Jacqueline Duarte leads the Great Oak trio of Fatima Cortes, Arianna Griffiths and Tori Gaitan during a CIF-Southern Section champion meet last spring. These are four of the top returning middle distance girls in CA.
This report ranks the top returning middle distance runners by combined 1600/800 times, and breaks down the top mid-D teams by both distances. Click through the pages below to explore each of the rankings reports.
We start with returning girls combined 1600/800 rankings.
We searched for the top 500 girls in the 1600 who also had a time in the 800. We used the 1600 as the first data point because it provided us with a deeper list of athletes. Once we added the 800 and cleared out anyone who did not have a time in both races during the 2018 season, our rankings list was reduced to 428.
Jacqueline Duarte, one of three freshman girls to medal (top-six finish) in the 1600 at the CIF-State Championships last June -- she placed third -- is the only one on the list whose combined 160...
