This is Jim Kiler wrote:
Today I learned freshman boys running 4:50s in the 1600 are fantastic.
Things have certainly changed from when I ran middle school track back in Richmond Va 40 years ago. Coaching an 8th grader who has run 4:04.98 for 1500m and 1:58.5 for 800m during the Aussie track season. Now the challenge to keep him in the sport and to continue to improve.
Turd burgler wrote:
Porter could end up being their 7th, but Jonah Sloan running 10:17 as a 10th grader doesn’t bode well for his chances of ever sniffing the varsity.
He transferred to Ventura and there, he became their 6th man (would be 7th if DeGeorge was present).
The cool thing is he transferred to a team that’s better than NP this year. And a better chance to make NXN. It would have been hard for him to make the top 7 for NP because they are deeper than Ventura, but they don’t have as much talent up front this year.
Without DeGeorge, Ventura seems more like a 5-deep team this year. So they all need to be on especially when it matters. J Sloan and Harris are their 6th and 7th, and there is a huge gap after that
Wayzata also has 4k kids in the school and their team is quite large, they recruit and the entire suburb is pulled into 1 school so its no so much elegant training as it is the absurd amount of kids that run for them
I know this thread is 2 years old, but the Feider triplets are entering junior year and still showing up with fast times and shaving off more time :) excited for their xc season this year!
scornfulpenny73 wrote:
Wayzata also has 4k kids in the school and their team is quite large, they recruit and the entire suburb is pulled into 1 school so its no so much elegant training as it is the absurd amount of kids that run for them
Where did you hear that Wayzata recruits?