Week 8 League Meets – Previews & Results

Most of the leagues wrapped up their league/cluster meet schedule last week. All of the others, except for the Montview League, will finish this week.

We’ll add results and brief coverage as it becomes available, and more extended coverage as photos and race notes are made available.

Tuesday, October 15th Mission League – Crescenta Valley . . . → Read More: Week 8 League Meets – Previews & Results

CIF Rankings: Week 7 – We Go to 16

This week, the CIF Southern Section rankings expanded to 16 for each of the five, enrollment based divisions.

Up to this point, the rankings have been mostly for fun, in that they didn’t have any direct impact on CIF post-season qualifying. But beginning with this week and for the next three weeks, any team that . . . → Read More: CIF Rankings: Week 7 – We Go to 16

Claremont Girls Win Eastern States Championship – Boys 3rd

Demonstrating, once again, that the West Coast is the best coast, the Claremont girls defeated a national level field to win the Eastern States Championship race at the Manhattan Invite at Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx.

Full Results

Eastern State Champs on the Van Cortlandt Podium

Despite running out of their usual . . . → Read More: Claremont Girls Win Eastern States Championship – Boys 3rd

SCV Invite: Melanie M with Another Win!

Final Results Are Here

It looks like most of the SGV schools ran partial or B Teams here.

The exception is the Girls Varsity Small Schools Division.

Melanie Mach (Sr, Rosemead) won here second Invite in a row with an 18:21 effort – a 90 second improvement from 2017! She was 5 seconds clear of . . . → Read More: SCV Invite: Melanie M with Another Win!

Bell Gardens – Quick Results

Live Results are here

Boys Combined: Noah Hibbard (Sr, Arroyo) is the SGV’s best at 2nd/14:41 on this flat, 3-mile course. Others in the Top 10:

Oswaldo Cervantes (Sr, Nogales) – 3rd/14:46 Joshua Orellana (Jr, Arroyo) – 4th/15:00 Jesse Alvarado (Jr, Walnut) – 6th/15:09 Eduardo De Paz (Jr, Baldwin Park) – 8th/15:15 Daniel Echeveste (So, . . . → Read More: Bell Gardens – Quick Results

Week 7 Preview: Big Stuff at Bell Gardens and Claremont Flies to NYC

Nearly half of the SGV schools will be in action this weekend in two meets at opposite ends of LA County, while SGV #1 Claremont are flying to New York to challenge themselves against some of the best teams in the East.

Bell Gardens Invitational – Cerritos Regional Park

Live Results Might Be Here

San . . . → Read More: Week 7 Preview: Big Stuff at Bell Gardens and Claremont Flies to NYC

SGV Girls Rankings – Week 6: Claremont Even Further Ahead

Claremont again tops the list. They may be the best team in both the Southern Section and in California, and are certainly among the ten best in the country. So, yeah, they’re also the best in the SGV

Girls teams show more surprises and changes during the year than the boys typically do, due to . . . → Read More: SGV Girls Rankings – Week 6: Claremont Even Further Ahead

SGV Boys Rankings – Week 6: Claremont Still the Class of the SGV

Claremont again leads the San Gabriel Valley in our second rankings of the year. The Wolfpack scored a win at Stanford over a good field, and (almost) tempo-ed for a win in the Palomares meet – a league that could advance all six teams to CIF.

Teams at the high end of our sport don’t . . . → Read More: SGV Boys Rankings – Week 6: Claremont Still the Class of the SGV

Week 7 Cluster Meets: Previews & Results

Most of the SGV will be in action this week as most of the leagues hold their second, concluding cluster meets.

The La Salle girls are looking to repeat their win in the Camino Real League

There will be big showdowns in Tuesday’s Del Rey League meet and Thursday’s Del Rio & Pacific . . . → Read More: Week 7 Cluster Meets: Previews & Results

CIF Rankings – Week 6: Bonita Doubles Up

This week, Div. 3 Bonita became the third SGV school to have both its boys and girls teams ranked when the girls entered the rankings at #9, the same rank that the boys have held the past two weeks.

Both Bearcats teams, under the leadership of first-year coaches Amanda Seibert and Tim Davis have relied . . . → Read More: CIF Rankings – Week 6: Bonita Doubles Up

SGV Track & XC

This site is maintained by Bob Ramsey – a SGV T&F athlete (Arroyo ’80), and former coach at Glendora HS and Meet Director of the SGV Champs. Bob is currently Director of Track & Field and Cross Country at Whittier College