Do you think it is important for some of these top teams to race out of state prior to NXR? It feels like if some of the teams go to big races out of state, they are more likely to get a bid for NXN if they are a 3rd or 4th place team at NXR. Thoughts?
Do you think it is important for some of these top teams to race out of state prior to NXR? It feels like if some of the teams go to big races out of state, they are more likely to get a bid for NXN if they are a 3rd or 4th place team at NXR. Thoughts?
Yes, it gives a better chance for a team to get an at-large if they beat an autoqualifying team from their own region or other region
Do you think it is important for some of these top teams to race out of state prior to NXR? It feels like if some of the teams go to big races out of state, they are more likely to get a bid for NXN if they are a 3rd or 4th place team at NXR. Thoughts?
Yes, it gives a better chance for a team to get an at-large if they beat an autoqualifying team from their own region or other region
You’ll aren’t just saying out of state, you are saying of your NXN region to run against teams that will qualify from other region. That’s a long distance and a lot of money for a HS team to spend for a hypothetical need that may or may not come up.
There are very good reasons to take a XC team on a fun team building road trip to a meet against a number of teams you don’t normally see, but chasing one of 4 at large bids seems like an expensive justification.
Reilly was a DNF. Started but wasn't running well and pulled out after little more than a mile. Not sure if he was injured or not. However, he has shown he is more or an 800m/mile guy, which is where he seems to be focused.
Just an FYI - it is "Byron" Grevious. Probably the most overlooked runner - by Milesplit, at least - all year. Ran 14:04 5k on the track in June. Not sure he can take down Simmons, but a definite threat to podium.
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Herriman was 3rd at NXN. Trabuco and Calvert Hall are overrated. Neither will make NXN. AF wins first NXN.
For the girls, Lone Peak will win NXN. Saratoga will be 2nd after filling in gaps with middle school girls.
Overall I predict you did a swell job mate.
Trabuco overrated?
Even though they return 7 guys under 4:30 and another 16:03 5k guy who scored for them at state?
Calvert Hall will get beat by Belen and McCallie at NXR SE and will need an at-large to qualify.
Seems like the Niwot girls team has a better chance to get 1st than Lone Peak does. Somewhere in this thread it says that they are getting a freshman whose last name is Cheruiyot.
They have 6 girls under 18:30 and then Berglund (who ran 120-124 SR) Wilding, and another 10:40 3K runner not mentioned. They look deeper than 2022 but Niwot and Buchanan may still have a better top 3 (or even top 5). We’ll see where they end up in December, I wouldn’t give them the title now but I also wouldn’t be shocked if they just ran a great race at NXN and earned it. They weren’t expected to win in 2019 and even in 2022 a lot of people thought Niwot and Buchanan were better.
Whatever happened to the girls Fayetteville-Manlius dynasty? That team went like 10+ years of being the best
It’s crazy how their girls team aren’t even ranked in the TullyRunners rankings. Saratoga and Bethlehem are.
The FM boys team isn’t even in the top 30 in TullyRunners New York rankings. That’s not surprising though since they really only return 5 guys from last year’s boys roster.
Whatever happened to the girls Fayetteville-Manlius dynasty? That team went like 10+ years of being the best
Their coach runs a very intense, all-in program. Covid seems to have destroyed his "pipeline", if you will. Big graduation losses after 2019 plus a couple of seasons of essentially nobody joining the program. Plus he's getting older and maybe doesn't have the same energy to put into it.
NXR NW top 20 guesses based on a mix of speed ratings and track times. Thoughts?
Tier 1: Landon Heemeyer, Rocky Mountain, ID Nathan Neil, Bozeman, MT Vincent Recupero, Bishop Blanchet, WA Jack Meier, West Salem, OR Josiah Tostenson, Crater, OR Luke Athay, Idaho Falls, ID (if healthy and back to fitness)
Tier 2: Owen Powell, Mercer Island, WA Hayden Boaz, Summit, OR Jack Henzke, Seattle Prep, WA Parker Westermann, Mt Spokane, WA Maximus Cervi-Skinner, Coeur d'Alene, ID
Tier 3: Andrew Ringert, Eagle, ID Blake Reynolds, Central Kitsap, WA Noah Laughlin-Hall, Summit, OR Leo Cook, Lake Oswego, OR Brennan McEwen, Franklin (OR), OR Ryan Harrington, Great Falls, MT Caden Swanson, Jesuit, OR Asher Danielson, Ida B. Wells, OR Timothy Johnson, Roseburg, OR
