Brooke DaSilva

Take a look at the best girls teams in the entire State! Some of the teams have held a spot on this list for many seasons.

Buchanan senior Grace Hutchison dominated the distances in the Central Section and also ran on one of the nation's fastest 4x800m relay teams.

Seven CIF-State champions, including double-event winner Sadie Engelhardt, lead this deep list of elite girls set to light up the outdoor season next spring.

Ventura (SS) sophomore Sadie Engelhardt and J.W. North (SS) senior MacKenzie Browne ran two of the fastest 1600m and 800m times, respectively, in CA history.

As the CS prepares for this Saturday's Masters Championships, here's a rankings merge from last week's four divisional finals.

Our event-by-event spotlight goes 50 deep per individual event with Oaks Christian's Payton Godsey among the leaders.

Our event-by-event spotlight goes 50 deep per individual event with Castaic's Meagan Humphries leading the class.

Event-by-event listing of the top 50 returning girls track and field athletes in the Central Section based on marks achieved during the 2022 outdoor season.

This group includes returning State Meet champions in five of the six events and 21 overall returners who placed top nine at the '22 State Meet.

Woodward Park's 5K course is home to the Clovis and Rough Rider Invitationals, the CIF-State Championships, and numerous other events in the Central Section.

Check out how girls in the class of 2024 ranked at the Mt. SAC Invitational course last fall as sophomores.

Gioana Lopizzo of La Costa Canyon (SD) was the fastest girl in the Class of 2024 on the 5K Woodward Park course at the Clovis Invitational.

We go 1,000 runners deep in this merge of girls races at the Clovis Invitational on the 5K course at Woodward Park in Fresno.

It's early but we wanted to check out who among girls in the Class of 2024 has brought the goods on 5K courses in September.

Buchanan girls dominate the top of this list based on their times running the flat and super-fast Garmin RunningLane Nationals layout in Huntsville, Alabama.

Success for Central Section teams and individuals isn't much different than for others up and down California -- you have to run well at Fresno's Woodward Park.

As a freshman, Buchanan's Sierra Cornett ran some of the fastest times in the class, as well as among returning girls in the Central Section.

From the MileSplit database, sophomore girls track and field outdoor top-100 rankings from the 2022 outdoor season, including Golden Valley's Meagan Humphries.

From the MileSplit database, 2022 track and field rankings for girls in the Central Section, including distance leader Grace Hutchison. (DeAnna Turner photo)

We close out the 2022 track and field season preview series with top-200 returning rankings for each event based on marks in the MileSplit database.