Hi, I'm not sure if this is the right place, but I'm looking at some of the times for the Orange County schools, and their slowest runner is still so fast. Do these schools have B teams? So for instance a freshman boy who could run maybe a 7 minute mile still gets to run? For example, looking at a school like Dana Hills, do they have freshman squads, jv squads? How are tryouts even conducted? Do they just have everybody run a 5k, and if you can't do it something like 18 minutes you get cut?
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ClovisHighAlum wrote:
Central Section Finals are tomorrow! It's been raining off and on since noon today so hopefully the course isn't too messy for the meet. I have a few predictions!
- D1 Boys: The individual favorite has to be Carter Spradling of Clovis East. TRAC champion last week in 15:25 with a 15:16 Woodward PR and 4:07/8:50 wheels. Race for second should be pretty good with 6 guys who could conceivably be there: Teg Pandher (Clovis North), Luke Sanders (Buchanan), Sam Dressick (Clovis West), Alex Valencia & Liam McKnight (Bakersfield), Tyler Daillak (Paso Robles), and Jansen Geyer (Buchanan). The team battle will be interesting. Buchanan is the favorite but if Clovis East has some PRs I could see them butting heads for first but they will be far more affected by the expanded field than Buchanan with Buchanan's 4th man at 16:08 vs East's 16:29.
- D2 Boys: Devin Ibarra of El Diamante is the strong favorite here with a 15:20 Woodward PR from his win at the Roughrider Invitational. No one else in the field has broken 16 at Woodward as far as I'm aware. The team battle here looks to heavily favor Monache on paper.
- D3 Boys: Joshua Bell and his 14:50 from the Clovis Invitational wins here no question. I'm very interested to see how Matilda Torres sophomores Benjamin Fernandez (15:37 PR) and Hunter Hannah (15:40 PR) do! A 15:33.4 would add either of them to the Central Section Sophomore top 10 list (passing Carter Spradling who is 10th at 15:33.5). Maybe chasing after Bell could take them there! Matilda Torres is the team favorite here.
- D4 Boys: Evan Torres of Parlier, with his 15:40 PR, should win here easily as no one in the field is within 1 minute of his best at Woodward. The team favorite is McFarland.
- D5 Boys: I have no clue how the individual race will go here. Freshman Blake Ray of Fresno Christian is the favorite with his 16:14 from the Clovis Invite vs the 16:21 in the same race from Yosemite's Noah Graffigna. Last season, however, Ben Olney, Jack Olney, and Ford Stegge of Yosemite ran 15:44, 15:50, and 16:00 respectively. If they can approach that form again tomorrow then it would easily secure Yosemite a team title and really shake up the individual race.
- D1 Girls: Buchanan. Team and individual. Who specifically will take the win is hard to say. I'd lean toward Stefania Sesock who won the TRAC championships last week.
- D2 Girls: Mia Torrecillas and the Highland squad she leads are the favorites from what I can see.
- D3 Girls: I predict a close race between Templeton's Frannie Perry and El Diamante's Brooklyn Bawanan and as their Woodward PRs are far ahead of the pack (19:00 and 19:05, respectively). The team race is probably between Monache and Wasco with Monache getting the nod from me.
- D4 Girls: Matilda Torres' Sophia Mirelez should be the favorite here with her 19:00 best at Woodward. This could be another race where the field is wide open but I'd say it's a toss up between Kerman and Arvin.
- D5 Girls: This should be Clara Riddle and Immanuel's race to lose.
I know everyone is super busy being obsessed with the Southern Section but this Central Section race is a big deal. It's today on the State meet course! First race at 11am and last race at 3:30pm is what I found. Anyone have a live results link?
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Unfortunately, I don't recall us ever having live results for the Valley meet. I'd keep an eye on the Athletic.net or the Milesplit pages. I will be able to catch some of the meet before I have to pick up my daughter from school so I'll try to do some updates in-between getting race pics and cheering for the Clovis Unified kids! Also, if I spy a QR code or results link, I'll let you guys know!
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Speed ratings for CIF Sac-Joaquin Section Championship 2023
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hulnne wrote:
Speed ratings for CIF Sac-Joaquin Section Championship 2023
Shows how much better the other divisions are over D1 this year.
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I think it would have been interesting to see Jesuit in same race as Pondo and Oakdale plus Davis. I think times would have been faster all around with more competition pushing the guys as I think Jesuit races better when someone gets out and pushes the race for them and looks like Abbott the sophomore had a rough day.
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Sac Joaquin Section Champ Review wrote:
I think it would have been interesting to see Jesuit in same race as Pondo and Oakdale plus Davis. I think times would have been faster all around with more competition pushing the guys as I think Jesuit races better when someone gets out and pushes the race for them and looks like Abbott the sophomore had a rough day.
Jesuit didn't even have all their guys from what I understand. Some under the weather we will see if they recover in time.
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I don\'t want my name here wrote:
Sac Joaquin Section Champ Review wrote:
I think it would have been interesting to see Jesuit in same race as Pondo and Oakdale plus Davis. I think times would have been faster all around with more competition pushing the guys as I think Jesuit races better when someone gets out and pushes the race for them and looks like Abbott the sophomore had a rough day.
Jesuit didn't even have all their guys from what I understand. Some under the weather we will see if they recover in time.
Yes, they were missing Chase Cressman
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Curiousinbama wrote:
Hi, I'm not sure if this is the right place, but I'm looking at some of the times for the Orange County schools, and their slowest runner is still so fast. Do these schools have B teams? So for instance a freshman boy who could run maybe a 7 minute mile still gets to run? For example, looking at a school like Dana Hills, do they have freshman squads, jv squads? How are tryouts even conducted? Do they just have everybody run a 5k, and if you can't do it something like 18 minutes you get cut?
I believe Dana does have time trials to make it on the team. Last I heard, freshman had to run under 20 mins for 3 miles. For Sophomores and above, I think its faster than 19 mins. Dana used to be D1 (2470+ students) and currently is D3 (1481-2020 students). They do have a frosh, soph, and jv squads.
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Temp is about 72 with light cloud coverage right now. The course is still packed down even with the rain last night so we could see some fast times if the athletes go for it! D5 Boys just started!
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ClovisHighAlum wrote:
Temp is about 72 with light cloud coverage right now. The course is still packed down even with the rain last night so we could see some fast times if the athletes go for it! D5 Boys just started!
Good update. Let me know if you see a results link.
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I don't want my name here wrote:
hulnne wrote:
Speed ratings for CIF Sac-Joaquin Section Championship 2023
Shows how much better the other divisions are over D1 this year.
I just saw that D3 is actually faster than D1 on the girls side.
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that should have individual links to each race!
D5 was Blake Ray in 16:11 and Yosemite, as predicted, and D1 was a good one with Carter Spradling winning over the last 800m over Teg Pandher in 1520 to 15:25 and Clovis East making me look foolish to take the win! Also, Tyler Daillak ran a big PR to hit 1529 after leading up to the 2.1mi mark.
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Clovis East wins D1 Central Section at Woodward Park(79:16) team time. Pretty solid team.
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What Yosemite returns for next year:
Stegge (14:51 3-mile)
J Olney (15:01 3-mile in 2022)
B Olney (15:44 3-mile in 2022)
Ruiz (15:48 3-mile)
Kurtley (17:30 3-mile)
All will be seniorsLooks like they will have work to do at #5
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Missinger wrote:
What Yosemite returns for next year:
Stegge (14:51 3-mile)
J Olney (15:01 3-mile in 2022)
B Olney (15:44 3-mile in 2022)
Ruiz (15:48 3-mile)
Kurtley (17:30 3-mile)
All will be seniorsLooks like they will have work to do at #5
not going to believe in yosemite hype, they have the talent but perform below expectations.
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woodward_park_time wrote:
Clovis East wins D1 Central Section at Woodward Park(79:16) team time. Pretty solid team.
Buchanan boys team takes second with only 1 senior
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Sorry for the lack of updates! I've been catching up with old coaches and competitors! In the D1 race I believe Elle Lomeli of Buchanan has a big lead!
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Elle Lomeli wins in 17:44 and Buchanan gets the perfect score!
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Devin Ibarra is being challenged heavily by a Reedley runner as of 2.1. Let's see how it finishes!
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