Former baseball player Curtis Godin has fastest 100 meters time in the state

For years, Curtis Godin was a baseball player. Last year, as a junior, he gave up trying to make Mater Dei’s varsity baseball team and decided to try something different -- track and field.

He ran the 100 meters in 10.79 seconds in his first year. In the off season, he began full-time track training, lifting weights and running.

Last week, in his season debut, he ran the fastest time in the state, clocking in at 10.71 seconds. Suddenly, Mater Dei might have a top 100-meter runner.

“I just kind of tired of it and looked at track and thought it would be fun,” Godin said of his former baseball experience. “I really didn’t know what track was. My friends knew I was fast. Still, to this day, people are asking me, ‘Oh, I didn’t know you were that fast.’”

Godin will be competing in this weekend’s invitational at San Clemente High matching the Trinity League against the South Coast League.

“I hope and would like to think because I’m so new to the sport I can get faster and reach my goals,” he said.

Godin is expected to race at the Arcadia Invitational next month against the best sprinters in the state.

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