================ MEET INFORMATION =================

CCS Top 8 - Meet Records (thru 2024)
CCS Top 8-Apr 18

Jim Linthecum Invite [JC] (Apr 10&11)

Quicksilver Invite (Apr 4)

Stanford Inv - Entries
Stanford Inv - 1906-1914
Stanford Inv - Meet Records (thru 2025)
Stanford Inv (Apr 3&4)

DA/Wilcox Meet Program
DA/Wilcox Invite (Mar 28)

Firebird Meet Program
Firebird Relays (Mar 21)

5th Hillsdale Fighting Knights Relays - Meet Program
5th Hillsdale Fighting Knights Relays (Mar 14)

John Owens/Willow Glen Invitational (Mar 14)

10th Annual RustBuster Program (Heats & Lanes)
Athlete ID # (bib #)
10th Annual RustBuster Invitational (Mar 7)

Watsonville WildCat Relays (Mar 14)
Young Guns Freshman Frenzy (Mar 7) At Pajaro Valley HS
Watsonville Winter Time Trials (Feb 28)

Winter Qualifier ID #'s
De Anza College Winter Qualifier Meet (Jan 31)

Los Gatos Winter All-Comer Meets

2025 XC: Still looking for 2025 XC results?

================ ARTICLES & MISC =================

Gotta love all the jumping, running and sprinting that goes on at the Milpitas @ Gunn Dual on Thursday. Thanks Duke for the pics to share.

St Francis Invite had some phenominal marks and competition. Malcolm Slaney photos can be found here.

The "Father of Crystal Springs" (Bob Rush) passed away Saturday morning (Mar 14th) at 90 years old. He, along with Loren Lansbury (Carlmont), created the current Crystal Springs XC course in 1971 (history to follow). Seen here in his earlier years coaching the CSM teams and at 90 running the last 600m of the Crystal course. A man with many stories that he left up to you to decide if they were so or not. Following is what he told me on the creation of the Crystal Springs course,

Bob Rush (Father of Crystal Springs course) lived in Grass Valley where in High School he learned to build Fire Trails from XC/Track coach/teacher Roger Snipe. In 1952 Coach Snipe was the HS Forestry teacher and his team/class built an XC course at the local fairgrounds. Bob worked with the area Fire Department in Grass Valley for 12 years. This served him well many years later when the development of the Crystal Springs course was being laid out. After working with Loren Landsbury (Carlmont) for a course design, Bob went down to the Belmont Fire Department and asked if they’d like some training and practice on how to build Fire Trails. They told him they’d get back to him if they could get approval. Feeling it was a dead end, Bob didn’t expect anything to happen in the near future if at all. The next day Bob got a call from Belmont FD that said they had the approval and equipment (bulldozer) so could they get on it the next morning. Off they went with Bob leading the way by walking thru all the tall grass with new course map in hand. There were no scrub bushes back then for the area used to be mowed for the tall grass and sold for cattle feed, the scrub brush moved in years later when the mowing stopped. Originally there was not going to be a dropdown right before Cardiac Hill and hence there would be no Cardiac Hill, they were going to skirt around it by going to the right and hook up to what is now the JC inner circle of the course. When the day was done, Crystal Springs XC Course had been born. The course is built on approximately 199 acres.

He is someone who I feared in high school but was inspired as a coach, who shared his knowledge and love of coaching & running with me. More pictures of Bob can be found here - RIP. Bob Rush Obit from San Mateo Daily.

The best weather the RustBuster Invite has ever had! Boys 100 saw some great early season marks while Amaya Bharadwaj (Paly) breaks the stadium record in the 3200 by 36 seconds with a 10:20.52 clocking. Pictures thanks to "The Duke" & Malcolm Slaney.

A history throwback for the day... Franklin Stadium in 1967, home of the Penn Relays. And link for Paly Coach Hod Ray (1921-1951) where he coached Football, BasketBall, Baseball & Track (the Paly field is named after him).

From 1977 where Carl Florant (Berkeley/Paly'73) is in full flight handing off to Keith Taylor in the 4x1. Carl is still ranked #11 with his 13.6h (13.93c) time in the 110HH on the All-Time CCS list.

1956 and this is what Stanford Univ looked like - Sunken Diamond, Angell Field, Campus. Lot's changed in 70 years.

Computers make End Of Season lists (all lists really) a breeze to maintain and distribute but back in the early 70's (and further back) you had to find a coach to volunteer to maintain the lists if the data was sent in. Here is a request from "said" coach to get "said" data.

The indoor tracks of today are a thing of beauty. Now let's go back to 1971 when some indoor tracks were made of DIRT (12 laps to the mile) and the stagger/race start lines were painted on the wall - check out this letter to T&F News.

Being at today's Los Gatos All-Comer meet brought me back to when brothers Rick & Leroy Milam used to help run these meets. Rick helped Willie Harmatz start these meets in 1979 and Leroy was a long time starter. Oh, and there was an American Mile Record Holder hanging around as well.

The All-NorCal team with the Grade Runners of the year displayed.
Alijah Murillo (Branham), Cooper Stream (Vacaville), Elias Thronson (Davis), Liam Tassa (Mt View), Amaya Bharadwaj (Paly), Farah Allen (Branson), Ellison Williams (Turlock), Alyssa Gutierrez (St Francis-Sac)

SCVAL Pre-season Track Meeting: is Monday, January 26th at 4:00pm. Location: TBD if not at Santa Clara Admin building. If you have anything you would like to put on the agenda, please email Julie by noon Sunday, January 25. Meeting Handouts. SCVAL minutes

Addtions to the All-Time CCS Top 100 list, from 2025, can be found here.

===== RESULTS =====

Stanford Invite - Pictures

   SCVAL Results:
Los Gatos @ Gunn
Cupertino @ Saratoga
MacDonald @ Monta Vista
Santa Clara @ Wilcox
Los Altos @ Mt View
Lynbrook @ Paly

Wilcox @ Saratoga
Monta Vista @ Santa Clara
Milpitas @ Gunn
Fremont @ MacDonald
Paly @ Homestead
Los Gatos @ Los Altos

Santa Clara @ Fremont
Wilcox @ Cupertino
Saratoga @ Monta Vista
Mt View @ Paly
Lynbrook @ Los Gatos
Gunn @ Homestead
Milpitas @ Los Altos

Lynbrook @ Mt View - Videos of Quad Meet
Milpitas @ Mt View
Milpitas vs Lynbrook
Homestead @ Mt View
Homestead vs Milpitas
Homestead vs Lynbrook
Saratoga @ MacDonald
Wilcox @ M Vista
Paly @ Los Gatos
Cupertino @ Fremont
Los Altos @ Gunn

M Vista @ Cupertino
Fremont @ Saratoga
Santa Clara @ MacDonald
Paly @ Milpitas
Homestead @ Los Altos
Mt View @ Los Gatos
Lynbrook @ Gunn
   end of SCVAL Results:

   PAL Results:
M-A @ Woodside
MA-Aragon-Mills
Carlmont-MA-Hillsdale
   end of PAL Results:

De Anza / Wilcox Invite - Pictures

13th Annual Firebird Relays

St Francis Invitational - Slaney pics

Hillsdale Fighting Knight's Relays

John Owens / Willow Glen Invite

Wildcat Relays (Watsonville)

   WCAL Results:
SHC vs Riordan
   end of WCAL Results:

   WBAL Results:
WBAL 3-B
WBAL 3-A
WBAL 2-B
WBAL 2-A
WBAL 1-B
WBAL 1-A
   end of WBAL Results:

RustBuster Invite - PICS: Slaney - - videos

Freshman Frenzy (Watsonville)

K-Bell Invite

Don Gabor Invite

Piedmont Hills @ Milpitas

Watsonville Winter Time Trials

400 ShootOut (MV)
Saratoga TT
Berkeley All-Comer #1

Arcadia Winter Championships

DeAnza Winter Qualifier AC

Los Gatos All-Comer (Jan 24) - Video
Los Gatos All-Comer (Jan 17)
Los Gatos All-Comer (Jan 10) - Video
Los Gatos All-Comer (Dec 20)