Valorie Jimenez

UPDATED: Girls indoor and winter outdoor track and field distance and field event leaders through events of Jan. 15.

Girls distance and field event leaders through the first five meets of the Winter Championships Qualifier series, plus scattered unaffiliated all-comers events.

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.

Ranking the top 500 freshman and sophomore girls in CA based on times this cross country season on 5,000-meter courses.

Ventura (SS) soph Sadie Engelhardt's record-setting run at the mid-September Woodbridge Invite continues to top the U.S. list for girls on 3-mile XC courses.

Sophomores girls led the way as non-senior classes dominated the top of the Championship race 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.

Ranking the top 500 freshman and sophomore girls on 5,000-meter cross country courses so far this season.

The Great Park XC course for Woodbridge produced the fastest 21 times in CA on 3-mile course among freshman and sophomore girls so far this season.

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.

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.

Check out which returning girls crushed 3-mile cross country courses in 2021.

Check out the fastest returning girls for 5K from the 2021 cross country season.

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