We caught up with Mingus Union High School's Cesar Diaz to talk about his season so far and what he's doing to prepare for the Desert Twilight XC Festival.
It took us a couple weeks but we did indeed catch up with Yorba Linda (SS) senior Siena Palicke, who was the No. 4 CA high school runner at the Oct. 2 Desert Twilight XC Festival held on the 5K course at The Links at Queen Creek on the outskirts of Phoenix. This was the second "summer rules" race for Palicke, who competes for Quick Track Club, following an early September rust-buster in San Antonio. Palicke's time during the COVID-19 shutdown of official CIF competition was spent training, working at a pizza restaurant and also locking down her future, announcing a commitment to UCLA where she said she plans to study biology. Palicke has one more "summer" race on her schedule, Oct. 23 in Gilbert, Arizona, before taking a short break before ramping training back up in preparation for the delayed 2020-21 CIF cross country season expected to begin at the end of December and run through late March. Palicke has twice placed third in Division 3 at the Southern Section championships and last year placed fourth in D-III at the State Meet. Enjoy our chat with Siena Palicke.
California girls competed unattached or with club teams on the 5,000-meter course at The Links at Queen Creek last Friday in Arizona.
California boys competed unattached or with clubs on the 5,000-meter course at The Links at Queen Creek last Friday outside of Phoenix.
With the new Twilight course in 2020, we looked at how runners who also ran the 2019 course fared on both courses. We also looked at the best time drop by an athlete (both by percentage and net time) from 2019 to 2020.
Here are the senior girls' rankings from all races from last week's Desert Twilight XC Festival.
Here are the senior boys' rankings from all races from last week's Desert Twilight XC Festival.
Here are the junior girls' rankings from all races from last week's Desert Twilight XC Festival.
Here are the junior boys' rankings from all races from last week's Desert Twilight XC Festival.
Here are the soph girls' rankings from all races from last week's Desert Twilight XC Festival.
Here are the soph boys' rankings from all races from last week's Desert Twilight XC Festival.
Here are the frosh girls' rankings from all races from last week's Desert Twilight XC Festival
Here are the frosh boys rankings from all races from last week's Desert Twilight XC Festival.
Texas speed ratings from the Desert Twilight XC Festival, held October 1-2.
Individual and team wins and honors came home to Texas from the Sweepstakes race at the Desert Twilight in Arizona.
With the new Twilight course in 2020, we looked at how runners who also ran the 2019 course fared on both courses. We also looked at the best time drop by an athlete (both by percentage and net time) from 2019 to 2020.
Catch coverage highlights from Week 6 of XC racing in Wisconsin!
Watch Tatum David and the IMG Academy (FL) girls take home the high school girls sweepstakes race.
Watch Tatum David and the IMG Academy (FL) girls take home the win at the Desert Twilight XC Festival. Related Links:ResultsVideosPhotosArticles
Myles Floyd of Pusch Ridge Christian Academy takes first place in the Small School Frosh race on Thursday, October 1st.
Race video and photos from this year's Desert Twilight XC Festival held on October 1-2 at The Links Gold Course in Queen Creek, AZ.
Watch the guys from Newbury Park Athletic Club win the team title in the Desert Twlight Unattached Club Sweeps Boys race.
A recap of the four elite races from the Desert Twilight Invitational on Friday in Arizona
We've put together some vertuial meet for some of this weekends biggest matchups including; the Alexander Asics Invitational and Jesse Owens Classic.
More than any other year, the Desert Twilight Invitational is expected to bring in some big-time competition from surrounding states
In 2019 Highland High's (AZ) Leo Daschbach set the Desert Twilight Festival course record.
On this week's episode of On The Line, the gang broke down what to look forward to at the Desert Twilight Invitational
Popular cross country meet outside of Phoenix has attracted many California elite high school runners and teams just looking for an opportunity to compete.
Coach of CIF-State and national boys team champions talks challenges during COVID, expectations for Desert Twilight, and says this team is better than 2019.
The 14-time CIF-State cross country champion coach talks COVID-19 challenges, roster turnover, and expectations for Friday at Desert Twilight XC.