CIF California State Meet

In recent years a minimum of 27 athletes in each event reach this final meet of the official track and field season.

Beyond those 27 who can qualify by placing in their individual section finals, "at-large" standards have been established to allow additional competitors to make the field.

Since 2009, the current venue of choice is the centrally located Buchanan High School in Clovis, California where it has remained.

[3] In 1984, the CIF California State Meet was held at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum as the test run for logistics before the 1984 Summer Olympics at the same venue.

In 2021, Rich Gonzalez of the PrepCalTrack website led an effort to create a substitute California State Championship without the sanction of CIF.