Title: | Head Women's XC/TF Coach |
Phone: | (562) 938-4230 |
Email: | kvigilant@lbcc.edu |
Former Viking standout Karen Vigilant enters her 21st season in 2024 as Head Coach of the Women’s Track & Field and Cross Country Program. In 2004, her first season with the Vikings, she led several women to an Individual South Coast Conference Championship and a CCCAA State Championship. The women’s team that season earned a 3rd place finish overall at the CCCAA State Championships. Since then, she has continued to produce many Conference, SoCal Regional and State Champions that are listed below. Her latest State Champion was Casey Davis who earned the top finish at the CCCAA State Championship in 2022. Additional All-Americans in the 2022 season were Radiance Lindsey (100m hurdles/400m hurdles), and the women’s 4x400 team (Taj Grant, Radiance Lindsey, Destinee Reid and Natalie Mejia). The women’s team placed 8th overall in 2022, marking their highest team finish in a State Championship since 2006.
As a student-athlete, Vigilant was an outstanding sprinter. She holds three school records as a viking sprinter in the 400 hurdles, 4x100 meter relay, and 4x400 meter relay. Vigilant was also the California State champion in the the 400 meter hurdles in 1994 and in 1995 she was the California state champion in the 100 meter hurdles, 4x100 meter relay and the 4x 400 meter relay. In 1995 Vigilant was a member of the Viking team that won the California State Championship held in Bakersfield, California. She went on to compete for Arizona State University.
Vigilant received her Bachelor of Arts degree in speech and hearing science from Arizona State University in 1998, She received her California Teaching Credential from California State University, Long Beach in 2001 and her Master's degree in Physical Education and Health from Azusa Pacific University in 2005.
She is a member of the Long Beach City College Hall of Champions (athletic hall of fame) and Wilson High School Hall of Fame.
Here is a list of Coach Vigilant's athletes' athletic accomplishments during her career at LBCC:
2004-Present
2004 South Coast Conference Championship
Desiree Moorer -100m, 200m
Brenda Austin -400m
Stacey Livingston -800m
4x100m relay
4x400m relay
2004 State Championship
Brenda Austin- 400m
Stacey Livingston- 800m
4x100m relay
4x400m relay
2004 State Finalist
Desiree Moorer-100m, 200m
Josanne Bridgewater-200m, 400m
2004 State Championship Team Standing
Third place
2005 South Coast Conference Championship
April Panteau- 400m
Keziah Fernandez -400m hurdles
2005 South Coast Conference Team Standing
Third place
2005 Southern Cal Conference Championship
April Panteau -400m
4x100m relay
Angela Wells –Long Jump
2005 Southern Cal Conference Finalist
Angela Wells- 100m
Danielle Eichelberger- 200m, long jump
April Panteau- 200m
Aleisha Woodley- 400m
Amy Valinsky- 5,000m, 10,000m
Keziah Fernandez-100m Hurdles, 400m Hurdles
Jamie Bereal- 100m Hurdles, 400m Hurdles
4x400m relay
2005 Southern Cal Conference Team Standing
Third place
2005 State Championship
April Panteau 400m
4x400m relay
Angela Wells 400m
2005 State Finalist
Angela Wells- 100m
April Panteau- 200m
Danielle Eichelberger- 200m
Amy Valinsky- 10,000m
Keziah Fernandez- 400m hurdles
Jamie Bereal- 400m hurdles
4x100m relay
2005 State Championship Team standing
Fifth place
2006 South Coast Conference Championship
4x400m relay
Angela Wells- Long Jump
2006 South Coast Conference Team standing
Third place
2006 Southern Cal Conference Championship
Angela Wells- 200m, Long Jump
2006 Southern Cal Conference Finalist
Cherry Goodman- 100m
Angela Wells- 100m
Tiffany Williams- 400m
Siliva Manzo- 5,000m, 10,000m
4x100m relay
Meaghan Sefuiva- javelin
2006 Southern Cal Conference Team Standing
Fourth Place
2006 State Championship
Angela Wells-Long Jump
2006 State Championship Finalist
Angela Wells- 100m, 200m
Cherry Goodman- 100m
Tiffany Williams -400m
4x100m relay
Silvia Manzo- 5,000m
2006 State Championship Team Standing
Six place
2007 South Coast Conference Championship
Aleisha Woodley 400m
2007 State Championship Finalist
Nickeshia Brown- 100m, 200m
Aleisha Woodley- 400m
Reyna Montana- 10,000m
4x100m relay
2008 South Coast Conference Championship
Latonya Estrin 100m, 200m
2008 Southern Cal Conference Finalist
Latonya Estrin- 100m, 200m
Sayoka Dailey- 100m, 200m
Lauren Taggart- 1,500m
4x100m relay
4x400m relay
2008 State Finalist
Latonya Estrin- 100m, 200m
Lauren Taggart- 1,500m
2008 Athlete of the Meet at South Coast Conference Championships
Latonya Estrin
2010 Southern Cal Championship Finalist
4x100m relay
2011 Southern Cal Championship Finalist
4x100m relay
2019 CCCAA State Championship Meet
4x100 relay- 3rd place