Robert Brandt, St. Philip Class of 2011, placed eleventh in the CIF Cross Country State Championships. Running for Loyola High School, Brandt, a junior, put in a time of 15:29 on a 5 kilometer (about 3.1 mile) course, 27 seconds behind the race winner, Tal Braude. The final race capped a year in which Brandt won four cross country races, was runner-up in another race and also finished fourth and seventh, with State being his lowest finish at eleventh. Brandt did all of this as the leader of the sixteenth-ranked nationally Cubs team that finished fourth in the California Division I finals, with California having six of the top sixteen cross country teams in the nation (according to some sources). Brandt was also fifth among non-seniors in the Division I race (made up of the largest high schools, such as Loyola).