Personal Records for 2025


PR is an acronym for "Personal Record" that you hear a lot at a cross country meet.  This is a mark that every runner gets to compete for every race, because when you are talking about PRs, you are racing yourself.  On paper, we had 112 team PRs registered on MileSplit in 2025.  If you adjust that number to account for first-year runners, we had an Adjusted PR total of 94.  

If you are wondering why there is an "adjusted PR" number, we had to take in account that the first race run by first-year runners would count as a MileSplit PR regardless of what time was run.  This is a mark that was already set for 2+ year runners in previous season(s).  While total PRs typically favors runners in their first few seasons, we handicapped the first-year runners total PRs by 1 to be a more accurate number when compared to veteran runners as 2+ year runners would not recognize a PR on their first race of the season.

Easton Chaffin (pictured above) led the boy's team this year with 6 PRs and an honorable mention to Jose Romero and Miguel Valdez for getting 5 PRs.  

Bella McClenathen (pictured below) and Abilene Sanchez led the girl's team with 6 total PRs and an honorable mention to Emma Dobson, Alexa Rodriguez, and Vanessa Valdez for registering 5 PRs this season.


2025 PERSONAL RECORDS (PR)
RunnerSeasonTeamPRAdj PR*
Chaffin, Easton (SO-M)1Boys76
Romero, Jose (SO-M)1Boys65
Valdez, Miguel (FR-M)1Boys65
Blackburn, Colton (FR-M)1Boys43
Pedro-Martin, Pedro (SO-M)1Boys43
Sibrian, Jefferson (SO-M)1Boys43
Martinez, Kevin (JR-M)1Boys21
Vasquez, Romeo (SO-M)2Boys11
Lopez-Romero, Alex (JR-M)1Boys10
RunnerSeasonTeamPRAdj PR*
McClenathen, Bella (FR-F)1Girls76
Sanchez, Abilene (FR-F)1Girls76
Dobson, Emma (FR-F)1Girls65
Rodriguez, Alexa (FR-F)1Girls65
Valdez, Vanessa (JR-F)2Girls55
Irvin, Harper (FR-F)1Girls54
Vaca, Crystal (JR-F)1Girls54
McBride, Kayleigh (SR-F)3Girls44
Menjivar, Natalie (JR-F)2Girls44
Moreno, Leilani (JR-F)3Girls44
Stewart, Kylor (SO-F)2Girls44
Salazar, Paola (FR-F)1Girls43
Aguilar, Alison (JR-F)2Girls33
Ceballos-Benitez, Melanie (JR-F)2Girls33
Merced, Julianna (FR-F)1Girls32
Meija, Mia (SO-F)1Girls32
Palacios, Reyna (SR-F)1Girls21
Aguilar, Briana (JR-F)2Girls11
Reyna, BryAna (SO-F)2Girls11
TOTAL TEAM PRs11294
*Adjusted PR: First time registered for first-year runners is deducted as a "benchmark" time as 2+ year runners already had an established PR from previous season(s).

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