This section provides context and methodology details for the data presented:
- **Data Scope:** This table focuses exclusively on competitive results where a Male athlete participated in an event or competition originally intended for female athletes at the K-12 level (Kindergarten through 12th grade) in the United States. This applies to events specifically at the scholastic level, or facilitated through the school. It does not include club or youth results from participation outside school-sponsored teams.
- **Link Verification:** The provided links are to external sources. These sources include official results directly from the event webpages, sites that aggregrate athletic results from various organizations (such as MileSplit.com), news stories, and social media posts from team and athlete accounts. Archived links (Ar.) are provided in the case that these results are removed or websites are no longer functional. Not all pages were able to be archived. When possible, archived links can most often be found in the second (2) link.
- **Athlete Verification:** Athletes have been verified as male through the use of public sources: news articles, personal declarations from the athletes, name changes, past photos, and other public records including job history, school records, and family records. In the case of males with DSDs, athletes are included if they have previously failed a sex/gender test.
- **Athlete Identification:** "DSD" refers to male athletes with a disorder of sexual development. These athletes are male but may have been mistaken for female at birth due to underdeveloped male genitalia. "Trans-identified" refers to male athletes who have had healthy male development but deny that they are men and boys and claim to be something else, typically "women" or "nonbinary". "Other" refers to males who do not belong in either of the former categories but participate on female teams due to rule exceptions.
- **Sorting:** The table is sorted by **Date (newest first)** by default.
Other Notes:
- "1st (of 1)" and "1st of 2 Males" are counted in the overall 1st place totals. "Semi-finals", "2nd of 2 Males", "2nd (of 2)", and "3rd (of 3)" are counted in top 3 finishes (as these finishers often stand on the podium and recieve medals).
- "State" as referenced here refers to the location of the competition. All results listed on this page involved an athlete participating on a team at a school in the specific state of the page. For example competitions in Washington that the South Eugene High School team particpated in will be listed on the Oregon page rather than the Washington page.
- Many results for named athletes are not available. The totals here do not represent every competition the athletes may have participated in.
- Many high school and youth athletes remain unnamed and as such are not represented in the results here.
- Different states and regions may use different nomenclature for meets and competitions i.e. league, district, conference, regional, sectional, division championships, etc. Due to these differences and varying rules state-by-state, some meets may be categorized inaccurately, but all of these meets can be assumed to be larger, important meets that offer medals for the top 3 competitors and possibly qualification onto further competitions.
- When competition location is not known, the team's base may be used instead.
- "Totals" here include team conference and tournament finishes only, not regular season wins.
- "DNS" events not included in "total events" tally.
Abbreviations:
- ISO alpha-3 country codes used for country abbreviations
- DQ - disqualified
- DNS - did not start
- DNF - did not finish
- DNP - did not place
- SCR - scratch (competitor either withdrew from the event or did not achieve any mark)
- NH - no height (in high jump, competitor failed to jump opening height)
- FF - forfeit
- MC - missed cut (denotes and instance where competitor did not make the cut to continue on in the tournament, commonly used in golf)
- OC - outside competitior (denotes an outside entry in a national competition. OC competitors do not receive points)
- NS - non-scoring (denotes a non-scoring entry in domestic meets, "G" denotes a guest entry)
- SF - semi-finalist
- QF - quarter-finalist
- TBD - to be determined
- n/a - not available