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Season in review: 10 things that stood out for us in the 2021 Central Section season.

Faith Bender is the lone champion among more than a dozen Golden State competitors at Pacific Northwest meets Outdoor Nationals and Brooks PR.

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

Lauren Fowler and Buchanan, Jeremiah Walker and Central collect gold medals and CIF-CS Masters team titles.

Throwers, like Zach Buckey, and Liberty athletes came up big in the qualifier for the June 19 CIF-Central Section Finals.

The Albany junior eclipses Gillian Wagner's MRs in the 1600m and 3200m in a pair of dominant performances.

The third epic DSDF meet is this Saturday and we should be in store for some very competitive races.

The meet produced eight new CA No. 1s and two dozen other fresh top-10 marks.

Saturday's meet at Buchanan is stocked with Central Section leaders as well as a few other elites making the trip to compete in Clovis.

Meet records, personal records, season bests were the order of the day at the condensed but still super intense Meet of Champions Distance Classic at Arcadia.

Traditionally held at Azusa Pacific University, MOC Distance Classic found a new home for 2021.

A sampling of some of the top girls track and field athletes in the Central Section.

Distance-only track series of three meets in Arizona did not disappoint.

The CS is loaded with talented young runners like Sydney Sundgren, Taylor Jones, Miliana Perez and Erica Nyberg.

Ranking the top 880 returning girls 5000-meter cross country runners in the Central Section heading into the 2021 season.

FLW champion Mia Barnett leads the list tracking three-year cross country progression on 5K course of nearly 600 girls in the class of 2021.

Storylines in the Central Section include a final season for one of the elites, Buchanan's Corie Smith.