Mt. SAC Wins 2nd Consecutive SCC Women's Cross Country Crown
Complete South Coast Conference Team/Individual Results
Hannah Brown, who placed second at last year's conference finals, did one better in 2022 as she raced a 19:27.4 time to win the individual title and help Mt. San Antonio College capture its second consecutive South Coast Conference Women's Cross Country Championship race on Friday morning. The Mounties scored 40 points to win the SCC race held at the Palos Verdes Park 5-kilometer course.
Last season, Mt. SAC set a conference record in scoring the lowest point total in conference history at 20 points, but this year had to fight off El Camino (49 points) and Cerritos (61) to win its 20th South Coast team title since the conference began the sport in 1977.
Brown ran nearly six seconds faster than her '21 time and was one of six Mounties racers that finished in the top 16. El Camino's Sequoia Gonzalez was the only other runner to beat the 20-minute mark at 19:45.6. ECC had more runners on the All-SCC First Team with three top 7 finishers to just two for Mt. SAC. Gonzalez is the first Warrior to make the All-SCC First Team since 2018.
The last three SCC finals have resulted in different schools representing the individual champion after Cerritos' Lauren Berg won last year's event and LA Harbor's Marai Atanacio placed first in the 2019 race.
For the second straight year, just five teams had the five runners required to score as a team as Long Beach took fourth (89) and LA Harbor was fifth (116).
LBCC's Ailene Ross placed third overall at 20:24.3 marking the first Vikings racer to make the All-SCC First Team since 2016 when Alexis Ceballos won that year's individual race.
For the first time in seven years, East Los Angeles had a runner make All-SCC in ninth-place finisher Sakura Divecchio.
Other top school finishers were All-SCC First Teamer Megan Feitz for Cerritos in sixth place, LA Harbor's Julissa Mercado in 11th, and Pasadena City's Alejandra Penaloza in 34th.
TEAM STANDINGS: 1. Mt. San Antonio 20, 2. El Camino 49, 3. Cerritos 61, 4. Long Beach CC 89, LA Harbor 116. (Pasadena CC and East LA did not team score)
Mt. SAC's Hannah Brown, SCC 2022 Champion
The 2022 ALL-SOUTH COAST CONFERENCE TEAM
FIRST TEAM
| 1 | Hannah Brown | 
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Mt. SAC | 19:27.4 | |
| 2 | Sequoia Gonzales | 
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El Camino | 19:45.6 | |
| 3 | Ailene Rios | 
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Long Beach | 20:24.3 | |
| 4 | Claudia Vera |
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Mt. SAC | 20:27.3 | |
| 5 | Ami Jacobson |
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El Camino | 20:49.8 | |
| 6 | Megan Feitz | 
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Cerritos | 21:20.2 | |
| 7 | Rania Gomaa |
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El Camino | 21:24.8 | |
| SECOND TEAM | |||||
| 8 | Samantha Martinez |
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Cerritos | 21:39.5 | |
| 9 | Sakura Divecchio | 
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East LA | 21:42.0 | |
| 10 | Cassandra Apahidean |
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Mt. SAC | 21:59.3 | |
| 11 | Julissa Mercado | 
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LA Harbor | 22:26.6 | |
| 12 | Delilah Chavez |
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Cerritos | 22:28.7 | |
| 13 | Brenna Butler |
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Mt. SAC | 22:34.9 | |
| 14 | Natalie Mejia |
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Long Beach | 22:41.7 | |
Release by Robert Lewis, SCC SID