Brianne Smith

Updated subjective top 25 XC teams for girls and boys in the CIF-Southern Section, the largest of the 10 CIF sections. Bonus: Individual Top 25 rankings.

Congratulations to last week's winner, Samantha McDonnell of Newbury Park (SS)! This week's poll closes Friday at 9:01 pm.

Newbury Park and Loyola move up to Division 1 and will challenge Great Oak's dominance on the section's large-school division.

Freshman sensation Sadie Engelhardt of Ventura opens her high school career with a sub-16 3-mile victory in a stellar battle with Mira Costa senior Dalia Frias.

We preview ALL 32 events on tap for this weekend's CIF-SS Division 1 Prelims at Trabuco Hills HS.

No program has been more dominant in the CIF-SS than the Great Oak girls.

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

Mt. SAC Week!! Ranking the top 1,500 girls cross country runners by 3-mile times achieved during the week of Oct. 20-26, 2019

Top returning girls 5000-meter cross country runners in the Southern Section heading into 2020-21.

Check out who made our first and second team from the class of 2023. 

We glance back and review the Southern Section Girls 2019 Season.   

With the postseason officially concluded, we review the Southern Section's Top 40 Teams.  

This is our fifth update to the statewide rankings for boys and girls across all five CIF divisions. (Corrected)

Teams and athletes to watch in all five divisions Friday and Saturday at the Riverside Championship Course.   

The third installment of 2019 includes bonus team rankings for Orange County and Riverside County. 

We preview the sixth annual Riverside Invitational.  

Our second installment of CA team rankings for all five CIF divisions. 

Our third glimpse at the Southern Section's Top 25 teams for boys and girls. Plus bonus rankings!