Sadie Englehardt looks set to continue her CIF dominance this weekend

My pick for (distance) race of the day. Very curious to see how it unfolds. The difficulty of Finals is that you can't truly let it turn into sit and kick as you need to make sure you run fast enough to get through to Masters. Hoping they keep the pace honest, none of this 1200m at 3:18 nonsense like at prelims.

Fasthorse, Noonan, and Dybdahl (+ more) all there with a lap to go at 3:08? Fireworks.

This is cool and all but man it's getting pretty old at this point. She needs to stop wasting her time with HS meets. "Omgg, she's gonna blow out the 1600 field at the state meet again!!"

Yeah. We know. It's been like that for two years now.

She's more than able to race against pros like the Youngs did

I agree with you that the d2 1600m race should be a really good race. Given the competitors and dynamics of running to win vs qualifying for the Masters meet vs saving something for races later in the day.

I give Noonan a slight edge. He has looked really good this season and has had a really good kick. That being said it is hard to rule out Dybdahl, Fasthorse and others. Should be fun to watch.

Point taken. I think her coaches, parents and her are doing a good job balancing out where she races and not trying to burn her out.

It's unlikely they go for it, imo.

CIF trials are rough. Makes way more sense to just go for the at-large instead and save the effort for later.

Yeah but that's the unique challenge of the Finals to Masters weekend. Unlike Masters to State, there is no at large. Either top 12 across the 4 divisions or you're out. There's too much talent, particularly between the top 3 divisions, to take anything for granted. You let it go tactical and finish runner-up or third at 4:13-4:15 and you might be on the outside looking it.

I have no idea what her motivations are for when or how she competes, but it wouldn't be difficult to imagine that becoming the first 4-time state champion in the 1600m, in the most competitive state in the country, might be something she's eyeballing.

It's a pretty short list of 4-time CA state champions.

You think she's getting board of winning State championships? There are people out there that never win anything and are still motivated to keep going. I don't know how all the winning would get boring. Enjoy the wins, continue to develop, and you can go the college level next. I'm not sure what the hurry would need to be if you don't want it and enjoy what you are doing.

You need to learn how to spell the word bored. No way you’re an actual coach

Thank you I was wondering what has slowed my development as a coach after 30 years. It's my inability to spell that one word correctly. Thanks for all your help I am now ready to move to the next level.

Maybe you can coach HS from your Jr High job you got fired from. Big move up

I would. She has no competition, she literally solo's every race.

Although it'd cool to see her get upset like Granville did in the 90s but that won't happen

Didn't someone pull up on her in the last race on the 3rd lap? Or the race before, I don't know. I'm not saying she has a bunch of competition in CA but I don't think it would be boring. She hasn't won 7000 races. Looks like 9 wins in track this season and a grade total of 3 CIF State Track Championships.

How about you stop throwing a hissyfit over one small typo. God damn. Find something else to be miserable about, loser

Ivarsson finished 2.5 second behind her in the prelims. are you thinking of Hedengren at Arcadia who passed her 3 laps in? Saddie says they planned that. not sure what that means. and anyway not a CA athlete of course.

If I recall didnt she barely qualify for the championship final last year? finishing like 10th in the semis trying to pace herself? had to come back in the last 100 meters to clinch a birth. Im going to assume she doesnt do that again.

Yes my bad, that was Arcadia and an out of State athlete.

Anyways she's chasing records and getting fasters, so I'm guessing it's not too boring for her.

Sadie has a private coach who is on the spectrum. I can’t find his name anyplace. I know it’s Matt , but can’t remember his last name. I don’t know why more people don’t talk about this. Her coach should have a story about him overcoming diversity with his disability and able to work with Sadie. That says a lot about Sadie as a person to work with him too.

He didn’t have a typo. He literally used the wrong version of spelling. That’s like saying “wear are you”

He tried to get the head Ventura job and the school wouldn’t hire him because of parent complaints. He’s a bazaar dude and you can see that he’s not right when you look at him. His eyes are off and something is strange. All that being said, it’s great he still can be involved in athletes with having those disabilities. His name is Matt Hammel. Im not a fan of him from his interactions with others, but more power to him with his involvement