Best boys HS XC team of all time?

Albemarle 2009?

VA AAA Indoor State Champions

DMR National Champions-Vrhovac, Bradley, Noble and Kostelac

Couple of other nice victories. Don't recall whether or not they were Outdoor Champs.

No it's based on their 2005 team which also won state the year after taking 1-2-3 at state

For a number of reasons, this will always be somewhat of a judgement call because the only equalizer is track performances and as we all know, there are problems with using track times. Also, there were some really good teams from the 70s that did complete out of state. I think the recent Arcadia and CBA teams could have held there own against some of the great teams mentioned.

I'm digging into my memory a bit here so may not be totally accurate, but I recall seeing the Mead '93 team at the WA state XC meet...I believe their 7th man was 17th place or thereabouts. One of my friends was kicking in a pack with the last few of them and got outkicked by all of them. That guy went on to run 9:10 for 3200m that year, so that was the level of Mead's talent that year...

Even though Matt Davis was out for the track season, I remember Greg James winning the 800m and 1600m at the state meet (can't remember the 800 time but I think it was 1:52ish), and Micah and Aubrey basically tied in the 3200m (.01 apart), so it was a clean sweep for Mead in the distance events.

clarksonxc wrote:

Saranac Lake HS, 1995.... had something like 3-4 future Olympians

Saranac Lake, NY? Did they win the State Federation Meet? I don't remember them being that good- obviously, I could be wrong. I'm just asking.

COLT RIDER wrote:

Christian Brothers Academy 2011

+1

Mead of 1993.

They were simply increadible. Sky was their 5th man. Look up his stats, this guy was their 5th man!

Mead 93...end of story...Keep in mind the enrollment of Mead is around 800-1200...York, Woodlands, Arcadia have 2-3X the enrollment...The talent pool is much smaller which makes there accomplishments more impressive. Not to mention having to train in a Spokane winter (yikes) and still run that fast on the track, hard to get turnover in a foot of snow. There 7th man that year (Erickson) ran 4:20 and 9:18 and was 17th at state...7th man.

Mead is/was much bigger than 800-1200. These days, their enrollment is around 1325 for their 3-year count, but back in the early/mid 90's it was much bigger because Mt. Spokane hadn't been built yet (I don't know the exact figures, but I'm guessing they had around 500-600 kids per class? twice as big as you suggest). Still smaller than the other three schools, but bigger than your average high school.

Some Mead 93 team talk

http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=1471033&page=1

CBA 2011

Tim Burke was the other Nordic skier in the Olympics for Saranac Lake. Demong won the Gold Medal in Nordic combined. They were Class C state champs and fourth in Federations. Their coach was a master of hyperbole.

naughtybynature wrote:

Some Mead 93 team talk

http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=1471033&page=1

Interesting stuff, thanks!

Canyon CC 2001 our of California

Saugus 1985

Without a doubt the 1993 thousand oaks cross country team

Christian Brothers Academy, NJ 2011

So much love for the '93 Mead team, yet it goes unnoticed that the '93 and '94 Kingwood, TX team had 3 boys at the footlocker meet. Also, if my memory serves, the 4th man on the 94 Kingwood team finished like 6th at the Texas state meet.

'93 Kingwood, TX

http://footlockercc.com/history/1993boys.htm

Phsyd Ed wrote:

Just for one year, not a program.

Who cares, but any team with Jim Ryun, Alan Webb, or Gerry Lindgren.