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AB Hernandez at the track and field championships in Clovis on Saturday: ‘Track is everything to me.” Photograph: Jae C Hong/AP

AB Hernandez, a 16-year-old track and field athlete from California, had trained for years for this moment.

On Saturday, the high school junior from Jurupa Valley, a city east of Los Angeles, won first place in the high jump, first place in the triple jump and silver in the long jump in the state finals.