Diana Saldana
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- Height:
- 5'10"
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- Hometown:
- Bagotá, Colombia
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- Year:
- Fr.
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- High School:
- Westlake (UT)
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- Team:
- Women's XC
News mentions
Olivia Burton capped off a stellar freshman season with a third place finish at the CCCAA State Cross Country Championships Saturday morning at Woodward park in Fresno. As a team, the Pirates finished in 8th place overall, the program's second straight top-10 state performance. On the men's side, Adan Cruz capped his Pirate career finishing 47th of 168 runners.
The Ventura College women's cross country team qualified for the CCCAA State Championships with a seventh place finish Friday morning at the SoCal Regionals in Cerritos. The Pirate men, meanwhile, had a disappointing finish after an injury forced a top runner out of the race. Olivia Burton paced the VC women with a third place finish and Adan Cruz qualified for state individually for the men in 31st place overall.
The VC men's and women's cross country teams battled triple-digit heat and a small field at the Bakersfield Invitational Friday at Kern County Soccer Park. The Pirate women were the top-performing community college team, finishing second behind NAIA Mt. Mercy University of Iowa while the VC men came in forth of the five scoring teams. Olivia Burton won her second race of the season, completing the 5k course in 19:20 to lead the women and Johnny Ordaz paced the men placing 10th on the 4-mile course with a mark of 23:29.
The Pirates' men's and women's cross country teams ran at the Oxnard Invitational with the women coming in with a runner up finish and the men placing fourth overall. Tatiana Garcia led the VC women, finishing in fourth place covering the 5k course in 20:11 while Everado Magana was seventh for the men, running the 4-mile course in 21:59.