• Paly Running
  • Meet Info
    Date Meet Location Travel Results Pictures Meet Info
    08/23/19 PA Alumni Gunn HS Team Bus results pictures
    09/07/19 Lowell Invite Golden Gate Park Team Bus results Bhusan Gupta, Billy Brendy schedule, info
    09/24/19 SCVAL #1 Sunnyvale Baylands Team Bus results Bhusan Gupta, Amanda Park info
    10/08/19 SCVAL #2 Crystal Springs Team Bus results Bhusan Gupta, Amanda info
    10/19/19 Monterey Invite Torro Park, Monterey Team Bus results Amanda Park, Casper Vroemen, David Douglas info
    10/22/19 SCVAL #3 Sunnyvale Baylands Team Bus Bhusan Gupta details, info
    10/30/19 City Championships Gunn HS Team Bus info
    11/05/19 SCVAL Championships Crystal Springs Team Bus info
    11/13/19 Banquet info
    11/16/19 CCS Championships Crystal Springs TBD info
    11/30/19 State XC Championships Woodward Park, Fresno Team Van info
  • 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

    Important Links for Athletes and Parents

    Daily Use

    • Absence Form
    • Pasta Feed Signup Spreadsheet
    • Team Sign Up Form
    • P.E. Prep Form

    For Meets

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

    Miscellaneous

    • Fleet Feet - Get Good Running Shoes
    • Malcolm's Cookie Recipe
    • Website Archive
  • About
    Welcome to the home of the 2019 Palo Alto High School Cross Country Team!
    Michael Davidson
    mdavidson@pausd.org
    Head Coach

    Mainted by Lesha Seletskiy

  • Parents

    Important Links for Parents

    • Sports Boosters Participation Donation
    • TimeToSignUp - Parent Volunteer Signups
    • Parent Driving Form
  • Paly History

    Paly Running 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

    Pasta feed on the 4th!

    Sign up here.

    Sign up for cross country now!

    Register for XC emails! Please sign up for the XC mailing list by following this link: https://paly.run/xc/signup.html. The email list allows the coaches and parent liaisons to let you know about meet schedules, bus timings, practice changes, pasta feeds, etc.

    Parent Info! Please Read Carefully

    • The team has a google calendar with all important dates. If you want to subscribe, you can do so here.
    • There is a form to track parent donation participation. The online version can be found here. A PDF version can be found here. If you use the PDF version, please have your athlete return it to the coaches during practice.
    • We need some parent volunteers throughout the season. The signup page for all Paly volunteers is here (thanks to Becky Bull for managing the volunteer signup).

    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.

    Maintained by Lesha Seletskiy