Official Idaho HS XC 2024 Thread

Found 2 names on the Rocky Mountain athletic.net XC roster:

Michael Majors (4:36 in the 1600. Soccer last fall. Guess he’s making a switch?)

Dylan Anson (4:48 in the 1600 as an 8th grader, 16:58 in the 5k last fall. Guess he transferred in from Cole Valley Christian School?)

Both are sophomores

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Good depth pieces but probably don't move the needle for their varsity this fall. I've heard that Michael Majors is going to do both sports, so he won't be available for at least the Jerome meet, Tiger/Grizz, Bob Firman, and Gary Ward as he has soccer games those days. That leaves Vallivue, the tri-meet between Rocky, Meridian, and Owyhee, and possibly Districts provided Rocky doesn't make the district tournament in soccer.

Who are the top incoming freshmen boys and girls? Any other kids moving to Idaho or transferring between schools that might change things?

Eva Rivera and Nadia Kouskov will be huge for Timberline this fall. So will Ruthie Sullivan at Capital.

Poking around some rosters... Boise added a 10:06 boy from Big Bear in California.

Boise now has Sheesley, Jens Knutsen (4:26/9:46), Lucas Roberts (9:52), Jacob Fornander (4:31), Luke Bruce (10:01), Ben Hugaboom (10:05), Miles McGee (10:08), and Michael Restuccia (10:06).

Besides the 3 CDA freshmen, there is Carson Hacking who ran a 4:36 in the 1600 at nationals.

Majors won’t make the top 7 for Rocky XC this year, but even though he’s also doing soccer, it’s good that he will be running some XC meets this year to get experience because he will be important to the team in a year or 2, since this year’s varsity is senior-heavy, with 2 or 3 juniors on it too.

With the other Rocky transfer (Anson), this will make the class of 2027 on the team really strong.

Coeur D’Alene will be doing Woodbridge this year

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Looks like Eagle boys and girls are in the rated sections as well

I'm no longer seeing Rocky on the Timpanogos start list anymore, are they hitting any other big ish meets?

Just Bob Firman. Caldwell would be their second biggest meet on their calendar outside of the championship season.

Timberline and Eagle boys looking good in the Driscoll results this morning! Looks like some of their kids had solid summers. Timberline and Capitol girls also looking super solid!

Eagle needs to find a 5 lol

16:33.3 average through 4 vs 16:39.7 for Timberline but they lose by 7.

Capitol girls look dangerous. Even without Ihmels, Timberline girls should be fighting for top 5-8 in the Northwest.

Timberline only won by 1, but it should be noted they had 2 girls in the JV race who ran as fast as, or faster than some of their varsity.

Eagle has Kyle Pelham listed on their roster. He ran 10:15 as a 9th grader last year. He‘ll be somewhere in their top 5 considering he has as good of track marks as their other sophomores.

Is he not allowed to run varsity this year because he transferred?

He should be eligible next year so it’s a good thing for Eagle that they bring him and all their top 4 back

Speed ratings are out.

Eagle and Timberline’s speed ratings would have easily qualified them for state last year. Owyhee and Meridian would be squeaking in.

The girls teams are pretty much all locked in. Timberline, Capital, Rocky, Boise, Eagle, Owyhee, and Mountain View.

Jerome Open invite.

Someone in the NXN thread mentioned that this course is lightning fast and a little short

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Rocky boys -
15:28
15:40
15:48
15:59
16:18
16:38
16:41

Considering that the course is fast and short (battle for the 509 vibes) then I don't expect the Rocky boys to have much of a chance against CDA come state. Based off this, a top 5 at NXR seems to be about their max potential.

75% of the top 20 boys, 95% of top 20 JV boys, 50% of the top 20 varsity girls, and 65% of top 20 JV girls had PR’s.

Assume what you will.

The great thing about XC is you can speculate all you want about a course but if you are not there you have no real idea. Rocky’s 4 of Rocky’s top 5 girls did not PR - nor did Rocky’s top runner. So maybe it’s a different story :-)

I would believe Rocky just had a great summer if it wasn’t other kids from other schools having big days too.