This Week In 2019 XC: Boys 3-Mile Leaders

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Nico Young with teammate Jace Aschbrenner not far behind cruised on the 3-mile Riverside City Championship Course for the CIF-SS Prelims a year ago this week. (Photos: Patrick Corsinita)


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Now fully into November, the final month of the CIF competition schedule in 2019, our review of boys and girls 3-mile and 5K weekly leaders will continue through post-CIF competition held last December.

A year go this week, while some league finals/post-season qualification meets were scattered around the state, the fastest boys on 3-mile courses primarily came out of the CIF-Southern Section Preliminary meet held on the flat Riverside City Championship Course.

Despite that, Nico Young did not have the fastest 3-mile time in the state this week a year ago. Nope! Ethan Jones, a senior at Bakersfield Liberty, ran a tick faster in winning the SSL/SWYL Championships title. 

Young, of course, would come back a week later to obliterate the Riverside City Championship Cour...