Ventura High's Sadie Engelhardt wins THIRD CIF-State Cross Country Individual Title!

[@RobertJWaid]

Look forward to watching Sadie compete on Saturday.

[@timothytang9460]

What a debacle at NXN😡. Today all these California State Champion girls got their lunch handed to them at Portland by the girls from Colorado, Utah and the Midwest. Rylee Blade, Holly Barker, Abigail Errington, Hanne Thomsen....None of them could even make top 10. Sadie was even beaten by Ella Hagen from Summit HS in Breckinridge Co who spends a lot of time training for her school's cross-country ski team? I blame the CIF for scheduling this state meet too close to NXN where as all these other girls had at least 2 weeks to recover from their regionals. I don't know why Ventura HS coach Josh Spiker had Sadie running that Michigan work-out on the track recently. IMO it was worthless in preparing her for Portland's conditions. I haven't yet seen any post race interviews of Sadie explaining what happened today. Team wise, only Clovis seem to show up. What happened to "hyped" Trabuco Hills? Mountain Vista aka "Denver" and Utah's Lone Peak schooled them. The only way California will stop failing at NXN is for the SS CIF meets to run lots of water trucks to create mud on the fire roads and utilize wet, slippery grassy courses on hilly golf courses in other words real European style cross-country races!

[@RobertGonzalez-hb6ft]

Saw...Girls run at Mt..Sac...i...was eating a burger...well Ventura girls got gear from Mt. Sac staff &... taking pictures......it was probably....10.,:.,00...11...P.m..... They broke several records that night.....🎉