Official Idaho HS XC 2024 Thread

Timberline has the twilight meet in Washington on Saturday, Boise is traveling the following week so neither should run their varsity squads.

Gotcha. In that case, I wonder if Rocky will bother running their varsities. It would be interesting to see if their JV could win or get close to it in the boys varsity.

They ran their varsity last year and they don’t have another big meet on their schedule. There is no team of note there so their JV would likely win if they did run varsity.

Rocky is going to stomp. Without Boise or Timberline, the only runnesr with a top 10 time in the meet is Everett Metier, who won't have a team in the varsity race, and Jack Tobin with BK. Decent shot they score 15 here.

The girls will probably score 15-18 points as Annie Herd is the only runner that can break up their scorers. It's a glorified time trial for both teams.

Rocky JV/Freshmen at Firman:

16:56, 17:06, 17:19, 17:25, 17:32

I would say Centennial can take them but they are also at the Twilight meet in Washington meet this weekend.

Rocky top 10 returners times at Firman

15:44, 16:12, 17:06, 17:19, 17:25, 17:32, 17:42, 17:53, 18:02, 18:05

Last year

16:00, 16:05, 16:36, 16:38, 17:14, 17:21, 17:32, 17:44, 17:59, 18:03

Not as top heavy as last year, but still very good.

17:05 average for top 10 in 2023 vs. 17:18 in 2024. Jack Davis was missing so there's a chance that there's a 60 second swing in there, which would put it at 17:07 vs 17:12, but last year had an injured Goggins, so similar deal. Maybe a 16:57 to 17:12 if both squads are at full health.

Last year Rocky was able to get 9 guys under 17 on the Gary Ward course. I wonder if they can put 10+ this year.

Looks like Kamiakin raced last weekend and put up decent marks. With the tool's obvious limitations in mind, using the simulation button, Kamiakin actually comes out on top of CDA at battle of the 509.

CDA will win, but it might be somewhat tight with Kamiakin. Again, hopefully it's a full 5k, and hopefully we can get some more speedratings. With Rietze back, the CDA squad looks really scary.

Kamiakin has also raced 3 5k’s to CDA’s one.

Kamiakin is closer to Mountain View than they are to CDA. A 15:15 was worth a 176 at their last meet.

CDA could become 6 or 7-deep instead of 5-deep. This is really important because last year, May didn’t score for them at NXR and it would have taken a toll on their NXN chances if they didn’t have a 6th man

Entries for Gary Ward are up.

Rocky running all of their varsity kids in JV. Guessing trying to get a bunch of people to go sub 17.

Rocky will need to put 7 in front of CDA's 5 if they want to make state even remotely close.

12-15 guys sub 17 today + a 6-7 at 16:00-16:10 would be a fantastic showing, trending towards making state competitive, but we'll see.

Weather looks perfect so this is probably their best chance to get their squad for next year and their 6-7-8 some real confidence.

CDA is going to put 2 in front of Cody Lucas and possibly 3. Rocky will get two guys in the top 10, but are unlikely to get a third. The Cervi Skinner bros, Carr, Lucas, Sheesley, Stadtlander, Tuft take 7 spots immediately, then you have a bunch of guys like Ben Jensen, Burdick, Knutsen, Vandahlen, Payton Bird, Evan Jones, Jackson Porter, Cody Christensen, Luke Bruce, Austin Riley, Jonas Porter, Khamis, Kash Jensen, etc. that will clog up other spots.

Rietze will likely be top 20 still. CDA will be somewhere around 8 points through 3 runners, so even if they score 20 points at 4 and 30 points at 5, it's next to impossible for Rocky to actually beat them. Rocky will be somewhere around 25 points through 3 runners. That means Rocky would need to average 15 points over their next two runners to tie. I just don't see it, and a bunch of boys running what was worth 154 for a speed rating last year isn't going to do much to help Rocky beat CDA.

Besides, wasn't there a whole post last year about how Rocky didn't really improve as much as other teams over the course of the season? I wonder if the same thing applies this year.

Jerome:
1 Cody Lucas 12 Rocky Mountain 179.34
2 Hyrum Tuft 11 Rocky Mountain 175.64
3 Parker Goggins 12 Rocky Mountain 172.68
4 Jacob Thomas 12 Rocky Mountain 169.04
5 Thomas Kurtz 11 Rocky Mountain 162.84
7 Hudson Godfrey 12 Rocky Mountain 156.27
8 Jaymon Clark 12 Rocky Mountain 155.09

Tiger Grizz:
1 Cody Lucas 12 Rocky Mountain 179.53
3 Hyrum Tuft 11 Rocky Mountain 173.03
5 Parker Goggins 12 Rocky Mountain 171.70
8 Jacob Thomas 12 Rocky Mountain 166.57
12 Thomas Kurtz 11 Rocky Mountain 164.43
16 Hudson Godfrey 12 Rocky Mountain 161.50
34 Jaymon Clark 12 Rocky Mountain 146.43

Vallivue:
1 Cody Lucas 12 Rocky Mountain 183.43
9 Parker Goggins 12 Rocky Mountain 169.50
10 Thomas Kurtz 11 Rocky Mountain 169.30
13 Jacob Thomas 12 Rocky Mountain 168.23
20 Jaymon Clark 12 Rocky Mountain 160.04
21 Hyrum Tuft 11 Rocky Mountain 158.83
28 Hudson Godfrey 12 Rocky Mountain 153.36
29 Jaron Allen 12 Rocky Mountain 153.11

Firman:
10 Cody Lucas 12 Rocky Mountain 181.43
22 Hyrum Tuft 11 Rocky Mountain 176.03
57 Thomas Kurtz 11 Rocky Mountain 166.70
62 Jacob Thomas 12 Rocky Mountain 164.57
73 Parker Goggins 12 Rocky Mountain 161.97
93 Jaymon Clark 12 Rocky Mountain 157.57
138 Hudson Godfrey 12 Rocky Mountain145.13

IDK about you, but that looks to me like a couple of those boys are actually sliding backwards as the season wears on.

Thanks for compiling that.

Looks like Parker Goggins and Hyrum Tuft are super inconsistent. Looks like those two need to have a good day AND Thomas Kurtz needs to step up to be with Goggins again (like Vallivue) in order to make it close with CDA. This is assuming Lucas can beat Zack Cervi-Skinner and Rocky's 5-7 are decent.

At what point do Mountain View and Boise start to have 2nd place chances at state, assuming the Rocky boys continue to stagnate/backslide?

Rocky Mountain’s top 8 didn’t race but they had 3 sophs under 17. Two in the varsity race and one in the JV race

athletic.net

Track & Field, Cross Country Results, Statistics

Meet results and team scores.

Link:www.athletic.net/CrossCountry/meet/239...

Parker Goggin’s Strava says they paced it which makes sense why they were all in the JV race. I’m guessing Jeff Howard was hoping for more boys to break 17 given that he had 8 boys pacing. They will probably get to the same number of boys breaking 17 as last year- 13, with 6 graduating, just like last year.

Top 7 returners at this point last year:

15:22, 15:59, 16:24, 16:25, 16:30, 16:55, 17:01

This year:

15:40, 15:56, 16:48, 16:50, 16:52, 17:20, 17:22

CDA 8, Rocky 18, Boise 101, Mt View 102

Rocky girls 37, Boise 73, Timberline 90

That's not our Rocky Mountain. The Idaho one has a top 5 average of around 109.5, so they are missing from this list. Rocky should be around 80th and Capital should be around 110th.

Pretty cool to see so many Idaho teams pop up on here. The next four highest boys teams are Eagle (160.92), Sugar Salem (158.61), Highland (158.20), and Timberline (157.89).