Hope Gordon

This invitational track and field showcase of top talent in the Golden State is back - and it is absolutely loaded!

Congratulations to last week's winner, Tiffany Sax of Newbury Park (SS)! This week's poll closes Friday at 9:01 pm.

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.

Next in a series highlighting top returning athletes by section. This article focuses on girls in the Southern Section.

We went 100 deep per event based on 2021 outdoor season results.

Best of the best regardless of class from the 2021 outdoor season includes record-setters and history-makers.

Elites in the state's southern-most section hit new heights in a season that began with severe limitations but ended with an expanded post-season.

UPDATED - Take a closer look at the deep class of 2022 girls and the impact they had on the 2021 spring high school track and field season.

Take a closer look at CIF-Southern Section Finals for Divisions 2-4 by event groupings.

UPDATED A handful of state leaders came out of the field events but the previous-state leading pole vault stars weren't among them.

The venerable two-day meet is ON, it's LOADED and it's the closest we'll get to a state championship in 2021.

We highlight the top Southern Section athletes, per event, per division for the upcoming 2020 season.