Damien & Arcadia Top Final 2015 Team Rankings

The Damien boys and Arcadia girls lead the San Gabriel Valley in the Final Team Rankings for 2015.

The goal was to create a ranking system that measures overall team strength more than a few top athletes.  This system got closer, but was still more weighted toward championship scoring over dual meet strength.  For instance, the Glendora girls were 2-3 in league, but if the Palomares had scored their Finals meet, the Tartans would have won by 30 points, and that’s why they made a big jump up the rankings.

We use the SGV rankings at Athletic.net, but his time switched up to only include auto-timed results, which also affected the rankings.

All that said, congratulations to the Apaches and Spartans.  They are great championship teams, but are also very likely the strongest dual meet teams in the SGV. Damien has at least one athlete in the SGV Top 50 in every event, and two or more in 12 of the 14 individual events.  Arcadia is even stronger with three or more Top 50 athletes in 12 events and two in the other two individual events.

Walnut had the strongest combined team (girls #2, boys #3), just edging out Arcadia (1&5).

So congratulations to these two and to all of the SGV Track and Field on an excellent year.

Full rankings after the jump

SGV Girls Team Rankings – Through May 9

1. 156 – Arcadia (1 last week)
2. 118– Walnut (2)
3. 117 – Ayala (3)
4. 109 – Glendora (8)
5. 104 – Claremont (4)
6. 90 – South Pasadena (11)
7. 89 – Monrovia (5)
8. 86 – Bonita (7)
9. 83 – California (6)
10. 75 – Bishop Amat (13)
11. 74 – Flintridge Sacred Heart (12)
12. 72 – St. Lucy’s (10)
13. 61 – Rosemead (16)
14. 58 – El Rancho (9)
15. 56 – San Dimas (18)
16. 46 – La Salle (14)
17. 41 – Mayfield (17)
18. 38 – Covina (18)
19. 37 – West Covina (20)
20. 31 – Whittier (20)

SGV Boys Team Rankings – Through April 25th

1. 140 – Damien (Last week – 1)
2. 128 – Covina (2)
3. 105 – Walnut (3)
4. 101 – Bonita (5)
5. 97 – Arcadia (6)
6. 90 –  Ayala (4)
7. 79 – Monrovia (7)
8. 67 – California (8)
9. 65 – South Pasadena (13)
10. 64 – Claremont (9)
11. 53 – Arroyo (12)
12. 49 – Gabrielino (10)
13. 49 – Bishop Amat (15)
14. 48 – Diamond Ranch (NR)
15. 47 – Baldwin Park (18)
16. 47 – St. Francis (NR)
17. 46 – South Hills (NR)
18. 44 – Rosemead (14)
19. 42 – Santa Fe (NR)
20. 41 – Diamond Bar (17)
21. 41 – Polytechnic (NR)

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These rankings are based on the current SGV Performance List.  Points are awarded for up to three athletes in each event, with 5 points going to athletes ranked 1-9, 4 pts to 10-18, 3 to 19-27, 2 to 28-36 & 1 to 37 to 45.  Relays are 7 points to ranks 1-9, 5 to 10-18 & 3 to 19-27.