2018 Palo Verde Girls Track Capsule

Head coach: Nick Meis, first season

Returning letter winners: Ten

Top athletes: Jacqueline Fields (Sr.), Teyah Holliday (Sr.), Sam Meyer (Sr.), Caroline Piazza (Sr.)

Outlook: Fields is the defending Class 4A state champion in the high jump.

Holliday and Meyer each ran a leg on the Panthers’ 400-meter relay team that took sixth in the state meet, and Piazza was on the 3,200 relay team that took seventh at state.

They lead a list of 10 returning letter winners for Palo Verde.

“We will be looking at getting better each day with the goal of peaking at the end of the season,” Meis said.