Kylee Kieser

Desert Vista's (AZ) Lauren Ping recorded the fastest out-of-state girls 3-mile at the Mt. Sac Invitational in 2019, running 16:47.00.

Some of these times are really, really fast; check out our full list below.

With The Desert Twilight XC Festival tomorrow, we decided to take a look back at the top 200 times from athletes on the girls side over the years.

With The Desert Twilight XC Festival coming up, we decided to take a look back at the top 200 times from Arizona athletes on the girls side over the years.

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – Northern Arizona University’s track & field team completed day three of competition at the Big Sky Outdoor Championship

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 Kylee Kieser (Sr., Marcos de Niza) writes about her last two big meets in her 4th journal.  (Photo left: Kieser at the finish line during the Nike SW Regionals).

 Kylee Kieser (Marcos de Niza) writes about her trip to California and the team's win at Sectionals.

 Rex Woodbury (Sr., Catalina Foothills) writes about his team's recent trip to Mt. Sac and their journey to state in his 3rd journal.

Cheyenne Mountain's boys executed a near-perfect patient pack strategy to dominate the Colorado 4A boys state championship. Photo by Alan Versaw.  

 The Xavier JV girls with Coach Van Sickle accepting an award for their first place win in the JV National race.

Los Alamos: New Mexico's green wall of girls. Photo by Blake Wood.

 Photo above; Kylee Kieser crossing the finish line in 3rd place at the Doug Conley Invitational.

 Will Firth (Sr., Brophy Prep) and Rolonda Jumbo (Jr., Chinle) win at the Doug Conley Invitational.

 Kylee Kieser (Sr., Marcos de Niza, pictured above), is our fourth journalist in the series and will be sharing her final high school cross country season.

 

    Jessica Tonn (Sr., Xavier Prep) and Brian Shrader (Sr., Sinagua) won at the Queen Creek Twilight Meet in record times. Results

    The Queen Creek Twilight Invitational kicks off Friday Evening at 4:30 PM.

  Jessica Tonn (Sr, Xavier College Prep, pictured right) wins her 4th consecutive George Young title.  "I felt really good during the race and I am happy with my finish," said Tonn after her win.                      

 1A - 2A   Junior Andrea Klimowski from Northland Prep is the clear favorite in the Division 1A-2A State Meet this Saturday.  Some highlights from Klimowski's season include, 2nd at the Blue Ridge-Shane Morris Inviteand 6th at the Four Corners Invitational.  Klimowski also led her team to a 9th place finish at the Mt. Sac Invitational in California two weeks ago.  Klimowski may get some competition from teammate Corrie Bain(So.) who took 5th at the Blue Ridge-Shane Morris Invite.  Other contenders for the title could be FreshmanBrittany Little (Hopi) and Sophomore Caitlyn Mains (Northwest Christian).  Little finished 4th at the Hopi Invite,6th at the Jack Boehle Memorial, 7th at Ojo Rojo and 9th at the Blue Ridge-Shane Morris Invite.  Mains won the Tempe Prep Invitational and finished second at Phoenix Country Day School Invite.

Boys:   Tim Freriks from Mingus Union high school not only won the Jim Danner Invitational in  Oregon he smashed the course record by 9 seconds.   Jorge Martinez  (pictured right #1), a sophomore from Alhambra, and Humberto Gonzales (picuture right #36) from Cesar Chavez battled to the finish, through most of the Doug Conley Invitational with Martinez winning in 15:38 over Gonzales (15:41.14)   Tuba City's Ryan Yazzie sprinted to a third place finish with a time of 15:41.28.   Alberto Tellez from Camelback won the very hilly Los Mesquites Invitational in 16:39.