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Event-by-event listing of the top 50 returning girls track and field athletes in the Central Section based on marks achieved during the 2022 outdoor season.

Woodward Park's 5K course is home to the Clovis and Rough Rider Invitationals, the CIF-State Championships, and numerous other events in the Central Section.

Ventura (SS) soph Sadie Engelhardt's record-setting run at the mid-September Woodbridge Invite continues to top the U.S. list for girls on 3-mile XC courses.

We go 1,000 runners deep in this merge of girls races at the Clovis Invitational on the 5K course at Woodward Park in Fresno.

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

Buchanan girls dominate the top of this list based on their times running the flat and super-fast Garmin RunningLane Nationals layout in Huntsville, Alabama.

As a freshman, Buchanan's Sierra Cornett ran some of the fastest times in the class, as well as among returning girls in the Central Section.

Clovis East competes well in a tough TRAC league with Buchanan, Clovis North and Clovis West. The Timberwolves return five key runners for the 2022 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, 2022 track and field rankings for girls in the Central Section, including distance leader Grace Hutchison. (DeAnna Turner photo)

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.