DEI for the NE and NY is needed because we don't have the easy terrain and consistent weather to train in. Add that to the talent being more spread across schools and you get a lot of undertrained kids, who have the talent but don't get the chance to run heavy mileage or face fast competition every week. Which is why for years we've had complete diamonds in the rough like Ben True, Abbey D'agostino/Cooper, Elle St. Pierre, Eric Jenkins, and Will Geoghegan.
Feel like the fact you need even faster times to get on a D1 roster now, probably explains why we no longer have late bloomer Northeast runners on the national scene anymore.
Isn’t the goal for NXN to have the best teams and individuals compete against each other?
This argument needs to end. 59 million people live the states represented by NY and the NE regions of NXN. That is 20 million more than California. The southwest region has 18 million. Let it go. Things will ebb and flow.
Don't forget that NE/NY athletes, until last year, had to choose FL or NXR. Look at FL and track results in recent years. The NE is tremendous. CBA is very good. Haddonfield is very good.
LASTLY - State College deserves an at large. They were 8th last year and ran faster this year.
To start... The biggest region in the USA is the southeast. If you want NXR to be based on population then the southeast is the one that deserves a re-work. I don't think the southeast should split however the southeast is the fastest growing region in the USA and the southeast is getting faster and faster and more competitive every year in XC. State college did not deserve an at-large bid at all. Their top 5 had a speed rating average of 174.6 which is far off other at large candidates. Kudos to them for improving this season however in my opinion they weren't in the conversation for the at-large bid. Now the southwest only has a population of 20 million however even the 8th place team at NXR southwest would've beat North Rockland the NXR NY winners. That says a lot about how competitive and how ahead XC wise the southwest is. New York is taking up spots from other teams that deserved it being the teams that didn't get an at large bid. How to fix this. Combine NY and northeast. southwest Colorado 5.9 million Utah 3.4 million New Mexico 2.1 million Arizona 7.4 million Nevada 3.2 million Total: 22.0 million Delaware: 1.02M Maryland: 6.2M Virginia: 8.8M North Carolina: 10.8M South Carolina: 5.4M Georgia: 11.0M Florida: 22.6M Alabama: 5.1M Tennessee: 7.1M Kentucky: 4.5M West Virginia: 1.8M Washington, DC: 0.67M Total: 84 million New York 19.5 million New Jersey 9.3 million Pennsylvania 12.9 million Connecticut 3.6 million Massachusetts 7.0 million Maine 1.4 million Vermont 0.65 million Rhode Island 1.1 million New Hampshire 1.4 million Total: 56.9 million
And Texas has a higher population than New York and is a larger state. And The South region (the one Texas is in) has multiple states in it
Boys team 9th in the nation with less than 900 kids enrolled as well
Yes, first time ever qualifying for NXN for Haddonfield. They had a couple of years when they were close to qualifying. 4th at NXR in 2024, and 3rd in 2018