2025 Rolla Buck Track and Field Invitational Launches New Event, Mixed 4 x 400

The Alamogordo High School Tiger Girls and Boys under the leadership of Coach Jason Atkinson hosts the annual Rolla Buck White Sands Invitational hosted at the Robert Sepulveda Track and Field at Alamogordo High School.

The White Sands Track Meet dates back to the 1950s first hosted by Coach Rolla Buck. By the early 60s the meet was no longer hosted. During the early 70s Coach Robert (Bob) Sepulveda brought it back to life and renamed it the Coach Rolla Buck White Sands Invitational that continues to this day with Saturday being the most recent competition under the leadership of Jason Atkinson.

Rolla Buck Track Meet 1950s White Sand Photo Courtesy of Coach Bob Sepulveda The Early Years

The 1950’s was a winning period of Alamogordo High School athletics especially Football and Track and Field. The accolades in athletics of the late 40’s and early 1950’s is credited to the consistency and the coaching prowess of Coach John Rolla Buck. Coach Rolla Buck persuaded officials of the White Sands National Monument to host a first-class track meet. In those now mostly forgotten times, track teams from across New Mexico and West and Central Texas took part in the White Sands Relays and both states considered it the premier track meet of the season for interscholastic high school track and field.

While at Alamogordo High School, Coach Sepulveda who the track is named after won five state track and field team championships. Three other coaches at Alamogordo High led boys’ teams to state track titles: Coach Joe Bryant in 2006, Coach Rolla Buck led the Boys first title in 1951. Coach Atkinson has set the school record in Girls State Championships.

Coach Rolla Buck also led his football team to the only state title to be won by Alamogordo in Football and several of his athletes in track and field went on to the Olympics, the NFL and other professional sports thus the Rolla Buck Invitational which was formerly the White Sands Invitational continues today.

These traditions of the past continues as does the state title wins with significant success this decade under the leadership of Coach Jason Atkinson.

This weekend the traditions continued, though no longer hosted at White Sands this years meet hosted a new event.  For the first time in New Mexico high school track, the mixed 4x400 meter was ran at Alamogordo's Rolla Buck track meet at the Bob Sepulveda Track and Field. The exciting event has 2 boys and 2 girls run and history was made.

The mixed 4 × 400 metres relay is a mixed-sex 4 × 400 metres relay in which teams field two men and two women. Since March 2022, team members have to run in the order man-woman-man-woman. It was introduced at the 2017 IAAF World Relays and was then held at the 2019 World Athletics Championships in Qatar. In the final of the event's World Athletics Championship debut in 2019, all but one team chose a man-woman-woman-man order, with the exception of Poland, who chose man-man-woman-woman. In March 2022, the rule was changed so that every team must use the order man-woman-man-woman.

The Tiger mixed team came in 2nd in the 4x400 Mixed Relay with a time of 3:54.17.

The results for each local team from Saturday's Rolla Buck White Sands Invitational at the Bob Sepulveda Track and Field include: 

Team Results

Girls
Alamogordo - 1st
Las Cruces High 2nd
Centennial High 3rd
Organ Mountain 4th   
Carlsbad High 5th
Cloudcroft 6th
Tularosa - 8th
Mescalero Apache - T-13th

Boys

Organ Mountain 1st
Alamogordo - 2nd
Las Cruces 3rd

High 3rd Centennial 4th 
Carlsbad 5th 
Cloudcroft - 10th
Tularosa - 12th
Mescalero Apache - T-13th

State Qualifiers - Cloudcroft - Cassia Moore (High Jump), Aubree Lockner (Javelin)

Top Finisher in each event/points scorers

Girls for Alamogordo

100 - Eniola Komolafe 2nd (12.80), Aubrey Allen T-5th (13.40)
200 - Eniola Komolafe 2nd (26.48), Aubrey Allen 3rd (27.32)
400 - Ayanna Gilbert 2nd (1:05.05), Olivia Morris 6th (1:08.02)
800 - Elizabeth Farmer 1st (2:27.25), Breanna Padilla 5th (2:32.81)
1600 - Elizabeth Farmer 2nd (6:02.02), Adelynn DeBoef 3rd (6:02.43)
3200 - Adelynn DeBoef 1st (13:08.63)
100 Hurdles - Alynah Simental 5th (18.99)
300 Hurdles - Alynah Simental 1st (50.87)
High Jump - Breanna Padilla T-6th (4-04)
Pole Vault - Aubrey Allen 2nd (8-06), Anna Crabtree T-6th (6-06)
Long Jump - Ayanna Gilbert 2nd (15-07)
Triple Jump - Ayanna Gilbert 4th (31-03.50)
Shot Put - Madison Gigler 2nd (34-0.50)
Discus - Madison Gigler 1st (116-08)
Javelin - Nyah Bowen 2nd (98-10.50)

4x100 Relay - 2nd (50.89)
4x400 Mixed Relay - 2nd (3:54.17)

Cloudcroft Girls
100 - Aurora Trejo 18th (14.20)
200 - Paula Finch 22nd (30.35)
400 - Ellie Beug 11th (1:09.37)
High Jump - Cassia Moore 4th (4-08), Aurora Trejo 5th (4-06)
Pole Vault - Ellie Beug T-4th (7-00)
Triple Jump - Cassia Moore 12th (27-09.50)
Javelin - Aubree Lockner 1st (115-00.50), Marisa Romero 3rd (96-01)

Tularosa Girls
100 - Delilah Tripp 40th (15.16)
200 - Delilah Tripp 32nd (31.28)
400 - Lilliah Bigrope 26th (1:19.11)
3200 - Kayleigh Bigas 3rd (13:15.26)
Shot Put - Alivya Young 5th (31-06.50)
Discus - Alivya Young 3rd (96-07)

Mescalero Apache Girls
100 - Skyla Enjady 50th (21.84)
200 - Ruth Enjady 45th (41.43)
400 - Deandra McFadden 31st (1:30.68)
800 - Zoey Klinekole 27th (3:09.71)
1600 - Zoey Klinekole 19th (7:07.41)
3200 - Molly Pena 10th (15:03.82)
Shot Put - Deandra McFadden 25th (17-01)

Alamogordo Boys
100 - Julian Benitez 4th (11.15), Tristan Bowman 5th (11.43)
200 - Julian Benitez T-3rd (23.16), Nathan Cereceres T-3rd (23.16)
400 - Nathan Cereceres 2nd (51.29), Tristan Bowman 3rd (51.90), Lelan Quick 5th (53.00)
800 - Rylan Maroon 12th (2:13.27)
1600 - Matthew Snyder 10th (5:01.97)
3200 - Matthew Snyder 6th (11:08.73)
110 Hurdles - Bryson Bloom 3rd (16.60), Sam Strong 6th (17.75)
300 Hurdles - Sam Strong 8th (45.38)
High Jump - Marcus Bryant Jr. - T-3rd (5-08)
Pole Vault - Dylan Suggs T-7th (10-00), Lelan Quick T-7th (10-00)
Long Jump - Nathan Cereceres 3rd (19-08), Tristan Bowman 4th (19-7.50)
Triple Jump - Nathan Cereceres 1st (42-04), Marcus Bryant Jr. 3rd (39-09)
Shot Put - Diego Ortega 2nd (44-08)
Discus - Diego Ortega 5th (108-07)
Javelin - Lelan Quick 2nd (153-08), John Hockman 6th (127-00)

4x100 Relay - 3rd (43.75)
4x400 Mixed Relay - 2nd (3:54.17)

Tularosa Boys 
100 - Michael Hood 33rd (12.33)
200 - Michael Hood 31st (25.17)
400 - Zaine Peralta 35th (1:01.52)
800 - Brock Morgan 27th (2:23.49)
Long Jump - Brock Morgan 16th (17-00)
Triple Jump - Estevan Barraza 7th (36-02)
Shot Put - Solon Elksilver 6th (36-11)
Discus - Darren Davis 10th (95-06)
Javelin - Karner Sparks 20th (82-08)

Cloudcroft Boys
100 - Dominic Ciulla 42nd (12.68)
400 - Dominic Ciulla 15th (56.21)
800 - Landry Hunt 38th (2:34.66)
Pole Vault - Dominic Ciulla T-14th (9-00)
Long Jump - Ocean Odom 25th (14-05)
Shot Put - Logan McNeil 21st (27-11)
Discus - Dominic Ciulla 9th (103-11)
Javelin - Landon Hughes 5th (130-04)

Mescalero Apache Boys
100 - Drake Affuso 48th (13.05)
200 - Jason Kanseah 46th (26.79)
400 - Jason Kanseah 28th (58.63)
800 - Gavin Castillo 33rd (2:24.93)
1600 - Gavin Castillo 30th (5:38.14)
110 Hurdles - Drake Affuso 17th (20.57)
Long Jump - Drake Affuso 17th (16-09)
Shot Put - Esham Hill 28th (21-10.50)

Full Results - https://nm.milesplit.com/meets/661235-rolla-buck-white-sands-invitation…

Some misc tiger photos from the Rolla Buck 2025 meet at Bob Sepulveda Track and Field Courtesy of AHS Track and Field 

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