NAIA XC/TF 2024-25

Jamin Thompson with a very convincing win at wayne state

It was 85 degrees at race time. Course is hilly with no shade. Difficult to judge how much this affected times or the team outcome. I think we’ll get a much better idea of where these teams are at in 2 weeks. Cornerstone, Grace and Goshen all look like bubble teams as of now but need to find some depth. Goshen sat at least one of their top 5. Impressive win for Jamin Thompson over some much more accomplished runners.

Wouldn't be surprised to see Cumberlands move out of the top 5

I think the biggest movers on the ladies side will probably be Montreat.

Does St. Mary drop out as well? I think Cumberlands might be better then what St. Mary has shown.

Who do you put into the top 5 instead of Cumberlands?

Milligan

St Mary's

Coi

Masters

EOU

I can respect that, but if I am a rater, I am not moving EOU up that high until I see them race. They do not open their season until next Friday at the Cascade preview. That meet will answer a lot of questions about some of those schools. I am personally interested in Corban's men, are they as good as advertised or are they over hyped?

Corbin looked pretty good their first meet

They did, for a 6k. But they barely beat LC State's reserves and when you add in 2 extra k's ... anything can happen. Again, not knocking them, cause chatter out of the Cascade from one coach I respect is that they are legit. Just want to figure them out a bit better.

What are you talking about? They'd be close to beating LC State's top guys

LC State guys are hyping themselves up like crazy on here now straight up delusional

How does Cumberland actually want to win nationals? They didn't look strong in Alabama. It looks like almost all of the internationals are ineligible or injured. As of now, they only have Asslouj and Madeo who can run cross country fast, the rest are average or just trash. With those two alone, they can't beat other teams. They won't even make it into the top 5 with that performance.

They weren't on anyone's radar outside fellow Mid-Southers this time last year.

On that note… who do you all have as the biggest movers in next weeks rankings?

Not necessarily biggest but IWU down, Taylor up, Rio Grande up, Goshen down

as usual, stride report NAIA rankings are atrocious!

This is something we can all agree on.

The biggest movers for the men:

UP: Rio Grande and Rocky Mountain.

DOWN: Carroll, Shawnee State, and Marion.

The biggest movers for the women:

UP: Grace?

DOWN: St. Francis (IL)

Spring Arbor has to be one of the biggest movers for men. They looked phenomenal.

I can see St. Francis's men moving down quite a bit but not their women. They looked really good for missing two runners.

Spring Arbor is already ranked 18th, it is hard to justify great movement when they did not race anyone ranked nor did they race a historical course (meaning we have years of data on what the performance can mean for a team going forward). St. Francis women ran their whole team, it was the men who were missing three of their top 7.