At Alisal High School, the coaching staff strives to help guide our student-athletes to be the best they can be in our sport and in the classroom. Our goal is to create a welcoming environment where everyone competes and learn to become life long runners.
2025 CCS Championships: Our season came to an end with our Girls and boys placing 6th and 9th, respectively for the 2nd year in a row. This is now the boys' 8th straight top 10 finish and our girls' 4th straight. Great season to all!
2025 PCAL Championships: Our Varsity Girls are back to back champions. After winning it for the first time in school history last season, our girls went undefeated this season! Yaretzi Cornelio shattered her own course record nearly running sub 19 (19:12) at Toro. Yaretzi, Angelica Murillo, and Alondra Rios all received 1st Team All-League honors, while Erika Castro, Margarita Ramos, and Adelaida Cortez received 2nd Team All-League. Our JV Girls and F/S Girls continued the trend by running perfect scores and winning their 5th and 6th straight league titles, respectively. Our JV Boys pulled out the win, taking their 4th in the last 5 years. Our F/S Boys won their 2nd straight league title and their 9th in the last 10 years. Our Varsity Boys took a strong 3rd place, with Fernando Herrera earning 1st Team All-League, with 2nd Team All-League honors going to Raul Martinez and Alexander Chavez.
2025 Mt. SAC Invitational: This was the first year since 2007 that Alisal made it into the Individual Sweepstakes race and we did not disappoint. Fernando Herrera took 4th overall in the elite race. Yaretzi Cornelio placed top 15 for the varsity girls race and Margarita Ramos finished top 15 to earn a medal in the JV girls race.
2025 Woodbridge Invitational: Both Varsity teams improved their team place by nearly 10 spots from last year. Fernando Herrera makes school history being the first runner to ever break 15 minutes for 3 miles, running 14:45. Fernando, Raul Martinez, Noah Rodriguez, and Alexander Chavez all medaled for the boys. The girls had 4 medal winners of their own with Yaretzi Cornelio, Angelica Murillo, Alondra Rios, and Betty Camargo.
2025 Salinas City Championships: We nearly swept the city meet with 5 of our 6 teams taking first place! Fernando Herrera and Yaretzi Cornelio were the Individual City Champs!
2024 CIF State Championships: It had been 7 years since an Alisal athlete made it to State and 2008 since the last Alisal girl qualified. Yaretzi and Gustavo did not disappoint. Yaretzi started it out placing 80th out of 200 runners and shattered the Alisal course record by 41 seconds, running 19:06 for the 3.1 mile Woodward Park course. Gustavo followed up with a strong race finishing 51st out of 200 runners, running the 2nd fastest time in school history on the course in 15:48. He was only 20 seconds from the top 10 in the State. Great way for the both to represent Alisal.
2024 CCS Championships: The day started off right with our Varisty Girls finishing 6th in CCS Division 1, the 2nd highest finish in school history. They were led by State Qualifier, Yaretzi Cornelio, who also broke the school record, being the first girl at Alisal to run under 19 minutes at Crystal Springs. The Varsity Boys finished 9th in Division 1 and were led by State Qualifier, Gustavo Perez, who tied the 2nd fastest time in school history at Crystal Springs, finishing 5th in CCS and claiming a medal.
2024 PCAL Championships: They did it! Our Varsity Girls won the first ever league title in school history! They were led by individual Gabilan Division winner Yaretzi Cornelio and 1st Team All-Leaguer Angelica Murillo and 2nd Team All-Leaguers Alondra Rios, Luz Mejia, and Erika Castro. Our JV Girls and F/S Girls continued the trend by running perfect scores and winning their 4th and 5th straight league titles, respectively. Our F/S Boys got back to their winning ways by taking their 8th league title in the last 9 years. Our Varsity Boys and JV Boys took a strong 2nd place.
2024 Mt. SAC Invitational: Highlight of the meet was Gustavo Perez winning the Varsity Boys Divison 1 Race. It put him on the map with the rest of the state as he took the lead at the Switchback and never looked back. Other medal winners were Fernando Herrera in the Varsity Boys, Yaretzi Cornelio in the Varsity Girls, Hector Araujo in the JV Boys, Adelaida Cortez in the JV Girls, Raul Martinez in the Sophomore Boys, and Alondra Rios and Betty Camargo in the Sophomore Girls.
2024 Woodbridge Invitational: The Varsity Boys and Girls made a trip to Irvine, CA for the first time to run a 3 mile XC course at night and under the lights! Gustavo Perez, Fernando Herrera and Axel Perez took home medals for the boys, while Yaretzi Cornelio and Angelica Murillo brought home the hard wear on the girls' side. It was such a fast course that it led to 3 of our runners breaking school records. Both Gustavo and Fernando broke the 3 mile school record, with Gustavo taking honors. Yaretzi broke her own school record by 20 seconds! Our Trojans are starting the season at a very high level.
