Sarah Baxter's time was 10:06.74 rather than 10:08.74, which was her seed time from Arcadia. For what it's worth, her win at Ventura County was 15 seconds faster than she ran at the same meet a year ago. In fact, Sarah seems to be faster in all her league meet solo wins. I agree that she has a lot more in her. But I also think it will take more than a 10:08 to beat Anna Maxwell at State. Anna closed hard at Arcadia and finished a mere 2 seconds behind Sarah.

Solinsky's 13:20 last night is encouraging with the troubles he's had the previous two years.

Honorable mention (at least) to Elise Cranny, who'd never broken 5 for a mile/1600 until this year and ran a 4:15.07 1500 at Stanford!

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