SGV at Mt.SAC – Combined & Adjusted

The SGV ran very well at last weekend’s Mt.SAC Invitational.  The Arcadia boys and girls were the top teams, and the Apache’s Sergio Gonzalez and Veronica Yamane were the top local athletes on a weekend that saw nine girls break 19:00 and seventeen boys go under 16:00 despite the heat on Friday and Saturday afternoons.   In this article, we want to go a bit deeper in analyzing the SGV’s performances

The San Gabriel Valley has about 2 3 million residents.  If we were a state, we’d be about the size of New Mexico.  The Southern Section has (roughly) about 19 million residents, about equal in size to Florida.  Because of the size and excellence of the Southern Section’s many excellent athletes and teams, runners that would be State meet athletes in most states get lost in the shuffle at CIF prelims or in some cases, don’t even make it out of league! (ED: Not enough coffee – the SGV is 2 million people (and that is the size of New Mexico) so the merge should include just 11 schools.  Next time…)

This is why we’ve developed events like the SGV Track and Field Championships, where athletes can have a place to compete that is bigger than league but more attainable than CIF, and it’s why we’ve created this website.

So how would things have turned out if it were just the SGV competing at Mt.SAC in our own championship?  If we kept the same proportion as the CIF-SS finals (80 teams in finals for 19 million people) would have 13 teams in our Championship heat.  So to that end, you can see these two merges of the top 13 SGV teams from the Mt.SAC Invite.  Even though they ran at different times and in different weather, we didn’t adjust the times – we just plugged in each teams Varsity times and did a merge as if they were in the same meet.

We also took a guess at trying to adjust for the heat in the afternoons, and after the jump you can see the top 13 teams by time and the top 14 athletes after the adjustments, showing that if we can all run when it’s cool, our athletes will turn in some extraordinary times.

SGV Top 13 Girls Teams at 2011 Mt.SAC Invitational – Adjusted

Adjustments: – 12 per runner on Friday Afternoon, – 25 per runner on Saturday Afternoon

1. 1:36:09  Arcadia (Div. I)
2. 1:36:26  Glendora (Div. II) – 2:05
3. 1:36:30  Claremont (Div. II) – 2:05
4. 1:37:00  Mayfield (Div. IV) – 1:00
5. 1:37:05  Bonita (Div. III) – 1:00
6. 1:38:26  Walnut (Div. I)
7. 1:38:40  South Pasadena (Div. III) – 1:00
8. 1:39:47  South Hills (Div. III) – 1:00
9. 1:42:09  Rosemead (Div. III) – 1:00
10. 1:42:31  Whittier (Div. I) –
11. 1:42:55  El Rancho (Div. I) –
12. 1:43:19  California (Div. I) –
13. 1:44:29  Flintridge Sacred Heart (Div. IV) – 1:00

Top Performers Adjusted

1. 18:10  Kelli Hunt – Sr, Whittier Christian – :12
2. 18:14  Marissa Scott – Jr, Bonita – :12
3. 18:21  Veronica Yamane – So, Arcadia
4. 18:33  Merin Arft – So, Claremont – :25
5. 18:33  Emily Hubert – Fr, Bishop Amat – :12
6. 18:37  Anahi Betart – Fr, Walnut
7. 18:38  Alejandra Quintero – Sr, Arcadia
8. 18:40  Helena Van Loan – So, South Pasadena – :12
9. 18:41  Megan Renken – So, Claremont – :25
10. 18:47  Christina Cordano – Jr, Mayfield – :12
11. 18:51  Evan Gancedo – So, Pasadena Poly – :12
12. 18:57  Sarah Yoho – So, Flintridge Prep – :12
13. 18:59  Cori Harral – So, Glendora – :25
14. 19:03  Baily Henry – Jr, El Rancho

SGV Top 13 Boys Teams at 2011 Mt.SAC Invitational – Adjusted

Adjustments: – 10 per runner on Friday Afternoon, – 20 per runner on Saturday Afternoon

1. 77:36  Arcadia (Div. I)
2. 79:32  Damien (Div. III) – :50
3. 80:17  Don Bosco (Div. IV) – :50
4. 80:19  El Rancho (Div. I)
5. 81:22  California (Div. I)
6. 81:26  South Pasadena (Div. III) -  :50
7. 81:35  Claremont (Div. II) – 1:40
8. 81:43  Flintridge Prep (Div. V) -:50
9. 81:59  Glendora (Div. II) – 1:40
10. 82:06  Los Altos (Div. III) – :50
11. 82:30  Santa Fe (Div. I)
12. 82:43  Bonita (Div. III) – :50
13. 83:27  South Hills (Div. III) – :50

Top Performers Adjusted

1. 14:49  Sergio Gonzalez – Sr, Arcadia
2. 15:19  Mitchell Pratt – Jr, Arcadia
3. 15:20  Aaron Mora – Sr, Whittier
4. 15:24  Tom Ebiner – Sr, Damien – :10
5. 15:25  Daniel De La Torre – Jr, La Salle – :10
6. 15:27  Ryan Vargas – Sr, Arcadia
7. 15:29  Kevin Ramirez – Jr, Santa Fe
8. 15:36  Jair Juarez – Sr, Los Altos – :10
9. 15:36  J.J. Dominguez – Sr, Don Bosco – :10
10. 15:38  Conor Brandt – Sr, Damien – :10
11. 15:40  Jimmy Baeskens – Jr, Claremont – :20
12. 15:44  Henry Rodriguez – Sr, El Rancho
13. 15:45  Zach Mejia – Jr, El Rancho
14. 15:45  Alexander Tranquada – Sr, South Pasadena – :20