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The top boys' performances delivered at the CCA Ravens Cross Country Invitational in meet history.

A look at the best ever marks on the Clovis XC Invitational course!

Colin Sahlman's 14:26.50 from last season is the second-fastest boys time ever on the Woodward Park 5K course at the CIF-State Championships.

Experience last fall at the State Cross Country Meet gives San Diego small school-division champ Micah Sanchez confidence heading into Saturday's CIF D-V Final.

Check out the fastest times run by California boys at this iconic meet on the Woodward Park 5K State Meet course over the past decade.

Graduation hit the boys hard while the girls spotlight shines on a returning State Meet individual champion and state-level depth among the teams.

From the MileSplit database, senior boys track and field outdoor top-100 rankings from the 2022 outdoor season including State high jump champ Seth Johnson.

From the MileSplit database, 2022 track and field rankings for boys in the San Diego Section.

Event-by-event rankings for boys competing in Division 3 of the San Diego Section.

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 50 deep per event based on 2021 outdoor season results.

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.

Two individual state champions - Kenan Pala and Revere Schmidt - and two Eastbay Cross Country National qualifiers is quite an accomplishment for the SDS.

UPDATED division-by-division recap from Saturday's XC Finals at Woodward Park where Newbury Park wasn't the only program making history on the 5K course.

Some strong individuals, including senior Kenan Pala, and impressive teams will make the smallest division in CA one to watch at Saturday's CIF-State Meet.

Kenan Pala, Bryce Gilmore, and Mark Trammell all dip under the modified Morley Field standard with eyes toward the State Meet.

UPDATED: Boys in the San Diego Section are poised to make a splash come November at the State cross country championships, and may even make a little history.

The section expands to three divisions with separate prelims and separate finals for each.

Newbury Park junior won Desert Twilight and helped his team to a title in another out-of-state meet in the fall, to earn 'Player of the Year' honors.

Despite an outlier of an XC season, athletes and teams in the SDS, like many statewide, found a way to not only persevere but to excel.