John Kroeger

A historic weekend at the UIL State Championships hosted some of the top performers this season. Here are the top 50 boys from May's opening weekend of action.

View the most impressive 12th grade boys from California at each event as of May 7, 2025.

How did the 2023 CIF-State Meet rank among the best of the past decade? Check out this top-100 performance list for boys.

Check out the best 50 boys performances in the field events at the CIF-State Track and Field Championships over the past decade.

Arcadia Invitational top-50 rankings for performances achieved at the iconic mid-season showcase since 2014.

Check out how the 2022 State Championship performances rank among the best in the eight CIF-State Track and Field Meets over the past decade. (Dan Tyree photo)

Listing the top marks in each event by CA athletes over the past eight runnings of the Arcadia Invitational.

Advancers from seniors-only section finals determined top 8 finishers per event in this fictional scenario.

A perennial power at the state level, the SJS is also one of the tougher sections to advance from with essentially four meets in two weeks.

A section filled with state championship contenders crowns division champions as athletes position for the Masters meet.

Harvard-bound Skyline HS distance record-holder is the girls recipient of California's top honor. 

The official National Letter of Intent period reopened on April 15 and since then a few key signings have gone in the books

Matt Strangio's U.S. No. 3 time in the 1600m is one of many highlights from Saturday's meet.

Jesuit's Matt Strangio is one of two returning State champs in the SJS and among 21 returning section winners.

Malcolm Clemons won the CIF-State Meet long jump title as a sophomore but was injured most of 2019.

SJS boys claimed five titles at the State Meet and Monterey Trail earned a runner-up team plaque.

We highlight the favorites going into the 12 Field Events at this year's California State Championships.  

The last big invitational in Northern California this season takes place at American River College on Saturday.

The Stanford Invitational rolled out some of the best marks in the state including 237 elite performances!

Dixon's David Phillips Jr leads the section in the 100 and 200, and could be a state title contender in that second race.

This is the seventh installment in a series of section-by-section track & field season in review articles. This is a recap of the North Coast Coast Section.