Predictions for 2011 Footlocker High School National Championsips aka (The Olympics of U.S. High School Cross Country) ?

OldSchooler wrote:

Not to put down Molly Seidel but IF Sarah Baxter from Calif decides to run, everyone else will be running for 2nd place. Look for her to own ALL the HS national distance records by the time she graduates, assuming she stays healthy.

Note, Baxter has been running slower this year. She might have been top 3 at FL a year ago, but this year top 10.

Skipping FL a year ago didn't do her any good, now missing again, many other good runners have caught up and are passing her by.

last year is history wrote:

Note, Baxter has been running slower this year. She might have been top 3 at FL a year ago, but this year top 10.

Skipping FL a year ago didn't do her any good, now missing again, many other good runners have caught up and are passing her by.

Baxter ran 11 seconds slower at state this year. If you think 11 seconds costs you 7 places at footlocker, you haven't paid much attention to Footlocker results. Also, skipping one meet doesn't make you slower. Think before you post.

Cali dreams wrote:

Baxter ran 11 seconds slower at state this year. If you think 11 seconds costs you 7 places at footlocker, you haven't paid much attention to Footlocker results. Also, skipping one meet doesn't make you slower. Think before you post.

Oh so slower means faster. And others passing her by doesn't matter.

We must be living in a cali dream world tonight.

I don't understand. She didn't run Footlocker last year. So are we talking about hypothetically being 3rd last year and then how she would do hypothetically this year?

She sounds like an amazing talent. I hope she continues to improve every year.

last year is history wrote:

Oh so slower means faster. And others passing her by doesn't matter.

We must be living in a cali dream world tonight.

So we already knew math and logic weren't your strong suits, we'll just add reading comprehension to the list. Just to be clear, who has "passed her by" this year? To make that statement you obviously have results of all the girls she's lost to this year to back it up.

last year is history wrote:

OldSchooler wrote:

Not to put down Molly Seidel but IF Sarah Baxter from Calif decides to run, everyone else will be running for 2nd place. Look for her to own ALL the HS national distance records by the time she graduates, assuming she stays healthy.

Note, Baxter has been running slower this year. She might have been top 3 at FL a year ago, but this year top 10.

Skipping FL a year ago didn't do her any good, now missing again, many other good runners have caught up and are passing her by.

It is not uncommon for girls to have great performances as a freshman, take a dip their 2nd and/or 3rd year and come back stronger their junior or senior year. Only a couple of girls have won FLNC twice. In fact, there are very few girls who have qualified 4 years in a row.

re: "Look for her to own ALL the HS national distance records by the time she graduates"

This would be all most impossible, the speed work required to run a fast 800/mile would take away from the time required to run a fast 5k/10k. The only athletes who possibly could done this were Kim Gallagher and/or Mary Decker, but they were extreme talents, even more so than Jordan Hasay.