• Paly Running
  • Meet Info
    Date Meet Location Course Map Past Results Release TimeDeparture TimeStart TimeTransportSummary
    8/31 Gunn Alumni Meet Bol Park Map 2016 City Championship
    2016 Gunn Alumni Meet
    2015 City Championship
    2014 City Championship
    2014 Gunn Alumni Meet
    1:50pm 2:30pm 4:00pm Bus Results
    Zoe's Photos
    Bhusan's Photos
    Malcolm's Photos
    Mark's Photos
    CANCELLEDLowell Invitational Golden Gate Park F/S Map
    JV / Varsity Map
    2016 Lowel Invite
    2015 Lowell Invite
    2014 Lowell Invite
    TBA
    9/16 Early Bird Invitational Toro Park Map
    Info
    2015 Monterey Bay Invitational
    2014 CCS
    2014 Monterey Bay Invitational
    8:00am Results
    Malcolm's Photos
    Mark's Photos
    Bhusan's Photos
    9/26 SCVAL meet #1 Central Park, Santa ClaraMap 2016 Central Park
    2014 Central Park
    3:15pm Results
    Bhusan's Photos
    Malcolm's Photos
    Mark's Photos
    CANCELLEDStanford Invitational Stanford Golf Course Map 2016 Stanford Invite
    2015 Stanford Invite
    2014 Stanford Invite
    N/A
    10/3 SCVAL meet #2 Crystal Springs Map 2016 CCS
    2016 SCVAL
    2016 SCVAL
    2015 CCS
    2015 SCVAL
    2014 SCVAL
    1:30pm 1:45pm 3:15pm Results
    Malcolm's Photos
    Bhusan's Photos
    Zoe's Photos
    10/7 Clovis Invitational Woodward Park Map
    Info
    2016 CIF State Finals
    2016 Clovis Invite
    2015 CIF State Finals
    2015 Clovis Invitational
    2014 CIF State Finals
    8:00am Results
    Mark's Photos
    10/14 Monterey Bay Invitational Toro Park Map
    Info
    2015 Monterey Bay Invitational
    2014 CCS
    2014 Monterey Bay Invitational
    10:00am Results
    Bhusan's Photos
    Mark's Photos
    10/17 SCVAL meet #3 Sunnyvale Baylands Map 2016 Baylands
    2015 Baylands
    2014 Baylands
    3:15pm Results
    Bhusan's Photos
    Steve's Photos
    Mark's Photos
    10/25 Gunn City Championships Bol Park Map 2016 City Championship
    2016 Gunn Alumni Meet
    2015 City Championship
    2014 City Championship
    2014 Gunn Alumni Meet
    3:45pm Results
    Bhusan's Photos
    Mark's Photos
    10/31 SCVAL Championships Crystal Springs Map 2016 CCS
    2016 SCVAL
    2016 SCVAL
    2015 CCS
    2015 SCVAL
    2014 SCVAL
    1:45pm EC Results
    DAL Results
    Malcolm's Photos
    Bhusan's Photos
    Mark's Photos
    11/11 CCS Toro Park Map 2015 Monterey Bay Invitational
    2014 CCS
    2014 Monterey Bay Invitational
    TBA Results
    Brian's Photos
    Ayush's Photos
    Mark's Photos
    11/25 State Woodward Park Map 2016 CIF State Finals
    2016 Clovis Invite
    2015 CIF State Finals
    2015 Clovis Invitational
    2014 CIF State Finals
    TBA
    *Varsity/qualifiers only
  • 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
  • Runs
    • 3.4 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

    • 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 2017 Palo Alto High School Cross Country Team. This year's coaches are:

    Michael Davidson
    mdavidson@pausd.org
    Head Coach
    Michael Granville
    Core/Assistant Coach
    Wendy Smith
    wendypaloalto@gmail.com
    Assistant Coach
  • Parents
    • Sports Boosters Participation

    • Parent Volunteer Signup

    • Parents driving form
  • Alumni News

    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.
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