I got into Cal State, and it's good.

Brushay Wandick didn't know if the day would ever come -- but there she was, in the Student Activities Building at Bakersfield High on Thursday, signing a national letter of intent to run track at Cal State Bakersfield next year.

"I knew I wanted to go to college, but it was always an academic thing," Wandick said. "But I got into Cal State, and it's good. I really like the fact that they're all about education. They want you to be a real person."

Wandick, the fifth local track athlete signed by the Roadrunners this week, won the Central Section South Area meet in the 100 and 200 last week and ran on the Drillers' winning 400 and 1,600 relay teams.