By Bob Ramsey, on April 22nd, 2017 The California Condors and Arcadia Apaches repeated as boys and girls team champions on a hot day at the 12th Annual SGV Championship meet.
 Cal High – Boys Champs Cal just edged out Glendora 52-47, finding over half their points from a 1-2-3-4 finish in the 3200, led by Angel Aguirre at 9:32.87
Arcadia, with a strong 107.5 points, was led by doubles from Lauren Buehner and Stephanie Yen. Lauren won the 400m, breaking her own meet record with  a 57.00, and the 200, while Stephanie won the long jump, triple jump and a second in the 300 hurdles.
Chloe Arriaga (So, Walnut) was the girls Athlete of the Meet on the strength of her wins in the 3200m and 1600m. She ran 4:54.59 in the four lapper, just off the meet record and her best from earlier this year.
The male Athlete of the Meet went to the strongest individual performance of the meet. Damien’s Thomas Prata jumped 14-07 to win the pole vault, second best in meet history and #45= All-Time SGV.
There were two other Varsity Meet Records: Trinity Ruelas (Sr, Bishop Amat) 800m/2:16.67 and Taylor Crockem (Sr, Chino) Shot/41-08.25
There were 46 Performances that were among the Top 10 All-Time for the Meet (cf. the updated lists below)
There were a whole bunch of Meet Records in the Frosh/Soph Division as South Pasadena took both team championships. The new Record holders are
- Jenesis Sanford (So, Muir) 100m/12.44
- Jenesis Sanford (So, Muir) 200m/25.96
- Gianna Beasley (Fr, South Pas) 400/58.46
- Gianna Beasley (Fr, South Pas) 800/2:21.04
- Callie Gurthrie (So, Marshall) 1600/5:18.98
- South Pasadena 4×400 Relay/4:03.50
Boys…
- Bishop Amat 4×100 Relay/44.55
- Arcadia 4×400 Relay/3:33.14
- Matthew Garcia (So, Chino) Pole Vault/13-07
Results:
By Bob Ramsey, on April 19th, 2017 Nearly 1400 athletes from forty-five schools will contest the 12th Annual San Gabriel Valley Championships this Saturday, April 22 at 10:00am on San Dimas High School’s fast Mondo surface.
This area championship meet matches up schools and athletes to compete against their neighbors, regardless of league assignment and CIF division. The SGV’s is one of six regional championship meets taking place in the Southern Section this weekend, including the South Bay Championships, the Inland Empire Championships (San Bernardino & Riverside Counties) and the Championship meets for Orange, Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo Counties.
The Arcadia girls and California boys are looking to defend their team titles. The Apaches will be challenged by Walnut, Glendora and St. Lucy’s, while the Condors will try to hold back Damien, and Arcadia.
On the girls side, the top talent is in the field events with California Top 10 ranked Micah Fulton (Muir) leading the long jump and triple jump and Chino’s Taylor Crockem leading the shot and discus.
The top race will probably be the GV 3200 with Chloe Arriaga (Walnut) Trinity Ruelas (Bishop Amat) and Mikaela Ramirez (Ayala) facing off. The same three will meet earlier in the 1600.
Glendora’s Reynolds Twins, Shalee and Shyann, who have each gone 56.xx in the 400, will be in that race, where they’ll face Samantha Crosmer (St. Lucy’s) and Lauren Buehner (Arcadia). They will also run the 100 hurdles, where they hope to catch up with SGV leaders Malia Avila (Walnut) and Citalli Anguiano (La Mirada)
Among the boys, the top race will probably be 1600, where Mt. SAC 800 Champ Jake Lamb (Glendora) will step up to challenge Ayala’s two sub-4:20 men, Stephen Khan and Zach Arias.
By Bob Ramsey, on April 19th, 2017 The Mt.SAC Relays and dual meets provided most of the SGV track and field action last week. There were 18 improvements or additions to the Boys All-San Gabriel Valley lists, and 21 to the Girls.
Week 8: All-SGV Boys
Week 8: All-SGV Girls
The top area girl was Glendora senior Shyann Reynolds, with five big performances. She took the GHS 400m record from her twin sister Shalee with a 56.62 to rank #26 All-Time SGV, ran 44.97 in the 300m Hurdles to move #33 AT, PR’d in 100m Hurdles, and contributed to a GHS record in the 4x100m relay and a #40 AT 4x400m Relay. Whew!!!
On the boys side Ryan Renken (Sr, Claremont) ran the #9 SGV All-Time best in the mile at MtSAC. He was third in the screaming fast race, edging out and taking the school record from teammate Owen Bishop, running 4:11.02!
Here are this Week’s All-Time SGV Performances
- G400m/56.62 - Shyann Reynolds (Glendora – 12) – #26
- G400m/57.71 - Samantha Crosmer (St. Lucy’s – 12) – #50=
- G100mH/14.99 - Malia Avila (Walnut – 12) – #42
- G300mH/44.12 - Shalee Reynolds (Glendora – 12) – #18
- G300mH/44.97 - Shyann Reynolds (Glendora – 12) – #33
- G4x100m Relay/48.07 -Â Bonita -Â #37
- G4x400m Relay/3:57.15 - Glendora – #40
- B800m/1:53.80 - Jake Lamb (Glendora -12) – #43
- B1600m/4:09.57y - Ryan Renken (Claremont – 12) – #8
- B1600m/4:10.09y - Owen Bishop (Claremont – 12) – #12
By Bob Ramsey, on April 11th, 2017 The big Track & Field action on week seven was at the massive Arcadia Invitational. Two Claremont athletes turned in strong efforts in the 3200 to be our Athletes of the Week.
Senior Owen Bishop ran in what was probably the strongest boys 3200m race ever, with nine athletes under 8:50 and twenty-five under 9:00. Owen was just (!) 23rd in the race, but his time of 8:57.44 – a fifteen second PR, moves him to ninth on the All-Time San Gabriel Valley Performers list.
 Annie Boos His senior teammate Annie Boos was 11th in the Girls Invitational 3200m and her time of 10:26.15 moves her to #6 All-Time SGV.
Annie just edged out Walnut soph Chloe Arriaga and Amari Prude (Bonita-11) for the week’s top honors.
These two were one of 11 boys and 32 girls marks that either exceded or improved on a pervious mark that met the All-SGV standards.
This was a strong week for All-Time SGV performances, with eight more making the list or improving their position:
- G200m/24.89 - Amari Prude (Bonita-11) – #37
- G400m/56.15 - Amari Prude (Bonita-11) – #18
- G3200m/10:34.20 - Chloe Arriaga (Walnut-10) – #8
- G3200m/10:38.62 - Trinity Ruelas (Bishop Amat-12) – #13
- G3200m/10:54.51 - McKenna Smith (Mayfield-10) – #26
- G3200m/10:56.68 - Sophie Gitlin (Flintridge Prep – 10) – #32
- G3200m/10:58.97 - Natalie O’Brien (Flintridge Prep-12) – #34
- G4x400 relay/3:56.85 - South Pasadena (Corey Segal, Gianna Beasley, Ashley Hugasian, Christina Taylor) – #39
You can download the latest All-SGV Lists Here:
By Bob Ramsey, on April 7th, 2017 After Week Six of San Gabriel Valley Track & Field, there were 16 additions or improvements on the Boys All-SGV lists, and 23 on the girls.
Micah Fulton, a junior at Muir, had the top performance of the past week. Her 19-02.50 long jump at Trabuco Hills moved her to #10 All-Time SGV. She also jumped 39-05 in the triple jump, just ahead of Charter Oak junior Sela Pastrana at 39-03.75. Both TJ marks would make the SGV All-Time Top 10, but without a wind reading they have to be considered wind aided.
The SGV’s other All-Time marks came from the Reynolds twins from Glendora. Shalee ran 56.77 in the 400m at Trabuco, followed by Shyann at 57.13. They now rank 25th and 36th All-Time SGV.
Here are the Updated All-SGV Lists for 2017:
By Bob Ramsey, on March 31st, 2017 It’s difficult to reward excellence in California track & field. We are the biggest state but one of only a hand full that have only one division for the championship. The CIF Southern Section is bigger than all but three states, and just the San Gabriel Valley is bigger than fifteen states.
That means that otherwise excellent performances can get lost in our massive state and in the CIF-SS. That’s why we created the All-SGV Standards for each event in track & field. The standards are 98% of the 100th best mark achieved in California in the previous year.
The result is a list of very strong marks, with an average of 8 SGV athletes meeting the standard in each event each year.
Here are pdf’s with the athletes that have already met the standard for the 2017 season.
The strongest event in the SGV so far is the 3200m, where a whopping 11 boys and 10 girls have already met the standard.
By Bob Ramsey, on March 30th, 2017 
For the past several years, we’ve been scouring the internet and haranguing coaches for information to create All-Time Top 50 Performers Lists for San Gabriel Valley Track and Field.
You can view the lists here:
These lists are still rough drafts. We’re pretty confident that we’ve found everything that’s available on the internet, and many coaches have helped with their school records and All-Time lists, but we know that there are many marks that have been lost over time. Please contact us in the comments if you have info on marks that would make the list.
But this is what we have. There are six boys with ten All-Time marks that are currently competing, and twenty-six girls with thirty-nine marks taking part in the 2017 season. With more to come!
A few notes on the list: in events where wind readings were recorded, we’ve only used wind legal marks. We’ve also used the current year’s California Top 100 marks as a standard for inclusion on the list – so there are several girls events where the All-Time list does not reach to 50. We have also tried to include every SGV team’s school records on the list, but this part is admittedly spotty.
By Bob Ramsey, on February 22nd, 2017 San Gabriel Valley Track & Field Championships
Saturday, April 22, 2017 – 10:00am
San Dimas High School
This will be the twelfth edition of this championship meet that matches the best athletes from the San Gabriel Valley
Fifty-Three Schools will be competed in 2016 and we hope to expand that number this year
The meet will feature some of the top athletes in the nation and the state as well as multiple heats on both the Varsity and Frosh-Soph levels. Â This is the one time we get to compete against our neighbors, and only our neighbors, regardless of school size.
The meet begins at 10:00 am.
You can download a copy of last year’s meet schedule here.
By Bob Ramsey, on April 24th, 2016 
Here’s the coverage from the San Gabriel Valley Tribune
Four Varsity Records Broken, and Twelve Frosh-Soph Records
Here are the results
Four Varsity Records Broken, and Twelve Frosh-Soph Records
More to follow.
By Bob Ramsey, on October 24th, 2015 Saturday morning at the Mt.SAC Invitational has been historic for San Gabriel Valley teams and athletes, with two huge wins, one record, and eight All-Time performances.
Sweepstakes Results:
Boys Team: Arcadia senior Phillip Rocha dominates to win in 14:24, one second off the all-time course record, and tying the San Gabriel Valley All-Time best of Diego Mercado (West Covina, 2005) & Ammar Moussa (Arcadia, 2010.  California senior Cisco Cuellar is 9th/15:08 – 30th best All-Time SGV. California ran an outstanding 78:05 to finish 4th among Div. I schools.
Boys Individual: Ayala was the top Div. II team at 79:56, led by Stephen Kahn 4th/15:10
Girls Team: Arcadia Junior Holly Lung had a huge win! Her 17:17 finish is second best All-Time SGV. Her teammate Jasmine He made an even bigger breakthrough with a 17:41 for 4th, and she now ranks =11th A-T SGV.  Soph Eryca Yamane also jumped into the All-Time list, her 18:15 ranks her =#32. The Apaches were 3rd at 91:16 in Div. I, despite running without two of their expected top five girls.  Claremont were 3rd/93:48 in Div. II, and were led by an outstanding 18:13/11th performance from Kiana Cavanaugh, who now ranks 30th A-T SGV.
Girls Individual: Walnut frosh Chloe & Emma Arriaga made a great debut at the Mt.SAC Invite. Chloe was 4th in 17:28 and Emma, with a huge step up, was 5th in 17:37, and they now rank, respectively, 7th and 10th All-Time SGV.
After the jump is the SGV Top Ten performers for Saturday. Â Div. II is still to come but the heat will probably prevent anyone from running their way onto the list. Â We’ll update if they do.
Continue reading Mt.SAC Saturday: Pow! Phillip & Holly with Huge Wins!
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SGV Track & XC This site is maintained by Bob Ramsey – a SGV T&F athlete (Arroyo ’80), and former coach at Glendora HS and Meet Director of the SGV Champs. Bob is currently Director of Track & Field and Cross Country at Whittier College
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