Towns/Cities with the most consistently good number of hs teams?

Spokane, Washington

They've been declining these past few years with powerhouses like Mead and Ferris becoming irrelevant these past couple years even within the state. Teams like Mount Spokane and North Central are consistently good and have quality individuals on the team.

Long Beach California

Yes, Spokane was the city that first came to mind.

Look, the question is a little malformed. Did you really mean the highest percentage of consistently good teams? Because if you just want a number, you can pick any large metro area and get quite a few--even though they might be a low percentage of the total.

For instance, Chicagoland has some consistently great teams--and scores (at least) of poor to terrible ones.

Minneapolis/St. Paul

Wayzata

Stillwater

Edina

xc or track? there are some cities with good teams in one but not the other.

The Temecula Valley area has two of the better teams in the country each year with Vista Murrieta (Murrieta) and Great Oak (Temecula, CA). I believe their boys finished top 5 at Nike track nationals a few years back and Vista has won 4 straigt CIF Championships. Great Oak is also really good at cross.

Who is behind the ubiquitous racist and sexist threads that pollute LRC?

Spokane is the deepest league in the nation:

North Central

Central Valley

Mt. Spokane

Lewis and Clark

Ferris

Mead

University

All teams within the past 10 years that have been ranked in the top 25 at some point.

Shadle

Rogers

Only teams from the league to not have a top 25 ranking at some point in past 10 years. Shadle may have been close one year, but cannot recall at the top of my head if they actually made it.

The GSL (Greater Spokane League) is not about 1 or 2 schools that are good. The whole league is good.

GSL Fan wrote:

Spokane is the deepest league in the nation:

North Central

Central Valley

Mt. Spokane

Lewis and Clark

Ferris

Mead

University

All teams within the past 10 years that have been ranked in the top 25 at some point.

Shadle

Rogers

Only teams from the league to not have a top 25 ranking at some point in past 10 years. Shadle may have been close one year, but cannot recall at the top of my head if they actually made it.

The GSL (Greater Spokane League) is not about 1 or 2 schools that are good. The whole league is good.

And not only that, they've been great since at least the late 80's when Mead and University started getting ranked in the top 5 in the country. Mead was #1 a few years, but as one mentioned, there is always at least one high school in Spokane ranked in the top 25, often in the top 10 and sometimes multiple teams. If one school starts to decline, another seems to pick up the slack for it.

I think a very interesting statistic would be a list of sub 9:15 3200 and sub 4:20 1600 by city.

Spokanes must be extremely deep now, they probably churn out 4-10 per year.

Spokane. Easily. Only 200,000 people.

Syracuse, NY -- greater metro area

(Liverpool, FM, Baldwinsville, Tully etc.)

Eden Prairie