Under the bright lights of the country’s biggest regular season stage, the JSerra Girls and Boys Track and Field teams enjoyed memorable performances at the 2025 Arcadia Invitational.

The Girls’ 4x800m relay team of freshman Kaia Streadbeck, sophomore Reese Holley, junior Chloe Elbaz, and senior Anne Elise Packard ran to a U.S.-leading time of 8:53.85.

Streadbeck kickstarted the banner performance that saw her hand the baton to sophomore Reese Holley in fourth place.

Holley smoothly moved up during the first 600 meters of her two laps and pulled the Lions into the lead heading into the final 120 meters of her leg before handing the baton off to junior Chloe Elbaz.

Though challenged by previous national leader Long Beach Wilson in the final 400 meters of her leg, Elbaz recorded a sub-2:13 two-lap split and handed the baton to senior Anne Elise Packard with the Lions’ in the lead.

Packard, who currently holds the seventh fastest 800m time in the country and the second-best time in the state this season, closed the door on the field with a sub-2:11 leg split.

The Lions’ winning time is the fastest in a CIF-sanctioned race in state history.

(JSerra has two faster times that were clocked in post-CIF races, 8:52.26 at the 2023 Nike Outdoor Nationals and 8:52.68 at the 2022 Nike Outdoor Nationals.

Packard also shined in the invitational 800m race, as she clocked a lifetime best 2:07.72 to place fourth overall.

The quartet of freshman Streadbeck, junior Mireya Hardman, Holley, and sophomore Hayden Kroger combined to place sixth overall in the Distance Medley invitational race in a time of 12:06.23.

In the invitational 4x400m relay race, the group of freshman Morgan Woolforde, Packard, Elbaz, and junior Maya Woolforde brought the baton across the finish line in a seasonal best of 3:49.99 and placed sixth.

The JSerra boys 4x800m relay team also enjoyed the best performance in school history.

Senior Taye Newman and junior Jack Burnett positioned the Lions into fifth place after their opening legs of the relay, while junior Luke Friedl surged into third place with a 1:56.03 two-lap split.

Senior Bradley Arrey propelled himself into the lead heading into the bell lap and through the first 300 meters of the final lap.

Though he was ultimately passed by a runner from Jesuit High School, who won the race in U.S.-leading time of 7:41.54, Arrey’s final leg split of 1:50.98 pushed the Lions into a second-place, school-record time of 7:42.60.

That time is currently the third fastest produced in the country this season and in Orange County history.

Arrey and Newman also battled impressively near the front of the lead pack through much of the seeded Mile race.

Arrey clocked a time of 4:13.95 to place fifth, with Newman stepping across the finish line just behind him in a time 4:13.98 to place sixth.