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, North Coast Section, San Diego Section and Southern Section championships dominated girls rankings on 3-mile courses at this point of the 2019 season. But unlike the boys, there were plenty of girls returning for 2021 among the leaders a year ago this week.
While eventual State Division I champion Carlie Dorostkar of Canyon Crest Academy (SD) was nearly a half a minute faster than the best of the rest of the state, 15 of the top 25 fastest girls on 3-mile courses a year ago this week are back for 2021.
That list is led by MacKenzie Browne, a 2023 from Riverside J.W. North, who was the only girl to go sub-17 on the Riverside Championship Course at the CIF-SS finals while setting a freshman course record (interview belo...