5A girls is absolutely unreal. Will almost be as competitive as NXN.
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Coloradeo wrote:
5A girls is absolutely unreal. Will almost be as competitive as NXN.
IKR!!!
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Maybe thinking too big wrote:
Can Niwot’s 8th man qualify for footlocker nationals individually?
Colorado is in the west region which has been decimated by the introduction of NXN.
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Looks like a full girl's team of Lattas are on the Valor roster:
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Instateam wrote:
Looks like a full girl's team of Lattas are on the Valor roster:
Now this is interesting. This program could be making its way back to where it was 5 years ago?
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Maybe thinking too big wrote:
Can Niwot’s 8th man qualify for footlocker nationals individually?
No.
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This is an old roster for Valor Track academy. The Lattas are not on the current Valor HS roster.
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In the no wrote:
This is an old roster for Valor Track academy. The Lattas are not on the current Valor HS roster.
They do not look to be on the Chaparral roster either, based on the Milesplit entries for the Vista Nation 2 Mile.
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Chap won’t take the Lattas — respect to Coplen who I am sure has turned them down because they want to be self coached. They won’t go to Valor either. I assume they will continue to be homeschooled or go somewhere like Ponderosa or Legend.
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asdfghjklasdfgg wrote:
Chap won’t take the Lattas — respect to Coplen who I am sure has turned them down because they want to be self coached. They won’t go to Valor either. I assume they will continue to be homeschooled or go somewhere like Ponderosa or Legend.
Exactly. They clearly want to do their own thing, which they’ve been doing for years. I’m just assuming Elin is going to remain homeschooled but I could be wrong, obviously.
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Where is the link with the entries for the Mountain Vista 2-mile?
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Latta’s are homeschooled. CHSAA has stringent home school regulations. Their nearest school Elizabeth doesn’t want to take them so they will likely go back to Texas if they want to run for a high school and the state. Seems like too many deadends in Colorado.
Any team that takes them will be NXN contenders within the next 2-3 years, but any chance on building culture within the team will go back 5-6 years.
I guess we will see
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reshuffling wrote:
This year's classification changes will have more impact than any other I can recall over the last few decades.
Tier 1 - NXN potential
Tier 2 - NXR top 10 potential (only 3 or 4 most years)
Tier 3 - NXR championship race potential (about 10 or 12 most years)
5A boys
Tier 1 - Niwot
Tier 2 - Vista, Rock Canyon, Valor
Tier 3 - Fort Collins, Northfield, Fossil Ridge, Air Academy, Castle View, Pine Creek, Arapahoe, Cherry Creek
After Niwot, 5A just looks crowded. Someone here said Niwot's JV would be top 10 at state - I actually think they could be top 4 or 5. Vista, Valor, and Rock Canyon all at this point don't look to be as good as they were last year. Castle View is getting a few stud freshmen to go with a strong sophomore class. Air Academy is young. Northfield will be just fine in 5A as they are deep.
4A boys
Tier 1 - Coronado
Tier 1.5 - Thompson Valley
Tier 2 - Cheyenne Mountain
Tier 3 - Holy Family, Summit, Eagle Valley
With a top 4 that should theoretically be able to hold their own against anyone in the country, Coronado is the only other team that has a chance to be near Niwot. Thompson Valley has been getting better rapidly and if they stay the course should be the clear #3 team in the state. Holy Family was poised to challenge for 3A this fall but will probably have to contend for a top 5 spot in 4A instead.
3A Boys
Tier 3 - TCA, Jefferson Academy
TCA gets a gift on a down year by not having to defend against Holy Family and Berthoud. There are only about 30 boys that have even broken 5:00 in 3A, and a dozen of them are either TCA or JA.
This is a good list. The sad reality is that AF, Herriman, and Niwot are all NXN top 5 caliber teams. That leaves the rest of a very deep region fighting for one at large spot, if that. My only quibbles are that I think people are underestimating Cheyenne Mountain and Valor. Coronado has tons of talent and they show well in track, but they have not yet proven their mettle in XC. As for 3A boys, don’t sleep on Salida. They’re the fastest returning squad from the state meet, plus two freshmen who ran 4:51 in 8th grade. Resurrection would have been my favorite in 3A, but they lost their coach and his 4:38 8th grade son David Roberts to Roosevelt, I believe. But they’ll have two Fagerlins, which might keep them in the mix.
And I would put more of these schools in tier below tier 3. With as loaded as Utah is, there’s < 1% percent chance Colorado’s 3a schools are running at the NXR championship this year. As you pointed out, that class is atypically thin this year.
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Maybe thinking too big wrote:
Can Niwot’s 8th man qualify for footlocker nationals individually?
Colorado is in the west region which has been decimated by the introduction of NXN.
Did this change? Colorado has been in the midwest region as long as I've known of FLN.
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I really hope it works out for the Elin and her sisters to run for a high school team. I don't know anything about their situation but they've run against my daughter in a few races and they seem like really amazing girls. Hardworking, friendly and humble. I would want them on my daughter's team in a heartbeat. A coach and a team would be blessed to have them based on what I have seen.
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Colorado always has been in Midwest Region for Kinney/Footlocker/Champs, so that would be a change.
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DeadBilly wrote:
Entries wrote:
Where is the link with the entries for the Mountain Vista 2-mile?
On Milesplit:Same place where the current roster for Chap is too. And since the Vista meet uses Milesplit for entries, the listed roster for Chap is their most updated one.
Almost all of Mountain Vista’s and Niwot’s varsity guys are running varsity, but it looks like Adams (MV) and Sullivan (Niwot) will be racing each other in the frosh-soph race.
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Cheyenne Mountain Twilight results. All of their top 6 guys raced.
Last year’s freshman class on the team wasn’t great (neither is this year’s sophomore class) but this year they have 2 freshmen in their top 9.
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Latttttaaaaa wrote:
Latta’s are homeschooled. CHSAA has stringent home school regulations. Their nearest school Elizabeth doesn’t want to take them so they will likely go back to Texas if they want to run for a high school and the state. Seems like too many deadends in Colorado.
Any team that takes them will be NXN contenders within the next 2-3 years, but any chance on building culture within the team will go back 5-6 years.
I guess we will see
A school of five.
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