Section Track and Field Meet Predictions

How well do you know the teams and/or athletes in Northern California? Are you very familiar a particular section? Then this is your chance to predict the state meet qualifiers from the following sections: Central Coast Section (CCS), North Coast Section (NCS) and San Joaquin Section (SJS).

If you would like to take part in the CCS/NCS/SJS prediction contest, send in your predictions to albertjcaruana@gmail.com. Please include the top 3/4 finishers (depending on the section) for all events (running and field/boys and girls) as well as your predictions for the team champions along with their scores. If there is a tie, the team champions and scores will break those ties.

Entries are due by midnight, Thursday May 28th for CCS and 10AM, Saturday May 30th for the NCS and SJS.

Your entries should look like this
Name: John Aki Bua Uganda HS Athlete (or coach/parent etc.)

Listed in order of finish (1st through 3rd)
Girls' 400m. Relay-James Logan, Long Beach Poly, St. Francis
Boys' 400m. Relay-
Girls' 1600m.-Jordan Hasay, Mary Decker, Yunxia Qu
Boys' 1600m.-
Girls' 100m. Hurdles-
Boys' 110m. Hurdles-
etc.
Don't forget the field events.

Let me know if you have any questions or have any suggestions for the contest.

The winner will be announced on Sunday, May 31st.

Here are a couple of newspaper articles that might help you with your predictions:

Getting ready for state track and field meet (SF Chronicle)

Locals take first place at CCS track and field semifinals (mercurynews.com)

Gunn leads local qualifiers for CCS track championships
Titans advanced nine athletes in 12 events for the section finals (Palo Alto online)

Balers 4x400 team clocks top time in section, advances to CCS Finals (HollisterFreelance.com)

CCS track: Several Mariners, MVC's Mazerik make finals (Register-Pajarionian)

Boys' track advances two athletes to CCS finals (Palo Alto online)

5 Warriors advance to Meet of Champs (triplicate.com)

Petaluma Redwood Empire track champion with both boys and girls (pressdemocrat.com)

Girls prep of the week: Lindsay Bedard (Marinij.com)
Boys prep of the week: Evan Meehan (Marinij.com)

Tracy athletes at Sac-Joaquin Track and Field today in Sacramento (insidebayarea.com)

Grizzlies have high hopes in Masters field events

Sutter, Alviso, Feulner and Zingheim on course for state meet(www.granitebaypt.com)

More Folsom athletes qualify for Masters track and field meet (www.folsomtelegraph.com)

Sprinters headline Masters track qualifiers

Holt, Crosta to battle again in 3200-meter run(granitebaypt.com)

Sights set on State
Patriots hopeful, realistic about Masters Meet (www.dailydemocrat.com)

Sophomore has high hopes at Masters meet (www.thereporter.com)

Riverbank Rises To The Section Challenge (www.news.com)

Ten local track athletes headed to Masters Meet (NapaValleyRegister.com)