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2025 Riverside and San Bernardino
XC CHAMPIONSHIPS
Saturday, October 18th is the date for the 25th annual Inland Empire Challenge, the invitational that determined the San Bernardino and Riverside County Champions in high school Cross Country.
Mark Your Calendars and sign up at www.runnercard.com
Who will claim the bragging rights for this year's meet? This year’s event, will again be held at Ontario’s Cucamonga-Guasti Regional Park, featuring the most spectator, coach and runner friendly course in all of California.
Rancho Cucamonga HS is hard at work planning for another successful event with a target of hosting 100 schools this year. Please be sure to download and fill out the Waiver Form for to help up meet some of our district's requirements. Thank you.
RESULTS: 2024, 2023 2022, 2021, 2019 2018 2017:
The map has been changed due to parking requirements... Here is the new map. Open in new tab to view. Let your runners know the course is 2, 2, and 1. Two loops of start, two loops of lake, and one loop to the finish.
. Calculate your Fees! (Click on link.) Cost: $50.00 per team per race plus (5 or more athletes), $12.00 per individual (4 or less per race). $475 maximum for Large and Medium Schools. Small Schools max, $275. The meet is divided into three (3) Challenges:
Small Schools (CIF Div. 4 & 5), Medium Schools (CIF Div 3 & 2), and Large Schools (Div 1) Additionally, the Boys' and Girls' Sweepstakes Races provide the top schools in each county competition, head to head, for the over-all bragging rights in our counties, as well as the over-all Inland Empire Champion. Our Sponsor is Fleet Feet in Rancho Cucamonga.We are honored that they have chosen to be the sponsors for the IEC and great teams from the Inland Empire.
Major Sponsors
FLEET FEET - Rancho Cucamonga
Since opening our store we have given exceptional customer service and helped many find comfort, pain relief, and of course...get healthy. We have successfully trained hundreds of people in many distances, contributed in so many ways to our community and we are not done! Personally, Dave and I have become certified running coaches and have done several marathons. We will always continue to learn, research, and find ways to help others become healthy. Fleet Feet has allowed us to pursue our dream of having our own business and share our passion for living a healthy life with others. We believe that in life if you do what you love, then the rewards will follow. New Balance Shoes New Balance has partnered with the Inland Empire Challenge to help provide banners, support, and products. Their commitment to the sport of running has reached legendary status as they continually work to improve the quality of their shoes and the enhancements that they make in their equipment to provide athletes with the very best in running apparel. Thank you New Balance, for all the shoes used for our trophies. Brenda Martinez
Olympic runner, Brenda Martinez has been a major influence on the IEC, cheering on the future stars from the Inland Empire, as well as a runner in our initial Invitational. She was an Olympic semi-finalist in the 1500-meter run, the Silver medalist at the 2013 outdoor World Championships in the 800 meters in 2013, and was also the anchor on the world record-setting Distance Medley Relay Team!
Alongside her husband, Carlos Handler, Martinez founded the Big Bear Track Club — a nonprofit training group for post-collegiate distance runners. She has paused her youth running camp for a season but remains committed to mentoring young athletes and sharing her journey, especially with young female runners. In July 2025, she joined the University of Southern California (USC) as an Assistant Coach for Distance and Cross Country. Click here for more on her background and to follow her training. Brenda Martinez at the Inland Empire (Below) Brenda ran in the inaugural Inland Empire Challenges held at Guasti Park. 2001 Girls' Results 2002 Grils' Results 2003 Girls' Results 2002, Arcadia Track Invitational race winner Girls' Mile Run 
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COACHES MEET INFORMATION (click here)
Coaches, as we near the meet date, please begin to update your registration. As much as possible enter the athletes of which you are 98.3% sure that will actually compete. Also be sure that the grade level entries are correct. Registration is done on runnercard.com. Click on link below after July 10, 2025.Register with runnercard.com,
*********************************************************************************** Inland Empire Schools appearing in top ten, 2024 Rankings from Prepcaltrack.com Inland Empire - CIF Rankings Boys' Div 1 Div 2 Div 3 Div 4 Div 5 Rancho Cucamonga Great Oak Inland Empire - CIF Rankings Girls' Div 1 Div 2 Div 3 Div 4 Div 5 Santiago Varsity Entries/expressed interest*
Commemorative tech t-shirts - $25.00. Fantastic value!
Thanks to all of our sponsors who help make the IEC an ongoing success.
*********************** ***************** ************** Fleet Feet - Rancho Cucamonga - Meet Sponsor Platinum Sponsor - New Balance Shoes and Apparel Providing shoes for our unique trophies and helping to provide quality running shoes and apparel to the running community, in general. New Balance, together with Fleet Feet, have been an integral part of our ongoing effort to provide shoes, free of charge to financially challenged runners who participate in the Inland Empire Challenge. Gold Sponsor: American Wrecking Inc. OUR MISSION & VALUES: Since our inception in 1986 our mission and values have been centered around family and the belief that you should work hard, be honest and be on time. 40 plus years later, these core values still remain at the heart of our business. American Wrecking Inc. prides itself on ongoing relationships, the ability to provide innovative solutions and the continuous training and development of our staff who are honest, hard working and the salt of the earth. We believe in straight talk and doing whatever it takes to make a project successful. We are thrilled to have American Wrecking Inc. as our Gold Sponsor. Not only do their values show through in their work, but that same commitment around family and hard work, their commitment to the Inland Empire Challenge and young runners who also put in the hard work that it takes to be successful. Thank you for your support! Silver Sponsors: Action Awards Sold By Fox Whitehouse Sanitation Costco Rancho/Ontario Print-That-now Meet our Timer, Doug Padilla and Runnercard.com
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leM5WRc4RdA
For those of you have have been around the running world for a while, you may recognize the name of Doug Padilla, the nation's leading distance runner through the 80's, a two time Olympian, and National record holder for the indoor two mile. He was one of the best 3,000-5,000 meter runners in the world. From 1983-1987 he won 5 consecutive indoor championships and 4 outdoor championships. He was a 12 time U.S champion and set 7 American records. His indoor 2 mile and indoor 5,000 meter records each lasted more than 20 years. Doug is also the founder of Runnercard.com a web based registration and timing system with very unique capabilities. The Inland Empire Challenge has used Runnercard since its inception in 2001. This year Doug is introducing his unique chip based timing system. The kids will still get their own unique "runnercard", plus coaches and athletes will be able to use a coaching tool unique to the timing world. |