If Lenn races from them today and took 1st, they still just take 4th as a team.
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Mt. Horeb Invite https://www.accuracetiming.com/results/2025/mhcc_25b.pdf
Marquette InviteD1 Boys State outlook: Stevens Point looks good for first. After that it will be between Marquette, Homestead, DeForest, and one of Verona/MadWest for the next few spots. Otherwise, I don't think any other team in the state has what it takes to match the aforementioned teams. De Pere and Eau Claire Memorial have some low sticks but the rest of the scoring seven has to improve. Middleton and Kimberly have depth but could stand to improve their packs.
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Verona sectional will be incredible, three teams duking it out for 2nd after DeForest takes 1st.
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Ayo wisco-talk is fooken DEAD. Whatever happened to all the gossip that the cheesehead runners have been historically known for?? Where's the tea???
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Why is Shorewood in D2 again? They were D1 last year and placed well (12th at State). Now they are dominating D2.
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wisconsin xc wrote:
Middleton's #1 dropped out after the first mile. Marquette looks deep again. West got beat by Verona but you can't ever count them out with their ability to put the puzzle pieces together. Schwoerer looks to be top 10 material at state.
Verona’s long-time coach also retired
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Midwest Invitational
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It's because of the competitive balance system. Shorewood moved up to D1 because they had accumulated enough "performance points" in D2. But since they didn't "score enough points" in D1 last year, it brought their rolling 3 year average (the duration that is used with this system) down far enough that they dropped back down to D2.
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Lenn and Drobac dominate in each of the varsity races
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SPASH wins without their #1 guy.
It also looks like the 4-5 gap on the team is closing
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Evan Kratochwill invite
1) SPASH (still no Erickson)
2) Oconomowoc
3) Middleton
4) Verona
Looks like Oconomowoc and Middleton both were able to find a 5th runner
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Old Abe Invite ECM held out their top runner, Hudson top 2 and Menomonie pack looks good
Wis Rapids Invite (significantly easier than the state course) Stevens Point 4 under 16
Wisco Invite Verona looks dominant, Middleton held out all but one of their varsity runners, Marquette ran their JV
Shorewood Invite DeForest held out top runner
Madison City Championships Course seems to have ran slow
Kimberly Papermaker Invite Lenn not racing
Classic 8 Conference Ocon pack looks like it's gotten a lot better in the past few weeks
In no particular order, top 6 for state appear to be SPASH, Marquette, Homestead, Oconomowoc, and then two from (Verona, DeForest, Madison West, Middleton). Some other teams are definitely going to pull upsets, you can never really tell until you race 'em.20 -
wisconsin xc week 7 wrote:
Wisco Invite Verona looks dominant, Middleton held out all but one of their varsity runners, Marquette ran their JVMarquette ducked a loss to Verona
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In this year's iteration of SPASHology, the Panthers not only inherited a sub-10 8th grader who turned into a consistent sub-16 freshman but they've also got an improved 2:04/4:37 runner dropping seconds every week to break 16 (the guy was running 2:11/4:51 indoors just 7 months ago). Moreover, they have an Eiden running good times for the satellite SPASH program at Pacelli.
Would be worth a laugh if legacy SPASH last names became a 5-man sub-16 contingent at Pacelli.
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The Chippewa Valley schools are going to be pretty tough. Someone like Hudson's Ryan Keller is Ryan Kromer all over again. We've always known he should be good and he is pretty good on paper (2:00/4:19/9:12 as a sophomore) but he is missing the hardware. This time out as a junior I predict he may get a fourth place or better at state.
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Carroll and Story are definitely something, but what mystifies me even more is how Madison West gets their runners to peak when it counts, year after year.
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wisconsin xc week 7 wrote:
Carroll and Story are definitely something, but what mystifies me even more is how Madison West gets their runners to peak when it counts, year after year.
Looks like Story didn’t start running until last year either. Many people take huge jumps from their first year
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This is what how I gauge the current Wisconsin landscape. Grady Lenn is distinguished at the top. The second tier consists of runners that are going to be extremely tough to beat and some of the runners in tiers 3 and 4 have chances for future mobility into higher tiers.
At the moment, the only person who has a chance to compete with tier 1 is Ryan Keller. Whereas runners Eli North, Brendan Reardon, Will Pongonis and Logan Zeise can push into the second tier with great championship seasons. Pongonis is a clutch runner and has a rivalry with Cooper Erickson (2023 Track Sectional Drama). Meanwhile, Zeise looked poised at Port Washington and has a solid season under him since losing at the Leighton Betz.
When you get to Jay Tally and TJ Penneycook, these are primarily 800 guys but can compete well in cross country. They won't win the state meet but it won't be all that surprising if either hangs on to place well among the chase pack state.
There are proven runners like Reid Grotenhuis, who owns 4:05 and 9:05 bests on the track, lingering in the fourth tier because they've exchanged season wins-losses against those same people. But Grotenhuis is another runner that can quite easily make the jump into the second tier with great races down the stretch.
Runners such as Carter Kucko, Braden Clarke and Logan Korthals are enigmas. Easy to recognize they have ability but their results on race day can be all over the place. Their strongest races give them placement in these respective tiers. Kucko is the top returnee in D2.
Home school state track champion, Sam Collier, should train for and run NXN HL and Footlocker to see how well he fares. He did beat Logan Zeise at Jackson Park a couple of weeks ago.
Tier 1
Grady Lenn
Tier 2
Lucas Tanner
Ryan Keller
Cooper Erickson
Tier 3
Eli North
Ben Weston
Brendan Reardon
Will Pongonis
Jay Tally
Aaron Yarboro
Carter Kucko
Tier 4
Ethan Mattek
Reed Grotenhuis
Sam Collier
Logan Zeise
Birk Newman
Nolan Johnson
TJ Penneycook
Elijah Judd
Logan Korthals
Jacob Nuthals
Braden Clarke
Will Lisowski-Semb
Cade Wanie
Luke Eiden
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Ben Weston, from 21 minute freshman to top 10 contender in the state. Now that's a jump!
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