Good question that I don’t know the answer to off the top of my head, but it was the dream team led by Colin Sahlman and/or the following year when Aaron placed first. Maybe they had special placement from prior year performance?
He may have held them out the year of running lane, or you might be thinking of track.
Good question that I don’t know the answer to off the top of my head, but it was the dream team led by Colin Sahlman and/or the following year when Aaron placed first. Maybe they had special placement from prior year performance?
He may have held them out the year of running lane, or you might be thinking of track.
I apologize, since my memory is fuzzy, and further research indicates I may be wrong, and they actually did run the CIF state before NXN. Maybe it was track?
He may have held them out the year of running lane, or you might be thinking of track.
I apologize, since my memory is fuzzy, and further research indicates I may be wrong, and they actually did run the CIF state before NXN. Maybe it was track?
Thanks for following up.
In 2021, (the running lane year) they only ran Woodbridge and clovis seriously so they could taper/peak for the champ season. In 2022, Aaron ran Woodbridge but they didn't even open their season until clovis, then did nothing until champ season.
If I remember correctly, in California you can't run pro races and HS races, so the twins didn't run track states bc they were chasing 1500m (Leo) and 5k (lex) natl records in pro races.
Good question that I don’t know the answer to off the top of my head, but it was the dream team led by Colin Sahlman and/or the following year when Aaron placed first. Maybe they had special placement from prior year performance?
It was 2021, when Colin was a senior. Watching them float down Switchbacks 1-5 at Southern Section Finals looking like they were out for an easy shakeout is one of the more surreal things I’ve witnessed on a cross country course.
As was pointed out they did run all rounds of CIF, but only chose to run hard at State.
Yep. It’s a joke. And running Mt Sac twice, followed by Woodward is brutal… then they’re supposed to do well at NXN?!? It’s asinine that CA runs this gauntlet while much of the country has already run their regionals and they’re healing up and/or training directly for NXN over the next 3 weeks.
Agreed it would put at a disadvantage those top California runners that want to run in post-season championships. Didn’t Sean Brosnan withhold the Newbury Park runners out of the Cali State Champs one year in order to prime them for NXN?
Brosnan only had them skip state championship in track, never cross country. They always ran all the rounds in cross country. They just straight up skipped the state meet in tracking ran open races.
Agreed it would put at a disadvantage those top California runners that want to run in post-season championships. Didn’t Sean Brosnan withhold the Newbury Park runners out of the Cali State Champs one year in order to prime them for NXN?
Brosnan only had them skip state championship in track, never cross country. They always ran all the rounds in cross country. They just straight up skipped the state meet in tracking ran open races.
Brosnan would race his athletes at the CA State Championship but not 100%
scores appear to be finalized. It was Cardinal Gibbons and Brentwood like many predicted but man was that close. Dont recall Webb School beating any qualifiers this year so at large seems unlikely.
These times are insane for Mt. Sac. If their 5 runner even has a slightly better than average day at nxn, they're going to win the whole thing. Tbh they might win if she doesnt.
The SR's on this are going to be like: 153, 151, 135, 132, 116
Leachman has been having health issues for a long time and her time today was more than a minute slower than last year's NXR. I would not be surprised if she decides not to run NXN and instead focuses on getting healthy again.
Texas doesn't have winter track so Leachman has several months to get healthy before spring track starts. I hope she gets better soon.
National Record by Jane Hedengren, breaking previous of 15:58 by Jenna Hutchins. Beats Ritzenhein by 40+ seconds with a solo tempo performance.
Not to suggest Ritzenhein could have stayed with her, but I wouldn’t be surprised if she approached this as more of a qualifying race than a championship race (like last year, when she was 3rd at NXR before winning NXN). Nevertheless, Jane seems to be in another stratosphere with that time.
National Record by Jane Hedengren, breaking previous of 15:58 by Jenna Hutchins. Beats Ritzenhein by 40+ seconds with a solo tempo performance.
Not to suggest Ritzenhein could have stayed with her, but I wouldn’t be surprised if she approached this as more of a qualifying race than a championship race (like last year, when she was 3rd at NXR before winning NXN).
Nevertheless, Jane seems to be in another stratosphere with that time.
Can anyone beat Hedengren at NXN? I doubt it. Sadie and Rylee have been running great, but I think NXN is a race to see who finishes second behind Hedengren.
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