Rich Gonzalez
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PrepCalTrack editor. Arcadia Invitational Meet Director (since 2001). Nike Cross Nationals Management Team (since 2004). Gatorade POY program.
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If you didn’t stick around for the Shot Put awards ceremony on the Peacock streaming platform, you missed a hilarious moment (and “save”) courtesy of hurdler
@Flaamingoo_
. Rules require you to wear your national team sweat top on the podium…. If you have it.
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The Picture of the Night: The Post-Race Carnage evident across the track after all-out efforts saw 23 runners break nine minutes in the boys 3200 at the 2022 Arcadia Invitational! 🔥📸 by
@mrpotatojimmy
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Michael Norman
@Mike_Norman22
back at it, wins 400m for the Trojans at USC/UCLA dual meet in 45.22!
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Tough news to share. John Dye, the founder of DyeStat circa 1999, has just passed away at age 86. He truly changed the sports of HS cross country and track and field forever. An amazing person from a great family. May he rest in peace. Please keep his family in your prayers.
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For all those HS football coaches out there who refuse to let their athletes do track and field, just know this: Of the 237 athletes on the Ohio State & Washington rosters for today's
#rosebowl2019
, 123 of them (51.9%) competed in Track & Field while in high school.
#SpeedKills
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STATE RECORD ALERT!
@NPHSXC
@NPHSTF
senior
@ColinSahlman
crushes the state 1500m record with an unbelievable 3:39.59 for 1500 meters at the Sound Running meet at
@JSerraTF
in Orange County! That’s
#4
HS all time behind Hobbs Kessler, Alan Webb & Jim Ryun! 📸:
@mrpotatojimmy
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Have just received word that “several distance runners” from Saugus HS were hit by a car this morning that ran a red light. Please keep the families of those runners in your thoughts and prayers. No other info at this time. 🙏🏻
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BREAKING!
@NPHSXC
@NPHSTF
senior
@ColinSahlman
runs the fastest ever 3200m race for a high schooler, clocking 8:33.32 for the eight lapper, faster than the 8:34.23 National Federation record by Riverbank High’s German Fernandez at the 2008 CA State Meet! 📸:
@mrpotatojimmy
(more)
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ALERT! New HS rules will be in effect nationally for 2023-24 HS track and field and XC. Main one is change in false-start rule. In short, it won't just be any motion that warrants a DQ, but whether it allows unfair advantage. More ....
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Very sad to have to share the news that Mt. SAC track & field/XC men’s head coach Ron Kamaka passed away today due to complications from Covid. Ron was a cornerstone for the program and a great ambassador for the community college. Great person.
#VerySadDay
#RestInPeace
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ALERT!!!
@NPHSXC
cross country star
@ColinSahlman
has just been named the Gatorade NATIONAL Athlete of the Year for ALL SPORTS for 2021-2022!! OHHHHHH MYYYYYY!!!
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BREAKING!!! Ventura High’s Sadie Engelhardt CRUSHES the national freshman girls mile record with a 4:38.24 sizzler at the Sundown Track Series at Azusa Pacific. Breaks record by 3.5 seconds!! OOOOH MYYYYYT!!
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With great sorrow, we share the news that Roger Mosley, longtime assistant track coach in Southern California (at Monrovia HS in 2022) passed away at 1:17 am today due to complications from a recent traffic accident. He was best known as “TC” on the original Magnum P.I. series.🙏🏻
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Fresh off the printer! 2022 Arcadia Invitational, presented by NIKE!
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BREAKING: Vista Murrieta's
@JavKFootball28
runs 10.13w fastest EVER by a CA prep to win
@CIFState
100m. First to win titles in CA & Texas!
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BOOM!! … HISTORY MADE!! The
@NPHSXC
boys XC team scored a
#Perfect15
for the first time in
@CIFSS
Finals history with a blowout performance! Images by
@dylanstw__
!
#Legendary
#RoadToState
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Respectful plea to those athletes (mostly) or coaches still planning to organize (or encourage) group workouts/meets at off-site locations: Please don’t. Instead, avoid large-group interactions, continue effective germ-killing habits, & keep “social distancing’ when in public.
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OhMy! The California state record by
@RodrickP16
at
@CIFSS
Masters Meet has sent shockwaves worldwide. After having time to research, I can tell you that Rodrick's wind legal 10.14 is the second-fastest time EVER in the WORLD for a 17-year-old. The world U18 record? 10.13.
#OhMy
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VIDEO: During the Covid-19 stay-at-home orders, the Arcadia High School track and field facility has been getting an overhaul that is now almost complete! Here's s short overhead video, photos, and listing of some of the many upgrades! 🎥
@dylanstw_
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A track kid just messaged me this morning and asked what happened overnight. He said when he went to bed, Trump seemingly had the race won. I told him the Democrats saved
@Mike_Norman22
for the anchor leg.
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BREAKING!
@CIFState
reveals new HS sports calendar due to Covid-19 impact. Cross country state meet is March 27. State track and field meet is June 26! More details coming!
#WearYourMask
#WeAreBack
!!
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BREAKING: Vista Murrieta HS alum and former
@CIFState
champion
@Mike_Norman22
(also formerly at
@USC_Track_Field
) beats
@LylesNoah
in huge 200m showdown in Rome, 19.70-19.72! That’s a lifetime best 200 for Michael! 💰🔥
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Just a heads up... Look for more information soon on the 4x800 relay officially taking place at the 2023 State Track and Field Championships and on how teams can qualify for it as well. Yes, it is happening. 👍🏽
#RoadToState
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Many of you have been asking, "What's the Arcadia backpack look like this year?" .... Well, here ya go.... ---> "Home of National Records!"
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Please keep in your thoughts and prayers
@GOHSXCTRACK
sophomore Austin Elkins, who was struck by a car while out on a run today. Be strong, Austin! 🙏🏼
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A performance never before seen at the prep level!
@NPHSXC
dominates to break the scoring and team-time records in the greatest collective performance ever!
#CIFStateD1Champs
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BREAKING!!!
@NPHSTF
@NPHSXC
senior
@ColinSahlman
blazes 3:56.24 at the Nike
@nikepreclassic
to run the third-fastest outdoor mile by a high school American in history, trailing only Alan Webb (3:53.43) and Jim Ryun (3:55.3)! Oh My!!! Way to go, Colin!!! 🔥😱
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The Arcadia Invitational schedule will be finalized tomorrow. I can tell you this: Due to the EXTREME depth in the boys 3200, it was decided a couple of weeks ago that there will be 3 heats of that event contested on Saturday night. The cutoffs are INSANE.
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The crazy-fast finish in the boys 3200 at the Arcadia Invitational sees
@ColinSahlman
edge
@YoungAlexio
, 8:34.99-8:35.72 ! 📸:
@mrpotatojimmy
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BREAKING!
@WestlakeXCTF
senior
@PaigeSommers5
has been accepted into the U.S. Olympic Trials for the women's pole vault!!!
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ALERT! The 53rd annual Arcadia Invitational Track & Field Meet
@ArcadiaInvite
is officially confirmed for Friday-Saturday, May 7th and 8th, 2021 at the newly renovated Arcadia HS facility!
#HomeOfNationalRecords
#32NationalRecordsAndCounting
#WhenTheLightsGoOnTheStarsComeOut
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It's official.
@NPHSXC
seniors-to-be and twins
@YoungAlexio
and
@_Leo_Young
young have committed to
@GoStanford
for their collegiate academic and athletic futures. Congratulations to the Young Family!
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As a result, the Saugus HS cross country teams will not compete tomorrow at the CIF-SS Prelims and will be waived through to the following weekend’s Finals. Our hearts are heavy and our thoughts and prayers are with the
@Saugus_XC
program and all of the Saugus students and staff.
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Congratulations to Century HS coach Christian Cushing-Murray, who today clocked 4:59 for the full mile on his 53rd birthday! He has ran sub-5:00 in each of the last 39 years! In case you are wondering, his PR is 3:55.42 (sub-4!) at the 1995 Prefontaine Classic! Way to go, Cush!!
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BREAKING: HE DIT IT!!!! 3:58.81 FOR THE MILE!! At the Dr. Sander Invit'l in New York,
@NPHSXC
@NPHSTF
@ColinSahlman
wins the indoor mile in 3:58.81. That's insane!!!!
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That 10.32/20.59 wind legal double by
@SerraTrack
@RodrickP16
are not only both sophomore class state records, that’s also the fastest single-day 100/200 sprint double in CA history for ANY grade! He insists football is his better sport! Gotta love this kid! 📷
@mrpotatojimmy
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The two teams in this year's college football national championship game (Alabama & Ohio State) are among the most athletic we've seen on this stage. Alabama (63) and Ohio State (53) combined have 116 players that did track and field in high school.
#SpeedKills
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In unfortunate news, Arcadia HS boys XC coach Harji Singh resigned from his position today. When the team was up at Big Bear last week, he received a call during their last evening there and learned that his parents' home had just burned down. After much consideration, he has…
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STATE RECORD ALERT!! Mira Costa senior Dalia Frias rolls to a 4:35.06 smoker for the full mile at the APU Meet of Champions to bring down Polly Plumer's long-standing 4:35.24 record from way back in 1982!! 🔥🔥
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ALLYSON FELIX. An Olympian AGAIN. And you'd be hard-pressed to find someone who's been as classy and composed as her in these last 20 years. Truly special in so many ways.
#TeamUSA
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PRAYERS NEEDED: Have received that Monrovia HS assistant coach Roger Mosley was involved in a serious accident in recent days and is in "very bad condition". Mosley, who starred as the helicopter pilot in the original Magnum P.I. (the 1980s), is a hurdles specialist.
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In unofficial time trial mile in Northern California tonight, Arizona's Leo Daschbach runs 3:59.54 for the win. Cole Sprout next at 4:02.42. Thomas Boyden 4:04.50, Easton Allred 4:05.67. Californian John Lester fifth in 4:08.90.
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It's official: The 2020 Arcadia Invitational has been canceled. Short statement coming later today.
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NATIONAL SCHOLASTIC RECORD ALERT!!!
@NPHSTF
@NPHSXC
junior
@_Leo_Young
breaks the NFHS oudoor record for 1600m with his 3:59.32 FAT split en route to a 4:00.77 mile at the APU Distance Meet of Champions! Alan Webb (3:59.51 en route in a mile race) had held the record since 2001!
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CONGRATULATIONS to
@NPHSXC
senior
@ColinSahlman
-- named as
@Gatorade
NATIONAL Cross Country Runner of the Year for the 2021-22 school year! Joins former teammate
@Nico__Young__
as winners of the prestigious award!
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The 2022 Arcadia Invitational was a hot one! 🔥 A grand total of 1,233 Elite Marks (most of any meet in the nation), 13 new U.S.
#1
marks, multiple state records and a National Federation 1600 record (4:33.29 en route) by Ventura’s Sadie Engelhardt (tying Alexa Efraimson)! Oh My!
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This past weekend’s 53rd installment of the Arcadia Invitational featured 6 nation-leading marks, 30 state-leading marks, a national sophomore-class record (boys 3200), a state record (boys shuttle hurdles) and 599 elite marks. Well done, student-athletes!! 👍🏻🙌🏼🔥
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ALERT!!! Sydney McLaughlin smashes the world record in the women’s 400-meter hurdles (51.90) at the U.S. Olympic Trials! How many of you saw it tonight AND her HS national record in the 300H at Arcadia four years ago?
#TheNewQueen
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NATIONAL RECORD MOMENT: Ventura frosh Sadie Engelhardt as she crosses the line to win the Ventura County Championships in breaking her ninth-grade national record by 10 seconds in …. 9:50.59!
@mrpotatojimmy
captures the finish!
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RECORD NUMBERS!! Seeding is now underway for the 2019
@ArcadiaInvite
and the entry totals are staggering! A record 730 high schools (!!) from a record 31 states (!!) plus Canada, Norway and Mexico have submitted entry requests!
#TheCutoffsAreTough
#OhMy
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NOW THE GREATEST EVER!!!
@allysonfelix
has more total World Champs medals (16) than anyone in history! Ties
@usainbolt
for most golds (11)!
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Please keep in your prayers the Page Family from Edison HS of Huntington Beach. An auto accident today claimed the life of student Josh Page. His younger brother, Jeremy Page, a vaulter on the track team, is reportedly in critical condition. So many losses in recent weeks. 🙏🙏
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Terrible news. Just learned hat longtime Walnut HS distance/XC coach Jim Polite passed away today. A coaching legend in the San Gabriel Valley and formerly the HS Meet Director for the Mt SAC Relays and XC Meet, he will be greatly missed. 💔
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Newbury Park's boys were incredible tonight. The 71:10 team time (14:14 Top 5 average) is a state record and rates as the strongest performance on California soil in history, right with Arcadia '10 state meet and Great Oak '15 state meet. Both of those teams won national titles!
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STATE RECORD ALERT!
@boscoxc
@sjbathletics
breaks the California state record in the boys 4x200 relay with a 1:24.15 scorcher that takes down a
@LBPolyTrack_XC
record that stood for 23 years!!!
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Here you go, HS football coaches.... more proof you need to have your players develop speed/power through track & field. The best know this!
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Coming to you later this summer... A super in-depth video docu-series on the two greatest cross-country programs in America as they relive their historic 2019 Dream Showdown Season... 🤩🔥🙌
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BREAKING:As per BigBearTC,
@RealSeanBrosnan
has stepped down at
@NPHSXC
to take position at UCLA. Congrats Sean!
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BREKKNG! Superwoman flies again!!!
@tar___ruh
soars a wind-aided 22-3.75 (+2.6 mps) to win D2! That's
#2
U.S. All-time, all conditions!!
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As mentioned to coaches in recent weeks that have inquired and at Arcadia, we will be hosting a “California Culmination Meet” in June geared toward top athletes from around the state. Three venues are in play from Los Angeles and Orange Counties. Details soon.
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We are extremely saddened & heartbroken to share that Oaks Christian super sprinter Cristian Moore’s mother passed away recently after a three-year fight with ovarian cancer. With the memorial held yesterday, Cristian competed in her honor today, but with a very heavy heart.
#RIP
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NATIONAL RECORD!! The
@NPHSTF
@NPHSXC
girls’ foursome of Ailish Hawkins, Tiffany Sax, Morgan Nygren and Sam McDonnell (pictured on anchor leg) smash the record by more than four seconds in 19:48.81 at the
@runmtsac
Relays. 📸:
@mrpotatojimmy
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Just heard of shooting at Saugus High a few minutes ago. Checked to see if Coach Rene Paragas was ok. Fortunately, he did avoid injury. We did hear two students were shot. Our thoughts and prayers are with all the kids and staff. 🙏🏼
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Cross country is an individual sport. Succeeding in cross country is a team sport.
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Oh my! Oh my! Oh my! Just got word that THREE NINTH GRADERS from Newbury Park were downright flying in a 1600m time trial tonight! How about Leo Young (4:16), Aaron Sahlman (4:17)& Lex Young (4:21) absolutely torching it! Can't recall any three frosh teammates ever so fast!!🔥🙌
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****UPDATE**** As per news report, two cross country athletes were struck during a run off campus. Both required surgery and their condition reportedly is now stable. 🙏🏻
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Unofficial time trial race in Southern California tonight sees Jace Aschbrenner clock 8:44.93 for scheduled 3200m, with Billy Atkinson at 8:57.29 and Nick Goldstein at 9:05.93.
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ALERT! Mira Costa HS recently graduated senior Dalia Frias breaks the national HS record for 2 miles with a 9:50.70 at the Brooks PR meet in Seattle, Washington!
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2021 ARCADIA INVITATIONAL UPDATE: Due to tightened Health Dept. restrictions on non-essential interstate travel, this year's meet will now be a California-only HS event. In 2019, more than 200 schools from OUTSIDE of California took part in our 500+ schools event.
#WeMoveAhead
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Longtime Esperanza HS cross-country and track and field coach Rich Medellin was elated to see his 88-year-old dad head home this week after a 25-day battle in the hospital with from Covid-19. 🙏
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SPOILER ALERT!!! ... Under the track and field rules, an athlete cannot react faster than .1000 seconds to the starter's gun, otherwise it is a false start DQ. Hurdler
@devonallen
reaction was just registered to have reacted at .... 0.0999. Disqualified.
#TERRIBLE
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BREAKING:
@NPHSXC
senior
@Nico__Young__
goes 3:52.39 for 1500m (worth about 4:07 high for 1600m) and teammate
@AschbrennerJace
goes 3:57.42 at today’s CA Winter Champs qualifier at Arcadia High!
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BREAKING: Story on
@NPHSXC
distance coach
@RealSeanBrosnan
departing to take over the reigns at UCLA!
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Michigan high schooler Hobbs Kessler... 3:34.36 for 1500m. That’s it. That’s the tweet. *mic drop*
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BREAKING: Both Los Angeles and Orange County have just qualified to move from the red tier to the less-restrictive orange tier due to decreasing Covid-19 situation.
#LetsKeepMakingProgress
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Please do keep in your thoughts and prayers Orange County’s ultimate “Team Mom”, Mimi Butler (wife to San Clemente asst. coach and former Dana Hills coach Tim Butler). She’s been diagnosed with leukemia — she’s always a source of strength for others.
#StrengthOfPrayer
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We ask everyone to please keep in your thoughts and prayers David Sanford, track and field and cross country coach at Marina HS in Huntington Beach, who was rushed to the ER today. 🙏🏻 We are with you, Dave.
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STATE RECORD ALERT!!!
@SerraTrack
junior
@RodrickP16
BREAKS the state 100m dash wind legal record in a mind-boggling 10.14!!! Wind was +1.6 mps!! AWESOME!!
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ALERT! Entries into the 54th annual Arcadia Invitational Track and Field Meet, presented by NIKE, are now posted! See you next weekend!!
#HomeOfNationalRecords
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As of now, CIF indicates postseason remains a possibility. Press release —->
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Former California preps
@zachshinnick
and
@Mike_Norman22
combine to set WORLD RECORD for USC today! Joined by Ricky Morgan & Rai Benjamin! All four competed at Arcadia Invitational as preps!!
#FightOn
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BREAKING: Malibu's Claudia Lane destroys Mt. SAC all-time best with 15:49 performance to win Individual Girls Sweeps! Oh My!
#Historic
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Spotted today at the NCAA Championships... Six years old... and still glistens!! 🙌🏻
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Love this!! Marmonte League Boys teams Newbury Park, Thousand Oaks and Westlake pose as a
#UnitedFamily
#805Strong
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After 47 years (36 at
@LoyolaAthletics
), legendary coach Lalo Diaz has officially retired as a head coach. "It's time," he told us. Diaz, 70, plans to teach but has alerted schools coaching isn't part of the equation. Diaz coached 6 state team & 5 state individual champs in XC!
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ALERT!! “The California State Championships Are Coming!” Presented by
@VS_athletics
and scheduled for Friday-Saturday, June 25-26 at a venue that all the top athletes know! Limited to just the top 40 athletes in the state per event! Full details coming soon!
#NotAnAllComersMeet
!
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The prior 3-mile team time national record by the 2019
@NPHSXC
boys team was 71 minutes, 13.7 seconds, a 14:15 average. Tonight they ran 69:30.9, a stunning 13:54 average! I’ve never seen a national record obliterated so soundly.
#DistanceLegends
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Coaching greats
@DougSoles
(head coach) and
@dnoble1
(associate head coach) at the finish line in their Wolfpack “finish line”, their final race at Great Oak.
#EndOfAnEra
#14StateTitles
#SWLLeagueChamps
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Was just asked if we allow “B” teams in the 4x100 at the Arcadia Invitational. The short answer is yes. It reminded me of the incredible Muir HS program at the 1997 Arcadia meet…. Their “A” won in 40.28! …. And their “B” was second in…. 40.90!! Ohh Myyy!!
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Congratulations to
@NPHSXC
senior
@Nico__Young__
, just named the 2019-2020 Gatorade NATIONAL High School Player of the Year recipient for cross country! Another huge honor for the straight-A student and Nike Cross Nationals and
@CIFState
XC champion! 📸:
@dylanstw__
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BREAKING: This just in.... Clovis Unified School District to return to in-person classes for full schedule; parents will have option for on-line learning as well.
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In case you are wondering -- and I state this with TRULY ALL DUE RESPECT to all parties -- the 13:39.7 for Nico Young tonight at Woodbridge is not the greatest XC performance I've ever witnessed by a Californian. The 14:24 by German Ferndandez at Woodward Park in '07 is still
#1
.
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