They are reasonably competitive high school PRs, but you are right in that the D1 has better recruits, and these kids as they stand right now are also-rans. The right coach can take kids like these and turn them into stars with the right training program, but Dartmouth blows it every year and unfortunately Ben True is not going to be the answer.
As I indicated in another post, they have a lot of opportunities to build heavy volume on numerous soft grounded mountain trail runs, but instead they have to run loops around the quad at the University or they have to run on a concrete flat trail that goes out to Lyme and is barren, boring, windy, and depressing. This is simply because Dartmouth babies these kids and is afraid of liability if one of them trips and sprains his ankle on a branch on one of those immaculate trails. I mean...imagine if Wetmore didn't let his teams run Magnolia or Flagstaff because of the remote possibility of a small trip on some branches? You see what I mean? It's the woke, cupcake, safe-space generation where everyone has to be afraid of every conceivable dangerous thing and no risks can be taken no matter how beneficial those risks may prove.
If that school was smart enough to give me the coaching reins, I would have the boys team average 23:20 8ks next fall and the girls team would be in contention for top ten at NCAAs. Come track season, I would have a stable of 13:30ish 5k studs that can make it to nationals. My top 1500 girl would be smoking Harvard, Florida, and NC State in the finals.