Best high school program by state?

Buck-I wrote:

Those are nice records I suppose, but has Perkins ever won a state title?

The thread is about the TEAM powers

CC

Boys-Woodridge

Girls-Magnificat

Was just about to post the exact same thing. Totally agree. Distance powerhouses translate on both the terrain and the track.

Buck-I wrote:

Those are nice records I suppose, but has Perkins ever won a state title?

The thread is about the TEAM powers

Track

Boys-Glenville

Girls-Reynoldsburg

CC

Boys-Woodridge

Girls-Magnificat

Only two in track and three in Cross Country. Just making a point that they have always had a quality program top to bottom for years. You can win state in Track with 2 or 3 studs. Perkins would fare well year in an year with a state Dual meet format where they put their best 3 guys against everyone in every event.

Woodridge has passed Perkins as the D2 dynasty they are awesome in CC. At one time Perkins had the lowest score cc record for state and won 3 straight and lost a fourth in the row on a tiebreaker.

But for a little school they have a pretty impressive record board for every event, not just distances. Although the long jump record of 22-11 and 3 quarters has lasted since 1966, its probably the 5th or 6th most impressive mark there.

MD- Dematha Catholic (Eleanor Roosevelt lost their coach and has a crap team now)

VA- Western Branch

Montana

Girls: Flathead, Bozeman, Senior High

Boys: Flathead, Bozeman

Now if you go to the small class schools, the most dominant would be Manhattan High. Producer of most of the best distance times in the state in any class.

Mira Costa is a very good team. MC faced Great Oak twice this season head to head, with Great Oak winning both times. You can't say that MC is better than Great Oak because they raced close to Saugus. GO didn't get the chance to race Saugus until NXN! MC has about 5 good girls, Great Oak has about 20 every year!

InsonHutch wrote:

Montana

Girls: Flathead, Bozeman, Senior High

Boys: Flathead, Bozeman

Now if you go to the small class schools, the most dominant would be Manhattan High. Producer of most of the best distance times in the state in any class.

It's a big stretch to call Manhattan "dominant". They had depth last year and some individual success recently, but towns like Darby are still beating them. Have they even won a team title in xc or track?

Flathead is the obvious answer for boys and girls in MT. Historically, Browning and Jefferson High were BEASTS in boy's xc and long distance track.

chikin wrote:

4 private schools made NXN this year, boys and girls, and none were from California.

Loyola..

sorry, 5. point still stands.

Kory Henning wrote:

New Hampshire: Monadnock boys and Gorham girls

I'm going to have to disagree. On the men's side, most recently Bishop Guertin has been the dominate team. If we're talking historical success, it would hands down have to be Londonderry. They had 4 different Footlocker National Qualifiers in the 90s - John Mortimer, Joe Letourneau, Todd Swenson and Dave Barrett.

On the girl's side, Manchester Central has been dominate, both recently and historically.

Alabama: Mountain Brook and Scottsboro for both boys and girls.

Nebraska: Either Kearney or Fremont for boys... Not sure about girls.

kind of confused on the PA comments; if your saying any xc relevance take out abington and cheltenham. for track yes but not xc that would be henderson, north allegheny, coatesville, north penn, cedar cliff for the past decade.

simon gratz also for track then la salle and o'hara as well.

black sheep boy wrote:

captain blood wrote:

PA owns 4x800m

yeah... that's not true at all.

NY has performed better in the 4x8 every year going back decades except MAYBE 2009, as I remember their state meet was ridiculous that year. I'll admit they had pretty crazy depth last year too.

My biased opinion, PA is a boss at the 800 and 4x8. And "MAYBE?" Lolz, a 7:33 with a junior anchoring is just a maybe?

Private schools definately do more recruiting. I personally know a few people who got "academic" scholarships and paid only for books because they were good at football and basketball.

chikin wrote:

There really is not a best program in NC.

There is really not a good program in NC.

Fixed it for ya. Of the (cough) XC programs in NC, I'd have to say TC Roberson is the "thinnest kid at fat camp".

it's chicken dummy wrote:

chikin wrote:

There really is not a best program in NC.

There is really not a good program in NC.

Fixed it for ya. Of the (cough) XC programs in NC, I'd have to say TC Roberson is the "thinnest kid at fat camp".

NC used to have some decent HS CC programs back in the mid to late 70s. Odd that it's not more popular now with all the solid college programs in NC.

Thats seems right wrote:

Private schools definately do more recruiting. I personally know a few people who got "academic" scholarships and paid only for books because they were good at football and basketball.

Did you bother to read what I was commenting on? I don't deny that privates recruit for football, basketball, and baseball. But the comment I was replying to insinuated that privates recruit for track and field, which is utterly ridiculous considering that in the vast majority of states the best teams are NOT privates. Off the top of my head, Delaware (Tatnall) is the only state that is definitely dominated by a private school. There may be a few others but to think that privates have an advantage in xc or track because they recruit is just plain stupid.

Track and field in missouri

You could argue ladue from an individual stand point. Lindbergh high for girls program top down. Boys program year in an year out hazelwood central

Green Hope, Chapel Hill, and Broughton have all gone to NXN. That's pretty good.