Mario Giannini

The MSCA All-State Boys XC team is led by a quartet from U.S. No. 1 Newbury Park, and our first team is arguably the strongest top seven in the nation.

A closer look at the top boys in the award-winning Class of 2022 who crushed the 2021 CA cross country season.

Mario Giannini, the Pleasant Valley boys, and the girls from Chico were the headliners at the end of the 2021 cross country season in the Northern Section.

Can Campolindo "defend" its 2019 double championships? Can anyone dethrone Riley Chamberlain? These questions and more addressed inside!

UPDATED: Mario Giannini defends CIF-NS title in historic fashion, Molina Twins go 1-2, and Pleasant Valley takes overall boys title.

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

Congratulations to last week's winner, Zachary Graeber of Folsom (SJ)! This week's poll closes Friday at 9:01 pm.

Winners, notes, and recap info from a dozen California high school cross country invitationals from the weekend ending Sept. 11.

Chico senior Mario Giannini is among the top returning athletes in the CIF Northern Section heading into the 2021 fall cross country season.

The Panthers have the best individual in the section AND more depth than any other contender, so they won't concede the throne any time soon.

Best of the best high school boys and girls on the track and in the field - here are our AOTY selections for CA as well as each of the 10 CIF sections.

Highlights from a limited 2021 outdoor season for the CA's three smallest CIF sections - Northern, Oakland, and San Francisco.

Hurdles star Jadyn Marshall gets 110 victory, but goes down in the 300s; Cate Peters runs two CA top-20 times, among newsmakers in the heat at Clayton Valley HS

Meet at Clayton Valley High provides an opportunity for athletes from sections that canceled CIF championship meets because of the Coronavirus pandemic.

Ranking the top returning boys 5000-meter cross country runners in the Northern Section heading into the 2021 season.

Perennial powers Chico (led by Sophie Sims and Mario Giannini) and University Prep (led by Grace Gaddy) look to extend title streaks.

Eighth grader rolls in Kentucky while other CA athletes get marks in time trials and 5Ks.

In place of our usual Countdown to XC (which has suffered a critical lack of data) we're taking a look at 30 teams that will have a major impact this winter.

Ranking the top 1,500 boys for 3 miles from meets held this week in 2019.

Underclass individuals star while a veteran team equals an historic performance. 

Eight teams and 28 individuals qualified for the State Meet at Thursday's section finals.