2023 Arcadia invitational entries - notable names

Man, Connor Burns and Simeon Birnbaum in the same race, but NOT the mile? I didn’t see Birnbaum, from Rapid City listed in the entries here:

https://prepcaltrack.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/school-by-school-entries-no-marks-3-30-23-925-am.pdf

“Entry numbers are back to pre-Covid eras… and performance levels are exceeding pre-pandemic levels!

“This year's 55th annual Arcadia Invitational, presented by Nike, features a record 690 schools that registered (!!) from a record 36 states (!!) seeking entry!”

prepcaltrack.com

Arcadia Invitational Acceptances!

Rich Gonzalez

Open link

Allison Ince returns for the 800m.

Riggs and Englehardt in the mile.

Has anyone noticed that there are 44 great oak entrants?

Also just when I found that, I saw this…

3. Great Oak #10 Men 4x800 Meter Relay Seeded
#1094 Mark Cortes 12; #1095 Ramses Cortes 12; #1111 Michael Rodriguez 11; #1110 Gabriel Rodriguez 11
#1091 Jacob Brown 10; #1092 Westin Brown 10;

THREE pairs of brothers, only one of them graduating!!!

Huge team! Wonder how many total they have (including those not entered)?

Who's running against Alli ?

Race 237 is the 3200 invite

Riggs is listed in the 3200

Great Oak, pairs of brothers? Wasn't there once another SoCal school that used to be good following this strategy?

😳🥴

So who from the west coast took a pass on the biggest 3200 of the year?

Lex & Leo

Gorze

Heemeyer

Who else?

wonder why the Crater guys aren't there

Yes, the school that won 3 XC national championships recently, and will struggle to even make NXN now that all those brothers will be gone

Do we know what L&L's race schedule is? Was honestly surprised to see they weren't in Arcadia despite CIF rules because of their connection with meet director Rich Gonzales.

lol i dont think rich has power to even bend the cif rules

Went through the men’s 3200 entries. Here are my early predictions.

1) Burns in 8:38

2) Simmons 8:43

3) Caudillo 8:44

25 break 9

Aaron Sahlman of course and Alexander Garcia Silver

thankful for that, rich is an asshat

Nah I don't think a sub 8:40 is happening without the NP guys being the low sticks to drive the pace. Last 2 years have been high mid high 8:40's for the most part outside of the leaders.

I don't think Burns can solo lead here. Burns in 8:42 despite his really good indoor time.

burns literally went 8:43 indoors for the full two miles. he’s going sub 8:40 but I don't know by how much. i think we might get like 5 runners under sub 8:40.