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Always a good measuring point for the State meet, let's check out how the all-time li...

Kris Karsten took over Newbury Park's venerable program in June. His athletes were qu...

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

Freshman Sadie Engelhardt beat seniors Sam McDonnell and Dalia Frias in the fastest g...

Arcadia Invitational top-50 rankings for performances achieved at the iconic mid-seas...

VIRTUAL RANKINGS - All-time girls 4x800 relay 'Dream Teams' in CA track and field his...

Will Palmer was happy with his job. And then Florida came calling....

This year has been full of incredible matchups and performances, so MileSplit looked ...

Sophia Nordenholz ran 16:46.00 to win D-IV last November, the No. 5 fastest time ever...

Montgomery High School sophomore Hanne Thomsen took charge and won the Girls Champion...

Check out the fastest times run by California girls at this iconic meet on the 5K Woo...

Sadie Engelhardt, 16, has quickly become a top high school star after a spectacular y...

With The Desert Twilight XC Festival tomorrow, we decided to take a look back at the ...

A lingering back injury shortened her track season and may keep McClatchy (SJ) senior...

CONGRATULATIONS to these outstanding track and field athletes in the Class of 2022 wh...

From the MileSplit database, senior girls track and field outdoor top-100 rankings fr...

Putting a bow on the 2022 track and field season with a focus on girls in the Souther...

From the MileSplit database, '22 track and field rankings for girls in the Southern S...

Duke-bound Mira Costa HS grad set state and national records at the Brooks PR Invitat...

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 closer look at qualifiers in the 800-meter and 1600-meter runs from Friday's prelim...

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

Saturday's girls 1600-meter final will include the two fastest four-lap runners in CA...

Congratulations to last week's winner, Jordan Washington, a junior at Serra (SS)! Thi...

The Serra junior scorched the Moorpark track over 100 meters at 10.14 (1.6) to set th...

We highlight the favorites in Saturday's CIF-SS Masters Meet to advance to the 2022 C...

We are back with the latest National Girls Performer of the Week poll....

We highlight the top standout performances from the CIF-SS All-Division Finals....

All the details you need for one of the nation's best high school meets where 128 eve...

Recapping the CIF-SS Division 1 Preliminary meet with an overview recap of Divisions ...

Congratulations to last week's winner, Alyssa Alumbres of Vista Murrieta (SS)! This w...

We highlight the top athletes and teams for each event in Division 1 and take an over...

Southern Section Division 1 Girls Top 50 rankings include Mira Costa High distance st...

Congratulations to last week's winner, Samira Kennedy (CC)! This week's poll closes F...

Samantha McDonnell and Lauren Thai are triple winners; Colin Sahlman and Lex Young ru...

Friday night at Mt. SAC was awesome! Check out the photo gallery posted by MileSplit ...

Friday night presented another big breakthrough for Newbury Park....

After six years, we are back in the newly renovated Hilmer Lodge Stadium for the Mt. ...

The Californian distance runners did not disappoint at the Arcadia Invite!...

With the state's elites competing at Arcadia, here is a closer look at 10-plus girls ...

We've compiled a list of the top athletes who have improved year-over-year in the 400...

The APU Meet Of Champions didn't disappoint over the weekend. On the latest episode o...

Congratulations to last week's winner, Samarra Monrroy of Long Beach Wilson (SS)! Thi...

Duke-bound Mira Costa senior runs 4:35.06 to beat Sadie Engelhardt in the fastest 160...

It was a wild day of action at the APU Meet of Champions on Saturday as Newbury Park ...

The all-day event culminates with absolutely stacked invitational events at the 800-m...

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

Next in a series highlighting top returning athletes by section. This article focuses...

We went 100 deep per event based on 2021 outdoor season results....

Be sure to watch the live stream coverage of this distance-only track meet from Eastm...

UPDATED: Eight events highlight the winter track schedule this Saturday, including a ...

The MSCA All-State Girls XC team is stocked with champions, record-setters, history-m...

A closer look at the top girls in the awesome Class of 2022 who crushed the 2021 CA c...

We highlight the top girls teams and standout athletes from this past 2021 season in ...

Anna McNatt's furious finish to win the Division I title at the State Meet was a sing...

Congratulations to Dalia Frias of Mira Costa (SS), the top vote-getter in our final X...

It wasn't so long ago that Natalie Cook just dreamed of winning state....

Another top talent from the Class of 2022 is off the proverbial recruiting Big Board.

Huntsville, AL will be the cross country epicenter this weekend!...

We've profiled 15 of the top girls athletes headed to the Garmin RunningLane Cross Co...

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...

The boys from Newbury Park and girls from Buchanan are the teams to beat heading into...

The Mira Costa girls and Granada boys appear to be the teams to beat in Division II a...

Panthers drop an unprecedented 1-6 and a perfect 15 points in winning the Division I ...

There's plenty more to come from this historic meet, as well as from other CIF Sectio...

UPDATED: We break down all 10 races, highlighting the top squads and individuals!...

UPDATED: Highlighting a cross-section of league championship results from across the ...

The Mt. SAC Invitational provided more insights on the section's top teams! Subjectiv...

With the return of the EastBay Cross Country Championships (formerly Foot Locker), th...

After a delayed start, the Speed Rating National Merge has returned....

Congratulations to last week's winner, Samantha McDonnell of Newbury Park (SS)! This ...

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

Congratulations to last week's winner, Aishling Callanan of Peninsula (SS)! This week...

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

Alabama-bound senior from Newbury Park and freshman from Ventura go shoulder-to-shoul...

We hoped for fireworks, and the Newbury Park's boys delivered a true masterpiece!...

Updated subjective top 25 XC teams for girls and boys in the CIF-Southern Section, th...

Up until 2017, the University of Alabama was not known as a major player in the NCAA ...

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

Congratulations to last week's winner, Samantha McDonnell of Newbury Park (SS)! This ...

We reveal our first look at the top 25 cross country teams for girls and boys in the ...

After an exciting weekend of cross country, it's time to look into the big performanc...

The 3-mile course records fall in both Sweepstakes race and the Panthers shatter the ...

Senior Colin Sahlman and the Newbury Park boys are expected to highlight the 40th run...

Newbury Park and Loyola move up to Division 1 and will challenge Great Oak's dominanc...

Reflections from Friday's 115-team, 4k-plus-performance event on the 3-mile layout ad...

Freshman sensation Sadie Engelhardt of Ventura opens her high school career with a su...

We visited the Newbury Park cross country team at its summer training site to talk fa...

We preview the two largest invitationals on the calendar - Cool Breeze and Fastback -...

The Panthers have immense talent at the front of their pack, but need to work on dept...

Season in review: It was a record-setting season for girls in the Southern Section....

Best of the best regardless of class from the 2021 outdoor season includes record-set...

UPDATED - Take a closer look at the deep class of 2022 girls and the impact they had ...

Crescenta Valley senior ran one of the fastest four-lap times in CA prep history on S...

Del Oro (SJ) junior was top-four in her age group at AAU nationals and set a course r...

Distance-only track series of three meets in Arizona did not disappoint....

Two weeks after running US No. 1 mile, Newbury Park junior drops 8:47 for 3,200!...

Check out who's taking the line in the second installment of this distance-only serie...

At the first installment of the Sundown Track Series, some fast times went down in Ar...

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

Deep division is loaded with individual cross country stars and traditionally super f...

Two CIF-State Meet divisional champions rank among the top five in the list of Califo...

Behind the scenes of how Newbury Park pivoted this weekend and still found a way to p...

Panthers scorch 5K track in AZ, Mia Barnett impresses in TX, Sadie Engelhardt leads ...

Christian Simone leads Panthers to boys open title at Indiana XC meet....

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

A recap of the four elite races from the Desert Twilight Invitational on Friday in Ar...

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

We highlight the top Southern Section athletes, per event, per division for the upcom...

Coach of Section, State and NXN championship teams recognized for California honor by...

Here are our selections of the top 28 girls in CA during the 2019 XC season. ...

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

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

We preview all 10 races, and five divisions, on tap this weekend at the Southern Sect...

Teams and athletes to watch in all five divisions Friday and Saturday at the Riversid...

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

We spent a day visiting with Coach Sean Brosnan and two of the stars from the defendi...