Briggs Deardorff of the Santa Barbara High cross country squad finished 36th out of 201 runners in the large school boys varsity division of the Clovis Invitational Saturday, running the 5K course in 16:24. Leading the Dons on the girls side was Ana Cowgill, who weathered the cold and windy day to finish 99th out of 181 in 21:16. Geena Boscacci was five seconds behind Cowgill, placing 105th. … [Read more...]

It was a different week with the same result in Wednesday's Condor League cross country meet at Cate, as the Thacher Toads finished well ahead of the pack in both the boys and girls competitions.Laguna Blanca finished second in the girls race and third in the boys. The Owl girls were led by a fifth-place finish from Sarah O'Conner (22:01), with Vanessa Tom right behind her in sixth with a time of 22:13. … [Read more...]

The Santa Barbara and Dos Pueblos cross country teams headed to the Pepperdine Invitational on Saturday to compete on what both coaches Olivia Perdices and Leslie Wiggins-Roth labeled as "a college-level course." The Charger girls finished fourth while the boys were 10th. The Dons, missing several runners to SATs, still had some solid individual races and finished up in 13th place for the girls and 23rd for the boys in one of the larger meets of the year for both teams."It was good for … [Read more...]

The Bishop Diego cross country team ran Thursday at Lake Casitas on a course that coach Ray Vasquez called "one of the toughest" of the Frontier League meets. That didn't slow down freshman Elias Muñoz, who finished fifth overall in his first cross country meet to lead the Cardinal boys to a second-place finish out of five schools. The girls team finished fourth overall behind another freshman, Christie Delgadillo. … [Read more...]

It was over 100 degrees Wednesday afternoon at Midland School, and the Thacher Toads kept cool in the heat to win both the boys and girls competitions in the first Condor League cross-country meet.Laguna Blanca was second and Cate was third in the girls race, with Cate's Mackenzie Walsh taking third individually, clocking in at 21 minutes, 17 seconds. Following her were teammates Adrian Walsh (10th, 23:14), Denali Tietjen (16th, 25:58), Cascade Zak (22nd, 26:23) and Lexi Greenwald (25th, … [Read more...]

Christopher Braden continued to shine, as the Dos Pueblos cross-country standout finished third out of 131 runners on Saturday at the Lagoon Meet.His speedy time of 16:46 came despite it being the Chargers' third race in seven days."He really surprised me. It was a spectacular performance," said coach Leslie Wiggins-Roth.Kelly Kosmo also had a great day, finishing sixth in the girls race with a mark of 20:32. Wiggins-Roth also highlighted the performance of Emily Foster. … [Read more...]

Ventura High has always been dominant in cross country, but when it comes to second place in Channel League meets, there is some considerable parity nowadays.Host Dos Pueblos beat San Marcos by one point in the girls race and edged Buena by two in the boys race to pick up a pair of pleasant surprises for coach Leslie Wiggins-Roth on Wednesday, finishing second in both contests.San Marcos had the top individual performances of the three city schools, as Danielle Gemberling took second … [Read more...]

Gabrielle Wildfeuer took five minutes off of her previous mark at Lake Casitas and Ian Miley shaved off four minutes on a great day for the San Marcos cross country team at the Ojai Invitational."The kids really stepped up. This is an opportunity to compete more at an individual level instead of as a team, and I think we had about 20 kids come back with a medal," said coach Lawrence Stehmeier.Katelyn Rheinschild and Reed Peterson had particularly strong races, according to the coach. … [Read more...]

SAN LUIS OBISPO — Paige Colijn was the top finisher for SBCC in the Cuesta Invitational on Saturday, taking ninth place in cross country race. She ran 21:13 in the women's 5K, which was won by Katie Dunn of Glendale in 18:47. … [Read more...]

 SAN LUIS OBISPO — Paige Colijn was the top finisher for SBCC in the Cuesta Invitational on Saturday, taking ninth place in cross country race. She ran 21:13 in the women's 5K, which was won by Katie Dunn of Glendale in 18:47. The Vaquero women, who didn't field a full team in their first race at Ventura, placed fifth out of six teams with 115 points. Glendale won with 25 points. SBCC's Ivana Sanchez was 25th in 23:53, Sarah Gustavsson placed 32nd (24:55) and Cassidy Daum was 33rd … [Read more...]

 The Carpinteria Bluffs were the site of a three-school cross country meet on Wednesday involving Carpinteria High, Cate School and Bishop Diego. Fitttingly, it was the two Carpinteria schools that the boys and girls winners came from. Cate's Mackenzie Walsh and Carpinteria's Travis Madden took top honors for girls and boys respectively. … [Read more...]