi in the individual events were Dylan Patton (200 IM – 2:02.57, 100 Back – 58.97), Wesley Shultz (100 Fly – 55.35, 100 Breast – 1:01.63), Katie Chung (200 IM – ...
• Borelli leaves state with winning record (The Daily Democrat)
  posted on March 14, 2009 at 08:22:45 am
  Dominic Borelli isn't going to win state, he didn't advance to today's final rounds, but a vastly improved effort in the CIF State Championships on Friday in Bakersfield was more than enough to to have Borelli and his coach Scott Stephens smiling in the aftermath.