This sounds more like what an alum should be posting. You can make your point without coming from such a negative place. To address your point- I was being honest. The runners read this thread and sometimes it’s just insult to injury.
Yeah, definitely don’t want some kid getting depressed over this. I’ll be more aware of that potential audience from now on.
To the runners: you guys have some serious wheels and I hope you get another crack at States next year to show everyone. And thanks for an entertaining season with some great wins along the way.
Way too early 2024 Girls D1 XC Top 10 State Predictions (no order)
Loveland, Wadsworth, Perrysburg, Olentangy Liberty, Lancaster, Avon, Hilliard Davidson, Lakota West, St Joseph Academy, Mason. Honorable Mention: Shaker Heights and Dublin Jerome could be top 10.
State returners of the girl's schools mentioned:
#1 Perrysburg - Loses 4 of 7 including #1...but had 2 kids in the top 10 at State JHS meet
#2 Davidson-Lose 1 of 7 (their 3)
#3 Mason-Lose 3 of 7 (2, 5, 7)
#4 Shaker Hgts. - Lose 3 of 7 (2, 4, 5)
#5 Wadsworth - Lose only their #1
#6 Avon-lose 2 of 7 (2 & 6)
#7 Liberty - Lose 2 of 7, including their 1
#8 Lakota West - Lose 2 of 7 (4 & 5)
#9 St. Joe's-Lose 2 of 7 (2 & 6)
#10 Rocky River - Lose 1 of 7 (their 1)
#11 Loveland - lose only their #6 from the State Meet
#13 Jerome-Lose 2 of 7 (3 & 6)
Would also have included #15 Marysville, who return all but their #7 from this year's state meet.
Hardest hit by graduation are Perrysburg (4), Mason (3), Shaker Hgts. (3), Strongsville (3), Westlake (3, 4 with Sarah Peer graduating), Springboro (3), and Tol. Notre Dame (3)
I got to give special mention to Wadsworth... who didn't get out of their District a year ago, and placed 5th at Obetz.
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For returners, Milesplit has Hudson boys at #1 in D1 based on 5k PRs. They aren’t graduating any scorers. But they took 16th at the state meet. Going from that to being state champs seems like a big jump.
Mason loses 4 of their top 5, but they return 15:29, 16:07, and 16:09 juniors. Also a 16:16 freshman who sometimes scored for their varsity but didn’t race at the state meet. If they find a 5th man, they can be state champs. They have a 16:52 freshman and a 16:45 sophomore.
Olen. Orange took third at the state meet and returns 5 guys.
Weston beat Gabelman, Kimmel, and Ilg. What a day for one of the top runners in Ohio!!
Nah, Gabelman is still a state champ. You can never take that from him.
So Weston finishes 14th at the state meet and then 14th at NXR? Too little, too late? Why couldn't he have stepped it up at Obetz . . . where it really mattered?
Gabelman ran despite being sick. No choke job at all. Dude gutted it out.
Not sure what's up with Smith. He runs well when there's no pressure, I guess.
Aw, that’s too bad he was sick. I was wondering what happened to him.
But still, Weston Day rocked it! I told people sleeping on him that he just keeps improving
Why couldn't Weston go when it counted? Like last week? Seems he let the lead group of guys get away from him, and didn't even reallt put himself among the 2nd group either. He was never really in contention. Same thing at regionals.
