Sunday, May 31, 2015

2015 CIF State Championship Track and Field Meet Performance Lists

NCS MOC Race Videos

Thanks to Rob Mackey. I know a lot of people really appreciate the time it took to video and upload all these races.
Boys 400 Relay

Girls 400 Relay

Girls 1600

Boys 1600

Girls 100 Hurdles

Boys 110 Hurdles

Girls 400

Boys 400

Girls 100

Boys 100

Girls 800

Boys 800

Girls 300 Hurdles

Boys 300 Hurdles

Girls 200

Boys 200

Girls 3200

Boys 3200

Girls 1600 Relay

Boys 1600 Relay

Southern Section Masters Meet Videos

Boys 3200 (Winner Brian Zabilski 8:49.38)


More videos here and here.

Saturday, May 30, 2015

Northern California Section Finals Live Results

Sac-Joaquin Section
SJS Section Results (New)

Sac-Joaquin Masters Preview

North Coast Section
NCS Results (New)

http://diablotiming.com/results/2015-05-29/index.htm
Athletes to watch at NCS MOC

Central Coast Section
http://lynbrooksports.prepcaltrack.com/ATHLETICS/TRACK/2015/ccsres.htm (Results)

Heat Sheets: http://cifccs.org/playoffs/results/14-15/2015%20field%20finals.pdf
Field Events: http://www.cifccs.org/playoffs/results/14-15/2015%20field%20event%20finals.pdf
Central Coast Section Preview

San Francisco Section
SF Section Results (New)

Time Schedule
Finals Program

Northern Section
http://lynbrooksports.prepcaltrack.com/ATHLETICS/TRACK/2015/ns_res.htm (Results)

http://www.westvalleytrack.net/nsciftr_entries.htm

Oakland Section
http://lynbrooksports.prepcaltrack.com/ATHLETICS/TRACK/2015/oak_res.htm (Results)

CCS Championship Boys 800 Race Video

North Coast Section MOC Champions (Running Events)

GIRLS
Girls 400 meter Relay-St. Mary's Berkeley 46.77
Girls 1600 meters-Rylee Bowen Sonoma Academy 4:43.92
Girls 100 meter hurdles-Mecca McGlaston Dublin 13.72
Girls 400 meters-Kirsten Carter Santa Rosa 54.24
Girls 100 meters-Pamela White Granada 12.13
Girls 800 meters-Heidi Fuhriman Monte Vista 2:11.94
Girls 300 meter hurdles-Michelle Thompson Dougherty Valley 44.60
Girls 200 meters-Briana Guillory Deer Valley 24.20
Girls 3200 meters-Brighie Leach Campolindo 10:25.24
Girls 1600 Relay-St. Mary's Berkeley 3:43.97

BOYS
Boys 400 meter Relay-Castro Valley 42.01
Boys 1600 meters-Roc Johson De La Salle 4:17.53
Boys 110 meter high hurdles-Raleigh Adams Alhambra 14.43
Boys 400 meters-Elijah Lucy Emery 48.86
Boys 100 meters-Ja'Maun Charles Amador Valley 10.71
Boys 800 meters-Cristian Monsalud James Logan 1:54.06
Boys 300 meter hurdles-Jonathan Harvey De La Salle 37.74
Boys 200 meters-Elijah Lucy Emery 21.74
Boys 3200 Meters-Colin Burke Bishop O'Dowd 9:14.69
Boys 1600 Meter Relay-St. Mary's Berkeley 3:17.57

Complete results
http://diablotiming.com/results/2015-05-29/index.htm

Most impressive performance above? Best race of the day? Most surprising result(s)? Above athlete who will record highest finish at state next week?

Fiona O'Keeffe Davis HS (SJS) 10:00.85 at SJS Master Meet

10:00.85 is the 3rd fastest time in the nation this year as well as the 6th fastest time in state history. It is not however a school record for Davis HS. That mark still belongs to Laurynne Chetelat who ran 9:52.51 at the 2008 CA state meet finishing 2nd behind Jordan Hasay's 9:52.13. The fastest time in CA history belongs to Kim Mortensen Thousand Oaks HS (9:48.59 1996).

Photo courtesy of Mike Finnerty.

Elena Bruckner, Valley Christian SJ (New CCS Record in Shot Put)

53'5.5", the 10th best throw ever in US to go along with her 182'8" discus which is the 10th best throw ever as well.

Tuesday, May 26, 2015

Monday, May 25, 2015

Northern California Section Entries

North Coast Section
http://diablotiming.com/results/2015-05-29/index.htm

Sac-Joaquin Section
http://www.cifsjs.org/sports_info/spring/track/mastersseedsdayone_15.htm

San Francisco Section
Finals Entries Link

I will post the rest as they are made public.

Tons of coverage from this past weekend's Track and Field section meets

You can find the links to those newspaper articles on my twitter feed which you can find to the right or @CCExpress. 

I will have more this coming week including previews of the section meets and all the state meet contenders.

In the meantime, feel free to post your comments below and what races/events you are most looking forward to this coming Friday and/or Saturday. Toughest, most competitive event(s)? Best event for Northern California heading to state? Who has the best shot at a state title?

Update:
For CCS finals, both Chris Foster (Los Gatos) and Jose Pina (Lincoln, San Jose) have both scratched from 1600 and will focus on 3200.

Any other notable scratches?

Thursday, May 21, 2015

Section Heat Sheets

I will post the rest as I find them.

North Coast Section
Class A Meet: http://running.blogs.pressdemocrat.com/files/2015/05/Heat-Sheets-NCS.pdf
Redwood Empire: http://running.blogs.pressdemocrat.com/files/2015/05/2015redwoodprogram7.pdf
Tri Valley Heats: Tri Valley Heat Sheets
Bayshore Heats at this LINK.

Central Coast Section
http://lynbrooksports.prepcaltrack.com/ATHLETICS/TRACK/2015/ccst_ent.htm

Sac-Joaquin Section
Division I Live Results: http://timerhub.com/get_web_index.php?page=redcaptiming.com/2015/sjsd1/
Division II-III Live Results: http://www.bvtrack.com/tf_LiveResults.html
Division IV-V Live Results: http://www.rtspt.com/events/cif/2015Meets/sjsd45/

Oakland Section

San Francisco Section
San Francisco Section Heat Sheets: San Francisco Section Heat Sheets

Northern Section
Licensed to West Valley High School HY-TEK's Meet Manager 5/16/2015 10:39 AM
Northern SectionTrack and Field - 5/22/2015 
Division 2 Championships 
West Valley High School 
Meet Program 

Event 1 Girls 1600 Meter Run Junior Varsity (8)
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Name Year School Seed Finals
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Section 1 Timed Finals
1 Krier, Meri 10 Yreka 5:32.05 
2 Jackson, Lacey 10 Yreka 5:50.12 
3 Cluck, Madelyn 9 Lassen 5:53.59 
4 Aragon, Jasmyne 9 West Valley 5:55.66 
5 Rodriguez, Angelica 10 West Valley 6:09.61 
6 Haeckel, Issy 10 Central Vall 6:10.24 
7 Sannar, Whitney 9 Gridley 6:14.15 
8 Swift, Grace 10 Sutter 6:15.54 
Alternates
1 Barton, Hannah 9 Central Vall 6:11.78 
2 Gibson, Cassie 10 Gridley 6:21.31 
Click the link (Section Heat Sheets) above for the complete list.

Monday, May 18, 2015

Time to change the qualifying procedure from league to CCS?

If you missed all the comments below in regards to the qualifying procedure to CCS, here you go. If you have anything to add, feel free to add your thoughts in the comment section below. Also, instead of further complaints, what is your solution? Do you have a proposal that can be implemented next year by CCS?
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 Pissed off parent said...
WCAL is the strongest league gets two spots. Everyone else gets 6 or 8? In track how hard is it to get the fastest qualifying on?
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Blogger Albert Caruana said...
No question that the qualifying procedure from league to CCS is something that has been argued over for many years. Unfortunately, when the North and South meets were eliminated, that made making CCS very difficult especially in leagues like the WCAL. The places that automatically qualify from each league are based solely on the sizes of schools which doesn't seem fair for smaller leagues with high quality participants.

The coaches are the ones that need to initiate proposals that could fix the current format. Until somebody really makes a strong push for a change, we will be stuck with the current format.
10:14 AM
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Anonymous Anonymous said...
Why even have an auto-qualifying time? At least in the distance races, NOBODY across all the leagues benefited from the auto-qual time. Those that ran under the time qualified based on place to CCS
1:13 PM
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Anonymous Anonymous said...
In the girls 1600 final at the SCCAL league, there were three girls who qualified with the auto time to CCS (after the top 2 finishers). SCCAL is another league that only gets two qualifiers to CCS.
1:57 PM
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Anonymous Anonymous said...
In the boys 800, a 1:58.7, the 7th fastest time in CCS doesn’t make CCS.
In the boys 1600, 4:23.3 and 4:23.5, the 9th and 10th fastest times in CCS don’t make the meet.
In the boys 3200, six times under 9:45 -- the 14th, 17th , 19th, 21st and 22nd fastest times in CCS don’t make the meet.

CCS should do away with mis-proportional automatic qualifiers and move to a straight “top 2 qualify per school plus the next fastest 16.” That ensures all districts get at least 2, the largest districts likely more.

For example, in the 800, BVAL would get 6 (instead of 8), MBL 2 (instead of 5), WCAL 5 (instead of 2) and the other leagues their same amount.

In the 1600, BVAL would qualify 2 (instead of 8), MBL 2 (instead of 5), MTAL (+4), PAL 4 (instead of 5), SCCAL 6 (up from 2), SCVAL 5 (from 6), WBAL 2 and WCAL 5 (up from 2).

In the 3200, BVAL would qualify 7 (down from 8), MBL 2 (down from 5), MTAL 2, PAL 2 (down from 5), SCCAL 2, SCVAL 8 (up from 6), WBAL 2 and WCAL 7 (up from 2).

This would ensure everyone runs hard at league finals, and avoid as Albert says “there is no reason for some athletes to throw down quality efforts at their league final with the much tougher races looming ahead.”
4:21 PM
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Anonymous Anonymous said...
There needs to be a qualifying system that is fair. A fair thing would be to make the qualifying equal to the 24th ranked time the previous 4 years. That's three heats. Or 32 for 4 heats. Whatever it is, you hit the time you are in. So what if you have 20 schools in your league or have an extra heat at trials. Also, you should be able to qualify at your league meet, trials or finals. This way you get two meets to hit the time at the end of the year. It's time for a change. Could you imagine? 3rd place is in that league and could be 3rd in CCS but doesn't get to go? Does anyone have a reasonable argument against a straight time qualifier? I say league champs and hit a time to go to CCS. This is an individual sport. Best marks should go!
4:29 PM
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Anonymous Anonymous said...
Also note, the WCAL has a frosh soph division that should get CCS qualifiers. A girl runs 5:11/11:26 in jv. A 5-0 high jump girl jv. A 16-9 lj jv girl. A 4:22 frosh mile. 2 guys under 2 in 800. A 9:40 2 mile in frosh soph boys. Let's have any kid that hits the time get to go. League races are tactical. Also could you imagine throwing against VC girls? 3rd would win almost every league but doesn't make CCS.
4:35 PM
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Anonymous Anonymous said...
Those in power voted to make it the 8th qualifier instead of the "last qualifier" (12th in distances). They are making it harder to make CCS.

Those voting I doubt read this and have an idea of how people really feel.
4:42 PM
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Anonymous Anonymous said...
WCAL and WBAL get same number of qualifiers? Doesn't that say enough? Complain all the time but no change. Duals mean nothing, in season results mean nothing and same old archaic qualifying continues.
5:01 PM
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Anonymous Anonymous said...
How does qualification for NCS from league work exactly? Is it top six per event for every league? I know BVAL (Bay Valley) does this and was curious as to if this is the way it works in every other league.
5:02 PM
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Blogger Albert Caruana said...
The qualifying from league to the four NCS meets next weekend vary but you can check out the automatic qualifiers as well as the at-large times at http://cifncs.org/sports/track/. We used to be in NCS and the NCS Class A meet was an awesome meet for us smaller schools. The same goes for the other 3 area meets. From there, the top 7 automatically qualify to the NCS MOC as well as the top 3 from the Class A Meet.

It's very fair and really adds to those four section meets with team awards given out at each meet.

The qualifying standards for CCS are just way too rigid in most sports and really limits the numbers who get to compete. The only way changes will be made is if coaches speak up and get their league behind bylaw changes.
5:15 PM
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Blogger Andrew said...
Here are the details on how many qualifiers each NCS league gets to their respective area meet:

Class A (Branson and Berean Christian get special exceptions as their athletes must place in top 4 at league to move on to the Class A meet):

BCL - 6
Coastal Mountain - 8
Humboldt-Del Norte - 4

Redwood Empire (Lower Lake athletes must place in top 4 to advance):

HDN - 6
MCAL - 6
NBL - 6
SCL - 6

Bay Shore:

MVAL - 6
TCAL - 9
WACC - 9

Tri-Valley:

BVAL - 6
DFAL - 6
DVAL - 6
EBAL - 6
5:26 PM
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Anonymous Anonymous said...
League races might be a little more competitive if a large pecentage of top athletes weren't poached away from their home schools for athletic reasons. Top BVAL guy runs a lot faster if FS WCAL 4:23 is still in the race. I've heard the Bellarmine kids know the FS deal when they get there. We all have our choices to make. Don't worry though, the kid who finished 2nd to him in 8th grade has run a very fine 4:29 and decided he'd take one of those 8 BVAL spots.
9:29 PM
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Anonymous Anonymous said...
So you're saying because they are private the deserve less qualifying spots?
10:05 PM
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Anonymous Anonymous said...
Qualifying spots are based on population size of leagues. If kids aren't being recruited for athletic reasons, then what's the problem. I'm saying we shouldnt change the system to promote more of this behavior. We all know it's going on. Accept more schools and kids in WCAL and you'll get more spots. Sound fair to me.
10:22 PM
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Anonymous Anonymous said...
Lol. Like anyone wants to enter the WCAL. They don't even want to compete against them at CCS you think they want to join a league. So your argument is slower kids should advance to CCS because they are not private?
10:33 PM
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Anonymous Anonymous said...
My argument is Ha Ha. You guys cry about this every year. The world is unfair. Sometimes you got the votes sometimes you don't. That's my argument. Slower kids who stay at home and aren't recruited to go to private schools for purely athletic reasons should move on. The system isn't set up to take care of the few. Tough luck. Most of them know the deal going in. Isn't that why the put you all in your own league anyway? Good thing is colleges don't really care where you run your times. CCS or WCAL. We all have choices to make. If you want to cut you teeth as a freshman against the likes of Steven Sum, and Jose Piña, you'd better stay at home, or you'd better be able to run that auto qualifier. The best will be at the meet.
11:22 PM
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Anonymous Anonymous said...
Sounds like everyone thinks this is a WCAL argument – tell that to the kid from Pacific Collegiate who ran 4:23.3 in the 1600 and isn’t going to CCS. Tell that to the 2 other kids from King City, making it 4 from that school who should be going to CCS in the 1600. Tell that to the kids from Santa Cruz and Scotts Valley who ran 4:27 and aren’t going to CCS. Tell that to the kids who “stayed at home” at Lynbrook and Homestead and ran under 9:45 in the 3200 and aren’t going.

It’s incorrect to state “the best will be at the meet” when you leave someone out who’s ranked in the top 16, and that does a disservice to all who are interested in competition.
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Anonymous Anonymous said...
So it is time for a change and league reps to get behind this. How many heats do the want at trials? 4? Top 32?
Have a time qualifier equal to the average 24th fastest time. Take league champions fill the next.
And no one is getting recruited give me a break. This is not about economics, it's about being fast. And what about the Piedmont Hills that moves from school to school. Is that any better?
Seems like public schools are more affected than WCAL. All I can say is speak up at the evaluation meeting.

Thursday, May 14, 2015

Northern California League Final Results

Central Coast Section
PAL Results (New)

WCAL Results
Elena Bruckner Valley Christian SJ Discus 182'8" NEW CCS Record/Previous mark 165'10"
Darius Thomas St. Francis High Jump 7'0" 4th CCS athlete to jump over 7' in HJ.

MTAL Results

WBAL Live Results

SCVAL Results

BVAL Results

North Coast Section
BCL Results (New)

TCAL Results (New)

CMC Girls Results (New)
CMC Boys Results (New)

SCL Boys Results (New)
SCL Girls Results (New)

WACC Results (New)
Videos from WACC meet thanks to Rob Mackey

MCAL Results (New)

DVAL Results

DFAL Full Results

MVAL Results

EBAL Results

NBL Varsity Boys Results
NBL Varsity Girls Results

HDN Results (New)

Sac-Joaquin Section
Modesto Metro Conference Championship Results

Also, thanks to David Unterholzner, the SJS league final meets are indexed at the following divisional links:

California State Junior College Meet Results (New)

Other results? Send them to albertjcaruana@gmail.com

Racing the Rain: A Review of John L. Parker’s newest novel

For you "Once A Runner" fans out there, check out the following book review for John L. Parker's latest book, "Racing the Rain".
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Racing the Rain delivers the goods on young Quenton Cassidy with Parker’s flair for inspirational running scenes, an intriguing cast of characters, and a verdant setting above and below the surface of the Florida Gold Coast.
John L. Parker returns in Racing the Rain to flesh out the character of Cassidy, beginning with the young boy that would toe the line barefoot to run his first race, not against people, or even himself, but just to feel the wind and the joy of the act of running. Quenton Cassidy, the famed hero of Once a Runner, received the gifts of speed and the courage of a miler from the gods, but until those talents were nurtured by coaches and mentors, they lay quiescent.
Parker opens the novel with scenes from an American childhood that will seem alien to most of his young readers, but that resonates with authenticity for the age; and, of course, there’s a race.
The boys in the story—Cassidy, his friends Stiggs and Randleman—roamed freely as the story unfolds, the early years touched on at the highlights, until Racing the Rain settles into the early teenage years when Cassidy turns serious about sports even as he searches for his identity.
For Cassidy, identity gets bound by the character of the Florida Gold Coast and by Trapper Nelson. Trapper, who as Cassidy thought of it, “. . . was supposedly bigger and stronger than Paul Bunyan, had more powers than Superman, knew more about animals than Tarzan . . .”  is the first to suggest that Cassidy pursue running, and was wise enough to wait for the seed to germinate. Trapper lives alone in the Everglades and the two form a relationship built on a mutual appreciation of each other and the Glades.
Parker’s ability to write a race scene that leaves your pulse pounding was the backbone of Once a Runner. In Racing the Rain, he adds a graceful skill in describing the natural world of Cassidy, whether describing a foray to capture bait fish amongst the cattails in the tide pools, scuba-diving in coral “so exotic they seemed not the product of the natural world, but of some schizophrenic jeweler,” or the feel of the oppressive summer heat as he works for Trapper maintaining an exotic menagerie. Parker’s affinity for Florida helps him paint the scenes with details that allow the richness of the place and time shine through.
As an author, Parker also added some misdirection to his repertoire as he gently builds a training program for young runners under the guise of telling the story. Gone are the sixty quarter miles, replaced by the guiding wisdom of Archie San Romani through Trapper, and later, from his coaches, especially Mr. Kamrad. The running is interspersed with basketball. It’s on the court that Cassidy first stars, learning the lessons of diligent practice and focus to reach beyond the barriers that had been applied to him.
Parker does a smooth job of bringing the previous book’s characters back to round out the scenes. Readers of Once a Runner will recognize many of the characters, not the least Mizner and a young Jack Nubbins and the race finale takes place at Southeastern University, the setting forOnce a Runner.
Parker continues to blend in the science of training with his racing, but does so subtly. He sets basketball as the prestige sport, with cross country and track distant also-rans in the school hierarchy of popularity, not so different from the reality for most runners. As the plot develops, so does Cassidy’s character. The reader watches the writer deftly molding young Cassidy into the man that he will be in Once a Runner, the athlete with an almost visceral rejection of stupidity masquerading as authority. The tension builds through the second third of the novel as Cassidy is forced, by a combination of his own talents and decisions as well as the internal pressures of the sports programs with the prestige to decide on his future.
The result is less a one dimensional running book like Once a Runner and more a coming of age story for Quenton Cassidy, teenager. As such, it should have wider appeal to more readers. And yet, there’s that Parker touch, and the runners will recognize the magic that Parker brings to running fiction, that makes it special to all of us that once dreamed of being that runner.
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Paul Duffau writes novels about running and works with junior high cross country runners part-time. His first novel, Finishing Kick, was recognized by Running Times in their Summer Reading list July, 2014. His newest novel, a high-octane adventure set in the mountains of Montana, is Trail of Second Chances. He blogs on the running life, running book, and interviews people that he finds interesting atwww.paulduffau.com .

Tuesday, May 12, 2015

Santa Rosa High School freshman Kirsten Carter is off and running


Santa Rosa High School freshman Kirsten Carter is off and running (One of the top freshmen in California goes to Santa Rosa HS. Keep an eye on her in NCS and beyond)

Northern California Coaching Opening in the fall?

Send me the details to albertjcaruana@gmail.com and I will post the job opening right here. Looking for a job in the fall? Same.

Friday, May 08, 2015

Matthew Maton 6th American HSer under 4 minute mile

@FloTrack: .@matthewmaton1 is the 3rd fastest high school miler EVER 3:59:38!! http://twitter.com/FloTrack/status/596861157434003457/photo/1

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