Ceres High School?s Reshundra Smiley and Shasta College?s Ileah Jackson signed national letters of intent to compete with Sac State?s women?s track and field team next season.

Smiley and Jackson are the team?s first two signees of the year. Smiley is also slated to play on the Hornets? women?s basketball squad.

“Ileah is the Big Sky-type athlete that we?re looking for,” Sac State head coach Joe Neff said. “Reshundra is a great athlete, and I?m happy that coach (Carolyn) Jenkins included us in the recruiting process.”

Smiley currently competes on Ceres High?s track team and is Sac-Joaquin Section?s reigning 100-meter champion. She also won the 200 at the section meet her sophomore year.

In 2000, Smiley advanced to the CIF State Track and Field Championships in three events: the 100, 200 and 4×100 relay. She won both individual sprints and helped her team win the 4×400 in last week?s Central California Conference meet.

The two-sport star led the Bulldogs? 23-6 girls? basketball team to a share of the CCC title with Modesto?s Beyer High this past winter, posting 19.3 points and 4.5 steals per game.

The CCC?s Most Valuable Player and Modesto Bee?s girls basketball Player of the Year is expected to be penciled in at shooting guard for the Hornets.

“Everybody expected me to go somewhere bigger,” Smiley said in the Feb. 1 edition of the Modesto Bee, when she verbally committed to Sac State. “This was a little surprise, but it?s where I felt comfortable. Plus, I?m going to be able to do two sports there.”

Jackson displayed her multi-faceted athleticism as a member of Modoc High?s track team and made her mark in the Northern Section. She is listed second in the section?s all-time list in the 100-meter high hurdles (15.1 seconds) and 12th in the long jump (18-foot-3). Both marks were set in 1999, her senior season.

Last year, Jackson qualified for the Northern California Community College Trials in the 100 hurdles and was fourth in the high jump (5-02) in the California Community College Track and Field Championships.