• Paly Running
  • Meet Info

    Season Schedule

    Date Day Meet Meet Type Location Meet Info Dismissal Time Start Time Results, Pictures, and News
    3/8 Thursday Mountain View Dual Meet Palo Alto Participants: Everyone 1:50pm 3:00pm Results
    Bhusan's Photos
    Malcolm's Photos
    Mark's Photos
    3/10 Saturday K-Bell Invitational Invitational Los Gatos Participants: Qualifiers Only
    Meet Schedule
    Results
    Malcolm's Photos
    Mark's Photos
    3/15 Thursday Los Altos Dual Meet Los Altos Participants: Everyone 1:50pm 3:30pm Results
    Zoe's Photos
    Malcolm's Photos
    Mark's Photos
    3/17 Saturday Saint Francis Invitational Invitational Saint Francis Participants: Paly Entries
    All Entries
    Meet Schedule
    Results
    Malcolm's Photos
    Mark's Photos
    3/24 Saturday Paly 5K Fun Run Fun Run Palo Alto Participants: Sign Up Here Results
    Photos (Bhusan)
    3/27 Tuesday Lynbrook Dual Meet Palo Alto Participants: Everyone 1:50pm Results
    Bhusan's Photos
    Malcolm's Photos
    Mark's Photos
    3/30-3/31 Friday-Saturday Stanford Invitational Invitational Stanford Participants: Qualifiers Only (minimum marks)
    Meet Entries
    Meet Schedule
    Results
    David's Photos
    Karen's Photos
    Mark's Photos
    4/6-4/7 Friday-Saturday Arcadia Invitational Invitational Arcadia Participants: Qualifiers Only (minimum marks) Results
    Mark's Photos
    4/12 Thursday Milpitas Dual Meet Milpitas Participants: Everyone 1:30pm 3:30pm Rebecca's Photos
    Bhusan's Photos
    Mark's Photos
    4/19 Thursday Los Gatos Dual Meet Palo Alto Participants: Everyone 1:50pm 3:30pm Results
    Rebecca's Photos
    Bhusan's Photos
    Mark's Photos
    4/21 Saturday CCS Top 8 Invitational Invitational Los Gatos Participants: Qualifiers Only Results
    Mark's Photos
    4/26 Thursday Gunn Dual Meet Gunn Participants: Everyone 1:50pm 3:30pm Results
    Bhusan's Photos
    Mark's Photos
    5/1 Tuesday De Anza League Trials CIF Qualifier Palo Alto Participants: Top 3 varsity, top 3 frosh/soph per event, plus those with one of the 8 best seeds
    Schedule/Instructions(PDF)
    Entries
    1:50pm 3:00pm Results
    Mark's Photos
    5/3 Thursday De Anza League Finals CIF Qualifier Palo Alto Participants: Top 1 per heat (3) + 5 by time from De Anza qualifiers or at large time for finals
    Top 3 varsity, top 3 frosh/soph for distance, plus those with one of the 8 best seeds
    Schedule/Instructions(PDF)
    Entries
    1:50pm 3:00pm Results
    Zoe's Photos
    Rebecca's Photos
    Mark's Photos
    5/11 Friday SCVAL Championship Meet CIF Qualifier Santa Clara Participants: Top 16 from De Anza and El Camino combined or CCS at large time 5:00pm Results
    Malcolm's Photos
    Mark's Photos
    5/19 Saturday CCS Semifinals CIF Qualifier Gilroy Participants: Top 6 from SCVAL or at large time Results
    Mark's Photos
    5/25 Friday CCS Finals CIF Qualifier Gilroy Participants: 100-400m: top 1 per heat + to 8 by time
    800m: top 2 per heat (3) + 6 by time
    1600-3200m: top 4 per heat (2) + 4 by time
    4:00pm Results
    Mark's Photos
    6/1 Friday CIF State Trials CIF Buchannan, Fresno Participants: Top 3 from CCS or at large times
    6/2 Saturday CIF State Finals CIF Buchannan, Fresno Participants: 100-400m: top 1 per heat (3) + 6 by time
    800m: top 3 per heat (3) + 3 by time
    1600m: top 4 per heat (3) + 4 by time
    3200m: top 3 from CCS or at large time


    Dual Meet Event Order

    TrackField (when not an open pit)
    4x100m
    1600m
    100m/110m HH
    400m
    100m
    800m
    300m IH
    200m
    3200m
    4x400m
    Long Jump
    Discus
    Triple Jump
    High Jump
    Shot Put
  • Practice Info

    Regular Practice Schedule

    Practices will be held 20 minutes after the last bell:
    Monday: 3:45
    Tuesday: 3:10
    Wednesday: 3:50
    Thursday: 2:55
    Friday: 3:50
    Please come ready to run!
  • Runs
    • 3.4 miles, flat, paved road and paths
    • 3.3 miles, flat, paved road and paths
    • 4.0 miles, flat, mostly paved road
    • 4.2 miles, flat, paved road and dirt path
    • 4.8 miles, flat, paved road and paths
    • 4.9 miles, flat, paved road and some dirt path
    • 5.5 miles, flat, paved road and some dirt path
    • 5.6 miles, gradual hills, paved road and paths
    • 5.6 miles, paved hills, paved road and some dirt path
    • 6.3 miles, flat, paved road and dirt trail
    • 6.3 miles, flat, paved road and dirt path
    • 6.4 miles, moderate hills, paved road and paths
    • 6.7 miles, flat, paved road and paths
    • 7.0 miles (from Kent's house), hilly, gravel hills + sidewalk
    • 9.2 miles, hilly, paved road
    • 9.4 miles, mostly flat, paved road and dirt trail
    • 10.8 miles, 900 feet climbing, paved road and dirt paths
    • 11.6 miles (from Kent's house), 1,400 feet climbing, paved road and dirt paths
    • 15.5 miles, 4 fences, an overpass, a deer skeleton, and a guy with a shotgun
  • Important Links
    • Absence Form
    • Sign Up Form

    • Athlete ID #s

    • Paly Athletic.net
    • Paly Track XCStats
    • Paly Cross Country XCStats

    • Lynbrook Sports
    • Pasta Feed Sign Up
    • Sports Boosters
    • Fleet Feet
    • Cookie Recipe

    • Archive
  • About
    Welcome to the home of the 2018 Palo Alto High School Track and Field Team.

    Michael Davidson
    mdavidson@pausd.org
    Head Coach
    Michael Granville
    Mid-Distance
    Wendy Smith
    wendypaloalto@gmail.com
    Distance
    Ed Givens
    Horizontal Jumps
    Victor Hudson
    Sprints & Hurdles
    Kasey Fields
    Sprints & Hurdles
    Tim Hagen
    Vertical Jump
    Earl Locke
    Throws

    Website designed by Kent Slaney

  • Parents
    • Sports Boosters Participation Donation

    • Parent Volunteer Signup

    • Parents driving form
  • Alumni News

    Breakthrough Mile for Kent

    Kent outkicks the field with a blistering 59 final quarter to win his heat in the mile, breaking 4:20 for the first time this season.
    Results
    At the same meet, Edward Cheserek ran 3:49.44, the second fastest mile time ever indoors.

    Spencer at Caltech

    Spencer sets a new PR in the 8k at the Pomona-Pitzer Invitational.
    Article

    Strong start to the season for Kent and Naveen

    Both placed first among all Freshmen in their respective meets.
    Naveen at CMU
    Kent at MIT
  • Paly History
    1952 Coach Forrest Jamieson founds the first XC team at Paly. Paly's XC teams were consistent North Coast Section Champions in the 50s.

    1956 Paly's Ron Larrieu, America's first teenage distance running prodigy races 2miles in 9:39 breaking the national high school mark of 9:44 set 31 years earlier. Larrieu will attend Cal Poly and go on to race the 10K in the 1964 Tokyo Olympic Games.

    1956 Stanford's new head coach of track and field Payton Jordan reinstates XC as an intercollegiate sport.

    1957 First CA State Meet unsanctioned - boys only

    1965 First CCS XC Championships - boys only

    1972 Title IX prohibits sex discrimination in any educational program receiving federal money. Only 7% of high school athletes are girls.

    1977 CCS allows girls to compete for the first time

    1980 Paly's Mike McCollum wins CCS, still holds the Paly 3200 record 8:59. McCollum goes on to run at Cal and co-found PowerBar

    1985 Impostor James Hogue runs with Paly XC for 2 weeks before being exposed as a 26 yr old at the Stanford Invitational

    1987 First CA CIF state meet - both boys and girls

    1989 Paly boys win CCS and compete at States. The McFarland movie took place in the late 80s but no records can be found for Paly and McFarland competing against each other.

    In the 90's and early 2000's, Paly girls were very successful winning CCS 3 times and qualifying for States 5 times.

    1997-1998 were Paly Girls best team finishes at States led by Katie Brizgys who also wins CCS. Brizgys goes on to run at Stanford and still holds the 1600 and 3200 records at Paly

    2007-9 were resurgence years for the boys ending an 18 yr dry spell led by Phil MacQuitty who goes on to run for UCLA. MacQuitty holds the 1600 and 800 records for Paly.

    2014-2016 Paly boys qualify for States 3 years in a row led by Lucas Matison and Kent Slaney.
  • Latest News

    Track Sign-Ups and Athletic Clearance Registration

    Please sign up for the track and field team here and register for athletic clearance here.
    Make sure to get your ticket to play (green card) before coming to practice on the 29th.

    Absence Form

    If you will be absent from practice, please fill out this absence form.
    Also make sure to inform a coach that you will be absent in addition to filling out the online form.

    Website designed by Kent Slaney