2017 Brooks Mt. SAC XC InvitationalOct 19, 2017 by Dennis Young
Throwback: Brooks Mt. SAC Course Records By Austin Tamagno And Sarah Baxter
Throwback: Brooks Mt. SAC Course Records By Austin Tamagno And Sarah Baxter
Watch the Brooks Mt. SAC Invitational course records set by Austin Tamagno and Sarah Baxter.
Austin Tamagno and Sarah Baxter hold two of the most storied course records in high school cross country: the three miles at the Brooks Mt. SAC Invitational. Every runner at this weekend's California meet will judge themselves against the benchmarks that Tamagno and Baxter set. Let's go back to 2014 and 2012 to watch their record-setting runs.
In 2014, Tamagno ran 14:23 to break the CR by one second:
But the most legendary Mt. SAC performance of all time -- and maybe the best cross country race of the last decade -- was Sarah Baxter's 16:00 course record in 2012. She won her race by 78 seconds and broke an 11-year-old course record by 16 seconds. No one has come remotely close since, except for when Baxter ran 16:11 the next year.
And as a bonus, let's check in on one opinion about the boys course record.
In 2014, Tamagno ran 14:23 to break the CR by one second:
But the most legendary Mt. SAC performance of all time -- and maybe the best cross country race of the last decade -- was Sarah Baxter's 16:00 course record in 2012. She won her race by 78 seconds and broke an 11-year-old course record by 16 seconds. No one has come remotely close since, except for when Baxter ran 16:11 the next year.
And as a bonus, let's check in on one opinion about the boys course record.