Grace Geyer

Heading into a huge mid-season invitational, here's our updated top-25 subjective team rankings in the Southern Section, regardless of division.

Oaks Christian's Payton Godsey continues to lead the class on 3-mile cross country courses with Poway (SD) standout Tessa Buswell (pictured) sitting at No. 2.

Payton Godsey's record-setting performance at Woodbridge lands the Oaks Christian 2024 atop CA's 3-mile list.

Check out the top 300 returning girls in the Southern Section on 5,000-meter cross country courses.

Take a division-by-division look inside the girls cross country competition in the Southern Section.

We pulled the top 300 returning girls from schools in the Southern Section who had times on 3-mile courses last cross country season.

Payton Godsey leads the charge for an Oaks Christian girls cross country team that returns all but one from a highly successful 2021 season.

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

From the MileSplit database, '22 track and field rankings for girls in the Southern Section, including junior sprinter Adonijah Currie. (DeAnna Turner photo)

We highlight the top athletes and teams for each event in Division 1 and take an overview look at Divisions 2-4 for Saturday's qualifier meets in the CIF-SS.

Southern Section Division 4 Girls Top 50 rankings by event including Oaks Christain sophomore distance runner Payton Godsey.

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.

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

A closer look at the top girls in the super-deep Class of 2024 who crushed the cross country season in 2021.

We highlight the top girls teams and standout athletes from this past 2021 season in the Southern Section!

JSerra, Sage Creek, Scotts Valley, the depth across Division IV should make for some great racing on Saturday at the CIF-State Cross Country Meet.

Panthers drop an unprecedented 1-6 and a perfect 15 points in winning the Division I title at Mt. SAC. Mira Costa joins Newbury Park in sweeping both titles.

UPDATED: We break down all 10 races, highlighting the top squads and individuals!

UPDATED: Highlighting a cross-section of league championship results from across the state this week.