2024 California HS XC CIF

Clovis North’s #2 guy from last meet had an off race. They were also missing their #5 from last meet.
They got beat by Mountain View too.
Bellarmine had an impressive 11-second 1-6 spread.
Menlo had 4 of their top 5 missing (one of those guys was in the freshman race).

In the girls race:
Hanne Thomsen 15:54. Montgomery girls went 1-2-3.
After that, it was a huge drop off for Montgomery and they took 6th today.

Where were the menlo guys? Why didn’t they run?

Probably sitting out so they don’t peak too early.
Ventura girls team were probably doing the same yesterday

athletic.net

Track & Field, Cross Country Results, Statistics

Meet results and team scores.

Link:www.athletic.net/CrossCountry/meet/237...

Mira Costa ran their full varsity at the Palos Verdes mini meet

athletic.net

Track & Field, Cross Country Results, Statistics

Meet results and team scores.

Link:www.athletic.net/CrossCountry/meet/241...

Fitchen-Young didn’t race today, but I am curious about the Genesis Hernandez guy who ran 14:19🤔

Any relation to GERMAN Hernandez? I mean, both names start with GE, so…

No, but German does have a sister, Giselle, who ran 4:56 at the state meet last season. She’ll be a junior this year

Hernandez is a mistake in the results from Jackie Henderson invite. Someone walked too close to the pads or something. Stefanopoulos was the winner.

Cook ran a 4:08 at CCS and has the #2 all time course record for Lagoon Valley Classic right behind Michael Vernau (only by 2 seconds). He also ran a 15:27 at Woodward Park. Lott ran a 15:24 at Woodward Park last season and he was only a Sophmore. These two have potential to be legit this coming season.

Where was Fitchen-Young?

I encourage all the following teams to try to get into the Woodbridge sweepstakes! Remember only 2 teams (at most 3 teams) can represent California at NXN. If you are feeling good right now, try to show you are relevant at the national level at Woodbridge. As it is unlikely you will be able to do the same at NXN.

Here is a list of the top California teams that all seem to be in contention for a nxn bid, every teams could be considered nationally relevant at some level:

Ayala
Mira Costa
Great Oak
Bellarmine
Buchanan
Clovis East
Beckman
Jesuit CA
Jserra
Redondo Union
ML King
Menlo

Mountain View (ccs) looked really good today. Crazy improvement over the summer and have a very young team, losing to bellarmine by less than one minute (team time)

I'll add honorable mentions list.

Mountain View
Woodbridge
Glendora
Hart
Tesoro
Oak Park

West Torrance as well

Beckman is going to surprise California

Top 5 is returning with sub 15 times, and top 12 under 10:00

Mira Costa, Jesuit, and Beckman have something in common. They have a really good pack of 5-7, but don’t have a front runner like some other teams do.
But that’s not a big problem because those packs can beat #2 runners of most other teams which is huge.
One person isn’t sufficient for a team to win.

Last year Herriman won NXN without anyone in the top 25. Soles doesn’t always have front runners, and even with that, his teams still make it to nationals.

herriman had 2 front runner at nxn - jack beckstrom placed 28th and jonah tang was 34th. That is most likely better than what any team's front runners in california can probably do.

Does anyone know what happened to Will Mulliken of Archie Williams? He’s arguably one of the fastest returners in NCS along with Caldwell, Rattary, McBride, Sagiraju, and Griffen-Yeh. Archie Williams #2 raced at Lowell and placed pretty high but no sight of Mulliken.