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The 44th version of the longest running high school cross country championship in the...

Check out the best marks ran at the Mt. SAC XC Invitational!...

How did the 2023 CIF-State Meet rank among the best of the past decade? Check out thi...

In one of the greatest individual performances in State Meet history, Great Oak's Isa...

San Diego Section high school cross country programs produced two individual State Me...

San Diego Francis Parker HS senior Kenan Pala placed second in the 2021 race but wher...

Engelhardt, a sophomore, earns a second trip to San Diego for Nationals, while Hansen...

UPDATED Ventura soph Sadie Engelhardt and Arizona senior Lauren Ping look to earn ret...

Colin Sahlman's 14:26.50 from last season is the second-fastest boys time ever on the...

Take a closer look at storylines for the boys and girls competition in Division V at ...

Experience last fall at the State Cross Country Meet gives San Diego small school-div...

Chiara Dailey, Micah Sanchez, Hannah Riggins, among the individual winners on Saturda...

The flu derailed State-title hopes for the Dons girls last year, but health appears o...

Listing the fastest boys over the past decade at the Mt. SAC Invite cross country mee...

From the MileSplit database, senior boys track and field outdoor top-100 rankings fro...

Putting a bow on the 2022 track and field season in the San Diego Section with Athlet...

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

Check out how the 2022 State Championship performances rank among the best in the eig...

Closer look at boys and girls races in the 800m, 1600m and 3200m at the CIF-State Tra...

A historic group of distance runners will take the line in the 800m, 1600m, and 3200m...

Lexi Evans clears 14 feet in the pole vault, and State Meet veterans Alyssa Bean and ...

Take a closer look at some of the marquee events at Saturday's CIF-SDS Championships ...

Roundup of highlights from three division sites where, despite a warm and breezy day,...

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

CIF-State Track Championships has crowned one champion per event for 102 years and a ...

Rounding up league track and field championship weekend in the San Diego Section....

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

Cross country state champion and Eastbay Nationals runner-up is focused on a better s...

We close out the 2022 track and field season preview series with top-200 returning ra...

We went 50 deep per event based on 2021 outdoor season results....

Next in a series. This article focuses on returning track and field boys standouts in...

Our latest Dear Running essay comes from Francis Parker's Kenan Pala, the national ru...

The MSCA All-State Boys XC team is led by a quartet from U.S. No. 1 Newbury Park, and...

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

Two individual state champions - Kenan Pala and Revere Schmidt - and two Eastbay Cros...

Congratulations to Zach Ayers, a senior at Davis (SJ), the top vote-getter in our fin...

The Eastbay Cross Country Championships were a thrilling affair this weekend in San D...

Championship season doesn't always provide second chances. But Riley Hough got his on...

Francis Parker senior, running in front of his home crowd, becomes the highest placin...

The Hartland (MI) senior made a late, but decisive move to win the Eastbay XC Champio...

Watch the Eastbay Cross Country Championships on Saturday starting at 11 a.m. EST for...

After a one-year hiatus, the race formerly known as Foot Locker Nationals is back, an...

We have all the information you need to know about the Eastbay Cross Country Champion...

Four boys each from Oregon (led by regional champion Tyrone Gorze) and California, ar...

CIF-State champs Anna McNatt, Sophia Nordenholz, Max Sannes, Kenan Pala advance. Oreg...

Nearly 30 state championship cross country runners are scheduled to take the line Sat...

North Coast Section teams and individuals roll to multiple titles and podium finishes...

UPDATED: Expectations coming off of section championships around the state can be tou...

UPDATED division-by-division recap from Saturday's XC Finals at Woodward Park where N...

Some strong individuals, including senior Kenan Pala, and impressive teams will make ...

On the latest episode of On The Line, Kenan Pala joins Olivia and Cory to discuss his...

Kenan Pala, Bryce Gilmore, and Mark Trammell all dip under the modified Morley Field ...

Take a closer look at Saturday's CIF-San Diego Section Cross Country Championships se...

When it comes to high school track and field, we often have a good idea of the progra...

It has been over two and a half weeks since our last merge, and nearly half the count...

UPDATED: Statewide 2021 cross country team rankings. Check out who made the list of t...

Congratulations to last week's winner, Kenan Pala of Francis Park (SD)! This week's p...

We are back with the latest National Performer of the Week poll presented by New Balance

On the latest episode of On The Line, Cory and Olivia share their favorite performanc...

UPDATED - Recapping Day 2 at Mt. SAC, where large-school division teams and athletes ...

Francis Parker senior was just a second off; Stormy Wallace rolls for Sage Creek as S...

Roughly 300 CIF-SS teams are set to test the 3-mile course that will now be used for ...

Statewide 2021 cross country team rankings. Check out who made the list of top 10 tea...

A philosophy of don't run too fast too soon has served the all-boys school's cross co...

Who have been the best recruits so far? What have been the biggest surprises? And who...

So far this recruiting cycle, Yale distance coach Paul Harkins has scored three high-...

CORRECTED - Now a third of the way through the 2021 cross country season, here's an i...

San Diego small-school star runs away from a strong field in the marquee boys race at...

College commitments continue to pour in at a rapid pace....

Winners, notes, and recap info from a dozen California high school cross country invi...

UPDATED: Boys in the San Diego Section are poised to make a splash come November at t...

The Lancers had the top frosh-soph group in Division 5 in 2019, but we have questions...

Considering all of the minefields and roadblocks San Diego Section boys track and fie...

Four All-time San Diego Section records across three separate division meets made for...

Take a closer look at top athletes and teams heading into Saturday's afternoon/evenin...

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

Newbury Park junior won Desert Twilight and helped his team to a title in another out...

Despite an outlier of an XC season, athletes and teams in the SDS, like many statewid...

Mia Barnett, Colin Sahlman, Dalia Frias and Lex Young - all from CA - were the big wi...

Top small schools boys teams Francis Parker and Santa Fe Christian battle in SDS seas...

We've added the Central Section in with SoCal for these subjective cross country rank...

Ranking the top returning boys 5000-meter cross country runners in the San Diego Sect...

Keep an eye on Cathedral Catholic, Francis Parker and a long list of individuals if S...

In place of our usual Countdown to XC (which has suffered a critical lack of data) we...

The top small school boys cross country team in San Diego returns everyone to a lineu...

Carlie Dorostkar and the girls from Sage Creek dominated the 2019 XC storylines in th...

The smallest division has big junior stars in the likes of Mia Barnett, Jackson Adelm...

Canyon Crest senior runs blistering time; Wallace sisters lead perfect run for Sage C...

A closer look at all five division races scheduled for Saturday at Morley Field....