Sean Brosnan Leaving Newbury Park for UCLA!!!

I think there is a way to win a national title without a good coach

put together a team of top 5 in the nation (Lex/Leo/Aaron S/Gorze/Caudillo)

Tanya Brosnan confirmed Leo, Lex, Aaron S., Dev Doshi, Aaron Cantu, and also transfer Brayden Seymour, and then said someone else will fight for the 7th spot. But no mention of Hector Martinez. My guess is he's either injured or transferred. Also confirmed NXN.

Why would he transfer? Especially just for his senior year?

if he’s not running, 7th spot will go to porter, shetty or transfer Guevara

He’s probably injured. I haven’t seen anything on insta stories about his own running.

if he runs, np would have 7 guys under 15 at state. He was only 16 mins away from breaking it there.

If he isn’t running hopefully he will be healthy for track. Maybe the new 7th guy (a junior from last year’s JV) will get to the level of the 6th guy like doshi did at RunningLane. That would be cool to see cause then next year NP will have 2 low sticks not just 1.

16 seconds*

I wonder if UCLA are beginning to doubt the wisdom of their decision yet.

Isn’t the season a little young????

At cool breeze we will get an idea of who NP’s 7th will be unless Hector does XC.

And also how good next year’s team can be and who will be in the top 7 next year minus Adrian cantu

You know what else could be going on?

He probably is now so out of shape that he might be on the same level as guys fighting for the 7th spot like Shetty, Porter, and Guevara

Based on the cool breeze, looks like Newbury Park has a better freshman class. So I can imagine Adrian going there.

find another guy and NP wins nationals in 2025. But they won’t win by as big of a margin

Last I heard Martinez was injured and MIGHT return sometime during the season. Believe it was a milesplit article.

Horrible results for Halvorsen (16:42) and Duenas (18:32). Bad choice?

This is not insignificant. Coach Brosnan referred to NXN as the "national championship" meet for HS XC.

Bodell - 16:20 - also a freshman for west ranch.

duenas probably had an off race.

those west ranch freshmen can transfer to Newbury Park now if they want to. Some people transfer during the season. they wouldn’t make varsity for it this year anyways.

or they can transfer after this season

I do think that the NP freshman trio is better though

That’s ok for Bodell. Probably would not have done better at NP.

UCLA beat UCSD in their opener in Mammoth Lakes. Times were from 9:55 to about 11:00 for the women's 3k and mid to high 11:20s and up for the men's 4k (five scorers within just a few seconds). Last year they also beat UC Riverside at the same meet but the distances were different, 4k for women (mostly from 15:35 to 16:35) and 5k for men (17s). This year's times seem a good deal better and the teams deeper. So, not a bad start for a meet like this just a month into his coaching.

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Cross Country Claims Pair of Team Victories in Season Opener - UCLA

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The Bruin runners finished in the top six to claim victory over the UC San Diego men's and women's cross country teams in Mammoth Lakes, Calif.

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Where was Ajani Salcido?

Yeah if he returns he could possibly be in the same shape as the juniors that aren’t doshi. maybe That’s why his name wasn’t mentioned by Tanya.

Hopefully he doesn’t get his varsity spot taken away when he returns.

in 2019 Thomas McDonnell was Newbury’s 7th runner, but in 2020 he was their 8th because Lex went back on the team, Simone transferred in, and Aaron Sahlman made their top 7