California HS XC 2023 CIF

Ken Chai don't mess with GPS. Dude is as anal as they come when it comes to measuring courses (it was his wheel that confirmed the Friday Woodbridge was long).

That said, who cares? It's the same course as last year, so if it was 2.98 this year it was last year too, so fair game to make some comparisons of team and individual performances between the races.

Must be the turns then, watch distances can vary depending on how sharp the turns are. If the organizers are saying woodbridge 2022 = woodbridge 2023 in distance, I trust them.

Dana Hills and the course seem legit. Noonan ran a 14:23 best last year prior to becoming a 4:08-8:49 guy on the track.

He split 4:44 the first mile. Another followed by a 4:50 leaves him at 13:58.

What I do find unbelievable is the 30 boys who ran sub-15:00.

That and 9 girls beat Barker's time from last year. The 8th best time in the boys race was only 2 seconds off the winning time last year.

Because everyone ran so fast, Tully didn't use the same speed rating scale. By last year's scale, a 14:00 would have been rated 190.0, this year 14:00 is only 187. Given what the ratings are trying to show, that's might be a fair change. As I am updating my data, not a lot of the top runners ran a season best speed rating, but about a third of the mid-pack did.

Oddly, and maybe because I didn't look carefully enough, but a quick eye check of a few other races top times showed that only the championship races seemed much faster, the other races times looked similar to last year.

The season best speed ratings between Dana Hills and San Clemente are close, but Dana Hills has the slight edge.

Dana Hills (SS)
Evan Noonan 11 194.23 194
Jayden Hernandez 12 184.70 185
Garrett Woodruff 12 178.90 179
Logan Harris 12 174.47 174
Oliver Hunter 10 171.47 171

San Clemente (SS)
Brett Ephraim 12 185.73 186
Pierce Clark 12 178.10 178
Dallin Harrington 10 175.57 176
Taj Clark 12 175.33 175
Kai Olsen 12 174.07 174

Is this the best 1-2 punch in the country?

Not according to TullyRunners, which has

Belen Jesuit Preparatory School (#4 US according to Dyestat)
Marcelo Mantecon 9 192 (Yes, a ninth grader)
Joshua Ruiz 12 190

Slightly better than
Evan Noonan 11 194
Jayden Hernandez 12 185

Emmanuel Perez and Emmanuel Hernandez from Cathedral are solid too.

Emmanuel Hernandez has fallen off so hard. Ran horrible his track season, and now his cross country season as well. His only notable race was Woodbridge.

fast horse couldn't make top 5 with 14:32 at woodward, that's crazy. Must be a stacked year or hes heavily underrated, we will find out nxn

apparently running fast at woodward park is pointless but same logic doesn't apply to Lavern Gibson.

14:33 should absolutely be top 5 in the nation, but maybe not top 1. Aaron Sahlman's 14:42 in cool weather on the same course let him run 14:45 at NXN.

L&L bombing the course after running sub 14:30 on the Clovis/state course must have made Rankers hesitant to trust the course this early in the season?

name 1 course more trustworthy than woodward park

athletic.net

Track & Field, Cross Country Results, Statistics

Meet results and team scores.

Link:www.athletic.net/CrossCountry/meet/231...

Ventura actually looked very strong rebounding from Clovis in this one

Ventura still has a somewhat large 4-5 gap and no DeGeorge

Their girls team swept 1-5 though

Overall their top 4 looks really good, but their 5th is going to stop them from national contention unless someone picks up the slack. 16 flat on a 5K course / 15 flat at Woodbridge could be dicey as a 5th runner especially since that time will get even worse on a harder course (16:30+)

They really need DeGeorge back, but it looks like after his one race this season he's too injured to regain enough fitness.